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Pass resolution for heritage status to Amritsar: NGO to CM

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Press Trust of India Amritsar
Last Updated : Jan 29 2013 | 2:34 PM IST

Amritsar Vikas Manch has written letters to Badal and city MP Navjot Singh Sidhu asking them to bring the resolution in the upcoming budget session.

NGO head Charanjit Singh Gumtala claimed the chief minister had on December 30, 2009, gave a press statement here promising that his party would bring this resolution in the Assembly, and after getting approval in the house it will be forwarded to the Centre with request to grant heritage status to the holy city.

"But three years have passed, no resolution has been introduced in the Assembly," Gumtala said.

It seems, Badal and Sidhu have forgotten the mater, he claimed.

The NGO head said,"Parliament had rejected a forceful demand for declaring Amritsar a heritage city on December 11, 2009, as the government said there was no legal provision to do so either in India or under the UNESCO rules."

It however did concede Amritsar's religious, historic and tourist significance, he said.

"Later, Sidhu had said that very shortly he would approach Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with the request," he said.

  

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First Published: Aug 06 2010 | 5:53 PM IST

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