{"id":305932,"date":"2018-11-22T05:07:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T05:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305932"},"modified":"2018-11-22T05:07:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T05:07:13","slug":"haryana-to-celebrate-guru-nanak-devs-550th-birth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/haryana-to-celebrate-guru-nanak-devs-550th-birth-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Haryana to celebrate Guru Nanak Dev&#8217;s 550th birth anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Haryana Government will\u00a0celebrate the 550<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0birth anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji with utmost enthusiasm and fervour on November 23, 2018. On this occasion, the Chief Minister, Manohar Lal would\u00a0pay\u00a0obeisance,\u00a0join celebrations and greet people\u00a0at Nuh\u00a0on the auspicious occasion of Prakash Utsav of\u00a0Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji. Apart from this, all Members of Parliament, Ministers and MLAs of the state would visit different Gurdwaras across the state to attend functions organised on the occasion of Prakash Utsav.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It is worth mentioning here that in order to celebrate the 550<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0birth centenary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji in a befitting manner at State level for organising various activities relating to his life and teachings, the Haryana Government has constituted a 97-member Organising Committee under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Manohar Lal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Education Minister, Ram Bilas Sharma, Finance Minister, Abhimanyu, Agriculture Minister, O.P. Dhankar, Health Minister, Anil Vij, Urban Local Bodies Minister, Kavita Jain, Minister of State for Cooperation, Manish Grover and Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Krishan Bedi would be its members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said that the other members of the committee would include MP, Sirsa, Charnjeet Singh Rori, MLA\u2019s Subhash Barala, Bakhshish Singh, Rohita Rewri, Jasvinder Singh Sandhu, Ghanshyam Arora,\u00a0 Seema Trikha, Subhash Sudha, Aseem Goyal, and Kulwant Bazigar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While Director General, Information, Public Relations and Languages Department, Sameer Pal Srow would be the Member Secretary of the Committee, other members of the Committee would be Rashtriya Sikh Sangat, Avtar Singh Shastry, Chairman, Haryana Tourism,\u00a0 Jagdish Chopra, Chairman, S.S.C., Pehowa, Bharat Bhushan Bharti, Additional Chief Secretary, Art and Cultural Affairs Department, Dheera Khandelwal, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister,\u00a0 Rajesh Khullar, Director, Art and Cultural Affairs Department, Maheshwar Sharma, Director, Haryana Punjabi Sahitya Academy, Gurvinder Singh Dhamija, Deputy Chairman, HPSA, Yamunanagar, Narinder Singh Virk and DDPO, Yamunanagar, Gagandeep Singh.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haryana Government will\u00a0celebrate the 550th\u00a0birth anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji with utmost enthusiasm and fervour on November 23, 2018. On this occasion, the Chief Minister, Manohar Lal would\u00a0pay\u00a0obeisance,\u00a0join celebrations and greet people\u00a0at Nuh\u00a0on the auspicious occasion of Prakash Utsav of\u00a0Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji. Apart from this, all Members of Parliament, Ministers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2110,2009,2014],"tags":[4350,9818,338],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305933,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305932\/revisions\/305933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}