SPORT

Under-19 soccer camp begins
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Jan 18 — A football camp for the under-19 UT boys began here today at Football Stadium in Sector 17, where out of the 50 players who took the trials, 30 were shortlisted for the camp. The team selected from this camp will take part in the Junior National Football Championship to be held next month.

The players attending the camp are as follows: Bir Singh, Sandeep, Amrinder Singh, Raj Bir Singh, Manjinder Singh, Pushpinder Singh, Suraj, Pardeep Thapa, Harvinder Singh, Govind Thapa, G. Khanna, Imran Khan, Prabhjot, Rawat, Kuljeet, Rajinder, Ravinder, Munish, Soma Nanda, Jugnoo, Deepak, Narinder Awasthy, Vikrant, Ajay Paul, Klarjeet, Manoj, Subhash, Saurabh, Dheeraj and Bunty.

Inter-college yoga: MCM DAV College for Women, Chandigarh, and Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector 36 , Chandigarh, won the Panjab University Inter-College Yoga Championships in the 'A' and 'B' divisions, respectively. In the 'A' division, the Government College for Girls, Sector 11, secured the second position, the PU Campus stood third and the Government College for Girls, Sector 42, finished fourth.

In the individual section of the 'A' division, Sonika of the PU Campus won the gold medal with 160 points, followed by Neena of the Government College for Girls, Sector 42, who got the silver medal with 159 points. Prachi of MCM DAV College for Women, Sector 36, with 158 points, got the bronze medal.

In the 'B' division, the Government College of Education, Sector 20, won the second position. In the individual section of the 'B' division, Dimple of the Government College of Education, Sector 20, and Meena of the Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector 36, were declared joint winners. Nimratpal Kaur, also of Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector 36, secured the silver medal, while Rakhi of the Government College of Education, Sector 20, got the bronze medal.

Poor response: The First Inter-School Sports Meet, which is to be held under the 1998 scheme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India, from tomorrow, evoked a poor response. Only a few teams have confirmed their entries. The Centre will sanction Rs 2 lakh as grant for the tournament. The events chosen for this four-day tournament, conducted for the first time, are athletics, basketball, volleyball, handball and hockey.

The athletics events will take place at Sports Complex in Sector 7. The basketball event received five entries of the boys' teams and four of the girls' teams and will be held at Sports Complex in Sector 46. The volleyball matches will also be held here for which, only four entries each in boys' and girls' sections were received. Handball events will be played at DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, Six boys' and five girls' teams have given their entries for these.

For the hockey matches to be played at the Sector 42 stadium, three boys' four girls' teams have entered their names.

ADMINISTRATION

Poll panel’s order on weapons
Tribune News Service

PANCHKULA, Jan 18 — The Election Commission has issued instructions regarding restrictions on the possession of arms during the forthcoming Assembly election in the state. Exercising the powers conferred on the commission under Article 324, the commission has totally prohibited the issuance of license for arms till the completion of election.

Also, the police has been directed to be vigilant and has been asked to begin mopping operations in sensitive areas. During such operations special, attention should be paid to unearth unlicensed arms and ammunition and carry out arrests where indigenous manufacture of arms and ammunition is on. This exercise, the order stated, should be intensified during the election period.

It added that the District Magistrate shall be required to make list of all license holders so that licensed arms in these cases are impounded in order to ensure the maintenance of law and order. These should be deposited with the district authorities. Also, the order states that cases of persons released on bail, persons with a history of criminal offence and persons previously involved in rioting need to be reviewed.

Prohibitory orders must be passed by the District Magistrate under Section 144 of the CrPC seeking deposit of licenced arms. Also, lorries, light vehicles and other vehicles must be thoroughly checked to ensure that no undesirable elements bring in arms and ammunition in the constituency. The exercise should be carried out till the completion of the counting of votes and declaration of results.

Bonanza for councillors
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Jan 18 — The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC) may be short of funds for undertaking various development works in the city, but when it comes to approving allowances for themselves, the councillors seem second to none.

The meeting of the house yesterday passed a resolution for the grant of telephone allowance to the councillors at the rate of Rs 1,000 per month. The House passed the telephone allowance at the rate of Rs 1,000 from the date of assuming of office of councillors.

This would mean that the 29 members would get the arrears amounting to Rs 37,000 each as they assumed office in December 1996. The MCC will have to shell out Rs 10.73 lakh on the the payment of arrears.

It is a new year bonanza for us, remarked one of the councillors.