Paying rich tributes to Guru Gobind Singh to mark his 350th birth anniversary celebrations, Khattar also announced to open three new passport offices at Karnal, Faridabad and Hisar, taking the total number of such offices in Haryana to five.
Addressing a state level function -- 'Chardi Kalan' on the occasion of 350th 'Prakash Utsav' here, the chief minister said that he had requested Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj that as people have to visit Chandigarh and Gurgaon to get their passports, three new offices should be opened so that the people don't have to travel far for to get their passports.
Khattar announced that a college, to be set up at Lakhnaur Sahib, would be named after Mata Gujri, the tenth Guru's mother.
Apart from this, the road from Manav Chowk in Ambala upto Lakhnaur Sahib via Barala would also be named after Mata Gujri.
Khattar said that after Bhagani war in 1688, Guru Gobind Singh while had stayed at Nada Sahib in Panchkula while he was on his way to Annandpur Sahib from Kapal Mochan.
Khattar said since 1966 when Haryana was carved out as a separate state, "none of the previous state governments had celebrated a Sikh utsav in such a befitting manner as was being celebrated by the present state government".
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