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By admin on April 25, 2007
Various experts and heritage lovers urged the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) to set up Guru Ramdass Urban Welfare & Aesthetical Conservation Centre (GURUWACC) comprising of conservationists and heritage experts for renovation or development of historical gurdwaras. They were speaking on a special function to mark the World Heritage Day organised by the Punjab Heritage [...]
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By admin on April 1, 2007
With the district administration keen on playing a perfect host to tourists converging on Amritsar, the residents have been promised a detailed plan to make the holy city more attractive by developing more places of interest. “The idea is that the city should have more places of interest besides the Golden Temple and Wagah border,” [...]
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By admin on March 7, 2007
This is one delay that Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh will not like. Even after two months since he handed over the “keys” of the historic 18th century Gobindgarh Fort to the state government, the monument, presently occupied by the Indian Army, is yet to be opened for the general public. The process of declaring [...]
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By admin on October 29, 2006
The decision to hand over Gobindgarh Fort, currently under Army’s control here, to the civil administration has generated curiosity among the civilians who would now be able to see great artifacts of historical value preserved in the monument. It is a coincident that the fort was handed over to Army in October 1948, a year [...]
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By admin on October 6, 2006
Ludhiana, October 5: IN THIS business capital of the state, land sells on premium, and encroachers leave no chance to grab unattended patches of land. Even the heritage sites are not spared. As a result, the Old Fort is also falling prey to encroachments. The entire area in and around the fort has been encroached [...]
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By admin on September 25, 2006
Keeping in view the inextricably intertwined history and heritage of Amritsar and Lahore (Pak), the cultural and architectural heritage of the former should be conserved on the pattern of Lahore as taken up by the World Bank and the Punjab govt. there. This view was expressed by Prof. Mohan Singh, a former president of Amritsar [...]
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By admin on April 24, 2006
Amritsar, the land of the beautiful and serene Golden Temple or the Hari Mandir, hides within its ancient folds a jewel in the form of a fort, much coveted throughout history and yet equally less known – the Gobindgarh Fort. Garrisoned by the Indian army from 1948 onwards, it was handed over to the [...]
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By admin on April 3, 2006
Amritsar: Will the proposed Rs 210-crore elevated road, announced by Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh be a blessing or a bane for the City here? Heritage lovers and experts say that the proposed project may pose a threat to the city. They say, no such action had been taken in any historic and ancient city of [...]
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By admin on March 23, 2006
Amritsar: The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, is likely to hand over the keys of historic Gobindgarh Fort, currently under the Army’s control to the Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, at a public rally scheduled to be held here on March 24 to mark flagging of much-awaited Amritsar-Nankana Sahib bus. The decision to hand over [...]
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By admin on March 23, 2006
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for the transfer of Gobindgarh Fort at Amritsar to the State Government of Punjab and said that the heritage fort will be declared as protected. The transfer of the Gobindgarh Fort would include the fort measuring approximately 30 acres, along with additional land measuring 2.81 acres [...]
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