Department of Public Relations, Chandigarh Administration

Chandigarh, 26 th  April, 2018: CTU Buses are an integral part of the city’s beautiful outlook that anyone can hardly ignore. In its endeavour of giving more clean buses to commuters, CTU put into operation new fully automatic washing plant with two lanes today in Depot 2 in order to augment the capacity for washing of its local and intercity buses fleet. The newly installed plants were inaugurated by Sh. B.L Sharma, IAS, Secretary Transport, Sh. Amit Talwar, PCS, Director Transport and other CTU officials were also present on the occasion. These new plants have state of the art computerized numerical controlled washing features and will help the undertaking to wash 300 of its Intercity and local buses of Depot 1 and Depot 2 on daily basis. Earlier with the old single plant which was more than 28 years old, buses were being washed on alternate day as the capacity of earlier plant was half of the new Capacity.

Chandigarh, 26 th April 2018 : The Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh, appointed by the President under Article 239 of the Constitution, in consultation with and concurrence/approval of the Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, is pleased to appoint Sh. K.K Jindal, IAS ( Retd. ) as Commissioner of the Chandigarh Right to Service Commission.

Chandigarh, 26 th  April, 2018:   It is for the information to the general public/residents of Chandigarh that the registration for participating in e-auction of vehicle registration numbers of new series " CH01-BS " for special/choice registration numbers 0001 to 9999 will start from 01.05.2018 (10:00 AM) and will continue till 07.05.2018 (05:00 PM) and the e-auction will start on 08.05.2018 (10:00 AM) and will continue till 10.05.2018 (05:00PM). The owner of the vehicle can register himself/herself on the National Transport website: https://parivahan.gov.in/fancy and the link of the same is available on the Chandigarh Administration, Transport Department website: www.chdtransport.gov.in and obtain the Unique Acknowledgement Number (UAN). The owner of the vehicle who has purchased the vehicle at Chandigarh address only will be allowed to participate in e-auction. Sale Letter i.e Form No. 21, UID i.e. Aadhaar Card and address proof of Chandigarh are mandatory to parti...

Chandigarh, 26 th April, 2018: As per the guidelines of WHO and Directorate of National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, New Delhi. The Malaria Wing of Health Department, UT-Chandigarh organized the World Malaria Day-2018. The theme for the year is “Ready to beat Malaria”.           As per directions and under able guidance and leadership of worthy Director Health & Family Welfare Dr. G. Dewan the following activities were carried out: 1.                  Pledge for prevention and control of Malaria : A pledge was administered to the Staff of NVBDCP & IDSP under the supervision of Assistant Director Malaria for prevention & Control of Malaria at Headquarter, Sector-9, Chandigarh. Same pledge was undertaken at various Public Health institutions where SMO’s/ MO’s, Paramedical staff and patients were involved. During the prayer meeting stu...

Chandigarh, 24 th  April, 2018:  The Hon’ble Punjab and Haryana High Court has taken suo-moto notice on the issue of safety of women (including Sikh Women) while driving or riding two wheelers of any class or description and exemption given to them from wearing headgear under the Motor Vehicle Rules, in CWP No. 27609 of 2017 (Court on its own Motion Vs. Chandigarh Administration and Others) and : Whereas, the Chandigarh Administration has accordingly considered the aspect of safety of women, including that of the Sikh Women who are not wearing turban, particularly in view of the fatalities occurring  in road accidents; Whereas, the safety of women on roads being a priority of the Government, the Chandigarh Administration proposes to make changes to the Chandigarh Motor Vehicle Rules, 1990, as under; The words “ a Sikh woman wearing a turban ” instead of words “ or a Woman ” are proposed to be substituted in Rule 193 of the Chandigarh Motor Vehicle Rules, 1990...

Chandigarh, 17th April 2018 : Hon'ble Governor of Punjab and Administrator UT, Chandigarh today inaugurated the Block A of the Le Corbusier Centre and also launched the Open Hand Art Studios in a part of the restored building.  Present on the occasion were the Advisor to the Administrator, Sh Parimal Rai,  Home Secretary, Sh Anurag Agarwal, Director Tourism, Sh Jitendar Yadav,  Chief Architect Sh Kapil Setia, and other leading artist and architects of the city. As a part of events planned to commemorate the Birth anniversary of Pierre Jeanneret an installation workshop on the theme based on an article by Jeanneret “Aesthetic: reflections on beauty of line, shape and form” was also thrown open to the public. The Governor first took a round of the existing museum in the Block B of the Centre and was impressed with the simplicity and grace of the building which was the workplace of Le Corbusier and his team of Architects. Deepika Gandhi, Director of the Centre inf...

Chandigarh, 17th April 2018 : The 410th meeting of the Chandigarh Housing Board was held on 17.4.2018. The following is a gist of the major decisions  taken by the Board:- 1. Need Based Changes in Chandigarh Housing Board Dwelling Units  The Board has accorded approval to constitute a committee under the Chairmanship of Secretary, CHB to recommend  the need based changes that can be allowed in CHB Dwelling Units within 21 days from the date of its constitution. A monitoring committee was also set up to review the functioning of above mentioned committee. It was also decided that appeal against cancellation of allotment before  the Board be kept pending till report of Need Based changes committee is finalized.   2. Construction of Seven Storeyed Green Building Block B with Two Level Basements in Chandigarh Housing Board office complex, Sector 9 D, Chandigarh.  The Board has already approved the construction of ‘B’ Block in the o...