SPORT

Handball team leaves for Noida
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH June 26 — The Chandigarh women senior handball team, which has qualified for the eight-team Federation Cup handball tournament, going to begin at Noida in Uttar Pradesh from June 27, was fit and players hope to perform well in the said tournament.

These views were expressed by Mr Rahul Talwar, secretary of the Chandigarh Handball Association. The UT team left today for the above meet where teams from Punjab, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh would also take part. The 16-member team was selected after trials held last week. They are, Asha, Pinki, Suneena, Sushma, Santosh, Naresh Rani, Renu Thakur, Karamjit Kaur I, Gurpreet, Mandeep, Monika,Vishwas, Kamini Gautam, Karamjit Kaur II, Kiranjit Kaur and Gurinder Kaur.

UT trials

The trials to select the UT men’s and women’s taekwondo teams for participation in the Taekwondo Federation Cup, to be held at Mumbai next month, will be held on June 28 at Mansa Devi Complex. The interested may contact Mr Vishnu K Sharma ,GB/6, Rail Vihar, Sector 4, Mansa Devi Complex, on June 28 at 9 a.m.

Kinshuk, Ashutosh move up
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH June 26 — Kinshuk Sharma and Ashutosh Chandel moved up in the under-12 section on the opening day of the second PD Vashisht memorial total tennis championships here today at Lake Club courts, Sector 6. Earlier, the week-long meet was declared open by Mr AK Madan, Territory Manager, Bharat Petroleum, Chandigarh.

The championship received more than 200 entries especially in young age groups. The meet is being held in the memory of a former Punjab IAS officer, PD Vashist. The matches were held today in boys under-10, under-12, under-14 and under-18 sections and in under-12 section for girls.

The results are: boys under-10 — Mehtab Cheema b Chetnya Verma 6-5 (9-7); Amit Chouhan b Mrinal Sharma 6-1; Arjun Sehgal w/o Ayush Chandel; Anant Vidur b Gurmohit Singh 6-3; Tanveer Sandhu b Akshat Joshi 6-4; boys-under 12: first round — Navjot Singh b Kultaj Kalika 6-2; Harkanwal Preet b Brijdeep Singh 6-0; Chandril Sood w/o Abhinav Singla; second round — Kinshuk Sharma b Ankur 6-0; Ashutosh Chandel b Divjot Singh 6-3; Chandril Sood b Sameer Sharma 6-3; Varun Chandra b Mehtab Cheema 6-3; Karan Singh b Mrinal Sharma 6-5(7-5); Chetanya Verma w/o Anshul Kadian; Lakshit Sood b Gaurvind Toor 6-3; Jay Vinod b Amit Chauhan 6-1; Bakul Khera b Arjun Sehgal 6-1; Raj Kanwar b Andrew H Roy 6-2; NP Singh b Master Sandhu 6-3; Varun Garg b Navjot Singh 6-4; Pranav b Shekhar Kapoor 6-2; Harkamal b Amanpreet 6-1; Viraj Gandhi b Sandeep Chaudhary 6-5(7-5); Shiva Sangwan b Deepinder Singh 6-2; boys-under 14: first round — P. Sandhu b Vipul Sehrawat 6-0; Dilpreet Singh b Gurakh Sharma 6-1; Sahib Singh w/o Amandeep Singh; Anshul Garg b Sahil Mangla 6-0; Tejinder Singh w/o Karan Singh; Bakul Khera b Simranjeet 6-4; Kinshuk Sharma b Navjot Singh 6-1; Sandeep Chaudhary b Nimit Gupta 6-0; girls under 12 — first round—Shaleen Chandra b Harmanpreet Kaur 6-0; Taskeen Bains b Ankita Singh 6-0; Ujala Joshi b Anchal Sharma 6-2; Prabhmandeep w/o Chandani Thakur .

ADMINISTRATION

MC takes charge of sanitation in Sectors 70, 71
Tribune News Service

SAS NAGAR June 26 — In a significant development, the sanitation of Sectors 70 and 71 was today taken over by the local Municipal Council.

The sanitation of the two new sectors, being developed by Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA), was in a state of sheer neglect as there was no sanitation staff with the authority. In fact, residents of the two sectors had been complaining about heaps of garbage scattered all around in the absence of garbage bins. Being populated sectors, the non-removal of garbage has become an eyesore for the residents.

The green signal to hand over the sanitation of the two sectors

was taken recently at a meeting between the Chief Administrator of the PUDA and the Administrator of the local Municipal Council. The Administrator of the council said 30 daily-wagers, engaged recently the council, were today sent to Sectors 70 and 71 to start the sanitation drive. Sources in PUDA said sanitation of Sector 71 had been handed over to private hands on more than two occasions for limited periods in the past, but the experiment was not successful.

The council also decided to take over the maintenance of street-lighting and roads in Sector 71 from PUDA. An official of the council said other essential services like water, sewerage, storm water drainage and horticulture were not being transferred to the council as there were certain problems. The council had not evinced interest in taking over essential services of Sector 71 as these were under development.

MC panel against stalls in open spaces
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH June 26—The Finance and Contract Committee of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh(MCC) today recommended that no stalls should be allowed to be put up in the open spaces near Sector 17 Plaza and the Sector 22 market during the festivals like Divali and Dasehra.

This was recommended at a meeting of the committee in view of the overcrowding and probability of some untoward incident in the prime commercial locations. However, members were of the view that Circus Ground in Sector 17, Nehru Park in Sector 22 and Exhibition Ground in Sector 34 should be earmarked for putting up stalls on special festive occasions. The recommendation would come for approval at one of the meetings of the House in coming days.

The committee okayed the rates recommended by the tender committee for the fabrication of three newly-purchased water tenders and one emergency multi-purpose tender in addition to the estimates for re-fabrication of the two water tenders. An amount of Rs 22 lakh would be spent on strengthening the machinery.

An estimate of Rs 2.6 lakh to upgrade the existing EPBAX system installed at the civic body building in Sector 17 here was also approved. With the provision of voice mail system, the telephonic communication will now become fully automatic and no operator will be required to monitor the incoming calls.

The proposal for auctioning the carcasses from the municipal limit, including Mani Majra and four villages of Burail, Buterla, Badheri and Attawa, was also approved.

Councillors wasting public money: SP
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH June 26—The Samajwadi Party (SP) has alleged that the councillors of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC) were not devoting time for the development of the wards and redressal of the public grievances.

The president of the local unit of the party, Mr Shivi Jaiswal, alleged here today that the Congress and the BJP were fighting for their egos thus wasting public money and time in the process.

During its fortnight-long jan andolan, which concluded yesterday, the party observed that the condition of roads, streetlights, water supply and electricity was bad. He also demanded that the rehabilitation process for the colonies should be expedited and new colonies on the government land should not be allowed.

6 Excise Commissioners transferred
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, June 26 — Mr Inder Raj Soni, Commissioner, Central Excise, Chandigarh Commissionerate-II, will replace Mr S.S. Jha, Commissioner, Chandigarh Commissionerate-I, Amritsar will have new Commissioner, Customs.

According to a reshuffle ordered by the Union Government today, Mr Inder Raj Soni will move from Chandigarh Commissionerate-II to I while his place will be taken by Mr H.L. Verma, who earlier was here as Commissioner (Appeals).

Mr S.S. Jha will go to Calcutta as Commissioner, Customs.

Mr G.S. Narang will replace Mr H.L. Verma as Commissioner (Appeals) here.

Mr V.K. Sharma, Competent Authority, Chennai, will be the new Commissioner, Customs at Amritsar. He will replace Mr D.S. Sra who becomes Commissioner, Central Excise at Pune.