Chandigarh: The SGPC has started installing new gold sheets after replacing original, which were installed during Maharaja Ranjit Singh era on the inner walls at Golden Temple, Amritsar.
The sewa is being done by a UK-based Sikh organisation after the gold sheets lost their sheen and developed cracks due to passage of enormous time.
It is pertinent to mention here that it would be for the very first time time that the inner gold plating will be repaired, as the outer gold plates had been replaced between 1995 and 1999.
According to the information, l Maharaja Ranjit Singh had got the gold plating done between 1803 and 1830.
SGPC chief Harjinder Singh Dhami said that the repair work shall be done with utmost care to ensure that the originality does not gets tinkered.