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SGPC may tap the
sun for cooking langar
WSN Network
Amritsar: In keeping
with heightened awareness about environmental issues, the Shiromani
Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) is now planning to introduce
solar energy into langar cooking, thus saving on a lot of wood use
and improving working conditions inside community kitchens.
Langar as a Sikh
institution is making waves across the world for its totally
egalitarian character and absence of any kind of discrimination on
the basis of religion, caste, creed, race or gender.
Cooking for langar
has been traditionally performed by women and men both who took time
out of their household chores to converge around a huge iron tava in
the Golden Temple to make fresh parshadas (rotis) for the sangat,
and with the introduction of chapati-making machines and now solar
energy usage, langar cooking is set for further improvement.
US-based Sikh scholar
and noted columnist Harjap Singh Aujla, was quoted in sections of
the media saying that SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar has agreed in
principle to introduce solar power system in the complex. With power
scarcity almost a norm in Punjab, the step will only help. It is not
known whether the SGPC will ask for donations from Sikh Diaspora to
install the solar power generating plant but Aujla said the Diaspora
is likely to help if it is tapped.
23 January 2008
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