Events
Umeed Self Help Group
Dairy Training organised for Umeed Self Help Group members at Verka Milk Plant Sangrur with the support of Dairy Development Board, Sangur. These beneficiaries will get a loan of Rs.1 Lac from bank Branches. 25 SHG members benefitted from this training.
Benches provided to Civil Hospital
SangrurThe Civil Hospital Sangrur besides patient care, medicine and hygiene desperately needed benches for sitting and waiting in the premises which were committed by Mr. Khanna and eventually handed over to the Administration of the Civil Hospital Sangrur.
Art Workshop
'Umeed' organised an Art Workshop on 8th October 2009, giving an opportunity to the children to showcase their talent. Children from 11 schools (around 200) participated in this event which was divided in 3 groups.
Prizes won by :-
First group - I to V standard
Kush Kaur, Harsimran, Navjot Kaur, Goldpuneet Singh, Arshdeep Kaur.
Second group - VI to VIII
Sheenu Aggarwal, Jasmine, Gurpreet Singh, Bhavana, Kushpreet Kaur.
Third group - IX to XII
Harmanpreet Kaur, Sumel Singh, Balpreet Kaur, Ramesh Kumar, Sanju Kumari
Awareness Generation Camps
Umeed in collaboration with the Punjab State Social Welfare Board, Chandigarh conducted awareness generation camps in 5 villages of Sangrur. The main objective of these trainings is to senisitize ladies about health & hygiene, importance of education, female foeticide and the contribution of women to the society. Various Speakers spoke on this occasion.
Banasar Bagh / Baradari
One of the main heritage attractions of Sangrur is a two hundred year old marble baradari built by the erstwhile rulers of the Jind state. Surrounding the baradari is a garden called the Banasar Bagh.
When Arvind Khanna was the MLA from Sangrur during the Congress Government 2002-2007, he had the good fortune of getting Rs. 50 lacs from the Punjab Government sanctioned towards the upkeep of the Banasar Bagh. Over the last two years the state of the Banasar Bagh has returned to a state of utter neglect.
Arvind Khanna has also written to Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Congress President, bringing to her notice the plight of the heritage sight and the initiative he has taken through his NGO Umeed in collaboration with the other NGO’s and local citizens of Sangrur.
Arvind Khanna is positive that this project will be a success and will bring back the glory of the Sangrur city and the Constituency.
