HEALTH

PGI Employees’ Union elections on September 21
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Aug 19 — The elections for the eight posts of office-bearers of PGI Employees Union will be held on September 21.A decision to this effect was taken by the executive body and the general body of the union in their meetings recently.

According to a release issued by the union President, Mr Ashwani Munjal, the Chief Electoral Officer and other members of the team will be nominated soon to conduct the elections. The Labour Commissioner, UT and PGI Management will also be required to depute their officials as observers.

All the registered members of the union will be eligible to contest and exercise their franchise. Those who have not taken the membership can get themselves registered to contest and exercise their franchise till the date of filing nominations. However, those who fail to register themselves will not be eligible to either contest or exercise their franchise.

The decision with regard to the date of filing nominations, withdrawal, scrutiny, voting timings, place and symbols will be taken by the Chief Electoral Officer and his team.

Cancer detection camp in Vivek School
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Aug 19 — The Global Cancer Concern India organised a cancer detection camp at Vivek High School here today. The staff members, class IV employees and parents of the children of the school were examined by the doctors present at the camp. As many as 150 people were examined out of which two were detected of oral cancer, one of malignant gall bladder and one of malignant urinary bladder.

The doctors present at the camp were Dr Kuljinder Behgal, an oncologist, Dr Surinder Sodhi, a physician, Dr Annapurna Sodhi, a gynaecologist and Dr (Mrs) Behgal, a surgeon. The visitors were asked to fill a form that contained all the information about the persons including family history, previous illness, operations, habits and the like.

SPORT

SAI, school fight over cager
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Aug 19 — The Sector 21 IS Dev Samaj Girls Senior Secondary School has criticised the Sector 18 STC of the Sports Authority of India for refusing to allow a girl to participate in the Chandigarh Junior Basketball Championship. At a press conference in the school, where the girl, Aman, was present along with her uncle, Balbir Singh, it was alleged that she was present in the STC from August 16 and 17.

In the tournament, there were two pools of three teams each and a bye was given in each pool. Ms Ritu Pathik, Assistant Director of SAI at the STC, said, every year, the Chandigarh Basketball Association used to have inter-club matches and the STC girls had won the past year's meet. However, this year, the format had been changed at the last hour. Mr Ravinder Talwar, General Secretary of the CBA, allowed the girls to take part under the banner of some other school. Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 18, and Government College for Girls, Sector 42, entered the quarterfinals. The Sector 21 Dev Samaj Girls School, which used to send its girls under the banner of SAI Club, lost to GGSSS-18, 34-40. The issue had cropped up after this, said Ms Ritu.

However, authorities of Dev Samaj School said it was Mr M.M. Malhan of SAI, a basketball coach, who had asked Aman not to take part in the meet because he feared that the Sector 18 team would lose. Aman returned to the hostel from her village, Toddar in the Kharar tehsil, on August 16. The next day, when she did not reach the school, one of the lecturers and the coach of the school team visited the hostel to enquire about her. They were told that she was not present.

The matter referred to Mr P.C. Kashyap, Regional Director of SAI, at his Sector 42 office. The school officials said Mr Kashyap had talked to Aman which had revealed that the hostel officials had lied to them. Mr Kashyap assured them that he would take the necessary action. However, the Sector 18 SAI officials said Aman's uncle had given them a written statement on August 9, saying that she would no longer stay in the hostel and wanted to take admission in her village school. Aman had taken the Class X examinations this year as a student of Dev Samaj School.

The school officials also said Mr Malhan had been to Aman's village along with two other girls of the hostel to persuade her family not to send her to the village school. On the other hand, SAI authorities said the lecturer and the coach visited Aman's house today to bring her the school. The school has not issued a school-leaving certificate to the girl till date, whereas, SAI officials say that the girl is already studying in her village school.

ADMINISTRATION

New hotel by CITCO in Sector 42
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Aug 19 — A 24 room hotel, having facilities for meetings with a business centre, a multi cuisine restaurant and a bar, has been sanctioned for Sector 42. For day to day functioning, the hotel will be attached with the Food Craft Institute. The building work starts on Monday. The Chandigarh Administration has allocated Rs 2.55 crore for it.

The building is scheduled to be completed in 18 months. The Chandigarh Industrial Tourism Corporation (CITCO) has been entrusted with the job of constructing it. Though room tariffs have not been fixed, the aim is to target the middle-class segment of the society and business executives. This will also make the institute the first of its kind in the country to have a training hotel attached with it. The entire show will be managed by regular staff and students of the institute, who will be put on training on various shifts.

The hotel will have 20 rooms of 260 square feet each with facilities like attached bathrooms, channel music, air conditioning, television, running hot water and refrigerators. Four suites of 500 sq feet each have been planned on the theme of northern Indian states.

A board room, a pastry shop and a multi-cuisine restaurant that will seat 70 will be added attraction facilities. The business centre will provide facilities like a personal office, typing, photocopying, secretarial services, courier service, fax, Internet connectivity and audio-visual aids. A library, a terrace garden, a lounge with a bar to seat 40 people will be a part of the executive club-room. A health club and a swimming pool will be added in the next phase.

Presently, the place is being referred to as Applied Hotel Crafts Training Centre. The idea is to have self reliance on an operational and financial basis for the Food Craft Institute, a first hand exposure to the hotel industry for students and to provide direct and indirect employment to city residents. The hotel will be a four-storeyed building and the rooms will cover a total of 30,000 square feet.

Meeting to discuss Dr K. P. Singh’s case
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Aug 19 — The PGI governing body in a specially convened meeting to be held on August 29 at New Delhi will discuss the issue of selection of Dr K.P. Singh for the post of Assistant Professor in the Department of Endocrinology.

Dr Singh had recently filed a case in the Punjab and Haryana High Court against the governing body for not accepting the recommendation of the selection committee who select him for the said post. The High Court had subsequently asked the governing body to reconsider the recommendations of the selection committee with regard to his selection. The governing body has been further directed to convey its decision to the court by August 31.

It may be recalled that the government body had not approved his selection in view of certain alleged complaints against him and had referred his case back to the selection committee for a review. The committee once again recommended his name as nothing was found against him on the record. But the governing body rejected his name again, without assigning any reason, following which he moved the court.