Guru Ka Bagh to come up in Golden Temple

Amritsar, December 30

After setting up a rooftop garden, a vertical garden and grown-up plants on the premises of the Golden Temple, the SGPC will now develop Guru Ka Bagh, in about two acres of land situated between Guru Ram Dass Ji Langar Hall and Gurdwara Manji Sahib, on the lines of the Rose Garden in Chandigarh.

Its landscape will be spruced up with around 2,000 roses of 400 varieties and an array of other plants. The garden is likely to be completed by January.

SGPC chief secretary Dr Roop Singh said, the sewa of setting up the garden was handed over to Baba Kashmir Singh Bhuri Wale.

He said a Bengaluru based company had been hired to provide varieties of flowers. So far, 25 kinds of roses had arrived here. The garden will have five plants each of every variety. In addition, 10,000 plants of seasonal flowers will also be installed. Similarly, four varieties of sandalwood plants will be planted.

Earlier, environmentalist Dr Balwinder Singh Lakhowali was roped in by the SGPC to install 10 to 15-foot-high native plants of banyan, peepal, sita ashok, maulsari and pilkan. As many as 25 massive plant pots were procured from Mumbai. — TNS