Jalandhar:
- The Jawahar Garden gets a new look to welcome residents of Jalandhar Cantt & City to the Garden & Flower Show 2022. Greenery and the flowers in bloom attract a large number of anthophiles to the Jalandhar Cantt – the Heart and Lungs of the City. This flower show is being organized for the last 79 years.
- The Annual Flower Show was inaugurated by Mrs Rani Sharma, Zonal President Vajra AWWA in the august presence of Lieutenant General Devendra Sharma, General Officer Commanding, Vajra Corps and other dignitaries. Mrs Rani Sharma, the Chief Guest interacted with the school children who participated in on-the-spot rangoli and painting competition and complimented the young participants. The Chief Guest appreciated the whole hearted participation of citizens from Jalandhar Cantt and surrounding areas.
- Later in the evening Mr Jyoti Kumar, CEO Cantt Board welcomed the participants to the prize distribution ceremony. Major General Sanjay Maini, Chief of Staff, Vajra Corps gave away the prizes to the individual winners, rolling trophies for best maintained institutional garden, best maintained round-abouts, best maintained private garden, best arboricultural project and many more.
- Brigadier Sanjog Negi, President Cantonment Board lauded the enthusiastic participation of citizens of Jalandhar and appreciated the efforts of Indian Army in providing a clean and healthy environment. He also lauded the efforts of Cantt Board in conduct of the event and thanked all army units in Jalandhar Cantt for their whole hearted support in making the event a success. He also thanked the judges for their voluntary contribution to judge the event spread over five days.