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Chandigarh, February 15:–The 51^st Rose Festival shall open to a majestic opening on February 17^th February amidst blooming roses in Rose Garden Sector 16, Chandigarh. For the 51^st edition of the three day mega event, the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh has teamed up for making all out preparations to adorn the beautiful Rose Garden, in order to host the annual event and make it a big one festival in the city and therefore three days high entertainment Light and Sound shows are being arranged for the first time in City beautiful from 17^th to 19^th February from 7.00 pm onwards for Public and visitors during this weekend.

While sharing the details of the 51^st edition of Rose Festival, Sh. Anup Gupta, Mayor, Chandigarh said that the Rose Festival in Chandigarh will commence from 17^th February and will continue consecutively for three days upto 19^th February, 2023.

The Mayor said that the most awaited Rose Festival will get a colourful boost on 17^th February, Friday, wherein the Governor, Punjab and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh, Sh. Banwarilal Purohit will inaugurate the festival at the Zakir Rose Garden amidst immense enthusiasm. The lively ceremony will commence with the beating of drums, playing of bands, folk dance performances displayed by different states, showcasing of regional art forms and flower arrangements.

He said that the event will be inaugurated on this Friday, amidst beautiful flower decoration at Rose Garden with thousands of visitors thronging to be a part of this festivity. Since, Rose Festival is an event dipped in entertainment and topped up with glamour quotient, thereby three special cultural evenings will be organized on all three days besides Light & Sound show on the theme of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.

He said that this time all the competitions will be organized as previous years after 3 years during which the competitions were not arranged due to COVID guidelines. Regular entertaining events by prominent artists from different parts of the country on each day, the colourful festival is bound to take people to an enviable world of excitement and thrill never seen before in Chandigarh.

The programme schedule on all the three days will be as under:

Programmes Schedule for 17^th February (Friday)

9.00 a.m. to 10.00 am Yoga & Meditation class at Main stage

11.00 a.m. Inauguration of Rose Festival by the Chief Guest.

11.10 a.m. Brass & Pipe Band Show

11.20 a.m. Flower Arrangements & Flower Hat Show

12.30 a.m. Folk Dance Competition

3.00 p.m. Ragni & Fag, Artists from Haryana

3.30 p.m. Kalbelia Dance Ghoomar & Bhavai Dance by renowned artists of Rajasthan

4.00 p.m. Rajasthani Dance performance

4.30 p.m. Kachi Ghodi (Live performance from renowned artists from New Delhi)

5.30 p.m. Bollywood Artists (Duplicate) From Mumbai:

1.      Anil Kapoor

2.      Shah-Rukh Khan

3.      Mallika Sherawat

7.00 p.m. Light & Sound Show

Programmes Schedule for 18^th February (Saturday)

9.00 a.m. to 10.00 am Yoga & Meditation class at Main stage

9.00 a.m. Rose Prince and Rose Princess Competition (Different Stage)

10.00 a.m. Photography Competition

10.35 a.m. Traditional Folk Dance (Punjabi Bhangra and Nagada)

11.00 a.m. Ghumar Dance by renowned artists of Haryana

11.10 a.m. Fag and Dhamaal by renowned artists of Haryana

11.20 a.m. Puppet Show by renowned artists from New Delhi

11.30 a.m. Rose King & Rose Queen (Senior Citizen)

3.00 p.m. Mr. Rose & Miss Rose Competition

4.00 p.m. Ghoomar Dance performance

4.30 p.m. Musical Evening by Artists from Bengali

5.00 p.m. Musical Performance by Punjabi Artists

7.00 p.m. Light & Sound Show

Programmes Schedule for 19^thFebruary (Sunday)

9.00 a.m. to 10.00 am Yoga & Meditation class at Main stage

10.00 a.m. Morning Raga, Classical performance by Swar Ragini Mestro Pt. Subhash Ghosh

11.30 a.m. Antakshari Competition

3.00 p.m. Closing Ceremony & Prize Distribution

4.00 p.m. Magic Show by Renowned Magician

5.00 p.m. Kalbelia, Ghoomar Fag and Dhamal Dance performances

6.00 p.m. Traditional Folk Dance ‘Devrath’ Folk Dance and Bhangra

7.00 p.m. Light & Sound Show

In addition, various Stage and Ground performances will be showcased by famous artists all days from 17^th to 19^th February, 2023.

Keeping in view the comfort of people, food stalls will be arranged in the Rose Garden this time.

·         Lucky draw with 300 attractive prizes for citizens submitting feedback on Swachh Survekshan 2023.

·         Tag social media accounts of Municipal Corporation Chandigarh in your selfie with the “I Love Chandigarh Sign” and “Swachhata Express” Selfie and win exclusive Swachh Survekshan Merchandise.

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Chandigarh, January 24:- The Municipal Corporation Chandigarh has organised an awareness and Capacity Building Programme on HIV/AIDS, Livelihood, Financial Inclusion and Social Enterprise for Self Help Groups has been organized with support from Chandigarh State AIDS Control Society, U.T. Chandigarh under the aegis of Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM).

