Date:10/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/10/stories/2008081059260400.htm

New Delhi

Teg Bahadur memorial to be ready by October

Staff Reporter

More than 70 per cent of the work over

NEW DELHI: More than 70 per cent of the construction work for the upcoming Guru Teg Bahadur Memorial at Delhi’s Singhu Border has been completed and efforts are under way to inaugurate it in the first week of October, a review meeting on the project, chaired by Delhi Tourism Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely, was informed by officials over the weekend.

The memorial will be dedicated to the ninth Sikh Guru Teg Bahadur who sacrificed his life for upholding the freedom of conscience and worship.

The memorial will also bear the three golden rules of Guru Nanak, the first Sikh guru: “hitt karo” (do good), “vand sako” (share) and “naam japo” (remember the Almighty).

Mr. Lovely said he wanted the memorial to be inaugurated by the first week of October and would visit the site on August 11.

Coming up at the entry point of Delhi on Grand Trunk Road, the memorial would become a new landmark in the Capital and would be visible to everyone travelling on the National Highway No.1.

Martyrdom

Being built on 11 acres at a cost of Rs.22 crore, the memorial will have 40 plaques on both sides of monoliths fitted in a circular shape and inscribed with teachings of Sikhism, sayings of Guru Nanak, Guru Granth Sahib, in depth details of the martyrdom of Guru Teg Bahadur and a map of the route from where the holy “Sis” of Guru Teg Bahadur was taken from Delhi to Anandpur Sahib.