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Fifty participate
in workshop CHANDIGARH,
As many as 50 participants took part in the workshop which dealt with various aspects of blood donation, motivation and safe blood. It was organised
with a view to motivating the child welfare workers who in turn will create awareness about safe voluntary blood donation. Participants gave an assurance that in the near future they will associate themselves with the noble cause by organising blood donation camps. |
24 boys selected for
football academy CHANDIGARH, Maximum number of 11 boys were selected from Khokhar Faujian village of Gurdaspur district. There was a lone boy from city in the final list. Surprisingly, out of the 10 called from Mahilpur (Hoshiarpur), hub of football activity, no boy could make it. Similarly out of three from Ambala none was in the final list. Four boys were selected from Yamunanagar. Today orthopaedics surgeon, Dr Shard Indu and Dr Jasmer Singh,
Junior Scientific Officer, from NIS, Patiala, did the evaluation of the candidates. Finally, points given by them were counted. The coaches deputed for trials included Harjinder Singh, Dinesh Kumar (both football), Sarabjit Singh, Iqbal Singh and Shiv Joshi (all athletics). Harjinder Singh, a reputed football player and the coach attached with new academy, said the boys were in a very good physical shape. Mr JPS Sidhu, Joint Director, Sports, UT, said the boys would be put most probably in Government Model Middle School in Sector 42 just opposite the sport complex, Sector 42. He said another 11 were in the waiting list in order of priority in the event of anyone dropping from the first 24. The boys selected are: Vinay, Sarbjit Singh, Gulshan Kumar, Talwinder Singh, Vikram Masih, Pawan Kumar, Gurvinder Singh, Jaspal Singh, Randip Singh, Amritpal Singh, Amandeep Singh (all Khokhar Faujian — Gurdaspur), Karanvir Singh (Adliwal-Amritsar), Tejinder Pal Singh (Sarhala Khurd-Hoshiarpur), Rakesh Kumar, Pardeep Kumar, Anuj & Kunal Singh (all Yamunanagar), Manoj Kumar, Aakib Javed (both Dharamsala), Sukhwinder Singh & Nazakat Nali (Rurka Kalan, Jalandhar), Gurjot Singh (Baba Bakala-Asr), Vikramjit Singh (Kapurthala), Amit Negi (Chandigarh). Carrom tournament: Besides the ranking points, the following will be awarded to the
winners: men singles: winner—Rs 2500, runner-up — Rs 1500, third — Rs 1000. women singles: winner — Rs 1100, runner-up — Rs 750, third — Rs 500. It has also been decided that Rs 150 per slam will be awarded to the player who scores a slam (white/black) in the tournament. The last date of entries with Mr Suraj Kohli , 2047/1, Sector 45-C, Chandigarh ( Phone-663434) is July 13 at 5 pm.
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NSTC scheme of SAI to be modified CHANDIGARH, This was conveyed by Dr P.C. Kashyap, Director in charge of the Northern centre, SAI, here while talking to newspersons. A few months ago the trials were conducted for DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, in six disciplines — athletics, football, hockey, volleyball, gymnastics and rowing. However, the corporate sector has given proposal for only day boarding scheme in football at DAV School, while Shivalik Public School, where the decision to do away with all centres was taken, will now have hockey and volleyball under this scheme. Dr Kashyap said that this year, instead of the old practice of Rs 20000/- as grant for maintenance and infrastructure, this will be hiked to Rs 5 lakh for existing centres and Rs 10 lakh for new centres as approved by the Union Minister of Sports, Mr S.S. Dhindsa. The new centres were being opened at Badal (Punjab), Mastuana Sahib (Sangrur) in girls and boys section in different sports. At Mastuana Sahib they will have 400 x 400 metre new track also. Recently at Dashmesh Academy of Martial Arts, Anandpur Sahib, trials were conducted in as fencing, boxing, judo, wrestling. Mr Kashyap also said that in Haryana, two new akharas in Jind and Rohtak district will be opened, while four in Punjab at Dara Studio, SAS Nagar, Baba Farid (Faridkot), Sursi (Amritsar) and Gole Bagh (Amritsar). CRZ Sonepat will have wrestling and athletics, while Nehru Garden School, Jalandhar, will have athletics and hockey. The Motilal Nehru School of Sports, Rai (Sonepat) will be revived and here better facilities will be created. He also said that they had got the approval from the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, for starting the national physical fitness programme for 8 to 18 years in order to involve every child in the school, which was the crux of the physical activity. He said Rs 2 lakh annually will be spent and the programme will begin from October this year. Mr Kashyap also described the importance of code of ethics. The weekly training programme of trainees and the coaches monitoring will be judged through the same. He said though the sports science centre was to be completed by August 15 this year as deadline given by him, but in the initial phase only items which could be purchased at Rs 25 lakh sanctioned will be installed. He said the total budget of Rs 5 crore or more for full-fledged sciences centre will be borne by the SAI. On July 8, the Union Sports Minister had said at Chandigarh that 400 employees of SAI will be dispensed with and in future the coaches will be taken on contract basis. Mr Kashyap said that the target was to cut on establishment costs. But one of the sports