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{{Infobox officeholder <br />
|name=Avtar Singh Makkar <br />
|image=Avtar Singh Makkar.jpg<br />
|birth_date = 3 January 1943<ref>[https://www.pressreader.com/india/hindustan-times-jalandhar/20150618/281835757335495 Avtar Singh Makkar] ''Pressreader''. Retrieved 29 March 2020.</ref><br />
|birth_place = [[Sargodha]], [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab, British India]]<br>{{small|(now in [[Punjab, Pakistan]])}}<br />
|parents = S. Harbans Singh and Smt. Kishan Kaur<br />
|death_date = 21 December 2019<ref>[https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/former-sgpc-president-avtar-singh-makkar-passes-away/story-tprB46tAwFcxsOdiL0Fy0L.html Former SGPC president Makkar passes away.] 21 December 2019. ''Hindustan Times''. Retrieved 29 March 2020.</ref><br />
|death_place = [[Gurugram]], [[Haryana]]<br />
|party = [[Shiromani Akali Dal]]<br />
|office = [[President of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee]]<ref>[http://sgpc.net/honble-presidents-of-sgpc/ Former President of SGPC] ''sgpc.net''. Retrieved 29 March 2020.</ref><br />
|term_start = 23 November 2005<br />
|term_end = 4 November 2016<br />
|predecessor = [[Jagir Kaur]]<br />
|successor = [[Kirpal Singh Badungar]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Avtar Singh Makkar''' (1943–2019) was a [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] politician and former President of [[Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee]].<ref>[https://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Avtar_Singh_Makkar Avtar Singh Makkar] ''Sikh Wiki''. Retrieved 29 March 2020.</ref><br />
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==Life and career==<br />
After the [[Partition of India]] he with his family first settled at [[Mustafabad, Delhi|Mustafabad]] then in [[Roorkee]] and finally in [[Jagraon]], [[Ludhiana District]]. He did Faculty of Science from [[Gujranwala Guru Nanak Khalsa College]] and then served in Life Insurance Corporation of India.<ref>[https://www.pressreader.com/india/hindustan-times-jalandhar/20150618/281835757335495 Avtar Singh Makkar] ''Pressreader''. Retrieved 29 March 2020.</ref><br />
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Then he served in [[Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee]] and in 2005 become [[President of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee|President of SGPC]] till 2016. Since 2011, he served till 2016 due to the order of [[Supreme Court of India]].<ref>[https://www.amarujala.com/chandigarh/former-sgpc-president-avtar-singh-makkar-passes-away Knows about Avtar Singh Makkar] ''Amarujala'' (in hindi). Retrieved 29 March 2020.</ref><br />
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On 21 December 2019 he died due to long illness at a private hospital in [[Gurugram]].<br />
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