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	BMA - Other issues
		SGPC continues to present the case for expansion of GP numbers to address the increasing demands being made on Scottish general practice against a background of work being transferred from secondary to primary care (e.g.
		SGPC continues to press the Scottish Executive Health Department on the need for secure treatment facilities for violent patients across all NHS Board areas, particularly as arrangements for dealing with violent patients are featured as a priority in NHS Board action plans.
		SGPC is currently working with the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care to simplify the GP certification arrangements relating to the mental and physical fitness of care home managers and carers following the introduction of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 and the establishment of the Care Commission.
	www.bma.org.uk /ap.nsf/Content/SGPCAnnRep04~issues (2405 words)

	The clergy vs the SGPC
		It directed that an SGPC executive committee meeting scheduled for January 27 be cancelled, and demanded that all its 15 members appear in person before the Akal Takht on February 2.
		Although plans to call a special SGPC meeting to discuss the events have been deferred, it seems clear that Kaur is unwilling to allow the Jathedar to have his way.
		History and the institutional influence of the SGPC and the SAD suggest that the priests are fighting a losing battle.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1703/17030310.htm (1892 words)

	rediff.com: SGPC president poll on November 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		SGPC president Kirpal Singh Badungar announced this in Kurukshetra after a meeting of the executive committee on Monday.
		The SGPC is responsible for management of Sikh shrines in the country.
		The SGPC presidential election has generated a lot of interest with the Badal faction alleging that the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government is using "repressive measures" to browbeat members to elect Ravi Inder Singh, former speaker of the state assembly and a nominee of Tohra.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/oct/21sgpc.htm (282 words)

	SGPC
		The inaugural meeting of the SGPC was held at the Akal Takht on 12 December 1920.
		The SGPC in this struggle maintained a policy of nonviolence and peaceful, passive resistance whereas the government tried all means of suppression arrests, merciless beating, detention, summary trials, imprisonment and even firing on a peaceful unarmed band of volunteers at Jaito.on 21 February 1924.
		Both the SGPC and the Akali Dal were declared unlawful bodies on 12 October 1923 and all their top leaders and hundreds of activists were put behind the bars.
	www.sikhiwiki.org /index.php?title=SGPC (1999 words)

	SGPC Election: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The conduct of the Akali leaders in the November 2002 election of the President of the SGPC is a sad attestation of the above quotes.
		SGPC had been serving as a hand-maiden of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), the latest episode of unabashed "stabling" and captive voters strikes another nail in the coffin of autonomous and virtuous existence of the SGPC.
		Since the ultimate performance of the SGPC is to be found in the character profile of the members, the reforms at the grassroots levels are the only viable alternative to revive the inner vitality of the SGPC and tilt the fulcrum from decadence to effulgence.
	www.sikhreview.org /april2003/current.htm (1578 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab
		The SGPC members from Haryana, including Mr J.S. Jhinda and Mr Didar Singh Nalvi, while justifying the demand for a separate committee said that as per the Re-organisation Act of November 1966, there was a provision to constitute a separate committee for the Sikh shrines in Haryana.
		SGPC member Harinderpal Singh told reporters that the convention, which would be attended by SAD chief Parkash Singh Badal and SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur, would appraise the Congress-led UPA government about the implications of the formation of the separate committee.
		SGPC members from Haryana earlier this week stated that the Haryana chief minister had assured them that a Bill regarding the constitution of a separate gurdwara parbandhak committee for Haryana would be brought in the forthcoming session of the Assembly and a separate SGPC would be constituted.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050601/punjab1.htm (7933 words)

	TSS News: Insight into the SGPC's Women's Seva Decision
		Kharak Singh, one of five members of the SGPC's Women's Seva Committee, said in an interview that the committee had received input from Sikh organizations and individuals who are both for and against allowing Amritdhari women to perform seva at the Darbar Sahib.
		When asked about members of the SGPC and the Darbar Sahib Management manipulating and pressuring persons into giving an opinion against allowing seva, Kharak Singh remarked that because he did not have a first-hand experience of this, he could not make a comment on it.
		Although the SGPC approved it five years ago, it took that long for it to be implemented.
	www.sikhsentinel.com /sikhsentinel0305/sgpcinsight.htm (1091 words)

