Department of Public Relations, Chandigarh Administration

Chandigarh, 17 th  October, 2016:  The Chandigarh, State Agricultural Marketing Board, in association with “Kheti Virasat Mission” organized a seminar on “Organic Farming” for observing World Food Day at NITTTR Auditorium, Sector-26, today. The seminar was presided by Sh. V.P. Singh Badnore, Hon’ble Governor of Punjab & Administrator, U.T. Chandigarh and Smt. Kirron Kher, Hon'ble Member of Parliament, U.T. Chandigarh graced the occasion with her presence as guest of Honor. The seminar witnessed the august presence of Sh. M.P Singh, IAS, Principal Secretary to Governor, Sh. Parimal Rai, IAS, Adviser to the Administrator, U.T. Chandigarh, Sh. K. Narasimha, IAS, Secretary, Agriculture, Sh. Ajit Balaji Joshi, IAS, Deputy Commissioner-cum-Secretary, State Agricultural Marketing Board, U.T. Chandigarh, Sh. Virender Chaudhary, H.C.S. Joint Secretary, State Agricultural Marketing Board, U.T. Chandigarh, Sh. Ramvir Bhatti, Chairman, Market Committee, Chandigarh, Sh. Umendra ...

Chandigarh, 17 th   October, 2016:   To celebrate 51 years of Le Corbusier, the Government Museum and Art Gallery had invited Antonio Puri to showcase his Chandigarh series of paintings and installations. The exhibition entitled “I love the beauty of grey” was on view from 27 th  September to 16 th  October, 2016. The show received tremendous response from the visitors. It has now been extended by a week and will be closing on 23 rd October, 2016. So those who have missed out on the show, do visit the first level of the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Sector 10, Chandigarh. Antonio Puri was born in Chandigarh and raised in the Himalayas where he attended English and International boarding schools. Later he attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco and Coe College in Iowa for a bachelors degree in Art and later a JD degree from the University of Iowa.  He has exhibited his work in solo exhibitions all over the world including ...

Chandigarh, 17 th   October, 2016:   To celebrate 51 years of Le Corbusier, the Government Museum and Art Gallery had invited Antonio Puri to showcase his Chandigarh series of paintings and installations. The exhibition entitled “I love the beauty of grey” was on view from 27 th  September to 16 th  October, 2016. The show received tremendous response from the visitors. It has now been extended by a week and will be closing on 23 rd October, 2016. So those who have missed out on the show, do visit the first level of the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Sector 10, Chandigarh. Antonio Puri was born in Chandigarh and raised in the Himalayas where he attended English and International boarding schools. Later he attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco and Coe College in Iowa for a bachelors degree in Art and later a JD degree from the University of Iowa.  He has exhibited his work in solo exhibitions all over the world including A...

Chandigarh, 17 th October, 2016: Today 5 cases of Dengue have been reported from various health institutions (till the release of press note) which brings the total number of Dengue cases to 624 in the city. No fresh case of Chikungunya have been reported today. The overall details of 98 cases of Chikungunya detected in Chandigarh is; 31 imported, 27 wrong address and 40 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 4918 2 Total number of coolers 1517 13 3 Total number of containers 7102 11 4 Total number...

Chandigarh, 1 4 th October, 2016: The World Standards Day was celebrated by Bureau of Indian Standards, Northern Regional Office, Chandigarh today. Celebrated worldwide as the Foundation Day of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), a seminar was organized on the occasion, which was inaugurated by His Excellency, Prof. Kaptan Singh Solanki, Governor of Haryana. In his inaugural address His Excellency, Prof. Solanki said that the theme of this year's celebrations "Standards Build Trust" indeed is very apt since it truly coincides with the principles and concepts of Standardization. He said that Bureau of Indian Standards has been established for harmonious development of the activities of standardization, marking and quality certification of goods and for related matters and thus building the trust. With trust, businesses and consumers embark on a lifelong journey towards solutions that will meet their mutual expectations – productivity, performanc...

Chandigarh, 14 th October, 2016: Today 17 cases of Dengue has been reported from various health institutions which includes 10 new cases and 7 confirmed amongst probable cases(till the release of press note)which brings the total number of Dengue cases to 595 in the city.4 fresh cases of Chickungunya have been reported by GMCH 32 and PGIMER. The details of 92 cases of chickungunya detected in Chandigarh is; 29 imported, 25 wrong address and 38 from Chandigarh. All residents of Chandigarh are requested that in case of any complaint related to fogging kindly send a SMS to helpline number 9779558282 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 T...

Chandigarh, 14 th October, 2016: As per the order of Commissioner Food Safety, a joint team of Food Safety Officers Sh. Bharat Kanojia, Sh. Surinder Pal Singh & Sh. Bhaljinder Singh was constituted in lieu of the coming festival season for conducting inspection and sampling of food articles in UT of Chandigarh. On 14-10-2016 the team inspected area of Sector 18, Shanti nagar, Pipliwala Town, Mariwala Town of Manimajra, Chandigarh and seized three samples of different sweets. The said seized samples have been sent to the Food Analysis Laboratory for analysis & examination. Two improvement notices were also issued to these shops for not maintaining the hygienic conditions. About 130 kgs of sweets were destroyed which were found exposed to dust & flies and were unfit for human consumption.  The FBOs were also advised not to use any prohibited colours in the preparation of sweets and to use good quality of edible oil and ghee in their preparations.   The Food ...