Second Innings Association meet at UT Guest House

Second Innings Association meet at UT Guest House

Varinda Gupta 

Chandigarh 

Second Innings Association (SIA) welcomed the large number of tri-city senior citizens and other dignitaries including the youngsters who came to attend the meeting. President – Sh. R K Garg briefed the audience about the programme and then the Patron Sh. S S Lamba took over and discussed about the solar & photovoltaic energy. The UT administration issued a notification in May 2016 and asked all residents owning houses more than one kanal to fix up the solar panels in their houses within 2 years, last date being 18th May 2018, noncompliance of which will be treated as bye-law violation. Mr. Lamba further explained the difficulties being faced by the residents/owners in fixing the costly solar panels and batteries which will cost anything between 3 lacs to 8 lacs depending upon the size of the house. The administration was urged to rationalise the policy and making it voluntary till the administration is able to put its house in order. There after Mr. D S Oberoi discussed about the health problems of the senior citizens. Professor Bhupinder discussed about the road safety measures. Then President Sh. R K Garg addressed the audience regarding the irregularities of contract entered into Arya Infra Toll and Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh. He pointed out that tender and various paper work was not done diligently and if challenged in the court of law it will fall flat. He also disclosed details of contract entered between Lion Services and Municipal Corporation which is costing Rs. 4 crore a month for cleaning of southern part of Chandigarh by using manual labour and GIS machine. The terms and conditions fishy manner. He also discussed about the property issues faced by senior citizens and invited suggestions to bring quality life to all the aged senior citizens. He also called all the audience to be active in dealing with the problems faced by the residents of tri-city particularly the single old ladies.Thereafter author and motivational speaker Sh. Vivek Atray, IAS (Retd.) addressed the senior citizens and motivated them to lead a better, happy and satisfied life, pointing out the state of society these days. He also discussed the relationship between the young and elder generations and suggested ways and means to achieve cordial relations in the families.The meeting ended with thanks to all the guests and SIA decided to send representation on the above issues to the Chandigarh Administration for necessary resolution.