C H A N D I G A R H

Octroi collection to go in private hands
SAS NAGAR, July 19 — The system of octroi collection in this town will pass to private hands once again from next month. A decision in this regard has been taken by the SAS Nagar Municipal Council following an option given by the Punjab Government to privatise octroi collection.

COMMUNITY

Media ignoring rural areas: Jacob
CHANDIGARH, July 19 — The media needs to widen its reporting network in the villages to highlight the problems of the rural population, said the Punjab Governor and UT Administrator, Lieut-Gen J.F.R Jacob (retd) while presiding over a function to mark the 20th foundation day of the Chandigarh Press Club, here today.

Schools caught in traffic jams
CHANDIGARH, July 19 — The increasing traffic jams outside the city schools are causing a lot of problems not only to parents and students but also to general commuters.

IYC wants Bajrang Dal, VHP banned
SAS NAGAR, July 19 — The Indian Youth Congress has demanded a ban on the Vishva Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal as it felt that the two bodies were using all means to tear the country apart.

Aid for kids of Kargil martyrs
CHANDIGARH, July 19 — The Haryana State Council for Child Welfare will provide financial aid of Rs 75 per month to the schoolgoing children of the Kargil martyrs. This was decided by the executive committee at the annual general meeting of the council here today. This assistance will be initially given for three years.

Rain water enters schools
DERA BASSI, July 19 — The continuous downpour for the past three days affected teaching work, besides damaging property in the subdivision, as rain water entered the school premises.

CRIME

Arrested for carrying gun
CHANDIGARH, July 19 — The police has arrested a Mohali resident on charges of carrying a gun without permission. According to police sources, Rajinder Singh, a resident of phase VI, was arrested from the Sector 52-61 dividing road and the gun and seven cartridges were recovered from his possession. A case under Section 188, IPC, and Section 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act has been registered.

Petrol station challaned
CHANDIGARH, July 19 — A team of the local Weights and Measures Department, during a raid last evening, challaned a petrol station in Sector 35 for short-measuring diesel and a milk booth outlet in Industrial Area, Phase I, for selling a Verka milk packet that did not mention the date of packing or the rate.

BUSINESS

Rs 360 crore for urban slums
CHANDIGARH, July 19 — An amount of Rs 360 crore for National Slum Development Programme for urban areas has been sanctioned for this financial year and the Planning Commission has been asked to increase it to Rs 1000 crore, said Mr Bandaru Dattatraya, Urban Minister of State for Urban Development, while informally talking to the mediapersons at the Punjab Bhavan here today.

EDUCATION

Admissions to BE, B.Arch (general)
CHANDIGARH, July 19 — Joint admission to the BE and B. Arch courses in the general category started at Panjab University today. Twentythree seats from both general and UT pools were filled in the computer science and engineering streams of the PEC with the last rank going down to 70 in the general pool and 230 in the UT pool.

Increase in number of admission seekers
CHANDIGARH, July 19 — There has been an increase in the number of students taking admission to the senior secondary classes (10 plus one and two) in schools run by the UT education department.

PU professor made university assessor
CHANDIGARH, July 19 — Dr B.B. Goel, Professor of public administration of the Department of Correspon-dence Studies in Panjab University, who participated in a three-day programme organised by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council in Bangalore (an autonomous body of the UGC), has been included in the National Cadre of Assessors on Quality Education.

From Bangalore to Wales, they made it big
CHANDIGARH, July 19 — The past one year has brought a host of accomplishments to them. But then it would be unfair to attribute all their success to favourable placement of stars. 

COURTS

Notice on Ranjit's bail application
CHANDIGARH, July 19 — On a petition filed by Ranjit Bajaj, a son of a senior Punjab IAS officer, for grant of bail in a kidnapping and criminal intimidation case, Mr Justice N.C. Khichi of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued notice to the UT public prosecutor for July 31.

CULTURE

A voice of gloom and courage
It was in May, 1975, that I first met the moody minstrel who used to frequent Yadvindra Garden, popularly known as Pinjore Garden. It was raining heavily. From the lane connecting the main bazar of the town with the garden appeared a dishevelled man clad in a shirt and a black lungi with a frayed blanket flung across his drooping shoulders singing his heart away — Chale ja o rahi, chale ja o rahi, mujhe dekhne de khud apni tabahi ( March on o pilgrim, march on... Let me be a witness to my own doom).

HEALTH

They, too, have the right to be happy
CHANDIGARH, July 19 — Countdown to the new millennium is already mid-way. The nation is all set to commence forth with a new, modern and westernised outlook towards different aspects of life. 

Drink less for longevity
CHANDIGARH, July 19 — Patients with serious liver disease who come to any referral hospital suffer mostly from cirrhosis. Nearly 15 per cent of the patients, who come to the liver clinic of the PGI, report with complications of portal hypertension.

Training for medical officers
CHANDIGARH, July 19 — The Chandigarh Administration under the aegis of the National Institute of Health and family Welfare, New Delhi, has organised integrated skill-based training for the medical officers at the Sector 16 General Hospital.

SPORT

Train players at right age: coach
CHANDIGARH, July 19 — "Players should be trained in such a way that they remain serious even after getting a job," said Syed Mustafa, a senior coach participating in the national juniors' handball camp in the Sector 8 DAV Senior Secondary School here. 

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