Skip to main content

Celebrations of Van Mahotsava 2017

Chandigarh, 4th July, 2017: On the occasion of Van Mahotsava 2017, a ‘Paudhmela’ was inaugurated by the Chief Guest – Sh.V.P. Singh Badnore, the Governor of Punjab & Administrator, UT Chandigarh in the presence of Smt. Kirron Kher, Member of Parliament, UT Chandigarh today at parking place near Sukhna Lake Club.

The two day Paudhmela will display three Stalls of Forest Department, Municipal Corporation, Horticulture wing of Engineering Department, Chandigarh at the venue where Forest Department will be distributing saplings free of cost and other departments will be selling these planters at nominal rate depending on the species.  A Stall of Acacia Eco Club of Govt. Model Sr. Sec. School, Sec 16-D, Chandigarh will distribute herbal plants and Giloy stems to the interested people.

After the inauguration of Paudhmela, the Governor launched the ‘Plantation Drive-2017’ at IRB Complex, Sarangpur, Chandigarh and planted ‘Rudraksha’ sapling.
After the plantation programme, he also inaugurated the 300 kWp Grid tied Rooftop Solar Power Plant installed on 39 Portal Cabins in IRB Complex, Sarangpur,  Chandigarh; phase II of the project. Two years back the 200 kWp rooftop SPV Project was already installed on 22 Portal cabins. Now IRB Complex has 500 kWp Rooftop Solar Plants and it is generating about 6.5 lakhs units of Solar electricity every year.

Shri Parimal Rai, IAS, Adviser to the Administrator, Shri Anurag Agarwal, IAS, Home Secretary-cum-Secretary (Forests &   Sci.& Tech. & RE), Sh. T.S. Luthra, IPS, DGP, Shri Santosh Kumar, IFS, Chief Conservator of Forests, Sh. Alok Kumar, DIG & Shri Birendra Choudhary, IFS, DCF(HQ) and other senior officers of the Administration also planted saplings during the celebrations of Van Mahotsava.

Sh.V.P. Singh Badnore requested the citizens of Chandigarh to take part in this Van Mahotsava with full enthusiasm and to make Chandigarh a clean & green city. He urged that if we adopt ‘Each One Plant One” theme then the Chandigarh is going to be a greener place.

Shri Santosh Kumar, CCF  informed that Department of Forests & Wildlife, Chandigarh Administration has planned series of  days celebrations so as to involve all stake holders in the following manner as part of  Van Mahotsav-2017 celebrations  :-

1.     Eco-Club Day (06th and 7th July, 2017):   All Eco Clubs of UT Chandigarh will plant saplings on this day.       
2.   NGO Day (07th July, 2017):   NGOs registered under PIP with UT Forest department will plant saplings at various locations in Chandigarh.
3.   Herbal Day (8th July, 2017): Schools & Colleges of UT Chandigarh shall carry out Herbal plantation in their premises.
4.  Resident Welfare Association Day (10th July, 2017): Resident Welfare Associations will plant saplings in their jurisdiction.






















Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Administrator Launches Website of Sports Department Chandigarh

Chandigarh, 18 th  December 2018:  The website of Department of Sports, UT Chandigarh  http://www.sportsdeptt.chd. gov.in  has been launched today  by Hon’ble Governor Punjab & Administrator, U.T, Chandigarh, Shri. V. P. Singh Badnore, in the presence of Sh. Parimal Rai, IAS, Adviser to UT Administration,  Sh. J.M. Balamurugan, IAS, Secretary to Governor of Punjab, Sh. Arun kumar Gupta, IAS, Principle Secretary Home, Shri. Jitender Yadav, IAS, Secretary Sports. With launch of this website, Department of Sports, Chandigarh has taken leap in the direction of digital India by making their key services like; booking of stadiums, applying for membership, applying for scholarship,  applying for  sports  gradation  certificate  and also applying for cash  awards  online for the students ,  sports bodies  & sportsmen . Now everybody can avail these services with a click of the button. In the case of bookin...
Post a Comment
Read more

Pulse Polio Campaign

Chandigarh, 4 th   April, 2017:   Activities conducted for three days i.e. from 2nd – 4th April, 2017 during Pulse Polio Campaign ‘Do Boond Zindgi Ki’ to win the war of eradicating Polio from the society and to immunize the children in the age group of 0-5 Years with Oral Polio Drops were successfully completed today. The campaign was held for three days in which Day 1 was dedicated for Booth Round and Day 2 & 3 were planned for door to door visit to immunize all children of Chandigarh in this age group with Oral Polio drops. A total of 1, 00, 236 children were immunized with oral polio drops during pulse polio activity and 929 teams visited 2, 65, 042 Houses and immunized Children with oral polio drops on day 2 and 3. 'X’ houses will be covered in the coming days too to track the unimmunized children and give them polio drops. Department of Health, Police, Social Welfare, Transport and NCC Volunteers from different colleges of Chandigarh joined hands together in the...
Post a Comment
Read more

E auction of various commercial, residential and industrial sites to begin in Chandigarh

7th January 2019: Chandigarh Administration is about to begin the e auction process of various commercial, residential and industrial sites in Chandigarh. 10 residential sites on freehold basis,13 commercial sites on leasehold basis and 1 industrial site on leasehold basis are proposed to be e auctioned. The auction will be made public on 9th January 2019 at 9:00 AM and the documents can be submitted/EMD can be paid from 9th january till 23rd January 2019. Document/EMD approvals will be given from 24th January till 30th January. In addition to this the Estate Department will create a help desk at Estate Office Chandigarh on the above dates to create digital signatures of the applicants. Bidding will begin from 31st January (9:00 AM) till 4th February 2019 (till 4 PM)
Post a Comment
Read more