KARNATAKA SIKLIGAR REHABILITATION PROJECT

Ever since inception the Society is actively engaged with the rehabilitation and social emancipation of Sikligar Sikh families residing in Karnataka. These families basically Sikhs had migrated to Karnataka during the time of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in early nineteenth century and over the period lost touch with Punjabi/ Gurmukhi language and streamline of Sikhism except keeping up the outward physical appearance. They engage themselves in the profession of manufacturing crude household iron items like knifes and tongs etc., which they directly market themselves. Being technically and economically weak they are not able to fight market forces and are consequently struck in a hopeless vortex of poverty and misery.

They are scattered in many places of Karnataka like: Bangalore, Mysore, Hubli, Dharwad, Belgaum, Bailhongal, Shiggaon, Yadgiri, Gulbarga, Raichur, Bijapur, Nipani, Koppal, Gokak & Mudhol. The Karnataka Sikh Welfare Society has taken up the task of their upliftment in the year 2000 on three counts with particular thrust focused on their younger generation, which encouraged to acquire modern education, to provide them with pucca houses and to bring them within the main streamline of Sikhism by facilitating their participation in religious services at Gurdwaras, where they can also taught Gurmukhi.

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