Department of Public Relations, Chandigarh Administration

Chandigarh, 17 th  December, 2016:  The State Election Commissioner Sh. S.K Srivastava, IAS along with Secretary State Election Commission Sh. S.S Gill today visited the counting centre at CCET Sector 26, Polling Booth No.135, 136 &139 At GMSS sector 19 and counting centre at Govt. College Of Education, sector 20. During the visit Sh. S.K Srivastava, IAS met the Returning Officers of the wards. He further inspected the arrangements for the elections and interacted with the polling parties and enquired about set up and if any difficulties are faced in polling arrangements. The Commissioner encouraged all the staff deputed to help the voters to cast their vote.

Chandigarh, 15 th December, 2016: Chandigarh State AIDS Control Society had organized two days Induction cum Refresher Training for peripheral staff working under AIDS Control program. All staff working in the service centres in the entire city were trained on the ways to identify Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) and give proper and timely treatment. Private practitioners regularly in contact with High Risk Groups also attended the training. It is important to detect all Sexually Transmitted Infections as they are completely curable and anyone with this condition has ten times more chance of getting HIV.             The Induction cum Refresher training was inaugurated by Dr. Rakesh Kashyap, Director Health Services, U.T., Chandigarh along with Dr. Aman Kumar Singh, National Program Officer, STI, NACO and Dr. Vanita Gupta, Project Director, CSACS. Dr. Aman Kumar Singh, National Program Officer, STI, NACO discussed the Na...

Chandigarh, 15 th December, 2016: The inauguration of the celebrations of the 92nd Birthday Anniversary of Padma Shri Late Nek Chand- Creator and Director of Rock Garden, Chandigarh was done today by Sh. Parimal Rai, IAS, Adviser to the Administrator, U.T at Rock Garden Chandigarh. Among others present during the inauguration ceremony were Sh. Anurag Agarwal, IAS, Home Secretary-cum-Chairman, Society for Maintenance & Development of Rock Garden, Chandigarh, Sh. Mukesh Anand, Chief Engineer, UT, Chandigarh, Smt. Kamla Saini, wife of Padma Shri Late Nek Chand, Sh. Anuj Saini, son of Padma Shri Late Nek Chand and other members of the family. Jointly organized by the Rock Garden Society in association with Tourism Department, UT, Chandigarh the two-day celebrations began today with the garland offering and candle lighting ceremony at the Nek Chand Sculpture in Phase-1of Rock Garden. Another highlight of the celebrations was a Qawali performance in Phase-2 near the water falls. To...

Chandigarh, 14 th  December, 2016:  With the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation Elections round the corner, the State Election Commission has deputed officials of the Chandigarh Administration as polling staff with the Returning officers of the various wards for smooth conduct of the elections. Some of the officials have not reported to their respective Returning Officers till date. The State Election Commission has taken a very serious view of the same and a strict action is being taken against them.

Chandigarh, 14 th  December, 2016:  The 26 wards of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation will go on poll on 18 th December 2016, wherein over five lakh voters will be casting their votes. There will be 445 polling booths and about 800 approximately EVMs procured for the elections. The MC Election has 3 Election Observers, 7 Returning officers, 3 Expenditure Observers. Each Returning Officer has 2 ARO’s each. The administration has set up 7 enforcement teams comprised with staff of Chandigarh Police, Estate Office and Municipal Corporation. The election has 445 BLO’s who are supervised by 16 Master BLO’s. In view of the Current Elections all the 7 enforcement teams under the supervision of the Returning officers are keeping a strict vigil in their respective areas in order to ensure that the implementation of the Model Code of Conduct is not violated, further to which a daily report is submitted by all the enforcement teams to their respective Returning officers. The ...

Chandigarh, 14 th  December, 2016:  Today, welcoming the arrival of migratory birds at Sukhna Lake, Department of Forests & Wildlife, Chandigarh Administration along with Yuvsatta-an NGO launched a week long ‘Migratory Bird Watching Trip’ for local School students. Sh. Anurag Aggarwal, IAS Home Secretary cum Secretary, Environment & Forests of Chandigarh Administration was the Chief Guest on the occasion.   On day one 100 students of Government Model High School, Sector 34C & Government Middle School, Sector 33 ​B​   enjoyed the bird watching treat. Prominent amongst those who were present on the occasion included Santosh Kumar,   ​Chief Conservator of Forests & Director, Department of Environment, Birendra C houdhary , Dy. Conservator of Forests, Chandigarh Administration & Pramod Sharma, Coordinator, Yuvsatta. Regular bird watchers like Sh. Kulbhushan Kanwar and Smt. Sarabjit Kaur  explained to the kids about hundreds o...

Chandigarh, 14 th  December, 2016:  The Chandigarh Administration has decided to grant special casual leave for 18.12.2016 (Sunday) to all those voters/employees who are working with Chandigarh Administration /Board/Corporations/Institutions/Industries/Factories/Private Sectors Shops and hail from the concerned area and are registered voters in U.T., Chandigarh, as well as also within the meaning of section 25 of the Negotiable Instruments Ac, 1881 to enable them to exercise their franchise. 

Chandigarh, 12 th   December, 2016:   Chandigarh Housing Board has gone completely cashless w.e.f. 1 st   of December, 2016. For implementation of cashless regime in the Chandigarh Housing Board, the following action plan for ensuring digital payments being implemented as   under:   1.        All payments being received by CHB will be accepted through online payments via net banking or payments by Credit or Debit cards through swipe machines, cheques, demand drafts, Bankers cheques or through PAYTM etc.  However, the Board shall continue to accept all payments made by the allottees/citizens in cash also.   2.        Chandigarh Housing Board had already opened a current account with SBI, CHB Branch, Sector-9, Chandigarh in respect of all receipts being collected at Reception Counter of the Chandigarh Housing Board, Chandigarh.    3.    This   account has been attache...

Chandigarh, 11 th December, 2016: 1 cases of Dengue have been reported (till the release of press note) and the total number of Dengue cases became 885 in the city. Today 5 case of Chikungunya have been reported which were from Chandigarh. The overall details of 315 cases of Chikungunya detected in Chandigarh is; 48 imported, 58 wrong address and 214 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, 11 th December, 2016: The 401 st meeting of the Chandigarh Housing Board was held on 9.12.2016. The following is a gist of the major decisions that were taken by the Board :- 1. Calculation of Penal interest in respect of Housing Scheme of Sector-63, Chandigarh.                        The Board has decided to calculate the penal interest upon the unpaid due amount of the installments from the due date of installment instead of on the whole amount of installment in respect of General Self Financing Housing Scheme – 2008, Sector 63, Chandigarh, to facilitate the allottees of the scheme, who had, at some time or other, by mistake or otherwise, failed to pay the full due amount of the installment(s). 2. Renting out the vacant dwelling units to the Residents Welfare Association, Sector 63, Chd.    ...

Chandigarh, 11 th December, 2016: Sports Department, Chandigarh Administration organized first ever Chandigarh Rural Sports Festival for women under the mission “Hum Chhuyenge Assmaan”  from  08.12.2016 to  10.12.2016 by outreaching to villages of U.T., Chandigarh’s vicinity. “Hum Chhuyenge Assmaan” is the mission under which women in the rural sector in the Chandigarh will be proactively encourage for mass participation in sports and furtherance of their sporting abilities to elite level for their social-psychological uplift as well as economic independence by employment through sports. There was tremendous response from all the villages for this innovative sports meet by excellent support from Sarpanches from various villages and physical education teachers of various schools located in villages of Chandigarh.           The said sports festival comprises competition in five disciplines viz. Athletics, Volleyball, Kabaddi...