C H A N D I G A R H

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HUDA to spend Rs 764.18 crore on various projects
PANCHKULA, April 3 — The Haryana Urban Development Authority will spend Rs 764.18 crore on various programmes and proposals during the current financial year.The HUDA budget for the year was approved and announced at a meeting held recently under the chairmanship of the Minister for Town and Country Planning and Urban Estate, Mr Dhir Pal Singh.

Bye folks, good morning ma’am
CHANDIGARH, April 3 - New books, new classes, new teachers. School is back in session! Some schools are still admitting new students even though classes have started.The method of admission varies from school to school — most take an admission test but there are a few, such as St Annes in Sector 32, which admit new students through draw of lots “because every type of student deserves a chance”.

Illegal alterations abound in flats
CHANDIGARH, April 3 —With the Chandigarh Housing Board looking the other way, illegal alterations and additions abound in the Board’s Sector 40 flats.Although the problem of unauthorised changes endangering the flats’ basic structure is common in CHB flats in all sectors, residents of Sector 40-D apparently “lead the way” in making alterations.

More staff for police stations
CHANDIGARH, April 3 — To strengthen the beat system in the city, more personnel have been provided to the police stations.Forty five officials have been directed to report to the Sub Divisional Police Officers.

COMMUNITY

Liquor vend irks residents
CHANDIGARH, April 3 — Residents of Ram Darbar Colony, led by the area councillor, Ms Kamlesh, held a rally here today in protest against the opening of a liquor shop in the colony.

CRIME

Servants thrashed, buffaloes stolen
ZIRAKPUR, April 3 — In two unusual incidents, 15 buffaloes were stolen by rustlers from two different dairy farms near Singhpura village, 2 km from here, on Sunday morning.

Sector 22 pub owner booked
CHANDIGARH, April 3 — The police has registered a case against a pub owner of Sector 22 on the charges of serving hard drinks on his premises without permit here this evening.

ADMINISTRATION

Cool! No power cuts this summer, no rate hikes
CHANDIGARHApril 3 — Chandigarh is not short of power. Senior officers of the UT Electricity Department have been at work to see that summer power requirements are met by strengthening the distribution system, repairing all transformers and installing double circuits to enhance the existing supply system.

HUDA allows more than one plot
PANCHKULA, April 3 — The Haryana Urban Development Authority has lifted the ban which prohibited individuals to acquire more than one plot in an Urban Estate, in the general category.

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PUDA plans modern market centre
SAS NAGAR, April 3 — The market centre to be developed in Sector 62 here will be among the best in the country, Mr Jit Gupta, Senior Town Planner, PUDA, said here yesterday.

DGP holds open darbar
PANCHKULA, April 3 — Out of the 44 complaints received at an open darbar of the Haryana Director General of Police, Mr S.P.S. Rathore, held at Police Headquarters in Sector 6, here today, 21 were submitted by citizens and 23 were about the service matters of the police personnel.

Rs 184 crore for villages
DERA BASSI, April 3 — The Punjab Government will spend Rs 184 crore in the current financial year on various village projects, said Capt Kanwaljit Singh, Finance and Planning Minister of Punjab, while addressing a public meeting after inaugurating a cultural programme at Amlala village, near here, yesterday.

EDUCATION

School kids present good show
LALRU, April 3 — Students of Samta Public School here sang and danced with enthusiasm at the annual function of the school held here on Sunday. Local industrialist Mr Pratap Singh Cheema, who was the chief guest, handed out the prizes for the year.

COURTS

Bus driver gets 6-month RI
PANCHKULA, April 3 — The Panchkula Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr Ved Pal Gupta, today, sentenced a bus driver, Raj Singh, to six-month rigorous imprisonment for rash and negligent driving.

Bail plea dismissed
CHANDIGARH, April 3 — The bail application moved by Sub-Divisional Officer Om Parkash and Sectional Officer Shiv Kumar, accused of causing “heavy loss to the government exchequer”, were today “dismissed as withdrawn” by Mr Justice Amar Dutt of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

Rape accused denied bail
CHANDIGARH, April 3 — The UT Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr H.S. Madaan, today refused to grant bail to a city resident, Jasbir Singh, who was facing charges of having raped a Sector 22 resident.

CULTURE

Colours of nature captured
CHANDIGARH, April 3 — “God created man in His own image and man shaped life in his own way.” The saying becomes true as one glances through Ashwani Verma’s creations on display in IndusInd Art Gallery.

A feast of photos
CHANDIGARHApril 3 — “Nature Morte” has done some good to the art lovers of the city who have long been waiting to treat themselves to a feast of photographs. Though the city has had no dearth of painting exhibitions, photographic marvels have been hard to come by.