Chandigarh Newsline
CHANDIGARH, July 24: The City will not only have a Doordarshan studio but a relay centre as well, Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Sushma Swaraj announced today, after laying the foundation stone of a Rs 7.21-crore Doordarshan studio in Sector 37.
It's strange that the capital of two states has to depend on some other centre," She also announced that the Punjab regional service of DD will telecast programmes from the first week of August.
"I know the City has plenty of talent and the programmes produced by its studios will find place even on the national hook-up," said the Minister, who studied Law at Punjab University and got married in the City. She recalled with nostalgia her Chandigarh connection: "I'm the bahu and beti of this City. Therefore, it's not just another stone-laying function. I felt as if I was amongst my family members, celebrating a festival."
...Later, addressing a gathering at Tagore theatre, local MP Satya Pal Jain said the "shilanayas" of the studio was done in 1989 and neither any MP nor any government took pains to start construction.
Sushma Swaraj also sat through a cultural programme at the theatre, which was made to suit just the kind of culture she propagates.
... Local MP Satya Pal Jain suggested that the department should make such plans so that telephones connections are made available in Chandigarh on demand by January 31, 1999.
He also requested the department to consider the calls for Dera Bassi and nearby areas as local calls. "Most of the people from Chandigarh have set up their industries over there," he said.
CHANDIGARH, July 24: The City will not only have a Doordarshan studio but a relay centre as well, Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Sushma Swaraj announced today, after laying the foundation stone of a Rs 7.21-crore Doordarshan studio in Sector 37.It's strange that the capital of two states has to depend on some other centre," She also announced that the Punjab regional service of DD will telecast programmes from the first week of August.
"I know the City has plenty of talent and the programmes produced by its studios will find place even on the national hook-up," said the Minister, who studied Law at Punjab University and got married in the City. She recalled with nostalgia her Chandigarh connection: "I'm the bahu and beti of this City. Therefore, it's not just another stone-laying function. I felt as if I was amongst my family members, celebrating a festival."
...Later, addressing a gathering at Tagore theatre, local MP Satya Pal Jain said the "shilanayas" of the studio was done in 1989 and neither any MP nor any government took pains to start construction.
Sushma Swaraj also sat through a cultural programme at the theatre, which was made to suit just the kind of culture she propagates.
... Local MP Satya Pal Jain suggested that the department should make such plans so that telephones connections are made available in Chandigarh on demand by January 31, 1999.
He also requested the department to consider the calls for Dera Bassi and nearby areas as local calls. "Most of the people from Chandigarh have set up their industries over there," he said.
