Chandigarh, July 27: The Member of Parliament from the Union Territory of Chandigarh and Former Union Minister Manish Tewari had met the Hon’ble Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh Shri Gulab Chand Kataria on 3rd of July 2025 to once again impress upon him to resolve the five outstanding issues of Chandigarh namely (a) Share-wise sale of Property, (b) Need based changes in Chandigarh Housing Board residential dwellings (c) Ownership rights to people living in Relief and Rehabilitation Colonies, (d) abolition of Lal Dora in 22 urban villages of Chandigarh, (e) Amalgamated Problems of Cooperative group housing societies in the Southern Sectors of Chandigarh.
At the instance of the Hon’ble Governor Manish Tewari wrote to him again on 8th July 2025 on all these five issues. The said letters exhaustively detailed the problem and the corresponding solution to each of these outstanding issues that have been hanging fire now in case of certain issues going back two and a half decades (Copies of the said letters attached to this press release).
Mr Tewari has earlier also on numerous occasions taken up these issues with the Hon’ble Governor of Punjab and his predecessor Sh Banwari Lal Purohit both in personal meetings and through regular correspondence in this regard.
It would be worth mentioning that Mr. Tewari has taken up all these five issues through Parliamentary Questions, Special Mentions and Zero Hour interventions in the Lok Sabha over the past thirteen odd months.
Mr Tewari has also taken up these five issues with the Prime Minister and Home Minister of the Union of India .
Mr Tewari urged upon the Governor that five separate Empowered Group of Officials with representation of Stakeholders in each group must be immediately set up without any further delay to resolve these five outstanding issues with dispatch because all of them pertain to the governance sphere of the Chandigarh Administration.
Once again I would like to impress upon the Administrator of Chandigarh that the lives of the residents of Chandigarh is ‘sheer hell’ for the lack of a better metaphor because of the non resolution of these problems
