Chandigarh, June 13 -- Punjab Government has decided to extend invitation to 550 NRI Punjabis on the occasion of Sikhs' first master, Guru Nanak Dev's 550th birthday celebrations, to be held in November 2019.
Announcing this while assuming the charge of his new ministry - the NRI Affairs, the state's Cabinet Minister Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi on Wednesday said that the Punjab Government is in the process of chalking out, since last year, detailed programmes which would culminate in November 2019. "It has also been decided to invite 550 NRIs in order to enable them to witness the historic celebrations," he said.
Sodhi said that the arrangements of boarding, lodging as well as transportation would be made by the Punjab Government. These NRI P...