The amendment in the Punjab Village Common Land (Regulation) Act would come as a relief to a number of Sikh families of Kaithal and Kurukshetra facing prospects of eviction.
Singh, 38, is one of a new wave of farmers pioneering one of the world's more unlikely migrations. During a recent spell as a cook in Düsseldorf, Germany, he heard about thousands of acres of fertile land on former collective farms lying fallow in Georgia for want of manpower.
An NRI named Shamsher Singh, who is settled in the United States has offered a piece of land in Washington DC to Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) for setting up Sikh cultural embassy. This piece of land, which is worth crores, has a close proximity to the White House.
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