Avtar Singh Makkar (1943–2019) was a Punjabi politician and former President of

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee ( SGPC; "Supreme Gurdwara Management Committee") is an organization in India responsible for the management of Gurdwaras, Sikh places of worship in states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh and the union ...

Life and career

After the

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he with his family first settled at Mustafabad then in

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and finally in

Jagraon Jagraon is a city and a municipal council, a rural police district and a sub-division of the Ludhiana district in the Indian state of Punjab. Jagraon is more than three centuries old. It has been thought that the city's original name was Jagar ...

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. He did Faculty of Science from Gujranwala Guru Nanak Khalsa College and then served in Life Insurance Corporation of India. Then he served in

and in 2005 become President of SGPC till 2016. Since 2011, he served till 2016 due to the order of

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.Knows about Avtar Singh Makkar
''Amarujala'' (in hindi). Retrieved 29 March 2020. On 21 December 2019 he died due to long illness at a private hospital in

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