Chandigarh Municipal Corporation to spruce up heritage site

Area councillor Harjinder Kaur wrote a letter to the engineering wing to shift the same following orders of Adviser Vijay Dev.

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In order to pay tribute to the then Chief Commissioner M S Randhawa, who had inaugurated the second phase in December 1966, the work of preserving the site is likely to be completed before Randhawa’s birth anniversary on February 2. Randhawa passed away in 1988.

“I have been fighting for the preservation of the site for the last five years. The area is used by people to dry their clothes. The SSK is close to it and that, too, amidst the green belt. I do not know how it was constructed there. We are hoping that the work of developing this site will be completed before February 2,” said Kaur.

Chief Engineer Mukesh Anand said, “ Though it is the work of the Medical Officer of Health(MOH) to shift the safai kendra, authorities have asked me to pursue it. We will write to architects to start work on it immediately.”