UT Administrator Badnore announces new housing scheme for Chandigarh

Ramkrishan Upadhyay 

Tribune news service

Chandigarh, August 15

A new housing scheme for the residents of the city has been announced by Chandigarh Administrator VP Singh Badnore at a function organised to celebrate Independence Day here.

Badnore unfurled the Tricolour at a function held at the Sector 17 parade ground on Wednesday morning.

While addressing the gathering, Badnore recounted the achievements the city had made in the past one year in the fields of education, health, infrastructure and digital payment system.

The administrator said the administration had provided houses to the economically weaker sections. The Chandigarh Housing Board will launch a new housing scheme for the general public by the end of the year. A proposal for developing a habitat project at the IT park for residential and commercial developments is also under consideration. 

The administration has announced Thursday as a holiday in all government and private schools of the city.   

Meanwhile, mayor Davesh Moudgil unfurled the national flag at a function held at the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation office.

Moudgil said the MC would construct three more multilevel parkings at Sectors 34, 22 and 17. The Mayor has also vowed to make Chandigarh number one in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan this year.

He said the city residents would soon get additional water supply as the work on the project of improving the water supply was almost complete. 

The Administartor and mayor also gave awards to those excelling in various fields. Cultural programmes were not held in the wake of the demise of Chhattisgarh Governor and former Punjab deputy CM Balramji Dass Tandon on Tuesday. The ‘At Home’ functions were also cancelled by the Governors of Punjab and Haryana.