official on condition of anonymity said that the sports sciences centre will actually be a fitness centre. When questioned about the recent allegation by the UT Sports Department that SAI owes arrears for the consumption of electricity and water charges, he replied that when the amount will be told the payment will be made. On the other day, UT officials had told that they will be shifting to the Sector 42 sports complex. Mr Kashyap said that as desired by the Union Sports Minister, the land in SAS Nagar may be allotted to SAI for making it a regional centre having all facilities. He said the centre of excellence in women hockey would be having trials on July 13 and 14. When asked about the decision of the Director-General, SAI, Mr D.K. Mittal, to have all centres of excellence in joint venture with corporate sector, Mr Kashyap said he tried but could not get any positive feedback. |
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Contest, magic show on World Population Day CHANDIGARH, In the morning with clouds hovering in the sky, nearly 1,000 participants, mainly children, drawn from various schools, including sports trainees at different centres, gathered at the SAI Training Centre, located inside Government Girls Senior Secondary School, 18. The students from slum areas including Secor 25, Ram Darbar, Bapu Dham Colony, Indira Colony, also formed part of the event. A magic show and a natak were organised by the UT Administration, conveying the need of a small family in new millennium. In the slogan writing contest, top three winners were given Rs 1000, Rs750and Rs 500. The youngest participant who won third prize was Anamika Goel, a class V student of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 35, who wrote ‘Yadi Jansankhya Kam ho jai, tabhi sara jag sukhi ho pai”. The first prize winner Neha of MCMDAV College, Sector 36, wrote, “Gulshan mein Khilayen ek hi phool, aur karen na age bhool” The second prize winner Poonam, a Class XII student of Government Girls Senior Secondary School Sector 18, Wrote, “Jansankhya hai ek abhishap, door karne ka karo prayas”. The walk and run were confined to the outer part of Sector 18 and it was aimed to spread the message of ‘Small family-happy family’. The participants were also joined by eminent former sportspersons, including Ms Ajinder Kaur, Dr Ajmer Singh and Satish Bhatia and officials of the SAI. Contrary to what was notified, Ms Vineeta Rai, Adviser to the UT Administrator, and other senior UT sports officials were conspicuous by their absence. The children were later given ‘T’ shirts and refreshments. |
Carrying of firearms
banned in city CHANDIGARH,
July 11 — For maintenance of law and order, UT District Magistrate I. M. Ramsekhar today ordered that no person should carry fire arms in Chandigarh. The order will come into force with effect from "zero hour on July 11" and shall be effective up September 8. In his detailed order, the DM observed: "I am of the opinion that some checks should be put on carrying of fire arms in the Union Territory of Chandigarh in the interest of public peace and maintenance of law and order and that immediate action is necessary for preventing the breach of peace and disturbance of public tranquillity". The DM also observed: "It has been made to appear to me that some members of public have been seen moving around with small weapons openly tucked-in in the waist-belt for show-off and intimidation and carrying of weapon openly by the licence holders has created panic in the public". |
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ZP member quits PANCHKULA,
Meanwhile, Ms Vijay Lakshmi has assumed charge as Secretary of the Red Cross Society of the district. |
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Alipur residents
meet DC PANCHKULA,
A member of the Block Samiti, Mr Kuldip Singh, said that the HSIDC had acquired 103 kilas for the industrial area from the villagers. However, now they had constructed a wall to enclose the acquired area which had blocked their passage to the village. Also, the construction of the wall had caused the problem of water logging and disposal of sewerage. Acting on the complaint, Mr Monga immediately called a meeting of the officials concerned and discussed the problem of the villagers. Sources added that the matter has been taken up by the department concerned on a priority basis.
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Hi-tech facilities at Western Command HQ CHANDIGARH, Under the present set-up, the offices of the Army Commander and the Chief of Staff have been linked with select Major-Generals posted in Chandi Mandir. This network is expected to be expanded in due course of time to include more top functionaries. The link has also been extended to the Western Command Hospital, where an internal video conferencing link has been set up between the commandant’s office, operation theatre and the conference hall. Work is also on to interlink the hospital video conference network with other hospitals in the forward areas as well as Internet to introduce tele-medicine concept in the Army Medical Corps. This is expected to be completed by the year-end. The interlinking of various departments and wards of the hospital through a local area network (LAN) is underway, for which about 80 computers and associated paraphernalia have been positioned. The server and related software is being installed. |
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