SPORT

Anjali, Gagandeep win carrom titles
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, July 17 — Anjali Negi and Gagandeep won the women's and men's singles titles, respectively, in the Raj Kumar Babuta Memorial Carrom Ranking Tournament which concluded here past evening in St Stephen's School, Sector 45. The three-day tournament was organised by the Chandigarh Carrom Association. Mr R.P. Malik, Director of the Seed Certification Agency of Haryana gave away the prizes.

In the women's final, Anjali had a tough match against Saroj Chandel. Anjali won the first game, 25-22, while Saroj won the second, 25-08. In the third and final game, both played well, but Anjali won, 25-22.

In the men's final, fancied Tejinder Harry could not dominate Gagandeep who won the title, 12-25, 25-11, 25-17.

Rankings as on July 16 announced by the CCA: Men's singles — Gagandeep 1, Tejinder Harry 2, Ramanpreet Pahwa 3, Sanjay Negi 4, Paramdeep 5, Ajay Gupta 6, Dhruva 7, Jagdish Dhir 8, Mukesh Piplani 9.

Women's singles — Anjali Negi 1, Saroj Chandel 2, Veena Dumra 3, Shikha Nanda 4, Inder Kanta 5.

Results: Women's singles final — Anjali Negi b Saroj Chandel, 25-22, 08-25, 25-22; semi-finals — Anjali b Shikha Nanda, 25-10, 25-03; Saroj Chandel b Veena Dumra, 25-10, 25-09; quarterfinals — Anjali b Anita; Shikha b Raj Lakshmi; Veena Dumra b Anita Sharma; Saroj b Nidhi Patwal.

Men's final — Gagandeep b Tejinder Harry, 12-25, 25-11, 25-17; semi-finals — Gagandeep b Ramanpreet, 15-25, 25-20, 25-22; Tejinder Harry b Sanjay Negi, 23-25, 25-11, 25-12; quarterfinals — Gagandeep b Ajay Gupta; Ramanpreet Pahwa b J.R. Dhir; Sanjay Negi b Dhruva; Tejinder Harry b Paramdeep.

Shikha, Harish top paddlers
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, July 17 — Shikha Sharma in the women's section and Harish Kumar of AG (Haryana) in the men's section, emerged winners in the sixth Bhawan Hawk's Table Tennis Tournament which concluded past evening in the Sector 23 hall. The three-day tournament was organised by the Sector 27 Bhavan Vidyalaya. Ms Meenakshi Mohindra, Principal of the school, had made the tournament open to players of all age groups a few years ago.

In the women's final, Shikha beat Ruchi Pandoh of Oriental Insurance Corporation of India in straight games, 21-13, 23-21, 21-12. The third place went to young Nadia Saini of DAV Public School, Sector 8, who beat Anuradha Bansal of Government College for Girls, Sector 11, 21-19, 21-17.

In the men's final, Harish Kumar beat a former student of Bhavan Vidyalaya, Harpreet Singh, in straight games, 21-10, 21-12, 21-18. Dheeraj Arora of the Reserve Bank of India won the third place after beating Anoop KC, 21-11, 21-11.

The other results are as follows: Men's semi-finals — Harish Kumar (AG Audit, Haryana) b Dheeraj Arora, 15-21, 21-13, 21-8, 21-17; Harpreet Singh b Anoop KC, 19-21, 21-18, 21-17, 15-21, 21-14.

Women's semi-finals: Shikha Sharma b Nadia Saini, 21-10, 21-11, 21-18; Ruchi Pandoh b Anuradha Bansal, 21-10, 21-13, 24-22.

No SAI scheme for u-14 kids
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, July 17 — The Sports Authority of India, which has a number of schemes for young players, does not have any such scheme for the children below 14 years.

Dr P.C. Kashyap, Director In-charge, Northern Centre, admitted that the age of 14 years was a conflicting age since any player would be in class IX or X, which was crucial for his or her career.

The northern centre had NSTC centre at Shivalik Public School, SAS Nagar. The young players from far-off states used to practise and had outperformed others. The Sports Training Centre, Sector 18, which was earlier covered under hostel scheme, also had more than the present number of sport disciplines. But gradually, at both the places, the disciplines were reduced, but no addition was made at other centres.

The past one year has witnessed a number of changes, with more schemes planned and concrete decisions not made. The trials for new centres in NSTC scheme were conducted at DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8 in athletics, football, volleyball, hockey, rowing and gymnastics. Four boys’ centres in athletics, volleyball, football and hockey will be shifted from Shivalik Public School to DAV School. The trials at STC, Sector 18, in hockey, basketball, athletics and volleyball were held for girls.

