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Entire water of holy tank to be filtered in 96 hours

Varinder Walia

Tribune News Service

 

Amritsar, March 24

It will take only 96 hours to filter the entire water of the holy tank of Golden

Temple after the first 'kar seva' of this millennium which will be launched amid

chanting of Satnaam Waheguru here tomorrow. Pushpak of Amritsar Aviation Club

will shower flower petals on 'Sikh Sangat' and five Sikh Sants who will

participate in this mega event.

 

The entire Rs 5 crore on installation of the filteration plant is being spent by

"Tut brothers" - the biggest Punjabi farmers and transporters of USA, who own

54,000 acres of agricultural land and 225 trucks in the USA and Belzi (central

America). Mr Surjit Singh Tut and his younger brother Mr Ranjit Singh told TNS

that the filteration plant would be the first of its kind in the country.

 

The project is being installed by Olson Laval of the USA which is responsible

for creation of big artificial lakes, water falls and big swimming pools all

over the world. They claimed that after filteration, water of the holy tank

would be as good as 'mineral water'. The huge filteration plant installed near

Gurdwara Mata Kaula can filter 25,000 litres of water per minute.

 

Mr Douglass Whiteaker, Engineer Director of Aquatic Desig, USA, who also visited

Golden Temple today, told The Tribune that all precautions had been taken for

supplying 'pure water' into the holy tank. He said initially he had come here as

a professional but after visiting Golden Temple he wanted to complete the

project as a 'devout Sikh'.

 

Baba Amrik Singh, who has been supervising the 'kar seva' on behalf of Baba

Jagtar Singh, said that it took 12 years to implement the project even as three

resolutions were passed during the presidentship of Bibi Jagir Kaur, Mr Kirpal

Singh Badungar and now Mr Gurcharan Singh Tohra. The idea was first conceived by

Mr Tohra in 1992 who approached Baba Jagtar Singh for undertaking the 'kar

seva'.

 

A large number of Sikh devotees from foreign countries, including Baba Mohinder

Singh from the UK, had already reached Amritsar to participate in the 'kar

seva'.

 

ETC Punjabi channel will give a live telecast of the 'kar seva'.

 

Mr Ranjit Singh 'Tut' said that it would take only four days to remove silt

through kar seva. Fish had been carefully transferred to one fourth portion of

the holy tank. After completing three parts of the holy tank, fish would be

transferred to the other portions. Baba Amrik Singh said the entire underground

portion of Golden Temple would be painted blue which would have a life of more

than ten years. The entire Golden Temple complex would also be painted white

simultaneously.

 

However, Mr Manjit Singh Calcutta, SGPC Secretary, expected lakhs of devotees to

participate in the 'kar seva'.