Chandigarh Administration to reopen Rock Garden on Thursday

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 16

UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore today decided to reopen Rock Garden, State Museum, Tagore Theatre and other places of tourist importance with a strict Covid protocol. The decision was taken at a meeting.

While Rock Garden will open on Thursday, the museum will open tomorrow.

These remained closed since the lockdown was announced in March. The Administration suffered a huge loss due to their closure.

Mandip Brar, Deputy Commissioner, said 26,230 challans had been issued for violation of the Covid protocol. Dr Debendra Dalai, Chief Conservator of Forests, said due to the ban on crackers, the AQI remained at 127 on Diwali. He said it was for the first time that the air quality on the day after Diwali was “good” instead of “poor” or “moderate”.

Administrator wants dark spots in the city lit up

The Administrator asked MC Commissioner KK Yadav to ensure that the dark spots were taken care with proper street lighting. He said a drive should be started to ensure that the work was completed in a time-bound manner by the MC. Earlier, Chandigarh Tribune had highlighted that the work of lighting up dark spots would miss another Diwali deadline.