Transfer orders cancelled

The Tribune
CHANDIGARH, Aug 10 - The Union Finance Ministry has cancelled the transfer orders of Mr C.K. Vohra, Director Investigation of the Income Tax Department.
The ministry had ordered his transfer even before he had completed his tenure here. The local MP, Mr Satya Pal Jain, had taken up the case with the Union Finance Ministry on the plea that those involved in investigating special cases should not be transferred so as not to jeopardise further investigations.
Mr Vohra had conducted raids on engineers, contractors and suppliers of the Engineering Department of the Administration in November last year. The raids led to revelation of large amount of undisclosed sources of income besides exposing the alleged nexus between engineers on the one hand and suppliers and contractors on the other.

Admn urged to hold gram panchayat poll

Chandigarh Tribune- Chandigarh, India
CHANDIGARH, AUGUST 9: The local MP, Mr Satya Pal Jain, has urged the Chandigarh Administration to hold elections to gram panchayats, panchayat samiti, zila parishad and market committees without any further delay.
In a letter written to the Adviser to the Administrator, Mr Jagdish Sagar, the MP said elections to these bodies were due since long and the electorate did not want any more delay.
In the neighbouring state of Punjab, elections to all these bodies had already been conducted and there was no valid justification for delaying elections in Chandigarh. ...

Jain moots advisory panel for region

Tribune News Service
CHANDIGARH, Aug 8 — Mr Satya Pal Jain, local MP has suggested setting up a joint advisory committee of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh for integrated coordinated development of Chandigarh and its periphery.

He was speaking at the concluding session of a two-day seminar on future of Chandigarh here yesterday.

Mr Jain said because of shrinking land, the concept of multi-storeyed flats has to be encouraged to meet the growing housing demand. He also advocated an increase in covered area from the present 50 per cent.

Mr Jain also demanded revoking of the Periphery Control Order. The Administration should make amendments to allow construction of second and third storeys in buildings where initially only single storey was permitted. The Administration should also not ignore those living in slums and rehabilitation colonies while planning future urban estates and areas, he said.

Jain appointed president

The Tribune

CHANDIGARH, Aug 5 — Mr Vijay Malhotra, President of the Archery Association of India has appointed Mr Satya Pal Jain, MP, president of the ad hoc committee of the Chandigarh Archery Association. Mr Ravinder Talwar has been made general secretary.

He further authorised both of them to sit together and nominate other office-bearers of the CAA. This arrangement would be replaced by regular elections within six months, he added.

Colourful parade by school children

The Tribune

CHANDIGARH, Aug 1 (Agencies) — More than 25,000 schoolchildren drawn from different schools of the city today held a colourful cultural programme to formally mark the launching of fortnight-long functions of the closing ceremony of the golden jubilee celebrations of India's Independence.

The programme was organised by the Education Department of the Chandigarh Administration and the Independent School Association.

Lt Gen. (retd). B.K.N. Chhibber, Governor, Punjab and Mrs Rama Chhibber were the chief guests at the function, which was attended by Mr Jagdish Sagar, Adviser to the Administrator, UT Chandigarh. Mr Satya Pal Jain, Member Parliament, Mr Gian Chand Gupta, Mayor Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, Mrs Meenakshi Dutta Ghosh, chairperson, Chandigarh Housing Board and Mrs Anuradha Gupta, Home Secretary-cum-Educa

Allot land to societies: Jain

Tribune News Service
CHANDIGARH, July 31 — The local MP Mr Satya Pal Jain, has urged the Chandigarh Administration to allot land to cooperative house building societies immediately.
Mr Jain raised the issue in the Lok Sabha yesterday where he stated that Chandigarh which was being ruled by the union government faced an acute shortage of residential accommodation.
The Administration had in the past allotted land to cooperative house building societies. Now that the Administration has decided to allot land to societies for construction of multi-storeyed flats, for which an initial deposit has been made, no steps have been taken by the Chandigarh Housing Board to allot land to eligible societies. Keeping in view the rising cost of construction, any delay in the allotment of land is making it difficult for the societies to construct their dwelling units, Mr Jain said.
He sought the intervention of the union government so that the Administration could be pressurised in alloting the land to the societies