The Vice President of India laid the foundation stone for the construction of the Kartarpur corridor on Indian side at Mann village in Gurdaspur district, Punjab.
The corridor will provide visa free passage to the Indian Sikh pilgrims to visit holy site of Gurudwara Darbar Sahib at Kartarpur in Pakistan.
This corridor will link India’s border district of Gurdaspur with Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan.
Gurdwara Darbar Sahib is the 16th century Gurdwara located on the banks of the river Ravi in Shakargarh in Narowal district of Punjab province of Pakistan.
The project corridor is to be developed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and will be funded by the Government of India.
The decision to build the passage was taken by the Union Cabinet to mark the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev next year (2019).