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The ancient Katas Raj cluster of temples in Pakistan
Amritsar: The administrative control of the Katas Raj cluster of temples is back under Pakistan government’s Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB).
The ancient Hindu shrine had been under the administrative control of the archaeology department of Pakistan’s Punjab province since 2006.
ETPB chairman Aamer Ahmed informed TOI on Friday, “ETPB had been looking after the management of religious rituals. Yesterday, we took over the administrative control of temple complex from the provincial government.”
ETPB secretary (Hindu shrines) Faraz Abbas said Pakistan’s former prime minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain had performed the groundbreaking ceremony for restoring Katasraj cluster of temples, while handing its management to Pakistan Punjab’s archaeology department in 2006.
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ETPB launches scholarship for Sikh and Hindu youths
National
March 17, 2021
AMRITSAR: Pakistan’s Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) has begun the ‘Baba Guru Nanak Scholarship’ to provide vocational training to Hindu and Sikh youths to help them become independent after ETPB signed a MoU with Punjab Vocational Training Council (PVTC) the other day.
While talking to TOI after signing the MoU, ETPB chairman Aamer Ahamd said PVTC will train 10 Sikh and Hindu youth in the districts of Nankana Sahib and Rahim Yar Khan and the training would be provided in the existing vocational training institutes of PVTC”. He said while the PVTC would be responsible for providing vocational training to Sikh and Hindu youth on the other hand ETPB would bear the fee and stipend which turns around to be around Pakistani Rs 16 lakh for the 20 candidates.
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