The programme was inaugurated by Ms. Isha Kamboj, Joint Commissioner, MCC in the presence of Dr. Jitendar Dahiya, Assistant Director-SPM, State AIDS Control Society, U.T. Chandigarh. 13 Area Level Federations comprising of approx. 100 Self Help Group women have participated in the awareness and capacity building programme on HIV/AIDS, Livelihood, Financial Inclusion and Social Enterprise for Self Help Groups.

During the programme, renowned resource persons have given sessions on Women Health & Hygiene (STIs); Banking System and Financial Inclusion; International Year of Millet; Beti Bachao- Beti Padhao and Livelihood Generation Activities (Social Enterprises) etc.

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Chandigarh, January 13:-  Municipal Corporation Chandigarh today organized a cleanliness drive at Nehru Park, Sector 22, Chandigarh to recognize the contribution of freedom fighters and show respect to them. The members of RWA, Safaimitra, NGO and  local residents participate during the Cleanliness Drive. A Nukkad Natak was performed by the group of NSS Volunteers to raise awareness on the theme of Clean Park and Swachhta ke Chaar Rang.

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3^rd pond rejuvenated by MCC under ‘Amrit Sarovar Mission’

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Chandigarh, January 7:- Smt. Sarbjit Kaur, Mayor, Chandigarh today dedicated third rejuvenated ‘Amrit Sarovar’ of Chandigarh at village Khudda Alisher as part of the ‘Amrit Sarovar Mission’ aimed at the conservation of water.

Ms. Anindita Mitra, IAS, Commissioner, Smt. Jaswinder Kaur, area councillor, other councillors and prominent persons of local area were present during the occasion.

While speaking on the occasion, the Mayor said that Hon’ble Prime Minister of India had launched the Mission aimed at developing and rejuvenating 75 water bodies in each district of the country as a part of celebration of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’  and the target to complete the work has been fixed as 15^th August, 2023.

She further said that the Municipal Corporation under this mission planned to rejuvenate 3 abandoned Water Bodies at Village Kaimbwala, Sarangpur and Khuda Alisher. The water body at village Kaimbwala had already rejuvenated and dedicated to public on 15^th August 2022 and the water body at village Sarangpur has been inaugurated on 3^rd October, 2022.

The Mayor said that the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh has further planned to rejuvenate 4^th Water Body at  Dadumajra Village and the work will be completed before 15^th August 2023. The Municipal Corporation will also hoist the flag next year on the water body at Sarovar in Dadumajra Village on 15^th August 2023.

She said that this water body is spread on area about 1.15 Acre and have capacity of holding water of 10000Cum. This water body was completely abandoned and lot of vegetation/jungle was grown up when it was transferred to Municipal Corporation Chandigarh in 2019.  The MCC has spent around Rs.30 Lakh rejuvenate this water body. The walls of water body, Lights, Hut for residents, Benches, Path way around the water body has been provided for the public. This water body will also raise the depleted ground water level and avoid flooding in village in addition to conserve the water. This will act as a mini Lake for the residents of the village. It is the duty of villagers now to keep it neat and clean.

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(Team includes 11 students & 1 professor from PEC, Chandigarh who will visit NASA in April 2023, Chandigarh team among 61 selected globally)

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Today Dated 15^th November 2022, PEC Team of 11 students with their director & other officials met the honorable Administrator Shri Banwarilal Purohit in the leadership of Mayor Chandigarh Smt. Sarabjit Kaur at Punjab Raj Bhawan, Chandigarh for seeking his blessings. The Administrator motivated the entire team and told that he had also been to NASA during a tour to USA and feels proud that our students are participating in this competition. During quite an interesting discussion between students and the Administrator, Students appraised the entire process how they applied for it and how their project model got selected for NASA competition. Team has shown picture representation that how their rover will look like and that why they cannot use motors, engines and batteries in this rover. As, team members are combining their shared passions for vehicles and astronomy, the administrator suggested to explore the need of the wheels from Indian railways. Students requested the Governor for funds to support this project as the entire team needs to reach NASA for showcasing their rover performance during two days competition in April 2023 at Alabama USA. The team will be among 61 teams across the globe selected by NASA to participate in its Human Exploration Rover Challenge( HERC)2023. Team comprising 11 students from PEC, Chandigarh named Vanshul Goyal, Gunjan Rawat, Sparsh Aggarwal, Shashwant Rai, Muskaan Aneja, Pranav Aggarwal, Gautam Kumar, Yakshit Verma, Himanshu Goyal, Pankaj Kumar, Akshaj Paintola who are currently pursuing 2nd-year Electronics, Mechanical, Production & Industrial Engineering. 

PEC Director Dr. Baldev Setia, DSA Dr. D. R. Prajapati, ADSA Dr. Puneet Chawla & Professor Incharge Dr. N. M. Suri also accompanied students in this meeting.

The Administrator praised these 2^nd year PEC students as young budding engineers participating to encourage research and development of new technologies for future mission. He also kind heartedly approved a fund of Rs. 10Lacs to support this project and wished the team good luck in their mission. Mayor Smt. Sarabjit Kaur also congratulated the entire team for their future endeavor.

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