Punjabi language to get its due place in Chandigarh institutes, offices: MP Manish Tewari
Chandigarh, July 12
Newly elected MP Manish Tewari visited the campus of Kendri Sri Guru Singh Sabha, a collective of Sikh shrines, and assured that he would work for securing due place to Punjabi language in educational institutes and offices of the UT.
Singh Sabha representatives Gurpreet Singh and Khushhal Singh among others presented a memorandum to Tewari, asserting asserted that Chandigarh, the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, was built by removing 38 Punjabi speaking villages. Against this historical fact, Punjabi language deserved a special status in Chandigarh, they said.
English is the official language in Chandigarh.
The Sabha also demanded that the roundabouts in the City Beautiful should be named after the villages on whose land these were built.
