Saplings planted in college

Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Aug 19 — A sapling plantation drive was carried out in Government College, Sector 46, here today. More than 100 saplings were planted on the occasion.

Mr Satya Pal Jain, Member of Parliament, inaugurated the function.

A similar drive was also organised by the Akhil Bharatiya Parishad as part of the golden jubilee celebrations of the parishad. It has carried out plantation drives in Government College, Sector 11, GGS College, Sector 26, Dev Samaj College, Sector 45, GCG, Sector 42, and other educational institutions in the past fortnight.

The Build India Group organised a cultural programme at Government Girls High School, Sector 25, Mr Satya Pal Jain was the chief guest.

11 get Commonwealth youth awards

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CHANDIGARH, Aug 18 — Mr C.M. Safi Sami, High Commissioner for Bangladesh in India, has stressed that more attention should be paid towards the problems of the youth, who form a sizeable proportion of the population. ...

Earlier Mr Safi and the local MP, Mr Satya Pal Jain, gave away the awards to as many as to 11 winners hailing from different commonwealth countries.

The winners include Mohd Mohsin, Ms Kalpana Rahman, both from Bangladesh, Dr Chander Mohan Jain, Ms E.P.S. Bhagiya Lakshmi, Dr Asit Chakravarty, Mr Kunj Bihari Natani, all from India; Ms Aftab-ur-Rehman Rana, and Mr Khalid Mehmood Zia from Pakistan; Dr Villiam Tan Kian Meng from Singapore, and Ms Nishathi Arulmoly, Mr A.C.A Zoysa from Sri Lanka.Top

Parliamentary panel to study Bill

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NEW DELHI: A 30-member joint parliamentary panel has been constituted to study the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill. Mr Satya Pal Jain, Mr Amrik Singh Aliwal, Mr Kishan Singh Sangwan, Mr K D Sultanpuri, and Mr Barjinder Singh Hamdard are among the MPs who are on the committee which is expected to submit its report during the next session of Parliament.

11 freedom fighters given flats

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CHANDIGARH, Aug 13 — The Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, (MCC), and the Chandigarh Housing Board today organised a joint function to honour the freedom fighters of the city at Tagore Theatre. ...
The freedom fighters who were given eligibility letters are Mr O.P. Vij, Mr Harswaran Singh, Mr Lal Singh, Mr Lal Chand, Mr Jagir Singh Sekhon, Mr Jagir Singh Bajwa, Mr Gurdip Singh Bhatti, Mr Kuldip Singh Batra, Mr Om Parkash Sharda, Mr Maksudan Singh, and Mr Puran Singh. ...

Mr Satya Pal Jain, local MP, said anything done for the freedom fighters was much less. He claimed that after the nuclear tests, India had emerged as one of the powerful nations of the world.

Community Centre

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CHANDIGARH,Aug 12 — The Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh (MCC) today netted an amount of over Rs 66 lakh through the auction of parking lots in Sectors 17 and 8. ...

Community centre:

The local MP, Mr Satya Pal Jain, dedicated a community centre to the memory of late Major Parminder Pal Singh Sidhu, who died while fighting militants in Assam last year.

  The community centre, used by the Red Cross for the past many years, was handed over to the MCC early this year in bad shape. The MCC after heavy repairs had spruced it up. ...

Filtration plant commissioned

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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. ...