Department of Public Relations, Chandigarh Administration

Chandigarh, 23 th November, 2016 : A joint press conference was organized today by the Department of Tourism, Chandigarh Administration chaired by Sh. Anurag Agarwal, IAS, Home Secretary cum Secretary Tourism in regard to the Chandigarh Carnival 2016 and the 5 th Edition of the Chandigarh Cyclothon. The Chandigarh Carnival 2016 themed ‘Fantasy’ will be inaugurated on 25 th November by the Adviser to the Administrator, U.T Chandigarh Sh. Parimal Rai, IAS. The carnival will be organised from 25 th November to 27 th November.  The three days extravaganza will showcase performances by famous Bollywood and Punjabi singers like Babbu Mann, Himesh Rashamiya and Neeraj Shridhar. Looking at the current demonetisation Sh. Anurag Agarwal, IAS said, “ We have ensured that the residents face no difficulty and enjoy the carnival for which debit card swipe facility will be available at all the stalls during the carnival so that the visitors face no trouble”. Further addressing the media ...

Chandigarh, 23 rd November, 2016: It has been made to appear to Sh. Ajit Balaji Joshi, IAS, District Magistrate, U.T., Chandigarh that some members of the public/Unions have been climbing on the mobile towers, which are installed at various places in union Territory, Chandigarh, by the Telecom Companies, in order to seek public attention for acceptance of their demands. As such, there is every apprehension that such kind of incident will cause disturbance of the public peace/law & order and tranquility leading to danger of human life.   Sh. Ajit Balaji Joshi, IAS, District Magistrate, U.T., Chandigarh is of the opinion that immediate necessary precautionary steps/Measures needs to be taken to curb such incidents by issuing orders to the Telecom Companies to regulate/monitor the towers in City, installed by them in public interest. Therefore, Sh. Ajit Balaji Joshi, IAS, District Magistrate, U.T., Chandigarh do hereby order U/s 133 Cr. PC, 1976 as an emergency measure th...

Chandigarh, 23 rd November, 2016: In exercise of the powers conferred by Serial No. 2 of the First Schedule appended to the “ Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (E) dated 09.09.2016, the Administrator, Chandigarh Administration, Chandigarh hereby specifies that for the calculation of compensation for the land owners, the market value to be calculated by the Collector, Chandigarh as per sub-section (1) of Section 26 of the aforesaid act shall be multiplied by a factor of 1.25 on all rural lands falling with the U.T. of Chandigarh.  

Chandigarh, 23 rd  November, 2016:  Today 1 fresh cases of Dengue has been reported and the total number of Dengue cases remained 860 in the city. 4 cases of Chikungunya have been reported today out of which all were from Chandigarh. The overall details of 270 cases of Chikungunya detected in Chandigarh is; 46 imported, 55 wrong address and 169 from Chandigarh. To further strengthen the preventive activities, daily fumigation is being carried out alongwith strengthening of field activities which includes mass awareness, checking of breeding sources like coolers, containers, tyres and other sources. Today under dengue drive Sr.No Checked Checked Found positive ( for mosquitoes larvae) 1 Total number of houses   4830 2 Total number of coolers   1276 1 3 Total number of containers   5835 9 4 T...

Chandigarh, 22 nd November, 2016: The Administrator, Union Territory Chandigarh, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him under Section 15 of the Punjab Municipal Corporation Ac, 1976, as extended to the Union Territory, Chandigarh by the Punjab Municipal Corporation Law (Extension to Chandigarh) Act, 1994, has called upon all the 26 Wards of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh , to elect councilors to constitute a new Municipal Corporation. In exercise of the powers conferred upon the State Election Commissioner, under Rule 11 of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (Election of Councillors) Rules, 1995, Sh. Rakesh Mehta, State Election Commissioner, Union Territory, Chandigarh, hereby appoint, with respect to the above-said general election, the dates for filing nominations etc., as under:- 1.      Commencement of filing of nominations              22.11.2016 (Tuesday) 2.   ...

Chandigarh, 22 nd November, 2016: The Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh hereby calls upon all the wards in the Union Territory, Chandigarh, to elect Councillors for the purpose of constituting the Corporation in accordance with the provisions of the Sub Section (3) of section 15 of the Punjab Municipal Corporation Act 1979 and the rules and orders made there-under on or before 30.12.2016.

Chandigarh, 22 nd November, 2016: Today no fresh cases of Dengue have been reported (till the release of press note) and the total number of Dengue cases remained 859 in the city. 3 cases of Chikungunya have been reported today out of which all were from Chandigarh. The overall details of 266 cases of Chikungunya detected in Chandigarh is; 46 imported, 55 wrong address and 165 from Chandigarh. To further strengthen the preventive activities, daily fumigation is being carried out along with strengthening of field activities which includes mass awareness, checking of breeding sources like coolers, containers, tyres and other sources. Today under dengue drive Sr. No Checked Checked Found positive ( for mosquitoes larvae) 1 Total number of houses 4301 2 Total number of coolers 1190 0 3 Total number of containers 4563 4 4 Total...

Chandigarh, 20 th November, 2016: Today 4 cases of Dengue have been reported from various health institutions (till the release of press note) which bring the total number of Dengue cases to 856 in the city. 5 cases of Chikungunya have been reported today out of which all were from Chandigarh. The overall details of 258 cases of Chikungunya detected in Chandigarh is; 46 imported, 55 wrong address and 157 from Chandigarh. To further strengthen the preventive activities, daily fumigation is being carried out alongwith strengthening of field activities which includes mass awareness, checking of breeding sources like coolers, containers, tyres and other sources.

Chandigarh, 20 th November, 2016 : Today at a ‘Solar Power Camp’ organized at Community Centre of Sector 21, the residents and office bearers of Citizens Association, Sector 21, promised to install 100 kW solar power generation systems at rooftops of residential houses and commercial establishments. This solar power camp was organized jointly by Citizens Association, Sector 21, FOSWAC, Chandigarh, Renewable Energy Science and Technology Promotion Society (CREST) & Yuvsatta-an NGO. And over 200 active residents of Sector 21 participated in the initiative. Prominent amongst those who were present on the occasion included Santosh Kumar, Director, Departments of Science and Technology and CEO, CREST, Baljinder Singh Bittu, President, Citizen’s Association, Sector 21 and Chairman, FOSWAC, Ravinder Singh, Project Director, CREST, Avtar Singh Paul, Director, Peoples Convention Centre, Pramod Sharma, Coordinator, Yuvsatta, Aashima Bhullar, AGM, IDBI Bank and Aarun Randhawa, former SSP...