SPORT

Guru Harkishan School win kho-kho tourney
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Sept 5 — Guru Harkishan Model School-38, in the girls’ section and Coaching Centre, Sector 42, in the boys’ section clinched the titles in the Chandigarh Junior Kho-Kho Championship, which concluded here yesterday at Guru Harkishan Model School, Sector 38.

In the girls’ final, GHMS-38 outscored the Khalsa Club-26 by a close finish 5-4 with Amandeepika staying not out for five minutes out of the seven minutes permitted stay. The team was represented by Amandeepika, Kiran, Sunita, Aarti, Charanpreet, Ravneet, Amandep, Pardeep, Nisha Chauhan and Nisha.

In the boys’ final, CC-42 whipped the Khalsa Club by one turn and two points. The winner team was represented by Inderpal Singh, Vinod, Vijay Bhan, Anup, Pawan, Tejbir, Sohan, Maninder, Sandeep, Krishan and Tejinder Singh. Earlier, in the girls, semi-finals, GHMS-38 defeated the Khalsa Club by 2-0, while in the second semi-final, the Khalsa Club got the better of Government High School, Sector 32, 7-3.

In the boys’ semi-final matches, CC-42 outplayed GHS-32-A by one turn and three points, while in other semi-final, Khalsa Club beat Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 37, 8-2.

Mr Jagtar Singh, OSD to the Chief Minister, Haryana, gave away prizes.

Cricket team
Vidit Kataria will be the captain of the Panchkula District Cricket team (under-14) for the Haryana Inter-district Cricket Championship to be held on September 6. Panchkula will take on Ambala tomorrow at Mansa Devi Complex, Sector 4, Panchkula.

The other members of the team are: Aparshakti (vice-captain), Nitin Gandhi, Rishab ,Gaurav Chopra, Sunny Sharma, Saurabh Sharma, Nitin Mehtani, Arvind Rawat, Saurabh Chopra, Vivek Walia, Amanpreet, Bhalendra, Dhawal Lekhi, Sukhwinder Singh and Harinder Nain. Sanjay Verma and Jaswinder Singh will accompany the team as coach and manager, respectively.

ADMINISTRATION

Councillors review progress of development schemes
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Sept 5 — A meeting to review the progress of schemes under the Ward Development Fund of the councillors of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh(MCC) was held here today.

According to sources, the Chief Engineer, Mr Puranjit Singh, assured the eight councillors, who attended the meeting that the works approved under the fund would be completed soon.

Among the works to be completed are the development of parks in Sector 15(A&B), the provision of more facilities in the Sector 15 community centre and the cleaning of backlanes in the sector. The fixing of tiles in Sector 22 and the development of the green belt was also assured.

The provision of streetlights in Sector 23 and the conversion of the Rose Nursery in the sector to a children park was also discussed. Similarly, the inner lanes of Sectors 37 and 38 would be improved. The construction of community centre in Sector 42 would also be taken up.

The councillors, who attended the meeting were Mr Prem Sagar Jain, Mr RL Arora, Air Marshal RS Bedi (retd), Mr Des Raj Tandon, Mr KL Sharma, Ms Kamla Sharma, Ms Harjinder Kaur and Mr Bachan Singh. Mr KK Addiwal and Ms Satinder Dhawan could not attend the meeting.

Meeting: The Coordination Committee of the UT and the MCC employees today held a meeting with the top officials with regard to the pending demands of the employees. The meeting was called by the civic body to get the list of pending individual grievances of the employees.

The sources said the committee members could not submit the list as the convener of the committee, Mr Ramesh Kant, was indisposed.

Checks at petrol stations ordered
Tribune News Service

PANCHKULA, Sept 5 — Officials of the Weights and Measurements branch of the Department of Food and Supplies have been asked to carry out regular and random checks at all petrol stations in the city to check of under measurement.

The move comes following allegations of a faulty meter at a petrol pump in Sector 16 last evening. The consumer complained to the Deputy Commissioner and an Assistant Food and Supplies Officer was sent to look into the matter. However, nothing was found to be correct.

The District Food and Supply officer, Mr Harbans Lal Arora, informed that the Assistant Food and Supply officer, contacted last night, had found nothing wrong after measuring the supply. He added the AFSO had conducted checks at other units of the petrol station as well but did not find anything wrong. A report of the findings would be submitted to the Deputy Commissioner.

Privatisation of octroi collection opposed
Tribune News Service

SAS NAGAR, Sept 5 — The elected councillors of the SAS Nagar Municipal Council have strongly opposed the move of the local government to privatise octroi collection from September 19. They say the government should have decided to wait for the elected civic body to be constituted.

The Administrator of the council, Mr Jaipal Singh, had postponed the auction of the octroi collection till elections to the civic body were held. The auction was scheduled on August 20.

Mr Phool Raj Singh, an elected councillor, said holding the auction was against the feeling of the local residents who had elected the councillors.

Mr Amrik Singh, who was elected from phase 11, said the government should not have decided on its own as an elected body of the councillors was expected to be constituted soon.