In the year 1699, Sri Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru of Sikhs, visited Talwandi Sabo (District: Bathinda, Punjab) and stayed here for about a year. He blessed this place as ‘Guru Ki Kashi’ i.e. Place of Knowledge and Learning. True to His blessings, the town is humming with educational activities. The place is also known as ‘Damdama Sahib’ and is one of the five temporal seats of Sikh Religion.
With the blessings of Tenth Guru, ‘Balaji Educational Trust’ was established in the year 1997, with a mission to uplift the area by creating world class education facilities. In the year 1998, the Trust started Guru Gobind Singh Polytechnic College, which is now a famous polytechnic of the area with an intake of 1200 students. In the year 2001 Guru Gobind Singh College of Engg. & Technology (GGSCET) came into existence, followed by the GGS College of Education which was established in 2005. Then GGS Institute of Information Technology & Research was added to the group in the year 2006. Now these colleges are the constituent colleges of Guru Kashi University, which has been established in year 2011 by an Act of the State Government.
GKU is offering a wide range of programmes in Engineering, Management, Education, Agriculture, Languages, Life Sciences and Applied Sciences. A barren patch of 45 acres of land has been turned into a lush green most modern and high tech educational campus.
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