panjabs time bomb

[s s Jhamka]

vaheguru ji ka khalsa

vaheguru ji ki fateh

this is a time bomb ticking away and our national sikh bodies are doing nothing. bring back the days off the movement at least the mothers were not seeing their children die of drugs. this needs to be looked into fast, every 1 wants to leave panjab dnt blame them if this is what is happening there.

Guruji kirpa karoo bring back Santji and the other gursikhs we need them

vaheguru vaheguru vaheguru

Punjabi 'cowboys' on road to nowhere

KHUSHWANT AHLUWALIA

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, MAY 17, 2004 01:02:23 AM ]

GHUKROWAL/NASRAN BADHANA (Hoshiarpur): The Generation Next of Punjab is on a roller-coaster to disaster, but the government does not seem to be paying heed to this "bomb" ticking away in the countryside. Take the case of Sucha Singh. This Jat Sikh farmer who owns two acres of land is a worried about the future of his son. The boy is a class VI dropout who got hooked on to drugs. Now, he just helps his father by doing sundry chores.

Karamjit (18) is from a Dalit family. He dropped out of school after tenth. In between feeding the animals for an an hour in the morning and evening, he finds time only for sleeping or chatting with his friends.

During the campaigning for Lok Sabha elections, a Jat from Miani village remarked "Sirf ik din Amrika (America)..England (UK).. te Caneda (Canada) da visa khol diyo te Punjab diyan Sadkan sunniyan ho jangiyan" (Let these three countries freely give visas for one day and Punjab's streets will be deserted). This statement is a reflection of the growing unemployment in Punjab.

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karan Singh of Ghukrowal village is 21 years old. He quit studies after class 12. He thought he would become a tube-well operator like his father but the government ban on recruitment put paid to that hope. These days he is trying to go abroad. His father has given money to one of his relatives who has promised to send him to New Zealand. For the moment, Jaskaran is whiling away his time looking after his four acres of land, meeting friends or milking the cows.

Ditto for his cousins Sukhraj Singh and Gurvinder Singh of Ghukrowal village. They left studies after class 12 and class 10 as their family required money and help in a land dispute. Sukhraj, who is of robust built, says he tried to join the Army but a tout wanted Rs 30,000. He could not pay up as his family had spent Rs 6 lakh on a land dispute case.

Gurdip Singh (78), an ex-serviceman of Dariya village, says the government is not botered about the problem of unemployment.

"If free power is a demand of the farmers, being a father of three sons, employment for my children is my main concern." Gurdip complains that the new generation has lost interest in farm work: His sons rest while the migratory labour works in the fields.

With the Punjabi youth not knowing what to do, the vibrant Punjabi spirit is losing out to illiteracy, drugs, alcohol, idleness and lure of the West.

[Guest SikhForLife]

this is happening right infront of our eyes and we are not able to do anything

a few of my cousins are hooked on drugs over there.. :wub:

we cant do jack