Vice Prez Naidu to lay stone for Kartarpur corridor on Nov 26
Syed Ali Ahmed
Tribune News Service
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu will lay the foundation stone for the construction of Dera Baba Nanak-Kartarpur Sahib road Corridor up to international border at a function at Mann village in Gurdaspur on November 26.
Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Food Processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amrinder Singh will be present on the occasion.
Guru Nanak Dev had assembled the Sikh community at Kartarpur and lived there for 18 years.
To mark Guru Nanak Dev’s 550th birth anniversary in 2019, the government decided on November 22 to build the Kartarpur road corridor up to the international border between India and Pakistan as an integrated development project. The corridor will let Sikh pilgrims visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib at Kartarpur on the banks of Ravi river in Pakistan.
The Indian side of corridor starts from Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur district and extends upto international border between India and Pakistan. The project corridor is to be developed by National Highways Authority of India and will be funded by Government of India. The project corridor is four-lane with service road and all other appropriate amenities for pilgrims intending to visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur, in Pakistan.
This corridor will be a historical landmark between India and Pakistan and will also boost tourism as more pilgrims would visit the holy shrine throughout the year between two countries.
