YUBA CITY, California—The Sikh community in US is considering to set up scholarships in US universities to help students of the Sikh community excel in academics and their respective professional fields.
This thinking in the community was bolstered by the visit of Taranjit Singh Sandhu, deputy chief of mission of the India embassy in Washington to Yuba City, California on the invitation of Tierra Buena Gurdwara Committee to attend Guru Granth Sahib Gurta Gaddi celebrations on Saturday.
Addressing the congregation in the Gurdwara, Sandhu stated that the best way a community could create an identity for itself in the US was by being successful for which investment in education was indispensable.
Sandhu is himself from a family of academicians whose father Bishan Singh Samundri remained vice-chancellor of the Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar and his grandfather Teja Singh Samundari was a stalwart of Akali movement in the earlier twentieth century.
While Gurdwara committee leaders responding to Sandhu’s suggestion said that they would actively consider it and would involve the community for further consultation, North American Punjabi Association executive director Satnam Singh Chahal said that the suggestion had been received well in the community and they would now actively work on it.
“The community members in US have done well in a few ventures but this step may help the community to create several identity ambassadors when the community was confronting a serious identity crisis,” he said.
