 To be set up at Fatehgarh Sahib.
The Guru Granth Sahib World University (GGSWU) in Fatehgarh Sahib, to be established by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), would start functioning from June-July, 2009, and its construction work is nearing completion, said Dr Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia, former Punjabi University vice-chancellor and member-secretary, GGSWU Trust.
He said the draft bill for a specific act for the university, which was at present with the law department, had been cleared by the education department.
The SGPC announced the ambitious project during the 400th installation anniversary of the holy book in 2004. Besides, Avtar Singh Makkar as president of the GGSWU Trust, other members include Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, advocate-general H.S. Mattewal and Punjab Planning Commission chairman J.S. Grewal.
Ahluwalia said the bill would soon be presented in the Punjab cabinet for its approval which would be later presented to the Governor to pass an ordinance in this regard. He said the tentative cost of the university, having an area of 84 acres, was around Rs 500 crore. He said the construction cost was likely to go up as the prices of the material had increased considerably.
Ahluwalia said the project report of the university was prepared after a team of the trustees had visited Manipal University, the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, and other prestigious educational institutions of the country. He said the report was submitted to the education department after doing spade work and with certain improvements.
The member-secretary said the university would not only teach Sikhism but would also impart education in other religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity.
He said the university would also impart education in modern subjects like information and technology, biotechnology, business management and nanotechnology, besides other subjects, including social sciences.
Earlier inaugurating the four-week general orientation course (GOC) being organised by the Academic Staff College of the university, Ahluwalia said knowledge was becoming a tool of earning and spinning money in this contemporary world as it was being divorced from social and moral values, said Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia, former vice-chancellor of Punjabi University.
Expressing his grave concern over the vanishing of the social phenomenon from public life, Ahluwalia said knowledge was not technology but an ideology which had now become slave and toy in the hands of materialistic world.
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