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New Cricket Stadium In Mullanpur Is Going To Be Constructed That Will Be Bigger Than PCA Stadium
This would be a great news for all cricket lovers that Punjab is ready to built another Cricket stadium. In Mohali PCA stadium is located that is also known as IS Bindra Stadium. This stadium in Mohali built in the year 1992. Now Punjab is going to get its new cricket stadium in Mullanpur and this is going to develop by Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) and location for this stadium is near Mohali in Mullanpur that is also known as new Chandigarh. This project would be completed in 2020 as construction has already started.

The IS Bindra PCA Stadium in Mohali is one of the best stadiums in the country but the major problem associated with this stadium is the lack of proper parking facilities as the stadium is located in a residential area in Mohali but this new stadium will come up with new facilities.

How New Cricket Stadium In Mullanpur Will Be Different From The PCA

PCA stadium in Mohali was built in 1992 and it has a major problem of proper parking. It is located near the residential colony and this causes many problems to residents during any match. There are some new things that are going to include in the new stadium and that will make it different from the existing one.
- According to the project planning, it would be ready by 2020 and it will be world class stadium.
- In comparison with PCA stadium it is going to be three times bigger than PCA, Mohali and area decided for it is 40 acres of land.
- A new stadium will be coming up with a seating capacity of 38,000 people whereas at PCA stadium Mohali seating capacity is nearly 27,000.
- Existing PCA stadium lacks sub-surface drainage system that will be included in the New stadium in Mullanpur. The sub-surface drainage will dry the stadium within 30 minutes.
- The first Floor will have independent players Pavillion and there is also provision for corporate Pavillion.
- To make it environmental friendly it will include rainwater harvesting system and solar panels.
- New Stadium will be disabled friendly and there will be sixteen gates in Mullanpur stadium.
Cost Decided For The Construction Of New Stadium

The new stadium will be constructed in two phases and the total cost for the construction for the first phase of the stadium is approximately Rs 150 crore. Firstly the first phase will be completed and after the completion, the ground will be ready to host the matches.

New Stadium in Mullanpur will be constructed to avoid all the problems that cricket lovers face in PCA stadium. So cricket lovers can enjoy this news.
The Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) Is Planning To Cut Around 500 Trees In Mohali
The Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) is planning to cut around 500 trees to widened roads to 150 feet. Innocent trees would be sacrificed for the construction purpose. But GMADA is doing this to improve the connectivity of Mohali with other regions of the city.

What Is Included In The Project:

This project of GMADA examined on the various parameters of cost and benefit and it is found that the construction of the 150-ft-wide road will be done in sectors 117, 118, 119. This project will benefit the local community. The file has been sent to the government for approval. Officials said that they will issue the notices for land acquisition. The social-economic impact report has also been submitted to the government and the analysis reports about the axing of around 500 trees for the project.

Benefits That Mohali Residents Will Get From The Project

This project is waiting for the government’s nod and after this project will start soon. The report also mentioned the positive and negative impacts of the project. 500 trees that are going to cut and this project would surely affect our ecological system but for the convenience of residents, this decision has been taken. There are some benefits of this project and these are as follows.
- With the completion of this project, residents would find better and Improved road connectivity.
- In present situation where residents are taking a long time to commute from on place to other with this project travel time for commutation will reduce.
- It also helps to Boost up of land’s market value because of the connectivity with the roads.
- Traffic that is the major problem everyone is facing due to increased number of vehicles would reduce.
- The city will surely be achieved the goals of development with the completion of this project.
- Catering to the upcoming population
- Sustainability and efficiency in functioning.
What Kind Of Losses Farmers will Face:

Chopping off innocent trees will negatively impact our environment and with this farmers are also facing losses of fruit bearing plants. According to the social impact report, farmers are set to lose 365 fruit-bearing trees like Jamun, mango, and Guava due to the road-widening project. This is a big loss to farmers because they did lots of hard work for the growth of trees. The government has decided that farmers will get the compensation for the fruit bearing trees. The compensation for the fruit-bearing trees will be decided by the department of forests and the payout for the timber trees will be fixed by the department of horticulture.

Development and our trees both are important for everyone but if the government will not take this decision then residents will complain about traffic and connectivity problems. So try to make peace about this decision.
Single Mother and Mohali’s First Woman Autorickshaw Driver Who Lives Her Life With Courage

The story of Baljinder Kaur, the single mother will inspire all women, who lost all their hopes to live their life because of problems of different kinds in their life. She is the first woman Autorickshaw driver in Mohali.

