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Guru Gobind Singh Marg proposal
cleared
WSN Network
Chandigarh: With
the Center approving the plans, the way is now clear for laying down
a 2,400-kilometre-long road from Talwandi Sabo to Nanded in
Maharashtra to commemorate the Guru'ta Gaddi Diwas, naming the road
after the tenth Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh Ji.
The National
Committee to commemorate the tercentenary of Guru'ta-Gaddi Diwas
headed by Home Minister Shivraj Patil approved the plan.
The
2,480-kilometre National Highway — tracing the places visited by
Guru Gobind Singh Ji during his lifetime — would pass through
Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pardesh, Madhya Pardesh and
Maharashtra.
New Delhi's nod
came after a meeting of Parkash Singh Badal with the Indian Internal
Security Minister Shiv Raj Patil and Union Tourism and Culture
Minister Ambika Soni at Parliament House on Friday. With Badal
proposing that this historic route be treated as a national highway
with a religious nomenclature, the concerned states have already
been sounded about the proposal.
Patil later
assured Badal that he would urge the Union cabinet to expedite
progress on the project. Guru'ta Gaddi Divas would be observed on
October 7 next year. Ambika Soni, meanwhile, would soon convene a
follow up meeting with the representatives of the state government
to further chalk out the modalities for implementation of the road
project before the Guru'ta Gaddi Diwas celebrations kick-off.
The Guru Gobind
Singh Marg — from Takht Sri Damdama Sahib (Talwandi Sabo) to Takht
Sri Hazur Sahib (Nanded)- would be 1,828 kms long in addition to the
route from Delhi to Ajmer via Agra measuring 652 kms. The total
length of the route would be 2,480 kms. Guru Gobind Singh had
traveled from Talwandi Sabo in Punjab, where he had compiled the
Guru Granth Sahib, to Nanded.
28 November, 2007
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