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Free osteoporosis camp
today CHANDIGARH,
Aug 30 — A free two-day osteoporosis camp will be organised by the Department of Orthopaedics, Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, from tomorrow. In the camp, patients will be screened for osteoporosis with the help of a sophisticated computerised machine. Prof Raj Bahadur, Head of the Department of Orthopaedics, GMCH, informed that this was the second free camp of its kind, the first such camp was organised two months back. He revealed that osteoporosis was a disease of the aging society in which the bones became weak and were prone to fractures with minor injuries. The disease affected majority of the elderly people beyond 60 years of age. In post-menopausal females the disease appeared earlier and was more severe. Besides this, patients on certain drugs like steroids, anti-epileptics, etc, chronic alcoholics and patients of kidney diseases were also prone to develop osteoporosis. The mainstay of the protection from the disease was prevention, which could be achieved by taking adequate amount of calcium and vitamin D, incorporating physical activity into daily life and hormone replacement therapy for the post-menopausal females. The camp will be inaugurated by the city Mayor, Ms Shanta Abhilashi. |
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A clarification CHANDIGARH, Aug 30 — Grover Laser Vision Centre Pvt Ltd, headed by Dr Rohit Grover, has clarified that the centre was one of the first to start phaco with foldable intraocular lens surgery in North India in 1995, and rejected a claim in this regard by a private charitable hospital at Sohana. The institution also reported that it had many patients who had been successfully implanted with single-piece foldable acrylic IOLs since
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44-run victory for Chandigarh
cricket CHANDIGARH,
Aug 30 — Chandigarh scored a fine 44-run victory over Panchkula in the Haryana Under 22 Interdistrict Cricket Tournament, played today at the Sector 5 grounds, in Panchkula. Mr Surinder Singh ‘Baijee’, Secretary of the Chandigarh Cricket Association, affiliated to the Haryana Cricket Association, said that today’s match was reduced to 30 overs due to rain, against the stipulated 35 overs. Panchkula won the toss and elected to field first. Chandigarh began on a sound note with Dharamvir scoring the highest runs 79, followed by Navjeet who scored 37 runs. In reply, Panchkula were bundled out for 153 runs with 10 deliveries left. Kulbir and Mandeep Sodhi were the key bowlers who demolished the Panchkula team. The Chandigarh team will play its next match between the winners of the Karnal- Kaithal tie at Karnal, tomorrow. Brief scores: Panchkula: 153 all out in 28.2 overs (Anil 50, Harish 24, Vishal 19, Kulbir 4 for 18, Mandeep 3 for 23)
Swimming contests Satluj Public Shool, Sector 4, Panchkula, cornered glory in the swimming competitions for Panchkula schools, organised by the Education Department at Army Cantt, Chandi Mandir, here today. The swimmers of the school who secured the first positions included Arun Kumar in boys under 19 section in 200 metre butterfly; Shikha Bhanot in under 19 girls in 400 metre freestyle; Ankita Chand under 14 girls in 100 metre freestyle; Apandeep Sharma under 17 boys in 200 metre butterfly. Kamaldeep Sharma secured second place in the under 14 boys in 400 metre freestyle, followed by Parneet who also got second place in 100 metre in breast stroke.
Basketball tournament After the success of the first Shriman Ishwar Singh Memorial Basketball Tournament organised by Shriman Ishwar Singh Memorial Education and Welfare Society, Sector 21 in October last year, it has been decided to conduct the 2nd edition of the tournament from October 4 to 6 at I.S. Dev Samaj Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 21 this year. Stating this, Ms Sumati Kanwar, the Secretary of the society, and former international basketball player said that the tournament will be for girls in the under 19 year section. Interested schools may give their entries by September 20.
Snooker tournament The 10-day Saurabh Khattar Memorial Snooker Tournament will begin at Cute Q’s, SCO-72, Sector 6, Panchkula, from September 2. The tournament will have events in amateur snooker, besides pool boys for ranked players, pool kids for below 15 year and pool girls for open section.
School to host tourneys New Public School, Sector 18, will play host to two CBSE tournaments this year for Cluster XI, comprising Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Ropar, Panchkula and some schools of Patiala district. Mr R.D. Singh Riar, Principal of the school, said that CBSE basketball tournament for boys and girls will be held from September 30 to October 3. The last date of entries is September 9. The CBSE table tennis meet for boys and girls will be held from October 13 to 16 and last date of entries for it will be September 23.