She has faced lots of problems in her life but she has never given place to negativity in her life. She has believed on her strength and now earning money with her hard work.

Baljinder Kaur who overcame gender stereotyping to drive Auto rickshaw

Life has different shades and different plans for everyone. Baljinder Kaur from Mohali did lots of struggles in her life but she never gave up. Her struggles started when she had to separate from her husband after few years of her marriage and at that time she was the mother of 4 months little boy. She overcame gender stereotyping to drive Auto rickshaw and became first Auto rickshaw driver in Mohali

Journey Of First Woman Autorickshaw Driver

Baljinder Kaur after separating from her husband went to her parent’s house and to earn something she started stitching clothes because there was no one to help her. Her brother had died and father who was disabled, so there was no one from where she could seek help. But she never lost hopes and never wanted sympathy from anyone. She gathered her courage and pick up her brother’s autorickshaw and became the first woman autorickshaw driver of Mohali. She never regrets but tries to improve her life by hard work. She is happy with her work and making good amount out of it. Now she is determined and wants to make her son a police officer. Nothing is impossible if you have the courage to remove all hurdles that are coming to your path.
Jaswinder Kaur From Mohali Who Became A Life Saviour To 5 People After Death

Giving life to others by donating your organs after death is a kindful act. A single organ donor can save the lives of around eight people. In Mohali a 46 years old woman who died in an accident, but after her death, her organs has given life to 5 people by organ donation.

Everyone can donate their organs and it totally depends upon your health and love that you feel for every human being. Several organs can be donated such as the heart, lungs, Kidneys, liver, pancreas, and intestines.

Jaswinder Kaur who became a life saviour to 5 people after death

There are many people who live for their selves only, but there are fewer people who live for others and even after their death they give the reason for others to remember them for their whole life. A 46 years old Jaswinder Kaur, a resident of sector 25 was hit by a speeding vehicle near her house. After that, she rushed to government multispeciality, hospital sector 16, from where she was referred to PGIMER. But doctors could not be saved her after their best efforts. After family’s decision doctors harvested the heart, kidneys, pancreas and corneas of brain dead Jaswinder Kaur and then these organs transplanted to the patients. According to the doctors, surgery of patients who got the organs was successful and everyone is stable now.

A family has conveyed the message of unconditional love and humanitarian spirit

According to the Gagandeep Singh, son of Jaswinder Kaur his mother died the same way she lived, by caring and giving. He said that she was a kind hearted lady who always felt that it is her duty to help others. She always used to provide food, clothes to needy and also was so generous to donate money to marriages of girls who are not that privileged. With this great act of organ donation, this family conveys message of compassion and humanitarian spirit.
Entire City Beautiful Will Covered With Cycling Track Soon In December
If you people love cycling then it is really a good news for you because Chandigarh is going to be a cyclist friendly place as UT Government is going to cover the entire city with cycling tracks. Soon in December this year Chandigarh will be 100% covered with cycling tracks. So all cycling lovers just get your cycles ready to enjoy your ride this winters.

Many cyclists have protection issues and due to this, they hesitate to enjoy their cycle ride on the main road. But soon they would get a cyclist friendly track that will cover the entire Chandigarh.

First phase of the project to cover entire Chandigarh

Engineering wing of Chandigarh administration has started the first phase of the project and the project includes to lay 90 km of new cycling tracks which will cover entire city Beautiful. This planning is done to provide benefits to the enthusiast cyclist. People have some issues related to protection because of that they hesitate to do cycling on the main road and also feel hindrance due to traffic, but now Chandigarh Administration has planned to lay cycling tracks on 36 traffic junctions which will cover traffic lights and roundabouts in Chandigarh.

