Department of Public Relations, Chandigarh Administration

Chandigarh, 15th March, 2019: The Indian Medical Association, Chandigarh, in collaboration with the Association of Allopathic Doctors today launched a first-of-its-kind campaign to motivate citizens to use their Right to Vote during the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections of Chandigarh on 19th May, 2019. The launch took place in the presence of Deputy Commissioner cum Additional Chief Electoral Officer, Sh. Mandip Singh Brar. As part of this campaign, IMA has designed stickers with the message “Vote for a healthy democracy”, which will be stuck on all the prescriptions of patients.  To promote the message of “Voting is a must for Healthy Democracy” a stamp was also launched by the Government Multi-Speciality Hospital, Sector 16, in the presence of Sh. Mandip Singh Brar, DC Chandigarh, which will be stamped on OPD cards of all the patients of the hospital and its allied dispensaries, including the Civil Hospital, Manimajra, Civil Hospital, Sector 22, and Civil Hospital, Sector 45....

Chandigarh, 14th March 2019: A meeting of District Media Certification and Monitoring Committee was held today under the chairmanship of Sh. Mandip Singh Brar, Additional Chief Electoral Officer cum Deputy Commissioner, Chandigarh. The District Media Certification and Monitoring Committee undertake activities related to certification of advertisements of political nature and monitoring of paid news. After the enforcement of Model Code of Conduct, it is mandatory that any registered political party, any candidate, any group organization/ association or any individual who wishes to give a advertisement of political nature needs a pre certification from the District level committee. The pre certification is required for telecasting advertisement of political nature on TV channels, cable networks, radio, cinema halls, audio visual displays in public spaces, bulk messages, voice messages and social media. To obtain this pre certification, National, State party and every cand...

Chandigarh, 13th March 2019: In regard to the news items published on 13th March in Newspapers Dainik Bhaskar “ BJP pradehadhyaksh ne kiya achar sanhita ka ulanghan, 3 community center me ki meeting”, Dainik Jagran “ 3 community centres me Sanjay Tandon ne li workers ki meeting, charge bhi nahi diya” Hindustan Times “ Poll Code Violation: Ruling BJP holds election meets in community centers” Show cause notices have been issues to 7 representatives of Politicals Parties and 3 officials of Municipal Corporation. A complaint was also received on the Cvigil app today. In regard to the same, the ARO took cognizance of the news report and thereafter notices has been issued for convening the election meetings on Government properties i.e Community Centers Sector 29, Ram Darbar, Sector 37 Chandigarh. Notices have been issued by Nodal officer MCC to Sanjay Tandon, Arun Sood, Ravikant Sharma, Haji Mohammad Khurshid Ali, Shakti Prakash Devshali, Bharat Kumar, Satprakash Aggarwal. Notices ...

Chandigarh, 13th March, 2019:    The vehicular traffic on the following road will be partly diverted w.e.f 14.03.2019 to 24.03.2019 from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM as the work of re-carpeting of below mentioned road is in progress. 1.Re-carpeting of Madhya Marg from Jn. 21 to 22 (road between Sector 7 & 19) Chandigarh.

Chandigarh, 13th March, 2019:  A meeting was held today under the chairmanship of Chief Electoral Officer, Sh. Ajoy Kumar Sinha with the representatives from various political parties. In the meeting, Sh. Sinha emphasized on strict adhere to the guidelines of Model Code of Conduct, limitation on expenditure to be made by each party/candidate during election campaign, complete lodging of election expenses by the candidate, abstaining from corrupt & illegal practices during electioneering, filing of online as well as manual nomination of candidates, permissions to be sought through Suvidha App, and imparting proper training programme to all political parties for effective use of the newly launched applications.  Further to this, it was also intimidated that a special RO Cell has also been set up at the Deputy Commissioner's office in sector-17, Chandigarh for the convenience of political parties to making the election process smooth and transparen...

Chandigarh, 11th March, 2019:  The Election Department Chandigarh today imparted training to all nodal officers and AROs at the UT guest house, Chandigarh. During the training program detailed power point presentation was delivered imparted by state level master trainers. The training focused on EVM management and training, online complaints, C-vigil, static surveillance and flying squads, Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System & Postal Ballot, IT application, Suvidha Sugam Samadhan, Model Code of Conduct, Media Monitoring, Video Viewing & Surveillance Teams and Election Expenditure Monitoring by the representatives of Election Commission of India.  The session was chaired by Sh. Ajoy Kumar Sinha, IAS, Chief Electoral Officer, U.T Chandigarh, who directed the officials to ensure that all arrangements and preparedness is fully in place to facilitate smooth elections.

Chandigarh, 10th March 2019: The Election Commission of India has announced Elections to Lok Sabha today i.e. on 10.3.2019 and with the announcement of the Election Programme, the Model Code of Conduct has come into force. As per the programme of elections announced by the Election Commission of India, Polling of Chandigarh Parliamentary Constituency will be on 19-05-2019. As per the Electoral Roll finally published on 28.1.2019, the total electors of Chandigarh Parliamentary Constituency are 6,19,249 and the Service Electors are 355. 597 Polling Stations have been setup in this Constituency, out of which 212 polling station falls under sensitive categories and total 191 polling stations locations. As per the directions of Election Commission of India the webcasting will be done in all the polling stations in the current elections. This Constituency has set up District Call centre with 1950 toll free number in which any resident can make a call and get the updated informati...