Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday written to the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the Kartarpur corridor and requested him to waive of the condition of mandatory passport for devotees and put in place simple procedures.
In his letter, Capt Amarinder said that this would enable ‘khulle darshan deedar’ of the holy Gurudwara on the other side of the border.
Capt Amarinder suggested the Central Government that any valid government document, such as Aadhar card, should be used for identification.
He also called on the Central Government to create adequate infrastructure at the border crossing which can handle a large number of pilgrims and the land proposed to be acquired should factor in both present and future requirements.
Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder has also asked the Modi Government to quickly finalize the alignment of road access and attendant government infrastructure to be built around the corridor so that the process of acquisition may be commenced without any further delay to ensure early operatlionalisation of the historic corridor.
“The Government of India should also create adequate infrastructure at the border crossing to handle the large number of pilgrims who would want to use the corridor for darshan of Kartarpur Sahib. The land proposed to be acquired should factor in both present and future requirements,” he added.
Noting that the Ministry of Home Affairs must be currently engaged in working out the operational modalities of the Kartarpur Corridor to be opened as part of 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev in 2019, Punjab Chief
Minister Capt Amarinder also suggested that the system to be applied should also provide for both, day-to-day prayers and ‘Akhand and Sehaj Paths’ which the devotees may like to undertake at Sri Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara.