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Chandigarh Administration announces holiday on Friday as mark of respect to Vajpayee

CHANDIGARH: The Chandigarh Administration on Thursday declared all offices, boards, corporations and educational institutions of the Union Territory would be closed on August 17 as a mark of respect to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former prime minister, who died today.

BJP workers pay tribute over the portrait of former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in Allahabad on August 16. AFP

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 16

The Chandigarh Administration on Thursday declared all offices, boards, corporations and educational institutions of the Union Territory would be closed on August 17 as a mark of respect to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former prime minister, who died today.

The Panjab University campus and all its affiliated colleges of Chandigarh and Punjab will also remain closed on August 17.

The examinations, meetings and other related activities also stand postponed till new dates are announced by the university in this regard.

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