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Congress moves for a better, beautiful Chandigarh

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CHANDIGARH: The president of the Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee, B.B. Bahl, who met the Punjab Governor and the Administrator of Chandigarh, S.F. Rodriques, here, submitted a detailed memorandum seeking the overall development of the City Beautiful and sorting out of difficulties faced by the residents.

Addressing a Press conference here on Tuesday, Mr. Bahl said he had apprised General Rodriques that those citizens living in the southern sectors were feeling "deprived because of lack of development''. He further demanded that the Administration should set up a recreational zone in the southern sectors which should have an amusement park, lake, banquet hall, club for social get-together, cinema and shopping mall.

Mr. Bahl also pleaded for the upgradation of the Chandigarh airport as the Union Territory, also housing the capitals of Haryana and Punjab, was rapidly becoming the business hub of northern India. An airport of international standards had become imperative especially when an IT park was coming up here.

The CTCC chief also urged the Administration to allow substitutions in the cooperative housing societies on the pattern of Delhi, Punjab and Haryana. This would help check illegal sale of flats on General Power of Attorney (GPA).

While demanding the setting up of a 500-bed hospital near the Third Phase of the city, Mr. Bahl also pleaded for the early execution of Solid Waste Management Plant.

He exhorted the Administrator to set up a committee comprising of architects of national repute which would examine the problems involved in the growth of the city and recommend need-based changes in the existing master plan.

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