To this, superintending engineer of the horticulture wing Krishan Pal Singh said that of this amount, Rs 3 lakh were meant to purchase stuff meant for chemical treatment while the remaining amount was for plants.
The agenda of not using NITTTR's consultancy for the city roads' recarpeting and only availing the facility for quality control was discussed in the General House meeting held on Saturday.
Responding to questions raised on the civic body's efficiency in assigning the work of preparing the detailed project report (DPR) for the waste-to-energy plant in Chandigarh, the Municipal Corporation stated that the Thapar Institute of Technology did not respond to the several calls made to it on its official number for the request for proposal.
The UT administration's plea comes in the wake of the High Court asking Chandigarh's counsel to clarify whether NoCs have been issued by the Administration/competent authority indicating not only the share, but also floor-wise allocation of buildings.
“We will intensify our protests in case our grievances are not resolved at the earliest,” read a statement released by the employees later.
During the two-day meet, it was informed that the population of three Gyps species of vulture, the White-backed, Long-billed and Slender-billed is in the mid-nineties.
The Super Residents' Welfare Association, Sector 45, had filed a petition in Punjab and Haryana High Court against the chronic problem of encroachments that leads to choking of V-5 road of Sector 45A by motor vehicles and tyre market shopkeepers of Burail.
The letter identified Deputy Director Parminder Singh Gill, Superintendent Rajinder Chopra, Senior Assistant Rakesh Arora, Senior Assistant Baldev Singh, Deputy Controller Finance and Administration Charanjit Singh and Section Officer Mukesh Bhatia as the officials responsible for “cheating, fraud and forgery”.
Amid the turmoil in Punjab Congress, the CLP meeting called by Hooda assumed much significance and was seen as a message to the party high command that unlike in Punjab, Congress MLAs in Haryana were yet in favour of Hooda as their leader.
Taking note of the development, Ajay Jagga, a member of the Heritage Protection Cell (HPC), has written a letter to Union foreign minister S Jaishankar.
