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SGPC may have office, bir printing facility in Canada
WSN Network

AMRITSAR: In a sign that the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) is desirous of  keeping pace with the changing global realities, it is studying the feasibility of starting printing of holy birs of Guru Granth Sahib ji in Canada and at other centres in the world.

Transportation of the birs from Amritsar to destinations abroad has often courted controversies as even the devout Sikhs have at times slipped up in observing the maryada, some SGPC officials feel.

They said an office of the SGPC in Canada or in US will greatly help in coordinating.

SGPC general secretary Sukhdev Singh Bhaur was in Canada to study the feasibility of opening an office there.

Sources said Surrey, having a sizeable Sikh population, could be a natural choice for opening an SGPC office and printing facility. A resolution for this has been passed in the SGPC executive and sent to Akal Takht secretariat for approval.

Sources said the SGPC would need 10 acres of land for starting the office and printing facilities in Canada where there are 235 gurdwaras.

16 September 2009
 

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