SGPC plans to go global

[GlobalSikhNews]

With NRI Sikhs offering free land in US and Canada, to put up mission offices and printing units for publishing scriptures of Guru Granth Sahib, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) is planning to go global. Disclosing this to Hindustan Times, SGPC President Avtar Singh Makkar said that the Gurdwara Committee of Charlotte city in New Carolina state in US and Satnam Education Society of Surry in Canada, had offered them free lands to put up mission offices and printing units to fulfill the requirement of religious preaching and providing Birs of Guru Granth Sahib on demand in that part of the globe.

While Charlotte Gurdwara committee has formally offered to spare 2.5 acres for the proposed SGPC projects, Satnam Education Society from Surry has offered 16.5 acres for the purpose.

Welcoming the offer, Makkar has decided to send two-member panel comprising of SGPC Secretary Joginder Singh and Executive Member Rajinder Singh Mehta to study the viability of projects. As per plan SGPC panel would visit both the spots in December first week.

"Following a minute analysis if our panel cleared the proposal, we would certainly put up mission offices and printing units there," said Makkar.

He said that the nomenclature of mission offices would be finalised following series of deliberations with Sikh intellectuals and Sikh Diaspora. He said that printing unit would be established at one of these two locations after studying the requirements of Birs of Guru Granth Sahib and other religious scriptures such as Sukhmani Sahib, Japuji Sahib and Rehras Sahib etc in US as well as neighbouring Canada.

Both US and Canada have considerable chunk of Sikh population. Apart from requirement in shrines several Sikhs like to adorn Guru Granth Sahib in their respective houses for recitation of Gurbani.

Till date no printing of Guru Granth Sahib is allowed outside Amritsar. All the requirements of Birs of Guru Granth Sahib are met with a lone unit in the city controlled by the SGPC.

SGPC chief said that depending upon the success of mission offices in US and Canada, they would spread similar branches in other countries like England, Italy, Germany and Australia.

Source: HT

[SinghWarrior]

Can US and Canadian Sangat please give these SGPC members when they arrive a real piece of how the Sangat feels? The Chela Ram Beadbi is being swept under the carpet by SGPC. Rather than these people causing more problems globally, they need to sort things out locally in India first.

[S1ngh]

SGPC is just another bureaucracy and fails to fulfill its mission when it comes to do prachar in rural area of punjab. However, when it comes to printing gurbani and school syllabus, it is the only institution or authority that we can trust on. I think it is better to have SGPC abroad as people will work with them when it comes to printing/distributing gurbani abroad. Satnam Trust is trustable organization in surrey and i am sure that the combination will do good. Regarding the Chela ram issue, that is happening in Delhi and this area falls under DGMC Sarna not SGPC.

[bsingh64]

SGPC little better than the mahants from which the khalsa was freed. An organisation that buys votes with intoxicants when the panjab is in the midst of a drug and alcahol epidemic. 440 crore rupees revenue collected each year yet the poor are leaving sikhi and turning to christianity or dera cults because they offer financial aid. The khalsa gets a very expensive calender for which it never asked. SGPC allied with the anti sikh Badal party silent when the victims of the anti sikh pogrom of 1984 ask for justice. Who needs enemies with friends like these ?