SGPC to send devotees to B’desh gurdwaras every year

Tribune News Service

Patiala, February 16

The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) today decided to send a team of devotees every year to visit historical gurdwaras in Bangladesh. The committee will organise a programme to welcome Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on his arrival in Amritsar in the next week.

SGPC president Gobind Singh Longowal today held a meeting at Gurdwara Dukhniwaran Sahib in the city.

He said the committee would send devotees to historical gurdwaras in Bangladesh from the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev. This year, a group of 101 devotees would be sent to that country.

He said the committee would also make new coins of gold and silver on the birth anniversary.

Longowal said CCTV cameras would be installed to further streamline the management of historical gurdwara sahibs under the SGPC and through the procedure, golak number and store of the gurdwaras would be monitored online from the SGPC head office in Amritsar,” he said.

Longowal said managers, accountants and storekeepers of gurdwaras would not be deployed at the same location for more than three years.

Three central stores will be set up for the supply of various purchases of all gurdwaras under the committee. These three stores will be set up at Amritsar, Sri Anandpur Sahib and Takht Damdama Sahib. Besides, the officials have decided to computerise all office records of the SGPC.Longowal said construction of a new building for Gurdwara Sri Durbar Dera Baba Nanak in memory of Guru Nanak Dev has also been approved.

The SGPC president said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would be welcomed by the committee on his arrival to Harmandir Sahib in the next week, adding that a function would also be organised to mark the occasion.