Adviser opens 3 days Chrysanthemums Show at Terraced Garden
Chandigarh, December 10:- The City Beautiful known as “City of Flowers” is witnessing the beautiful Chrysanthemum Show at Terraced Garden, Sector 33, Chandigarh. The flower show was today inaugurated by Sh. Dharam Pal, IAS, Adviser to the Administrator, U.T. Chandigarh in the presence of Sh. Nitin Kumar Yadav, IAS, Home Secretary, Chandigarh, Ms. Anindita Mitra, IAS, Commissioner, senior officers of MCC and prominent persons of area.
On the occasion, Chief Guest released a brochure dedicated to the show. He then went around the Garden alongwith other officers to see various flowers exhibited there with different permutations and combinations.
The Adviser said that this time due to COVID-19 precautions, the Municipal Corporation has organized this festival symbolically but found out a different way to organize this festival as “Zero Waste Festival” by using all the things either reusable or recyclable not a single waste generated from the festival this time. He appreciated the team of MCC officers for organizing this festival as Zero Waste event.
The Chief Guest applauded the efforts of the officials of Municipal Corporation for organizing such a beautiful show. He also distributed sweets to the labourers and gardeners of Corporation on the occasion besides honoring them with safety kits and certificates.
After taking round of the park, the chief guest and others laid flower petals at the Martyr’s Pillar in Terraced Garden sector 33 Chandigarh and paid their tribute to Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and Brigadier Lakhwinder Singh Lidder, defence assistant to General Rawat, who were killed along with 11 armed forces personnel in a helicopter crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.
Over 269 varieties of Chrysanthemum are being displayed this year. All these varieties are grown and well groomed at MCC nursery. Gardeners of Horticulture Department, MCC in the show have made boat, camel, peacock, cow, giraffe, lion and many other animals and birds using flowers. The beautiful displays of the Chrysanthemum in the Show have helped Chandigarh in acquiring international fame.
The students of Gurukul Global School, Sector 20, Panchkula welcomed the Chief Guest and other dignitaries at the entry gate with their melodious fusion on flutes. The show would be open till December 12 from 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 pm daily.
