Travel Guide to Golden Temple Amritsar
Owing to the increasing footfall of devotees at the Golden Temple, the SGPC has revamped arrangements at the Guru Ram Das Langar Hall.
Two new automated LPG-run chapatti-making machines have been introduced in the community kitchen. Three identical machines were already installed at the kitchen. However, the manual chapatti-making will also continue for ‘sewa’ volunteers.
On an average, 100,000 devotees partake langar daily. “On Sundays, festival days and masya (new moon), becomes more than double. The new machines can together make around 12,000 chapattis per hour. The three old machines used to make around 7,000 chapattis per hour.
Meanwhile, the langar hall is in the process of expansion with another building under construction. It will reportedly open in next six months. “With the new building.
