Chandigarh, Aug. 31 -- Even as 30 years have passed since former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh was assassinated, the convention centre coming up in his memory at Sector 42, Chandigarh, is still a work in progress.

The former CM was killed in a suicide bombing at the secretariat complex in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995, during peak militancy years.

Work on the convention centre began four years later, in 1999.

Spread across 14 acres, the project is a joint venture of the Punjab government and the Chandigarh administration, managed by the Beant Singh Memorial Society. The Punjab governor and UT administrator heads the governing council while the Punjab chief minister and the advisor to the administrator are among the members. So far,...