I.S. Saluja

AMRITSAR/NEW YORK (TIP): The SGPC executive committee has decided to establish a printing press at Tracy City in California, US, to publish the ‘holy saroops’ of Guru Granth Sahib. It will also set up a religious preaching center at Yuba City.

This was decided by a meeting of the SGPC executive committee chaired by SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami on Tuesday, September 5. Sikhs in the US have welcomed the decision. Master Mohinder Singh, a founder President of Gurdwara Baba Makhan Shah Sikh Center in New York has welcomed the SGPC decision to print the holy Saroops of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in the US. He has suggested that the SGPC set up religious preaching centers at all places with large population of the Sikhs. He has also recommended free distribution of literature on Sikhism in the local languages all over the world .

Harcharan Singh Gulati, General Secretary of Gurdwara Nanak Darbar in Hicksville said while the decision to print the holy saroops of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in the US is welcome, it is equally important that there is a sustained effort at carrying the message of the Sikh Gurus to the younger generation of the Sikhs, and also propagate the Sikh values among other communities.

The executive termed the printing of voter forms only in Hindi for the HSGMC elections as a move to ignore Punjabi by the Khattar government. Slamming the ‘discriminatory’ move, Dhami said Punjabi was the second language in Haryana and even officials engaged to conduct the poll were not conversant with Punjabi.
(With inputs from TNS)