Birthday of Sri Guru Ramdas Ji

T
he entire Guru
Gobind Singh
Marg linking Sri Anandpur
Sahib, Talwandi Sabo and
Nanded will become a
national highway, with the
remaining 1786 km stretch
coming under the national
highway radar soon. Also
on the cards is the four-laning
of the remainder 1775
km of this route on a priority
basis.
Union Minister of Road
Transport and Highways
Nitin Gadkari gave this
undertaking to Chief Minister
Parkash Singh Badal.
Mr Badal told the Union Minister that Sri Guru Gobind
Singh ji undertook his last journey from Sri Anandpur
Sahib to Talwandi Sabo and finally to Nanded in
Maharashtra. The state government had already finalised
PUNJAB DIARY
Guru Gobind Singh Marg
to become National Highway
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal with Union Minister
Nitin Gadkari
the entire route of Guru
Gobind Singh Marg after
intense discussions and
consultations with eminent
historians and Sikh scholars
and subsequently a
high level team of officers
travelled on the agreed
routes in 2007 and then
2014.
On the national map,
the road stretches from Sri
Anandpur Sahib to Takht
Sri Dam Dama Sahib (Talwandi
Sabo) in Punjab and
then on to Takht Sri Hazur
Sahib (Nanded) in Maharastra
covering a total length of 3080 km, with 605 km of
this route falling in Punjab, 1123 km in Rajasthan, 164
km in Haryana, 630 km in Madhya Pradesh, 363 km in
Maharashtra, 18 km in Delhi and 177 km in Uttar
Pardesh.
Lt-Gen (retd) Hoon honours braveheart
L
t-Gen (retd) Prem
Nath Hoon, who
led Operation Meghdoot
that foiled a Pakistani attempt
to occupy the
Siachen Glacier in 1984,
has lauded the feat of
Nanak Chand, the Punjab
bus driver who saved 75
passengers from a terrorist
attack in Dinanagar. The
former chief of the Western
Command honoured the
braveheart by presenting
him a motor-cycle. Decorated with the Param Vishisht Seva
Medal, Ati Vishisht Seva Medal and the Sena Medal, General
Hoon was commanding the 15 Corp in Srinagar, when
he undertood the glacier mission.
Lt-Gen P. N. Hoon gifts motor cycle to Dinanagar
braveheart Nanak Chand
General Hoon was commissioned
in the Indian
army two years after Patition
forced him to leave his
ancestral house in Pakistan
at Abottabad.
He served as a frontline
soldier during the Chinese
Aggression in 196 and the
1965 war against Pakistan.
He commanded Operation
Meghdoot which captured
7,500 sq km of strategic Indian
territory, illegally occupied
and gradually being ceded to China by Pakistan in
1985. He was director general of military operations and retired
in 1987 as General-Officer-Commanding-in-Chief,
Western Command.
22 Punjab Advance
October 2015