CII DELEGATION CALLS ON ADVISER TO THE
ADMINISTRATOR
National Tele24 News
Vinay Kumar
Chandigarh
CII delegation led by
Mr Sofi Zahoor, Chairman, CII Chandigarh Council, met Mr Manoj Kumar Parida,
Hon’ble Adviser to the Administrator, UT Chandigarh, at UT Secretariat, today,
to discuss how CII could facilitate administration in their various developmental
initiatives. Interacting with the CII delegation, Mr Manoj Kumar Parida highly
appreciated CII’s role in socio economic ecosystem of the region and in
ensuring that the industry and societal balance continues to be vibrant and
value accretive. Considering CII’s recommendation, he said that the idea to
develop Chandigarh as a weekend city is great, owing to the city’s geographical
location. He also emphasised on promoting partnership programmes between the
research and educational institutes in Chandigarh region and industries. He
shared that the city administration’s focus is to develop Chandigarh into a
Green, Smart & Beautiful City. The visit was aimed to further strengthen
CII’s connect with the government and administration in terms of CII Chandigarh’s
objectives for the year 2019 - 20 namely smart city project, tourism, education
& skill development, healthcare, start-ups, entrepreneurial development,
e-mobility, IT & ITeS, ease of doing business and socio-economic
initiatives. CII reaffirmed its complete commitment to Chandigarh
Administration to work together & ensure that Chandigarh becomes the
‘Smartest City’ in India & later on in the world. The delegation
included Mr Sarvjeet Singh Virk, Vice Chairman, CII Chandigarh Council; Mr
Vikram Hans, Past Chairman, CII Chandigarh Council; Mr Man Mohan S Kohli, Past
Chairman, CII Chandigarh Council; Mr Amarbir Singh, Past Chairman, CII
Chandigarh Council; Dr Dinesh Dua, Past Chairman, CII Chandigarh Council and Ms
Navdeep Kaur, Director & Head, CII Chandigarh.
