In a remarkable testament to the power of voluntary service, a two-lane stretch of a proposed four-lane road between Kanpur Khuhi and Singpur in Punjab’s Ropar district has been constructed without any government funding.

At the centre of this remarkable feat, achieved entirely through kar seva (community service), stands Baba Satnam Singh, the head of the Kar Seva Jatha Kila Anandgarh Sahib, who supervises the road barefoot, watching vehicles move over a stretch that was once a rugged path.

His calm presence masks the scale of what has been accomplished -- an 8-kilometre segment of the Anandpur Sahib-Garhshankar state highway has been widened, levelled, metalled and prepared for the lakhs of devotees expected for the observance of the 350th martyrdom anniversary of Guru Tegh Bahadur n

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