Inter-KV football
meet concludes Kendriya Vidyalya RCF Hussainpura won the three-day Inter-KV Football Meet in boys under-14 section of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Chandigarh region, which concluded here today at KV 1, Chandi Mandir. As many as 250 students from 15 KVs of the region comprising Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, and Punjab, took part in this meet. In all 25 matches were played on league cum knockout basis. Earlier Ms Bushra Ahuja, Principal of host school, welcomed the chief guest, Brig SK Rathee, Commander 12 Signal group and Chairman Vidyalya Management committee. Ms Chandralekha Rathee, wife of Brig Rathee, gave away the prizes to the winners. Results: Jalandhar DAV lift
basketball tourney DAV College, Jalandhar, outplayed Haryana Police by 58-47 in the finals to bag the first Pandit Mohan Lal Memorial Basketball title at the SD Public School, Sector 32, today. DAV College team led in the half time at 26-21. The scorers for winners were, Harpreet 12, and Naveen 19. Earlier in the semi-finals played today, hosts SD Club lost to DAV College at 54-60. Till half time the SD Club was leading by one point at 32-31. Harkanwar and Harminder who scored 14 to 10 points respectively-fought till end to enable their team in reaching the final but were not successful. In the second semi-final tie, Haryana Police downed Coaching Centre, Kurali by 75-51 with half time score of 41-25.
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Paper on city planning
presented CHANDIGARH,
Aug 30 — The Chief Architect and Secretary, Department of Urban Planning, Chandigarh Administration, Mr Sarbjeet Singh Sandhu, is visiting Naples, Italy, to present two separate papers on urban planning. Universita Degli Studi Di Napoli Federico II, Italy, has invited Mr Sandhu to participate and deliver a lecture on “Chandigarh as sustainable city”. This will be part of a plenary session of an international meeting being held on the theme “Man and city-towards a human and sustainable development”. The meeting is being held from September 6 to 8. The meeting aims at making critical analysis of the “best practices” to suggest new ideas and instructions to promote the humanisation of city development. Mr Sandhu has also been included as a member of the working group that will elaborate the final document of the conference (the Manifesto), which will be presented at the Pope audience. Besides this, Mr Sandhu will also present a paper on ‘’The illustration of Indian urban experience, with particular reference to the case of Chandigarh, new town planning and modern architecture problems’’, in a contiguous seminar being organised by the Order of the Architects, in Naples on September 8 and 9.
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Part-time teachers This has reference to the report “Colleges flout university rules” (Chandigarh Tribune, Aug 21). I was shocked to read the statement of some Principals that they had to employ part-time teachers because the permanent teachers did not work. The Principal is expected to maintain the academic standards of the college as well as to perform general administrative work. Are these Principals admitting that they have failed to perform their duties? The genesis of appointing teachers on contract and part-time basis lies in the increase in the number of students in the general stream and in self-financing courses. These self-financing courses are the golden geese in the hands of private colleges. While determining the fees, all types of charges and salaries of teachers as per the UGC norms are taken into consideration, but the teachers are appointed on contract or part-time basis and paid much below the UGC norms. Does this not amount to exploitation of the students, parents and teachers alike? To lay down the norms for the appointment of part-time lecturers, Panjab University constituted a committee under the chairmanship of the DPI (Colleges), UT Chandigarh, which recommended that a part-time teacher who takes up to six periods in a week, should be paid Rs 2,000. These recommendations were accepted and endorsed by the Syndicate and the Senate. Now these form part of the PU Calendar. But still in government colleges, a part-time teacher is paid Rs 2,200 if he or she takes 20 periods in a week and Rs 3,500 if he or she takes 21 periods or more in a week. Will the DPI (Colleges) implement his own recommendation at least in the colleges of Chandigarh? Anil Parti The quiz show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’, popularly known as KBC, has attained a huge viewership. According to a survey, more than 90 per cent of the TV viewers who have cable connections watch this programme regularly. I have observed that 95 per cent of the contestants in this show are from Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Bangalore—the cities where telephone lines have been provided for participating in the contest. These lines are always found engaged. To make this show more popular and to enable people from all over the country to participate in it, the organisers should either provide more telephone lines or allot a few hours for calls from the four cities and the remaining time should be given to callers from the rest of the country. Sanjay Khurana Shatabdi Express I was surprised to read the report “Shatabdi travellers inconvenienced” (Chandigarh Tribune, July 25). The information that three coaches of the train stood outside the platform at the Chandigarh railway station is incorrect since the halt of the train was personally supervised by the Deputy Station Superintendent under instructions from senior officers of the division. It has been found on verification that the entire rake of the train, except the rear power car, was on the platform. We have also not received any complaint in this regard. The reporter should have contacted the Railway authorities or the CRPO before filing the report. Sanjay
Goel,
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