“The aim is to apprise the world of the village’s religious, historical, social and cultural importance, besides highlighting the achievements made by its residents, a majority of whom are now settled abroad, besides creating a forum to deal with the problem of drug addiction,” said managing editor of the website, Dr Charanjit Singh Gumtala. “The place is important religiously and historically as it’s the place associated with the first Sikh war between Guru Hargobind and Mughal emperor Jehangir,” he said.

Gumtala said that the village residents were a happy and contended lot sometime ago despite the fact that most of them were living a hand-to-mouth existence. “But unfortunately abundance of riches, caused by escalating land prices has dragged the village youths towards drug addiction,” he said. “As a result, the cultural and societal traditions suffered a setback,” added Dr Gumtala. He averred that the portal had been conceived to form an on-line forum to deal with the problem of increasing drug menace.