Kartarpur corridor to open after 20 months from Wednesday
- EP News Service
- Nov 16, 2021
PM Modi inaugurating the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor on November 9, 2019
NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah today announced that the government has decided to reopen the Kartarpur Sahib corridor from Wednesday, three days ahead of Guru Nanak Dev's birth anniversary which falls on November 19, 2021.
The Kartarpur corridor which links Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan, the final resting place of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev, to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Punjab's Gurdaspur district was shut in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic a few months after it was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 9, 2019.
Shah tweeted and said, "In a major decision, that will benefit large numbers of Sikh pilgrims, PM @Narendramodi govt has decided to re-open the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor from tomorrow, Nov 17."
"This decision reflects the immense reverence of Modi govt towards Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji and our Sikh community," Shah tweeted adding, "that the decision reflects the Modi government's immense reverence for Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji and the Sikh community."
The Kartarpur Corridor is a visa-free border crossing and corridor, connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan to the border with India which allows devotees from India to visit the gurdwara in Kartarpur, 4.7 kilometres (2.9 miles) from the India–Pakistan border on the Pakistani side without a visa.
Since the past few months, there has been a demand to open the corridor with several leaders including Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi claiming that he had personally taken up the request with the central government.
On Sunday Members of parliament from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Delhi, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir met the PM and submitted a request to reopen the Kartarpur Corridor.
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