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City's organic food counter struggles for sale
Kala Gram's inaccessibility, public ignorance main
causes
Chandigarh, July 31
Opened with much fanfare in April this year, the region's first organic food counter at Kala Gram is still struggling to break even. Right from April 21, when social activist Padmashri Anna Hazare inaugurated the Rishi Krishi organic counter at Kala Gram, people behind the show have been intensively labouring to spread health awareness among city people. |
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| Organic food counter at Kalagram has forced its caretakers to remain open only between 4 pm and 11 pm, although earlier it used to operate from morning till night.
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City to be developed as tourist destination
Chandigarh, July 31
The Chandigarh administration has decided to develop the city as the tourist destination for the domestic and foreign tourists. This was decided at a meeting held by Ms Rathi
Jha, Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, and officials of the Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Development Corporation
here today.
God saves, but stops
at slum gates
Chandigarh, July 31
Rampant encroachment in slums here has created fresh fire hazards, as found by the Fire Department. In letters to the Chandigarh Housing Board and the Enforcement Wing of the Municipal Corporation, it had sought that encroachments be removed from the Sector 52 rehabilitation colony.
Tax refunds not
coming soon
Chandigarh, July 31
Income-tax assessees who have filed the returns should be prepared to
wait for at least three more months to get refunds. The Income Tax
Department does not have enough staff and infrastructure to process
more than 2 lakh returns that have been filed, so far.
WHERE ARE ALL THE ASSESSEES? Hardly and rush at the income tax return collection counters in the Institute of Engineers, Chandigarh, on Wednesday.
— A Tribune photograph |
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Rechecking of pension cases begins today
Panchkula, July 31
The rechecking programme for new pension beneficiaries of Tau Devi Lal Pension in Panchkula city, the MC area of Pinjore, besides Kalka, Morni, Raipur Rani and Barwala would be conducted from August 1 to August 9.
General Mehta visits paraplegic centre
SAS Nagar, July 31
The Chief of Western Army Command, Lieut -Gen S.S. Mehta, and his wife, Mrs Madhu Mehta, visited the Paraplegic
Rehabilitation Centre here today. Mrs Mehta is the president, Army Wives Welfare Association, Western Command.
Chief of the Western Command, Lieut-Gen S.S. Mehta (extreme right), talks to a soldier at the Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre in
SAS Nagar on Wednesday.
— A Tribune photograph
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‘Mayor lacks
grip over officers’
Chandigarh, July 31
The former BJP councillor, Ms Ranjana Shahi, today accused the Mayor, Ms Lalit Joshi, of letting the supremacy of the House slip away by failing to get officers to act on repeated complaints of contaminated water supply.
EATING OUT
Drool in a China shop
Chandigarh
A visit to Sector 17 is normally called for both by the residents and outsiders. Whether for shopping, window shopping or some business in the various offices located in this central point of the city or even the movies, or, just an outing, you do land up in this commercial hub.
1 killed, 20 hurt in road accident
Lalru, July 31
One person was killed and 20 others were injured, one of them seriously, when a private bus heading towards Ambala collided head-on with a tempo on the Chandigarh-Ambala highway in Jharmari village, near here, today.
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