Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh during his visit at the Jang-e-Azadi memorial at Kartarpur in Jalandhar on Saturday. A Tribune Photograph

Tribune News Service

Kartarpur (Jalandhar), February 10

Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh will dedicate the second phase of the Jang-e-Azadi memorial to the nation on March 6.A decision to this effect was taken by the Chief Minister at a meeting held at the memorial with Barjinder Singh Hamdard, chairman of the Jang-e-Azadi Foundation and Managing Editor, Ajit Group of Newspapers, along with other officials.The meeting came a day after the Punjab Government released Rs 5 crore for the project, with the remaining sum of Rs 9 crore set to be released soon. The Chief Minister had sanctioned the final instalment of Rs 15 crore for the completion of the second phase of the memorial last year.The first phase of the project was completed in June 2017. The Chief Minister was updated about the work on the second phase of the memorial during the meeting.He said once inaugurated, the state-of-the-art memorial would give a major fillip to the tourism sector in the state and lead to Kartarpur’s emergence on the world tourist map. Earlier, Dr Barjinder Singh Hamdard, president of the executive committee of the Jang-E-Azaadi Foundation, welcomed the Chief Minister to the memorial and apprised him of the progress of the project being managed by Jang-e-Azadi Foundation.The project, spread across 25 acres, was sanctioned in July 2012 at a cost of Rs 315 crore.Tourism and Cultural Affairs Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, Media Advisor to Chief Minister Raveen Thukral, OSD to Chief Minister Gurpreet Singh Sonu Dhesi, Lok Sabha Chaudhary Santokh Singh, MLAs Pargat Singh, Sushil Kumar Rinku, Chaudhary Surinder Singh and Bawa Henry, Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma, Inspector General of Police Arpit Shukla, Commissioner of Police Praveen Kumar Sinha, Senior Superintendent of Police Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, Congress leader Tejinder Singh Bittu, Director Land Records Vinay Bublani and Deputy Mayor Jalandhar Harsimranjit Singh Bunty were present during the meeting.