Places where new cycle tracks will be constructed

After the 90 km, cycling tracks project is finished, Chandigarh will be having 172 km of cycling tracks.The laying of new cycling tracks is part of works to be carried out in Chandigarh under the Centre’s `Smart City Project’. The new cycling tracks will be constructed on
- Madhya Marg
- Jan Marg
- Vikas Path
- Purv Marg.
The cost of covering entire Chandigarh with cyclist track:

Once the new 90km of tracks would be constructed, the city will have cycling tracks measuring 172 kilometers. Total cost decided for the entire project will around Rs 25cr. In the first phase of the project, spending amount will be 12cr. Officials are hoping to finish the project before December. With this project, the entire city will be covered with cycling tracks. Sources in the Chandigarh engineering department said there were some parts of the existing 82km of cycling tracks which required repairs and maintenance. There are some patches in the existing tracks which we have covered in the current project. These all will be repaired too. There won’t be any need to spend additional money on them later on.
Another Brutal Act Similar to Nirbhya Rape Case Happened Again

Everyone is wishing that things would get better and girls would be protected, but nothing is getting improved. After supreme court’s order of death sentence to the Nirbhya rapists, another similar case that can be described as “brutal and barbaric act noticed in Rohtak, Haryana that is around 200 kms from the city Beautiful. The nature and manner of such types of crime devastating social trust.

Brutal Act Starkly Similar To Nirbhya Case Gave Shock To People:

This time a 23-year-old Divorcee woman from Rohtak was raped brutally by two men. These two men belong to Sonipat, firstly they kidnapped the woman and then repeatedly raped her. This was not enough for them so they inserted a sharp-edged weapon in her private parts and also smashed her head with the brick to disfigure her so that police would unable to identify her. Passersby informed the police about the decomposed body that he found in the Industrial Model Township area of Rohtak. This person noticed that stray dogs were scratching and tearing her body but when police reached the spot, dogs had already eaten up some parts her face and stomach.

How Accused Committed This Barbaric Act:

Sumit and Vikas both were involved in this brutal act. Sumit who wanted to marry the victim and proposed her but she refused. He was not happy with the answer and he also suspected that she has affair with some other guy. On Tuesday Sumit and Vikas went to meet her and took the woman to Rohtak on the pretext of taking her to see a local lake. They both give her a drink that made her drowsy. She threatened those two men and said that she would inform Police, this made both accused angrier. After this, they both raped her and brutally smashed her with the brick to disfigure her. Police with the help of CCTV footage arrested both of them.

Even a death sentence to the Nirbhya rapist was unable to give the stern message to beasts who still daring to commit such crimes that can fill us with terror.
UT Government Is Going To Introduce Facial Recognition System In Chandigarh Colleges

Chandigarh Government has come with facial recognition system to check the absenteeism of the staff in colleges. The government got strict with the faculty members, administrative staff of government colleges and going to introduce this system. These machines will take the place of the biometric attendance system which scaned only fingerprints of the staff and these new facial recognition machines will scan fingerprints, iris and face.

Why This Facial Recognition System Is Going To Be Installed

UT government has decided that they will introduce the facial recognition attendence system in Government colleges that will help to check the absent staff. The other reason for installing this system in place of biometric attendance system is the complaints of staff members regarding biometric systems. A lot of staff members said that biometric systems failed to accept their thumb impression and they faced problem in marking their attendance. So these new machines would surely help teachers with attendance. The Postgraduate Government College (PGGC), Sector 11, claims to be the first in the city to have installed these machines. According to the College principle, it is for the convenience of teachers.

Some Teachers In Chandigarh Are Against the Decision

Many teachers from Chandigarh colleges are welcoming this decision of UT with appreciation and taking this decision as a good initiative. Some teachers who are against the proxy attendance are also happy that now those teachers will not be able to mark proxy attendance. But there are other teachers according to them this is not at all a good move and they said that it is unfair to sit in the college for five hours just to mark attendance twice after five hour’s duty. They also complained that sometimes teachers get free before time but because of this system, we will not be able to go before time because we have to mark attendance twice after 5 hours of duty.

According to the Sources in government, colleges said the new biometric system is not being implemented to all teachers because there are some physically challenged and visually impaired teachers also. These teachers are exempted from marking attendance on the machines twice.
Know The Reasons Why Cars Are Catching Fire On road In Chandigarh
This summer witnessed the another car fire case in Chandigarh and with this, it has counted to 12 incidents of the car catching fire since April. Till now no one is injured in the incidents but people have to take care because their safety is only in their own hands.

