From Sushil Goyal  - Tribune News Service

ANANDPUR SAHIB, April 7 - To mark the tercentenary celebrations of the birth of the Khalsa, the Centre would publish select parts of the "Dasam Granth", authored by Guru Gobind Singh, in different languages of the country to disseminate the message of the Guru throughout the country.

This was stated by Mr Murli Manohar Joshi, Union Human Resources Development Minister and Chairman of the National Programme Implementation Committee for the Khalsa tercentenary celebrations, while holding a joint press conference along with the Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, at the media centre here this evening.

Mr Joshi said the Centre desired to spread the "message of the Guru"as it was based on the principles of brotherhood, "sarbat da bhalla" and "all are equal". He said, the programme implementation committee had also urged the Railway Ministry to run a special train in which an exhibition relating to the Sikh history and relics should be held. This train should visit every part of the country. The Union Minister also said the Centre had already released a grant of Rs 19 crore to Punjab while the remaining grant would be given in installments for the tercentenary celebrations. He said hehad written letters to the Chief Ministers of all states for holding celebrations from whom he had got a positive response. He said, the Centre had set aside Rs 50 crore for these states. Mr Joshi also said memorials in memory of four "Piaras", whose native places were in the country, were being raised at Bidar, Jagannath Puri, Hastinapur (Delhi) and Dwarka. He said the central government had been making efforts for raising such a memorial at Lahore to which one of the "Panj Piaras" belonged. Mr Joshi said the programme implementation committee had also invited scholars to disseminate the universal message of the Gurus throughout the world. He also said seminars, lectures and conferences would also be organised during the tercentenary celebration year to focus on the historical facts and evidence regarding Sikhism. He said the tercentenary celebration committees of all states had been directed to name the important buildings and bhawans after Guru Gobind Singh. He said if any state government wanted to name its university after Guru Gobind Singh it was free to do so. Mr Joshi also assured that the central government would take steps to record the names of all those who had sacrificed their lives for the country in the history books prescribed for schools as this could not be done in the past 50 years. Mr Badal said the central government and its departments had provided necessary information and help in all respects for the tercentenary celebrations. Mr Badal said the state was considering making the Chandigarh-Anandpur Sahib road a four-lane one for reducing traffic congestion.