Chandigarh, April 29 -- Six years after the plan was approved, the UT administration is finally set to begin work on the auditorium block and convention centre at Beant Singh Memorial Centre in Sector 42.

In a meeting chaired by Chandigarh chief secretary Rajiv Verma on Monday, the urban planning department submitted the drawings for the proposed convention centre. Officials said the work is expected to commence within the next two months.

The memorial was built in memory of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, who was assassinated in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995. Though work on the project began in 1999, it faced multiple delays due to financial constraints and other reasons, and remains a work in progress.

In 2019, the UT admin...