Reasons Of Cars Catching Fire In Chandigarh:
There could be a combination of causes that includes human causes, mechanical causes, and chemical causes and these causes can create a dangerous situation that could be away from your imagination. Whenever you caught in such situation and you find a small car fire then just get out of the car to avoid injuries because a small car fire isn’t going to stay small for long. So don’t bother about your car because your car is insured and the auto manufacturer will fix the potential flaws. There are some reasons why your vehicle is on fire:

According to the Experts, a lot of times the cars “self-combust” when unauthorized mechanics leave connections in the engine loose and they warned car Owner that always take care of these things to avoid such incidents.

They said that delayed servicing of cars could be the another reason behind such fires, as sometimes diesel pipes and rubber tubes develop cracks and that leads to the oil leakage.

These things happen due to electrical short circuits, engine oil leak, and when unauthorized service dealers wash the engine and leave loose connections.

Recent Car Fire Incidents In Chandigarh:

Till now around 12 incidents came in limelight since April but no injuries occurred to the car Owner. Recently two incidents occurred, one incident happened on Sunday when a car parked in Sector 21 caught fire and was gutted within 20 minutes. Another one is on May 11, a car caught fire near Radha Soami Satsang in Sector 78. Nobody was injured. Car servicing at right time and at the right place can prevent the car blaze and protect you from serious injuries. So don’t show laziness towards your car servicing because your leniency can put you people in serious situations.
Chandigarh: Punjab University Accounts Branch Of Administrative Block Gutted By Fire

After fees hike strike in Punjab University, it is again in limelight because of a fire broke out at the Accounts Branch Of administrative block and this fire has destroyed records of account department including salary section, service books, payment grants, and a major part of the budget section.

How The Accounts Branch Gutted By Fire

The authorities and the Fire Department are yet to ascertain the exact cause of the fire. Authorities of Punjab University said there was severe power fluctuation and also there was a power outage at around 4 pm. At around 4:30 pm, the employees left their respective offices as there was no power. Some appliances may thus have been left switched on, which caused a short-circuit at night, so officials said that short circuit in electric wires could be the reason of fire.

How The Situation Got Under Control:

This fire broke out at around 2:45 AM and unfortunately fire alarms were not working. But some students noticed that smoke is coming out from the first floor and without wasting a minute they informed security about the fire. Officials said that hydraulic system installed in the building only functioned for 10 minutes because there was no power back system in the place. When Chief Security Officer got the information he called Fire Station and around 3.15 am in the morning fire engines sent to the spot. It took eight fire engines three hours to put out the fire. However, the fire engines stayed on till 1 pm and kept sprinkling water on the burning debris.

Wake Up Call For Administration:

According to the officials, they were not ready for such situation and their preparation to control such situation was not proper. They were not conducting the periodical checks and that was the reason that they were unaware that the fire alarms were not working. But now officials said that this is the wake-up call and to avoid any big incident because of the lack preparation they need to assess every building and they will also prepare them to tackle such situation.
Chandigarh is Going To Get Smart Parking Soon
City beautiful is going to get smart parking soon and Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh already started technical bids for this project. After one year of delaying finally this project shifts a gear. In Chandigarh number of vehicle increasing tremendously and due to this residents are facing many problems like People are unable to get a parking space in a parking lot and due to this parking attendants are charging more from the people. But now administration came up with a solution of smart parking.

Smart parking project includes:
- This project will include 25 paid parking lots and one multi-level parking in Sector 17. This is the part that will be turned into smart parking lots under the project.
- In this smart parking project, there will be the Android platform that will provide information about parking to the public and also provide real-time data access.
- Pass system based smart card will be there and you will get facilities to recharge the cards at every parking lot and monthly smart-parking cards system is also included in the smart parking project.
- There will be no manual ticketing in any circumstance. Boom barriers will be preferred in the new parking lots.
- In smart parking system advertisements will be allowed only on one side of the smart card and behind the parking slips issued by the new contractor.
- The contractor will ensure that smart parking solution should functional in next one month otherwise 1000 Rs penalty would be charged.
What about charges:

According to the parking project rates of the smart parking are proposed on an hourly basis for two-wheelers, four-wheelers, commercial vehicles, heavy vehicles, etc. According to the proposal, the charges for this ongoing financial year for a two-wheeler will start from Rs 5 and go up to Rs 25 and for a four-wheeler, it will be from Rs 10 to Rs 50. But these rates will not be same for next year it will be enhanced for next year. MC said that they want to provide best facilities to the residents that are the reason they are working on this project.