NCERT Solutions for Class 4 EVS Chapter 21

A boarding school is an institution where children live within the premises while being given formal education. Some boarding schools also have day students who attend the institution by day and return off-campus to their families in the evenings. Boarding school pupils are typically referred to as “boarders”.

Some parents want their children to get education in schools which offer challenging courses and at times the local school system does not offer them challenging courses. Some send their kids to boarding because of family tradition. These kids who choose to go away to school prove to their parents that they can be away from home on their own and make good decisions. Some consider boarding schools good to make the children independent and disciplined.

The langar meal includes rice, dal, roti, sabzi, channa, kheer and sheera. Every Gurdwara has a Langar attached to it where food is served to anyone without charge. Many people work together to cook the langar like boiling of dals, cutting, washing and cooking of vegetables, kneading flour, making chapattis, washing utensils etc.

Kadhah Prasad is distributed when the ardaas is over. Kadhah Prasad is a sweet dish, ta kind of halwa. which is made up of wheat flour, sugar, and butter. It is distributed after ardaas

Langar ensures the participation of women and children in a task of service for mankind. Langar also teaches the manners or etiquette of sitting and eating in a community situation, which plays a great part in maintenance of the good values and equality of all the human beings, providing everyone a welcomed, secured and protected place of safety.

The basic principle of langar is equality and humility. It is a sign of humbleness for the rich to sit with the poor, and make everyone equal. All sitting in a sangat eat a meal together, keeping aside all differences and feelings and by sitting on the ground, you actually lower yourself and your ego. That is why people sit on the floor on durries to eat te langar whether rich or poor. Sitting on the floor has its own charm and pleasure and it sends the proper message to all that being humble in the presence of the Guru is important.

Divya was asked to wash her hands before she could help in Langar sewa because during the preparation, proper care should be taken for keeping purity, hygiene and cleanliness and while serving the food also the servers must observe strict rules of cleanliness and hygiene. When preparing food, the mouth and nose should be covered properly by a piece of cloth. The servers also should not touch the serving utensils to the plates of those they serve. When serving foods by hand, such as chapattis or fruit, the servers’ hands should not touch the hand or plate of those they are serving.

The material for langar in the Gurudwara ia arranged by anyone who wants to contribute for it and whatever way or amount the person wants to contribute. So, everyone contributes in some way or the other. Some arrange for the material, some give money, and others help in the work like some serve the food and some water, while some clean the Gurudwara and some wash the utensils.