MUMBAI, 23RD APRIL 2019: Amongst the Nirankari
Fraternity, the Month of April every year, witnesses
countrywide conduction of blood donation camps as a part
of Manav Ekta Diwas (Human Unity Day) to commemorate the
supreme sacrifice of Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji who laid
down his life on 24th April in 1980 while crusading for
truth, love, peace and unity. A nationwide drive of 82
Blood Donation Camps is being organized in 21 states on
this occasion. One out of the same was held at Sant
Nirankari Satsang Bhawan, Chembur, yesterday, with the
participation of V N Desai Blood Bank (142), L.T Sion
Hospital Blood bank (304), Sant Nirankari Blood bank
(120), with a total collection of 566 units of blood.
Baba Hardev Singh Ji Maharaj, Former Head of the
Sant Nirankari Mission said that ‘blood should flow in
veins and not in drains’. Ever since, for the past 33
years the devotees of the Mission have been
participating in these blood donation camps with a
spirit of devotion considering the noble gesture as a
part of their tribute to Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji, Chacha
Partap Singh Ji and hundreds of other martyrs of the
Mission. A check up camp for detection of Thalassemia
Minor too was organized and 199 devotees benefitted from
it.
The drive was inaugurated by Rev. Smt.
Surinder Ahuja, an ardent devotee of the Mission from
Hyderabad who was in the city for the series of Mahila
Samagams organized by the Mission in Mumbai. Rev. Smt.
Primal Singh (Coordinator Prachar and Press & Publicity
Departments of the Mandal), Rev. Bhupinder Chugh, Zonal
Incharge, Mumbai, Rev.Sarabjeet Shauq, Additional Zonal
Incharge, Rev. Babubhai Panchal, Kshetriya Sanchalak and
Rev. Lalit Dalvi Kshetriya Sanchalak of Sant Nirankari
Sewadal were present on the occasion. In a joint
effort the Sewadal and SNCF volunteers made all the
necessary arrangements.
With a peep into the
past, since 1986 a total of 6076 camps have been held
with a collection of 10, 25,507 units with which the
Mission has already emerged as one of the leading blood
donating voluntary organizations in the country |