	The case of a mother and daughter
		There is no doubt where the CBI is heading, for the first information report (FIR) lists the SGPC president herself as the principal accused in the case of her own daughter's murder.
		As SGPC president, she has played a key role in securing Badal's control of the Sikh religious establishment.
		The most tragic part about Harpreet Kaur's murder is that few of the SGPC president 's many critics would themselves allow their daughters to marry of choice, particularly across caste or religious lines.
	www.frontlineonnet.com /fl1722/17220330.htm (1864 words)

	Movie Talkies.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		SGPC Chief Bibi Jagir Kaur says, "The film denigrates the Sikh religion and must not be exhibited until key changes are affected." It may be recalled that there were protests in Punjab from the Sikh groups following the release of the film.
		The objection is about the title of the film as SGPC asserts, is a religious slogan.
		It is a matter of grave regret that SGPC has given its verdict when the matter is under the jurisdiction of Punjab and Haryana High Court.
	www.movietalkies.com /editorial.htm (657 words)

	SGPC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Baba Kharak Singh was elected the first president of the SGPC in 1926 in accordance with the Sikh Gurdwara Act of 1925.
		Bibi Jagir Kaur, the first woman head of the SGPC, replaced veteran Akali leader Gurcharan Singh Tohra on March 16, last year by She was re-elected to the post in November, 1999 for another term.
		Tohra, who was elected President of the SGPC for the first time in 1973, has held this post for a record 25 years.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /prod/dialspace/town/pipexdsl/o/aovq73/khalsa/best/best010208.htm (300 words)

	Separate Haryana SGPC against Sikh Panth: Badal : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Shiromani Akali Dal president Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday said the SGPC had been formed for welfare of all Sikhs and the demand for setting up a separate Committee for Haryana was against Sikh Panth.
		Seven of the 11 SGPC members from Haryana are demanding formation of a parallel body for the state.
		SGPC chief Jagir Kaur said there was no dispute over raising memorial for those killed during Operation Bluestar.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1392835,000900010006.htm (184 words)

	VHP, Bajrang Dal to take on Missionaries in Punjab - Christian Aggression (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		SGPC secretary Dalmegh Singh termed the conversions “most shocking and unfortunate” and said the body was putting in place checks to ensure that lower-caste Sikhs remained in the fold.
		While sensing a deep-rooted conspiracy behind the conversions, a senior SGPC official demanded that the state government should look into the fund flow of Christian groups and inquire whether they were being judiciously used or not.
		The SGPC has also decided to prepare a database to know the rate of conversions of all communities in the state and the number of churches recently erected in the villages.
	www.christianaggression.org /item_display.php?id=1113788592&type=news (625 words)

	Religioscope > Archives > Sikh religious bodies appeal to France on turbans
		Officials at the SGPC head office in the Sikh holy city of Amritsar indicated the French government had shown a positive response to the concerns raised by Sikhs.
		The SGPC appealed to the French government to view the case of Sikhs separately since the turban was part of their religious headgear.
		The SGPC had earlier decided to start demonstrations in Punjab and even protest outside the French embassy in New Delhi.
	religioscope.info /article_259.shtml (460 words)

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		But the "hukumnama" became controversial when 131 out of the 185 SGPC members questioned the edict with a charge that Bhai Ranjit Singh had lowered the sanctity of the "hukumnamas" by too frequently resorting to this instrument, more than a dozen in the past year.
		Anxious to regain the initiative, Badal organised a joint meeting of SGPC members, party functionaries, MPs, MLAs and district jathedars and, in the presence of Tohra, the meeting "fully authorised" Badal to chalk out the programme for the tercentenary celebrations and to coordinate between the government, the Akali Dal and the SGPC for the purpose.
		The Badal camp is likely to convene a special general house of the SGPC to move a "no confidence motion" against Tohra to expel him from the SGPC and to supersede the December 31 hukumnama.
	www.angelfire.com /in/jalnews/62993.txt (1285 words)

