Wrong number
The Chandigarh Police have recently been entitled to an additional Rs 500 in their salaries. The allowance comes in the name of cellphone reimbursement. But the beneficiaries aren’t amused. As one of them was heard, saying, “The proposal was to provide us with new cellphones as well as reimburse the monthly bills.” It is evidently not important for them that there is an increase of Rs 500. After all, who does not have a mobile set these days?

Slow work
The UT guest house’s renovation is going on at a snail’s pace. It is in stark contrast to the work being undertaken at the Raj Bhawan. Both the complexes exist cheek by jowl but there is a stark difference in the attitude of the Administration, which seems to be overly efficient in completing the works at the Raj Bhawan, but is dragging its feet on the guest house. Does efficiency have to do something with the status of the occupants in both these places?

Westwards ho!
We thought Chandigarh was the trendsetter when it comes to urban planning in India. But a group of councillors of the Municipal Corporation are looking for inspiration westwards. They have gone on a ‘study tour’ to Gujarat to examine the sanitation system in the cities there. Their enthusiasm is brimming to such an extent that one of them talked to great extent about his keenness to collect information on Gujarat’s beaches. Do we suspect that after the windmill our beloved Sukhna is in for another weird and inappropriate ‘value addition’? We hope not.

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