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SGPC gurdwaras to have surveillance
cameras
Patiala: The
SGPC has decided to bring all gurdwaras managed by it under
electronic surveillance. Secretary Dilmegh Singh said closed circuit
cameras would be installed keeping in view the changing security
concerns. The process has begun with Sri Darbar Sahib, for which
tenders have been invited and consultants have submitted a report,
he said.
The project
would cost an estimated Rs 1.5 crore to Rs 2 crore. He said the
committee planned to install mobile phone jammers as well, to
maintain the calm at Darbar Sahib.
Dilmegh Singh
said the SGPC had already approved the installation points in the
complex and those within the sanc tum sanctorum would be decided
soon. He further said that education would be the focus for SGPC in
the financial year 2009-10. “The committee has set aside Rs 15 crore
in its budget for new schools,” he added.
Eight new
schools would be opened in
Punjab and one
in Haryana, he said. Classes have already begun in all new CBSE-affiliated
schools of the SGPC, he said. These are located in Maluka and Kot
Sameer in Bathinda, Gangasar in Faridkot, Theri Sahib in Muktsar,
Bajidpur in Ferozepur, Kot Dharmu in Mansa, Nidala in Kapurthala and
Tirloki Wala in Kilanwali Mandi in Haryana. Two new schools have
been opened in
Amritsar
as well.
The SGPC
presently runs 19 schools, two of them affiliated with the CBSE and
the rest with Punjab School Education Board.
8 April 2009
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