Department of Public Relations, Chandigarh Administration

Chandigarh.16 July,2020:A virtual on-line review meeting was held with Sh. Manoj Ahuja, IAS, Chairperson –CBSE, Dr. Joseph Emmanuel, Director (Academics) and Dr. Biswajit Saha, Director (Training & Skill Education) on 16th July 2020. In Chandigarh, the meeting was chaired by Sh. Manoj Parida, IAS, Adviser to the Administrator along with Sh. Arun Kumar Gupta, IAS, Principal Secretary Education, Sh. Rubinderjit Singh Brar, Director School Education and Sh. S. S. Dahiya, Director, SCERT. A brief presentation was made by Director (Academics), CBSE regarding the status of PISA preparedness of UT Chandigarh. He shared the details of board results, assessment of CCT tests and a sample survey of schools of Chandigarh. He further informed that Teacher Energized Textbooks (TET) for teachers and PISA primer for parents will be shortly shared with UT of Chandigarh. Due to the global pandemic, PISA examination has been pushed further and tentative dates for Field and Main Trials of P...

Chandigarh, 15th July, 2020: Hon’ble Governor of Punjab and Administrator, UT Chandigarh, Sh. VP Singh Badnore today presided over Daily War Room meeting.   The meeting was attended by Sh. Manoj Parida, Adviser, UT, Chandigarh and Sh. Sanjay Beniwal, Director General of Police at Raj Bhawan. The Administrator also interacted with Sh. Arun Gupta, Principal Secretary (Home), Sh. AK Sinha, Finance Secretary, Sh. KK Yadav, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation and Sh. Mandip Singh Brar, Deputy Commissioner, Chandigarh,   Deputy Commissioners of Mohali & Panchkula, Director-PGIMER, Director Health Services and Director Principal, GMCH through Video Conferencing. WAR ROOM DIRECTIONS 1.Dr. Jagat Ram, Director, PGIMER stated that out of 619 covid samples received from Punjab, Chandigarh and Leh, 37 were found positive.   Dr. BS Chavan, Director Principal, GMCH stated that out of 100 covid samples tested, only 06 were found positive.   He also stated that the new...

Chandigarh, 13th July 2020: Hon’ble Governor of Punjab and Administrator, UT Chandigarh, Sh. VP Singh Badnore today presided over Daily War Room meeting.  The meeting was attended by Sh. Manoj Parida, Adviser, UT, Chandigarh and Sh. Sanjay Beniwal, Director General of Police at Raj Bhawan. The Administrator also interacted with Sh. Arun Gupta, Principal Secretary (Home), Sh. AK Sinha, Finance Secretary, Sh. KK Yadav, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation and Sh. Mandip Singh Brar, Deputy Commissioner, Chandigarh,  Deputy Commissioners of Mohali & Panchkula, Director-PGIMER, Director Health Services and Director Principal, GMCH through Video Conferencing. WAR ROOM DIRECTIONS 1.Dr. Jagat Ram, Director, PGIMER stated that they examined 180 covid samples of Chandigarh and neigbouring states, out of which 36 were found positive. Dr. BS Chavan, Director Principal, GMCH stated that they examined 178 covid samples, out of which 09 were found positive.  Dr. G. Dewan, D...

Chandigarh, 10th July, 2020: Hon’ble Governor of Punjab and Administrator, UT Chandigarh, Sh. VP Singh Badnore today presided over Daily War Room meeting.   The meeting was attended by Sh. Manoj Parida, Adviser, UT, Chandigarh, Sh. Arun Gupta, Principal Secretary (Home), Sh. Sanjay Beniwal, Director General of Police, Sh. Ajoy Kumar Sinha, Finance Secretary, Sh. KK Yadav, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation and Sh. Mandip Singh Brar, Deputy Commissioner, Chandigarh at Punjab Raj Bhawan, Deputy Commissioners of Mohali & Panchkula, Director-PGIMER, Director Health Services and Director Principal, GMCH through Video Conferencing. WAR ROOM DIRECTIONS 1.          Dr. Jagat Ram, Director, PGIMER stated that out of 445 samples tested, 29 were found positive.   The samples tested were 199 from Chandigarh, 176 from Punjab and 70 from Ladakh. Dr. BS Chavan, Director Principal, GMCH stated that out of 144 samples tested by GMCH, 08 w...

Chandigarh.10 July,2020. The Government of India has decided for privatization of the power distribution system in all the Union Territories. Accordingly, Chandigarh Administration is also going to privatize the power distribution system. Due to this decision, a canard is being spread that the service and related benefits of the employees working in the Electricity Wing of the Engineering Department, U.T., Chandigarh Mil be at stake and the power tariff will Increase manifolds. Accordingly, Chandigarh Administration through this press note is assuring the employees that their services and related benefits will be safeguarded and their employment terms will be similar or they will be better than the present service terms. No retrenchment of employees will happen and no employee will be transferred outside the geographical area served by the Electricity Wing of the Engineenng Department, Chandigarh. Further, meetings have been carried out with the Employee Unions to understand...

Chandigarh, 10th July 2020: Health Department, UT Chandigarh is celebrating World population Day (WPD) in the city beautiful. 11th July is observed throughout the world as "World Population Day" to focus on the need for population stabilization. The WPD is divided into two parts i.e. Mobilization Fortnight (Dampatti Sampark Pakhwada) from 27th June to 10th July and the other part is Population Fortnight (Jansankhya Sthirita Pakhwada) from 11th to 24th July. It may be called as Parivar Vikas Mela fortnight. The theme for the WPD 2020 is “ आपदा में भी परिवार नियोजन की तैयारी , सक्षम राष्ट्र और परिवार की पूरी ज़िमेदारी ” A series of activities are being done at health facility level by the health workers throughout Chandigarh. Family planning corners have been made at each health facility where all the methods of Family Planning i.e. the basket of choices is displayed and needful counselling done by the staff members. Now, on 11th July each facility wi...