PSGPC lose control of the management of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur Sahib

AMRITSAR

: For the first time Pakistan Sikh

Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee

(PSGPC) has lost the management of any

Gurdwara

in Pakistan after Pakistan’s Ministry of Religious Affairs(MoRA) set up a Project Management Unit (PMU), Kartapur Corridor and handed over the management and maintenance of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib,

Kartarpur Sahib

to Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB)


According to a notification issued on November 3, following approval of the Economic Coordination Committee of Cabinet the MoRA had set up the PMU Kartapur Sahib which will be a self-financing body for the management and maintenance of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur Sahib under the administrative control of ETPB.

According to sources ETPB has appointed as many as 9 officials and staff members at the newly set up PMU Kartarpur Sahib sans any Sikh.

While confirming the same, ETPB spokespersons Amir Hashmi informed TOI on Wednesday that Tariq Khan, Additional Secretary, ETPB had been posted at PMU Kartapur Sahib as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

This is reportedly the first gurdwara of Pakistan whose control, management, and maintenance will no more be under the management of PSGPC but ETPB.

“PMU Kartapur Corridor will help us to further develop the Kartarpur corridor and Gurdwara and provide more facilities to the yatrees” said ETPB chairman Aamar Ahamd who also appealed to the Indian government to allow Indian Sikh yatrees to undertake day long Kartarpur pilgrimage which was suspended to prevent the spread of coronavirus.