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Punjab
to provide land for burial grounds
Thursday December 23, 2010 06:53:37 PM,
IANS
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Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Thursday announced that
his government will provide land for burial grounds for Christian
and Muslim communities in all towns and villages of the state.
He was addressing a gathering of the Christian community at a
first of its kind state-level function to mark Christmas at the
Circus Ground here.
"The state government would provide land for burial ground to both
these communities either from the panchayat land or in case of
non-availability of such land, it would even purchase it for this
social cause," he said.
Badal asked the Punjab State Minorities Commission chief Munawar
Masih, who earlier presented a memorandum of demands on behalf of
the Christian community to him, to immediately provide the list of
towns and villages without cemeteries.
The chief minister also announced the allotment of half an acre
land for the construction of a church and a community hall at
Mohali town, 10 km from here.
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