The main commercial activities include tourism, carpets and fabrics, farm produce, handicrafts, service trades and light engineering. Amritsar is also a seat of major educational institutions like Guru Nanak Dev University (Established 1969), Khalsa College, Amritsar (Established 1892), DAV College(Established 1955), Government Medical College, Amritsar (Established 1926). Amritsar is also home to Pingalwara, the home for destitutes, founded by Bhagat Puran Singh.
The city is the administrative centre for the Amritsar District. Amritsar developed from a small village pool to a business centre. However, it did not become the industrial centre of Punjab due to its proximity to the volatile Indo-Pak border. The city has an international airport (Raja Sansi International Airport) that is about 11 km from the city centre. It is connected with Singapore, Tashkent, Ashgabat as well as London, Birmingham and Toronto.
languages spoken in the city are Hindi, English and Urdu.
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