	SikhSpectrum.com Monthly. Our Heads Hang In Shame
		Under one pretext or the other, the SGPC leadership, the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), the Congress-I government of Panjab and the right-wing Bharatiya Janta Party-led alliance government in Delhi are responsible for delaying the elections for more than two years.
		A parliament for the Sikhs should be built, with all modern facilities and equipment in Amritsar and the SGPC house should meet atleast once every quarter and discuss all issues which confront the members of the SGPC from their respective constituencies and other important Panthic issues.
		Those issues, which the august SGPC house or the Representative Assembly fails to resolve, should be passed on to the Dharam Parchar Committee.
	www.sikhspectrum.com /042003/jagmohan_sgpc.htm (2131 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The SGPC holds that over 16,000 artefacts relating to Sikh religion and history were taken away by the army in 190 bags after Operation Bluestar.
		However, two years ago, Ranjit Singh Nanda, a former inspector in Punjab police who was on deputation to the CBI during Operation Bluestar, told SGPC the artefacts and manuscripts were ferried to a youth hostel after the army action, catalogued and sent to an unknown location by CBI.
		Responding to a letter from SGPC, then defence minister George Fernandes had said “the books and documents that were recovered from the Sikh Reference Library, Golden Temple, had been handed over to the CBI by the army”.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040917/asp/nation/story_3769024.asp (508 words)

	Amardeep Singh: After the Jo Boley So Nihal bombings
		The SGPC seems increasingly like an organization desperate for direction, now that their established enemies -- the Congress Party, the Nehru family, the Indian Army's counter-terrorist measures in Punjab -- have either dwindled or transformed.
		The SGPC are ten thousand miles behind the Sikh achievement and genius worldwide, which is vibrant, wholesome, creative, entrepreneurial and confident.
		What a joke, the Sikhs who have faced down setback, obstacle and vicissitude with laughter and rectitude and strength, self sufficient and confident to the point of fearlessness, being represented by a warbling committee of self-seeking power-hounds whose main skills are the glass-shattering shrillness of their squeals.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2005/05/after-jo-boley-so-nihal-bombings.html (2851 words)

	SGPC say NO to turban School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), which has been spearheading the cause of turban wearing among Sikhs, said there was no need to have such a school inside the complex.
		The SGPC manages hundreds of gurdwaras throughout Punjab and has links in the management of such shrines elsewhere in India and other countries.
		The SGPC president said her organisation had itself been holding "dastarbandi" (turban tying) classes at various places, including educational institutions, to teach Sikh children the art.
	www.sikhsangat.org /publish/printer_48.shtml (388 words)

	SGPC protests proposal for separate Sikh body - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Fearing dilution of the supreme authority of the SGPC in managing gurdwaras (Sikh temples) in the northern region of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh, the Akali Dal leadership led by Badal approached Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday to lodge its protest against the move.
		She also said SGPC had given Rs 5.5 crore for maintenance of Haryana gurdwaras in the past four years and that most of the 26 major gurdwaras in Haryana which were locally managed had defaulted in contributing the required 10-25 percent of their total donations to the SGPC kitty.
		She said the SGPC was constructing a Rs 100 crore medical college in Haryana and another Rs 5 crore was being spent for setting up two schools in the State.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/may292005/national1840372005528.asp (620 words)

	SGPC cash register sealed
		Mr P.S. Josh, a senior SGPC member of the ruling party and members of the flying squad were present when the cashier’s room was sealed.
		Mr Pannu alleged that the cash was “pilfered” by an SGPC member at the behest of senior functionaries of the SGPC.
		However, Mr Kashmir Singh Gandiwind, an SGPC member and Mr Harjit Singh, personal assistant to the SGPC chief, denied that the cash was “pilfered”.
	www.punjabilok.com /news_files/oct/sgpc_cash.htm (195 words)

