Donations hit at Nada Sahib

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, November 18

The demonetisation of currency notes has hit donations received at Gurdwara Nada Sahib here. No donations were made towards langar and no akhand path was booked between November 9 and 12. The gurdwara has stopped accepting scrapped notes for donation towards langar, parshad and for booking paath. People are either paying through Rs100 denomination notes or cheques.

The donations in the golak are being made through the scrapped notes too but the gurdwara opens the main golak once a month, so any comparison can be made only at the end of the month. While the footfall at the gurdwara and at the langar hall has not decreased, the situation is expected to normalise by next week.

The donations towards langar have fallen to Rs 19,200 from November 9 to November 16 as compared to Rs 73,700 from November 1 to November 8. According to the manager of the gurdwara, Ranjeet Singh, “The footfall has not decreased which indicates that faith and devotion of people is the same but the donations have dropped significantly. The situation is getting better each day”

At the Mata Mansa Devi temple here, donations in the week succeeding the demonetisation have dropped by 50 per cent, said VG Goel, chief executive officer, Mansa Devi shrine board. 

Similarly, donations have also dipped to almost half.

The temple is receiving the scrapped currency notes only in the daan patras as they are not accepted for issuing receipts. 

People have to pay for the same using cheques or Rs100 notes. 

The CEO of the Mansa Devi temple  added that the situation had begun improving for the last two days and was expected to normalise soon.