Reopen Tagore Theatre, Rock Garden: Badnore
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, November 16
UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore today decided to reopen Rock Garden, State Museum, Tagore Theatre and other places of tourist importance with a strict Covid protocol.
These remained closed since the lockdown was announced in March. The Administration suffered a huge loss due to their closure. Badnore ordered this at a meeting held today.
Mandip Brar, Deputy Commissioner, said 26,230 challans had been issued against people for violation of the Covid protocol.
Dr Debendra Dalai, Chief Conservator of Forests, said due to the ban on crackers, Air Quality Index remained at 127 on Diwali. He said it was for the first time that the air quality on the day after Diwali was “good” instead of “poor” or “moderate” as had happened at other places.
* Wants dark spots lit up
The Administrator directed MC Commissioner KK Yadav to ensure that the dark spots in the city were taken care with proper street lighting.
He said a special drive should be started to ensure that the work was completed in a time-bound manner by the MC. Earlier, Chandigarh Tribune had highlighted that the work of lighting up dark spots would miss another Diwali deadline.
