:dateline:The annual budget of the apex Sikh body Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhik Committee worth Rupees 12.05 billion for the next financial year 2019-20 was today passed in its general house meeting held at Teja Singh Samundari Hall. SGPC�s General Secretary S. Gurbachan Singh Karmuwala presented the budget and all the SGPC members endorsed the budget�s preferences by enchanting the Sikh ovation.
Elaborating the budget details to the media, SGPC president Gobind Singh Longowal informed that this year�s budget has been commemorated to the upcoming 550th birthday celebrations of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji. He added that the SGPC has kept a provision of Rupees 126.3 million to spend on the functions to be organized in November during the birthday celebrations. �We will spend a major portion of Dharam Prachar Committee�s funds to celebrate the 550th birthday anniversary internationally,� he added.
Other major allocations made in the budget are as follow:
- Rupees 725 million for the general board funds
- Rupees 506 million for trust funds
- Rupees 374 million for education funds
- Rupees 76.5 million for Printing Presses
- Rupees 840 million for Dharam Prachar Committee
- Rupees 7.15 billion for managing the Section-85 Sikh shrines
- Rupees 133.6 million for the Sikh shrines with direct and attached management Sikh shrines
- Rupees 2.38 billion for the SGPC run Educational Institutions
- Rupees 145 million for helping the Sikligar Sikhs and students, and Gurdwara Sahibans of other states
- Rupees 192 million for religious examinations, competitions and correspondence courses
- Rupees 6 million for the annual Khalsa Sports Meet
- Rupees 10 million for honoring the Sikh players
- Rupees 20 million for helping the Dharmi Faujis and their families
- Rupees 80 million for Sikh missions
- Rupees 7 million for the research on Sikh history and its printing
- Rupees 7 million for helping the victims of natural disasters
