Shadow Correspondent
Jammu, Apr, 24:
With the divine blessings of Satguru Mata Sudiksha Ji Maharaj, all the branches of the Sant Nirankari Mission, numbering about 3000 in the country, will hold special congregations as a part of Manav Ekta Diwas Samagam today to commemorate the supreme sacrifice by Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji and hundreds of other devotees of the Mission who laid down their lives while crusading for the noble cause of truth, love, unity, peace and harmony. The Mission organized its first Blood Donation Camp on the occasion of Annual Nirankari Sant Samagam in Delhi in November, 1986. Baba Hardev Singh Ji inaugurated the camp by donating his blood and saying that ‘blood should flow in veins and not in drains”.
Today SNCF organised 81 blood donation camps across the country.
While the camp in jammu held at Sant Nirankari satsang Bhawan Shastri nagar. The camp was inaugurated by Dr Pawan Kotwal IAS Finance Commissioner Revenue J&K Govt. while speaking on the occasion he described the camp as the noblest act and the biggest donation.
He said that serving the needy is the best devotion to God. Dr Pawan Kotwal Himself donated blood in the camp. Other Dignitaries Presented in the camp were Sh Danish Rana IPS, IGP J&K Armed Police, Smt Sarita chouhan IAS Commissioner Secretary School Education J&K Govt., Dinesh Gupta Honorary secretary Indian Red Cross Society jammu, Dr Meena Sidhu HOD, Dr Renu Menia, Dr Anshu from Blood Bank GMC JAMMU.
As many as 400 donors registered for this drive but only 198 obliged.
Ajit singh zonal incharge SNM said that Right from 1986, the Mission has so far organised 6,076, blood donation camps in the country and donated 10,36,560 units of blood. During 2018-19, the Sant Nirankari Charitable Foundation, the social upliftment wing of the Sant Nirankari Mission, organised 516 camps where 84,058 units of blood were donated.
The camp was held in collaboration with Blood Bank GMC Jammu, Indian Red Cross Society Jammu & JKSACS.
