Spotlight on Sushma Swaraj

Times of India
4 Sep 2001,chandigarh: Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sushma Swaraj is one lady chandigarh just loves to love. Maybe it is because of the fact that she is a product of the Panjab University and has spent her student days in Chandigarh. but whenever she is in town, the lady with the big bindi is the centre of attraction. In the city to inaugurate the Low Power Transmitters (LPT) at the Doordarshan Kendra on Monday, Sushma was at her charming best - so much so that she had a number of men fighting over her! ...
... Later at the cultural programme organised at the Bhargava Auditorium, PGI, Sushma at her wittiest explained how the then MP Satya Pal Jain had in 1998 "tricked" her into sanctioning a relay station for Chandigarh whereas plans for only a studio had been sanctioned - he had called her for the laying of the foundation stone ceremony, where he had her announce that it would be a full-fledged center. Later, she could not go back on her words and had to inaugurate the programme generation facility and now the transmitters also. ...

Smt. Sushma Swaraj, Union Minister of Information & Broadcasting inaugurating Low Power Transmitters at Doordarshan Kendra, Chandigarh on Monday, alongwith Sh. Satya Pal Jain, Ex-MP & others

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Smt. Sushma Swaraj, Union Minister of Information & Broadcasting inaugurating Low Power Transmitters at Doordarshan Kendra, Chandigarh on Monday, alongwith Sh. Satya Pal Jain, Ex-MP & others

DD centre to be inaugurated on April 28

Chandigarh Tribune
Chandigarh, April 6: After a long wait, the local Doordarshan Kendra will finally be inaugurated on April 28.
Announcing this at a press conference at the Chandigarh Press Club here today, the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Ms Sushma Swaraj, said the inauguration had been delayed because sufficient staff had not been posted at the centre yet. "I want it to be operational the next day of the inauguration," she quipped.
It may be recalled that the foundation stone of the kendra was laid by Ms Swaraj in 1998. The kendra is ready and awaiting inauguration for quite some time now.
In fact, a former MP, Mr Satya Pal Jain, during whose tenure the foundation stone was laid, had issued written statements several times saying that the kendra would be inaugurated soon. In one such statement, he had stated that it would be inaugurated by Ms Swaraj in the "first week of April". ...

DD relay centre in Sec 37 soon

Chandigarh Tribune
CHANDIGARH, Jan 14 — A relay centre of Doordarshan will be inaugurated in Sector 37 here by the Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Ms Sushma Swaraj, next month. This was announced by Mr Satya Pal Jain, a former local MP, who met the minister in New Delhi recently. "The date of the inauguration will be worked out in a few days," Mr Jain added.

DD centre to function from February

Chandigarh Tribune
CHANDIGARH, Jan 12 — The local Doordarshan relay centre will start functioning from February next.
The Union Information and Broadcasting Minister, Ms Sushma Swaraj,will inaugurate it, according to Mr Satya Pal Jain, former MP. He said. he called on Ms Sushma Swaraj yesterday in Delhi and informed her that the building of the relay centre had been completed. .
The bhoomi pujan for this building was performed by Ms Swaraj in July 1998. The project was scheduled to be completed last year. ...

DD kendra in city soon

Chandigarh Tribune
CHANDIGARH, Jan 22 — Mr Satya Pal Jain, a former BJP MP from Chandigarh, said here today that the local kendra of Doordarshan would become operational soon.
In a written statement, Mr Jain said that an assurance to this effect had been given to him by the Union Information and Broadcasting Minister, Mr Arun Jaitely, whom he met in New Delhi yesterday.
Mr Jain said that Mr Jaitely would visit Chandigarh in the third week of February during which he would hold a meeting of the officials concerned to take stock of the latest position on the Chandigarh kendra.
... Mrs Sushma Swaraj during her tenure as Minister of Information and Broadcasting, came here to lay the foundation stone of the kendra the work on which had been in progress since then. Mr Jain wanted Mr Jaitely to get the work on the construction expedited. ...

Filtration plant commissioned

Tribune News Service
CHANDIGARH, Aug 11 — The UT Administrator, Lieut-Gen B.K.N. Chhibber, today inaugurated a water filtration plant in Sector 39 here. ...
The local MP, Mr Satya Pal Jain, said he was holding talks with the Central Government and Haryana Chief Minister Bansi Lal for the construction of a dam on the Ghaggar in order to find a permanent solution to the water shortage in the union territory.
Mr Jain claimed that the Chandigarh Doordarshan studio would start functioning as a full-fledged studio by the year end. ...

DD studio plan lends glamour to Sector 37

Chandigarh Newsline

ਓੁਤਰਾਂਚਲ ਬਾਰੇ ਅਜੇ ਬਿਲ ਨਹੀਂ ਪੇਸ਼ ਹੋ ਰਿਹਾ: ਸੁਸਮਾ

Punjabi Tribune

Union Minister for Information, Broadcasting and Communications Sushma Swaraj is a all attention as Mr B.K. Dey,....

Tribune

Sushma echoes concern on cultural pollution

Tribune
CHANDIGARH, July 24 — The Union Minister of Information, Broadcasting and Communications, Mrs Sushma Swaraj, today emphasised the need to provide quality entertainment to the viewers of Doordarshan without compromising the country's cultural ethos and value system.
Speaking after "bhoomi pujan" of the Chandigarh studio of Doordarshan here this afternoon, she said that lot of concern was being expressed over cultural pollution brought about by foreign channels and cable networks.
... Earlier, the local MP, Mr Satya Pal Jain, in his address of welcome, thanked the minister for taking up the project which has been hanging fire for the past nine years. Chandigarh, he said, was perhaps the only city which is a joint capital of two states besides a union territory, in itself, which continued to be without a Doordarshan kendra.
Mr B.K. Dey, Engineer-in-Chief, Doordarshan, said that five new kendras would come up in Haryana at Karnal, Yamunanagar, Mahendragarh, Tohana and Ferozepore Jhirka in addition to nine centres already functioning in the state. ...

चंडीगढ़ के दूरदर्शन स्टूडियो में रिले केंद्र भी होगा

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Sushma gifts relay centre with DD studio

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.

'Indian to fight Pak propaganda through TV'

Chandigarh Newsline

पाक के सैटेलाइट चैनल को जाम करने का कोई इरादा नहीं : सुषमा

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DD kendra: minister 'bows' to pressure

The Tribune

AMBALA, July 21 — The chairman of the Ambala Cantonment Traders Federation, Mr N.C. Jain, has expressed surprise at the setting up of a Doordarshan kendra at Chandigarh as the Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Mrs Sushma Swaraj, had promised that a kendra would be set up at Ambala contonment.

In a statement issued here yesterday, Mr Jain said while local MLAs, Mr Anil Vij and Mr Nirmal Singh, were trying to arrange suitable land in the area for the kendra, the Minister had already decided to have one at Chandigarh presumably "under pressure" from the Chandigarh MP, Mr Sat Pal Jain.