NEW DELHI – India will develop 4 km stretch of Kartarpur Sahib Corridorfrom Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur district of Punjab to InternationalBorder with Pakistan, Parliament was informed Thursday.
The much-awaited corridor will connect Darbar Sahib in Pakistan’s Kartarpur- the final resting place of first Sikh guru Guru Nanak Dev – with DeraBaba Nanak shrine in India.
“The government of India has decided to develop the corridor from Dera BabaNanak in Gurdaspur district up to the International Border (withPakistan),” Minister of State for Highways Mansukh L Mandaviya said in awritten reply to Lok Sabha. He was replying to a question whether theNational Highways Authority of India has developed or plans to develop anyproject on the corridor.
“Approximate length of the road project is about 4 km,” he said.
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Work on determination of the alignment of road has been initiated, he added.
On November 26, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Punjab Chief MinisterCaptain Amarinder Singh laid the foundation stone for the corridor. Thedecision to build the passage was taken by the Union Cabinet on November 22.
