Chandigarh, June 9 -- aashi.shekhar@hindustantimes.com

The Chandigarh Health Education Centre (CHEC) at Government Model High School (GMHS), Sector 22-the country's first of its kind, remains non-functional, two years after it was granted formal approval. With its repeated deferred opening, furniture procurement is now cited as the latest bottleneck.

The project traces its origins to 2017, when Rotary International Chandigarh submitted a proposal for the establishment of CHEC. After the then-UT administrator's approval, two doctors from GMCH Sector 32, nominated by Rotary Club, visited health education centres in the United States and submitted a report recommending a similar facility modelled on the McMillan Centre in the USA.

The pro...