The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has finally woken-up to the reality that the ‘daal-roti’ (pulses and chapattis) served in ‘langars’ (community kitchens) of its gurdwaras is laced with chemicals harmful to the human health.
The langar (food for community kitchen) is either purchased from the market or is collected by way of offerings from devotees. Some of these items like wheat for making chapattis also comes from agricultural land owned by the gurdwara body.
The SGPC has now decided to restrict the preparation of langar from chemical-laced food items. This clearly implies that langar prepared from organically produced foodgrains like wheat and rice, pulses, vegetables and even spices will be encouraged in all SGPC-managed historical gurdwaras in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh (HP).
