Golden Temple to offer free Wi-Fi to devotees

Local Press Co 5-point Snippet

1. Amritsar’s Golden Temple is amongst the most visited shrines in the country with thousands of visitors paying a visit and offering prayers everyday.

2. Keeping the number of out-of-state visitors in mind, temple authorities have decided to start offering free Wi-Fi service to devotees within the temple complex and its peripheral area.

3. The service will be provided by Videocon and will be available everywhere except the sanctum sanctorum of the temple and the marbled area around the water pond, with regard to religious ethics.

4. The facility would be available in all nearby routes around the periphery of Golden Temple and all the guest-houses run by Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) for pilgrims in the temple complex.

5. Wi-Fi would also be functional in all the offices of SGPC and related offices of Golden Temple, besides Akal Takht.