Hina Rohtaki

For two months after the death, Kusum and her children got free ration—sugar, tealeaves, atta and oil-- but it stopped soon.

Jyoti lost her husband to Covid-19 on May 12, 2021, during the second wave. Ever since, it has been a lone journey in despair with little help from anyone, least of all the administration.

The city of her dreams has become unattainable with the rent of the tiny house in Sarangpur where the family used to live, shooting up from Rs 3000 to Rs 5000.

Living on rent at Dhanas, Anmol and his mother Rajni did their best to procure the required documents such as death certificate, but could not get the promised compensation.

City BJP chief Arun Sood stated that the “AAP wanted to control Chandigarh from Punjab and the CM’s interference in the Chandigarh Administration will not be tolerated”.

A visit to sectors 7 and 16 that have houses of bureaucrats and other government functionaries showed how the entire footpaths or pathways have been blocked by developing green belts by officers not only from Chandigarh but also from Punjab and Haryana.

Congress' Punjab president, Amrinder Warring, was the first member of a political party to be actually slapped with a fine by the Chandigarh civic corporation under the Advertisement Control Act last month. We take a closer look at the Act.

In Parliament's recent sessions, Tewari has strongly raised issues pertaining to Chandigarh, whether it was to protest the demolition of Chandigarh’s largest slum colony or to oppose the proposal to privatise Chandigarh's electricity utility department.

Parents in Chandigarh had expressed vaccine hesitation and had requested the administration to relook its directives. However, the review was done only after the Supreme Court’s orders Monday.

With the apex court on Monday stating that ‘vaccine cannot be forced on an individual’, the Chandigarh Administration may now be relooking at its orders of restricting unvaccinated children from attending physical classes from May 4. The Supreme Court on Monday observed that no individual in the country could be forced to get vaccinated and […]

About 35 acres of the land belongs to the forest department and 30 acres to the Estate Office and engineering wing, UT Assistant Estate Officer, Harjeet Sandhu, said.

The residents at the site said that the electricity and water supply connections were cut off in the wee hours, before the demolition, which is when they understood that they must quickly vacate their dwellings.

“The entire system from root to the top is a big mess. There is absolutely no contingency planning by the power department. Now we want the electricity department to be privatised,” said Goel.

At present, for every little change, the administration has to refer to the Edict of Chandigarh, which was prescribed by Le Corbusier, the planner of Chandigarh.

While speaking to The Indian Express, UT Adviser Dharam Pal said, “I was informed that an inventory was prepared for all heritage items and there are about 12,000 such items including chairs, heritage manhole covers, etc.”

With this move, 65,000 families would now benefit, and at present, around 2,000 applications are pending. It was stated that the transferee would now have to submit an affidavit in this regard.

According to the municipal corporation, 13 posters and banners — including three big ones — were detected by them to have been put up illegally. They were removed by the anti-encroachment wing of the corporation.

Experts pointed out that without the grants being received from the Centre as grant-in-aid, it will become difficult for the UT civic body to even pay salaries of its employees.

A resolution to this effect was passed during a special House meeting of the Chandigarh civic body on April 7, during which 13 BJP councillors voted in favour.

Chandigarh is one of the smallest Union Territories of the country, much smaller than Puducherry in terms of area. Hina Rohtaki talks to legal experts to find how having a legislative Assembly in Chandigarh seems like a impractical move.

Officials estimated that at present, there are houses which have three cars per family on an average, sometimes even more, while having parking space for just one or two vehicles.

Special incentives like half-a-day earned leave credited for every seven days cycled, or half-a-day casual leave granted every week, commendation certificates, awards for using cycle to commute, are some of the incentives mentioned in the policy.

BJP councillor and Chandigarh Mayor Sarabjit Kaur stated that AAP is stalling development works in Chandigarh, by not submitting the list of works she had sought from all councillors.

Under the citizens’ voices that are being submitted, Chandigarh is among the top five states and UTs where it was also found that maximum Swacch Survekshan conversations were taking place on the internet.