Baba Aya Singh College
History: Baba Aaya Singh Riarki College is a college in the village of Tughalwala, Gurdaspur, Punjab, India. This college was a dream of Baba Aaya Singh. Babaji did get the land donated by Tughalwala and with the funds that he brought from the other countries the Khalsa School's building was constructed but because of the paucity of funds the dream of a girls' college was still far from reality. After Baba Aaya Singh ji's demise. A new committee was elected. The names of the members are; S. Sampuran Singh Riar, Com. S. Chanan Singh  Tughalwala, S. Sudagar Singh and S. Surjan Singh Riar. This committee also included Com. Uttam S. Rampura, Sant Tara Singh Wadala Granthian, Com. Gurcharan Singh Ladhupur and Bhai Puran Singh Bhathian. The committee members were all veteran freedom fighters. To bring Baba Aaya Singh ji's dream to reality this committee selected Com. S. Chanan Singh Tughalwala to lead this sacred task. Com. S. Chanan Singh is the founder president who remained the president of all the three institutions till his last breath. The college was started with the vision that this will be a college for girl's free  education. Till, S. Com. S. Chanan Singh ji was alive it remained a free education college. The paucity of funds was overcome by Com. Chanan Singh ji's efforts where he reached out, made use of his influence and presented the college structure to the administration and arranged to get the donations. Under his leadership, untiring efforts, commitment, drive, dedication this college became the "Shanti Niketan" of Punjab. The college was stated on Women's day in the year 1976, the first batch of students were 14 girls. At present this college has 800 girl students. The college and other  two institutions are where they are today because of the guidance and leadership of Com. S. Chanan Singh who was not only the president of these three institutions but also was the Vice Chairman of SGL Charitable Hospital, Jalandhar, Secretary of All India Freedom Fighter's Association, Chairman S.D. College Chandigarh, Secretary of Ram Singh Dutt Memorial Hall Gurdaspur. From being a veteran freedom fighter, a lifelong social worker also worked to get employment, opened animal hospital, clinic, milk chilling center are just a few of his achievements. The biggest achievements that he was really passionate about was this college  - "Baba Aaya Singh Riarki College". Such was the leader and the inspiration of this college. The Visionaries. Com. S. Chanan Singh, appointed Swaran Singh Virk as principal of this new institute, who was a teacher originally and later his wife was appointed the warden of the college hostel, when the girl's hostel was started. No wonder the college became an exemplary college under the guidance and supervision of the committee and under the leadership and Presidency of Com. S. Chanan Singh Tughalwala. Principal Sawaran Singh was given the power to perform his duties by the committee and needed guidance  and help to perform his duties with liberty. In 1999, there were total 4500 students, 496 of which are in hostel. The teachers volunteer to educate the students. Seniors teach juniors. This budding college and institution has now become a full fledged tree. Its 28 kilometers from Gurdaspur.