	Indo-Asian News Service -> India-Religion-Sikhs -> SGPC allows women in Golden Temple's rituals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The religious promotion and affairs committee of the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) - the governing body for Sikh shrines - decided Monday that Sikh women would be allowed to perform 'kirtan' (singing hymns) and 'palki sewa' (carrying the Sikh holy book Guru Granth Sahib in a palanquin) on religious occasions.
		But carrying out voluntary religious service at the Golden Temple will not be the prerogative of all Sikh women as only the 'amritdhari', baptized women who follow all religious tenets and the dress code, would be allowed to join the rituals.
		Jagir Kaur became SGPC president in 1999 but was unable to get the resolution allowing women to join rituals to be passed.
	www.eians.com /stories/2005/08/09/09mans.shtml (311 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Why Sikh row dogs Bollywood film
		SGPC President Bibi Jagir Kaur insisted on certain key changes to the film, including a change of title.
		She said the use of a religious slogan as the title could confuse audiences who may go to watch what they might believe is a religious film.
		Ms Kaur also demanded that the new version of the film be vetted by an expert SGPC committee before it was shown again.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/4573619.stm (501 words)

	Jagir Kaur is SGPC chief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		She was earlier elected SGPC chief in March 1999 and continued till November 2000 when she was embroiled in a controversy over her daughter Harpreet's death.
		The post of SGPC chief had been vacant since March 31 this year after the death of Akali stalwart Gurcharan Singh Tohra who occupied it for 26 years.
		SGPC sources said that loyalists of Tohra had been accommodated in the executive committee.
	web.mid-day.com /news/nation/2004/september/93020.htm (457 words)

	The Hindu : Other States / Rajasthan News : Badal to select SGPC Chief
		The annual elections of the SGPC president and its office bearers and the 11-member executive would be held on November 23 at Amritsar.
		The decision of the PAC was on expected lines as last year and even before that the SAD leadership has been leaving the selection of the SGPC chief to Mr Badal.
		It remains to be seen whether the SAD chief will give the present incumbent Bibi Jagir Kaur or find another person to repalce her.There is tremondous pressure on Mr Badal to remove Bibi Jagir Kaur in view of a criminal case pending against her in a Patiala court.
	www.hindu.com /2005/11/22/stories/2005112214690300.htm (260 words)

	Rural healthcare remains high on agenda for Scotland's GPs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This appointment means that rural affairs will remain at the heart of discussions on health policy within SGPC and that the needs of rural GPs are not ignored in Scotland, particularly at a time when the Scottish Executive's strategy “Delivering for Health” places an emphasis on delivering healthcare in general practice.
		For example, the major disincentive to recruitment in rural areas was the excessive out of hours commitment for remote and rural GPs and the new contract has gone a long way towards addressing this.
		SGPC also successfully renegotiated a new contractual framework in place of the old inducement practitioner scheme which ensured that patients in rural communities could continue to have access to a local GP practice.
	www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=33115&nfid=hww (603 words)

	No Order on Women Sevaks: SGPC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Raghbir Singh told The Tribune that the SGPC had never received such directive from the Sikh clergy for performing such "seva" as he humself was manager of the Golden Temple at that time.
		Jaswinder Singh, advocate, an SGPC member and his wife and a jatha of American Sikh women had performed the Seva.
		He said he had been pursuing Bibi Jagir Kaur, the then SGPC Chief and Bibi Kiranjot Kaur, the then General Secretary, SGPC, to mobilise public opinion to end gender discrimintation in the Golden Temple.
	www.sikhnet.com /s/SGPCNo (522 words)

	SGPC stubs out tobacco business from Sikh agenda
		SGPC president Gurcharan Singh Tohra read out the resolution which was approved unanimously.
		The SGPC also endorsed the hukamnama issued by Sikh high priests, imposing a ban on holding anand karaj (Sikh marriages) in hotels and marriage palaces.
		He said that it would be in the interest of economy of that country and added that the SGPC was ready to make all payments in dollar currency.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19980319/07850734.html (487 words)

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