{"id":663,"date":"2024-01-30T17:09:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T17:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/?p=663"},"modified":"2024-01-30T17:09:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T17:09:52","slug":"president-nominates-satnam-singh-sandhu-as-a-member-of-the-rajya-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/2024\/01\/30\/president-nominates-satnam-singh-sandhu-as-a-member-of-the-rajya-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"President nominates Satnam Singh Sandhu as a member of the Rajya Sabha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background: white; text-align: justify;\"><strong>New Delhi.<\/strong> The President of India today nominated Satnam Singh Sandhu to Rajya Sabha. <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">The son of a farmer, Satnam Singh Sandhu is one of India\u2019s leading educationists. Having struggled to attain education, an agriculturist Sandhu made creation of world class educational institution his life\u2019s mission by first laying the foundation of Chandigarh Group of Colleges (CGC) at Landran in Mohali in 2001 and then going a step forward with the formation of Chandigarh University in 2012.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background: white; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><strong>The<\/strong> institute found a place in QS World Rankings 2023, first among private universities in Asia. The hardships faced in early life have also seen the Chandigarh University Chancellor Sandhu turn into a staunch philanthropist who has extended financial help to lakhs of students for pursuing quality education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><strong>He<\/strong> is actively involved in large scale community efforts to improve health and wellness and also to advance communal harmony through his two NGOs &#8216;Indian Minorities Foundation&#8217; and New India Development (NID) Foundation. He has made a mark with his efforts for national integration at home and has worked extensively with the diaspora abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi. The President of India today nominated Satnam Singh Sandhu to Rajya Sabha. The son of a farmer, Satnam Singh Sandhu is one of India\u2019s leading educationists. Having struggled to attain education, an agriculturist Sandhu made creation of world class educational institution his life\u2019s mission by first laying the foundation of Chandigarh Group of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52886,52905],"tags":[26850,42317],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business-english-news","category-national","tag-president","tag-rajya-sabha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}