KARTARPUR SAHIB CORRIDOR

Nov. 17, 2021

Home Minister Amit Shah has said that the government has decided to re-open the Shri Kartarpur Sahib Corridor. The corridor was shut in March 2020 in view of the coronavirus pandemic.

About:

  • The Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, also known as Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib, is located in Pakistan’s Narowal district across river Ravi, about five kilometres from the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India’s Punjab.

  • Guru Nanak Dev, the first Sikh Guru had arrived in Kartarpur between 1520 and 1522, as per historians, and spent the last 18 years of his life there. It was in Kararpur that he laid the foundations of a Sikh religion. At his final resting place stands the gurdwara.

  • The Kartarpur Corridor was finally thrown open in 2019 with the two sides agreeing on visa-free travel for Indian pilgrims to the shrine.

  • India had signed an agreement with Pakistan on 24th October in 2019 on the modalities for operationalization of the Shri Kartarpur Sahib Corridor at Zero Point, International Boundary, Dera Baba Nanak.