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Cess
on fossil fuel recommended
CHANDIGARH,
June 23 — Imposition of "cess" on fossil
fuel, levying of parking fee and introduction of 'park
and ride' at mass transit interchange locations are among
the major recommendations in the final technical report
submitted on 'Comprehensive transportation plan for
Chandigarh Complex and Development of Mass Transportation
Related Options'.
Safer
ride to school
CHANDIGARH,
June 23 — A blanket ban on the movement of cycle
rickshaws on the roads opposite the Sector 17 market;
strict check on school buses; ban on unauthorised use of
red lights atop private or government vehicles; zebra
crossing outside schools.
Helmetless car
driver challaned
CHANDIGARH,
June 23 — A car driver was shocked to
receive a police intimation slip that he had been
challaned for driving without helmet. |
Even our
hearts beat for the soldiers fighting in Kargil:
Children of Sector 10 seek donations from
residents in Chandigarh on Wednesday. — A
Tribune photograph |
Kids contribute
mite for soldiers
CHANDIGARH,
June 23 — Even as city residents have come
together to support the troops fighting
infiltrators in Kargil by organising supplies and
blood donation camps, it seems that children too
have not remained unaffected by the fighting on
the border. A group of six children —
studying in prenursery to class 6 — of
Sector 10 are going door to door soliciting
donations. |
Waiting for an epidemic!
PANCHKULA,
June 23 — Thousands of slum dwellers in the Indira
and Rajiv labour colonies here are leaving no stone
unturned to create ideal conditions for the outbreak of
an epidemic.
Delay
in circulation of minutes
CHANDIGARH,
June 23—The minutes of the Senate meeting of
Panjab University, held on March 26, are now
likely to be circulated to the branches concerned
and among the Senators in the first week of July,
more than three months behind schedule.
JEs an aggrieved
lot
CHANDIGARH,
June 23 — Junior engineers working in the
departments, boards and corporations of Punjab
are an aggrieved lot in the absence of avenues
for promotion besides being discriminated
vis-a-vis pay scales as compared to their
counterparts in other departments.
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'Nation comes before families'
CHANDIGARH,
June 23 — Some officers of the Indian armed forces
who fought in the Kargil-Dras axis are in the city to
meet their families and friends.
Scheme to protect agricultural
land
PANCHKULA,
June 23 — As part of the annual flood protection
measures in the district, a scheme to protect the
agricultural land in Kona village in Pinjore from Sirsa
nadi, a rivulet of the Sutlej, is being executed at a
cost of about Rs 4.80 lakh.
Olympic boy of Chandigarh
CHANDIGARH,
June 23 — A city student has been selected for the
International Chemistry Olympiad to be held next month.
Havildar cremated with state
honours
LALRU, June
23 — Mr Nirmal Singh, a Havildar of the 66
Engineering unit in the Indian Army, was cremated with
state honours, in his native village Dhiremajra, near
here, today.
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Wild growth in Leisure Valley puts
off many
