Rock Garden will soon be illuminated with colorful lights and will be open for the visitors till 9 in the evening, though for a short span of 4 days.
To pay tributes to the creator of Rock Garden Padam Shree Awardee Nek Chand, Chandigarh Administration has decided to observe First Nek Chand Day with a great fervor. The first Nek Chand Day is to be celebrated on the birthday of the belated unique sculptor on Dec 15 by the Society for Maintenance and Development of Rock Garden.
Announcing about the celebrations, Chandigarh Home Secretary Anurag Aggarwal said that the up gradation of Rock Garden has not come to a halt after his death, and the society running the garden and Chandigarh Administration are constantly making efforts to improve this world of dreams of its belated creator.
The third phase of the Rock Garden has been installed with colorful lights and the third phase will be kept opened till 9 during the celebration of Nek Chand Day, which will be lasting 4 days from Dec 12 to Dec 15, 2015.
Advisor to the Administrator Vijay Dev will inaugurate the celebrations with unveiling of sculpture of Nek Chand in the first phase of Rock Garden on Dec 12. A number of cultural activities will be conducted during the celebrations.
Famous Gazal singers Bhupinder and Metali, Punjabi Sufi Singer Manik Ali, and Punjabi Singh Sardul Sikandar will be the performing in the garden during the celebrations.
Divulging details of further development plans for Rock Garden, HS Arurag Aggarwal said that the entire garden will be installed with colorful lights in the coming months. He said that the project is likely to cost 7-8 crores and the tenders will be called shortly for the work.
He said that the art museum, where the accessories of Nek Chand like his cycle, his artefacts etc. would be displayed.