Talwandi-Nanded road approved

The plan to construct a 2,400-kilometre-long road from Punjab to Maharashtra to commemorate Guru Gobind Singh's tercentenary has been approved by the Centre, reports Chetan Chauhan.

Updated on: Nov 23, 2007, 23:49:22 IST

Hindustan Times | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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The plan to construct a 2,400-kilometre-long road from Talwandi Sebo in Punjab to Nanded in Maharashtra to commemorate Guru Gobind Singh's tercentenary was approved on Friday by the Centre. The road will also be named after the Sikh Guru.

The National Committee to commemorate the tercentenary of Guru-ta-Gaddi headed by Home Minister Shivraj Patil approved the plan to construct the road passing through five states ---- Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Guru-ta-Gaddi will be celebrated on October 2008 marking 300 years of consecration of the holy Guru Granth Sahib, revered to as the 11th and final eternal Guru of the Sikhs.

Guru Gobind Singh had traveled from Talwandi Sabo in Punjab, where he had compiled the Guru Granth Sahib, to Nanded.

The Guru died at Nanded on October 7, 1708 after two Pathans, masquerading as horse traders, wounded him.

The committee also decided that the road would be constructed and named after the Guru would be maintained by the Centre.

"The finer details about the road would be worked out between the officials of the given states," a government functionary said.

A sub-committee headed by Culture minister Ambika Soni has been asked to coordinate and oversee the implementation of the project. "All the ministers and secretaries of the concerned states will be members of the committee," an official said.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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