But after a long wait, the approval for STC, came from corporate office. On the other hand, DAV school, which was hopeful of having all the centres and the management, was conveyed the decision to spare residential facility for these players. Day boarding scheme in football would be given to them and Shivalik School would get volleyball and hockey. Though in order to have check on SAI, SPS had made plans to start hockey academy at SPS, for which they held trials sometime back. At present, no formal letter of any such decision has been received by either of these schools.

For trials centre of excellence for women’s hockey, 90 per cent girls were from this region. The selectors were not happy with the turn-out and they decided to persuade the STC, Sector 18, eves to appear for the trials on the second day. They were forced to go since it was conveyed to them that the Indian Women Hockey Federation might not consider them for any national camp in the future and only COE trainees would be taken into account.

What is worrying the trainees and experts is that no renowned hockey coach for such centre of excellence has been appointed. The coach appointed at present has not given results to the satisfaction of the authorities. The badly damaged hockey turf is on the verge of replacement by the UT Administration. It may not be laid till October. The Sports Hostel in Sector 42 will also house 24 football trainees of the Chandigarh Football Academy, going to start in August.

The STC in Sector 18 is producing good results. In the light of the COE coming up, the STC may become an obsolete centre. The sports sciences centre, to be operational from August 15, may have only fitness centre as more than Rs 5 crore will be required to make it a complete centre, which may not be possible at the present juncture. 

ADMINISTRATION

CTCC's memo of demands to Jacob
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, July 17 — A deputation of the Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee led by its President, Mr B.B. Bahl, met the Administrator of Chandigarh, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd), today and submitted to him a detailed memorandum containing various demands of the residents of the city.

According to a press note issued by the CTCC, the deputation demanded a special housing scheme for middle and upper middle class urban families, permission for need-based changes in the dwelling units of the chandigarh Housing Board, permission to transfer board dwelling units to third parties and simplification of the procedure for conversion of leasehold property to freehold property.

The deputation also demanded extension of the Apartment Act to Chandigarh, setting up of a committee of experts to suggest amendments to the building byelaws, reduction in the rate of land allotted to cooperative house building societies from Rs 2,500 per sq yd to Rs 750 per sq yd, extension of lal dora in all villages of the union territory, treating employees of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation as deputationists from the Chandigarh Administration, grant of better pay scales for ad hoc teachers and early payment of bonus to employees.

The deputation wanted removal of anomalies in pay scales of employees, revision in award for land being acquired by the Chandigarh Administration and elections to the market committees.

The deputation also wanted the Administrator to convey to the prime Minister the party's concern over the manner in which the situation in Jammu and Kashmir had been handled by the NDA government. The CTCC wanted that an agreement between Sheikh Abdullah and Indira gandhi in 1975 should be honoured.

MCC schemes reviewed
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, July 17 — Various development works undertaken by the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC) during the the April-June quarter were reviewed at a meeting of the Finance and Contract Committee (F&CC) here today.

It was informed at the meeting that the MCC had received a grant of Rs 48 crore from the Chandigarh Administration on the non-plan expenditure side as against Rs 100 crore approved in the Budget estimates. Similarly, on the planned side, Rs 20.6 crore was received as against the approved Rs 57.17 crore.

Taking up the progress of different wings of the corporation, it was informed that Rs 97 lakh was received as grant for the sanitation and mechanical transporation of garbage as against the approved estimate of Rs 4.23 crore. Similarly, Rs 90 lakh was received for the modernisation of the slaughter house as against Rs 1.28 crore approved by the civic body.

The Fire Department got Rs 1.05 crore against the approved estimate of Rs 4.50 crore and the public health Rs 8.55 crore against the approved estimate of Rs 19.20 crore. The B&R got Rs 5.4 crore against the approved estimate of Rs 10 crore. The meeting was informed that the electricity wing was sanctioned Rs 35 lakh while the approved amount was Rs 1.25 crore.

While the civil works got Rs 15 lakh as against the approved estimate of Rs 50 lakh, the landscaping works got Rs 60 lakh as against the approved estimate of Rs 2 crore.

Meanwhile, a member of the F&CC, Mr O.P. Goyal, who did not attend the meeting, demanded that the Budget should have been reviewed at the meeting of the corporation as it had been passed by the House of the civic body.