SPORT

Bhavna wins 9 gold, 2 silver medals
By Our Sports Reporter

LUDHIANA, Sept 15 — Bhavna Maheshwari, an MBA student of PAU, stole the show by winning nine gold and two silver medals on the second day of the PAU Inter-College Swimming Championship held at PAU swimming pool, today. She won gold medals in 200 m free style, 100 m butterfly, 200 m breast stroke, 100 m individual medley, 400 m free style, 100 m free style, 100 m breast stroke, 200 m butterfly and 200 m individual medley and silver medals in 100 m back stroke and 800 m free style.

The other results of the championship are: In 800 m free style (women) — Jay Bansal of College of Agriculture Engineering (COAE) 1, Bhavana of College of Basic Sciences (COBS) 2, and Sheetu Arora of College of Home Science (COHS) 3; in 400 m free style (men) — Sukhdeep Singh Duggal of COAE 1, Nitin of College of Veterinary Sciences (COVS) 2 and Ramanjit Singh of COBS 3; in 100 m breast stroke (women) — Bhavana 1, Puneet of COVS 2 and Sheetu Arora 3; in 100 m breast stroke (men) — Nitin Dev of COVS 1, Jagroop Singh of COAE 2 and Sukhdeep Singh of COAE 3; in 200 m butterfly (women) — Bhavna 1, Sheetu Arora 2 and Shruti Jain 3; in 200m butterfly (men) — Nitin dev of COVS 1, Jagroop Singh of COA 2 and Sukhdeep Singh of COAE 3; in 200 m individual medley (women) — Bhavna 1, Sheetu Arora 2 and Shruti Jain 3; in 200 m individual medley (men) — Jagroop Singh 1, Nitin Dev 2 and Sukhdeep Singh Duggal 3; in 400 m free style — Bhavana 1, Puneet 2 and Sheetu Arora 3; in 100 m free style (men) — Nitin 1, Sukhdeep 2 and Ramanjeet 3; in 100 m free style (women) — Bhavna 1, Jaya Bansal 2 and Sukhmani 3; in 400 m individual medley (men) — Jagroop Singh 1, Nitin 2 and Sukhdeep 3; in 1500 m — Sukhdeeep Singh 1 and Nitin 2; in 100 m back stroke (women) — Jaya Bansal 1, Bhavana 2 and Puneet 3; in 100 m back stroke (men) — Gagandeep 1, Ramanjeet 2 and Jagroop Singh 3; in 200 m free style (women) — Bhavana 1, Jaya Bansal 2 and Puneet 3; in 200m free style (men) — Nitin 1, Sukhdeep Singh 2 and Ramanjeet Singh 3; in 100 m butterfly (women) — Bhavna 1, Sheetu Arora 2 and Shruti Jain 3; in 100 m butterfly (men) — Jagroop Singh 1 and Sukhdeep Singh Duggal 2; in 200 m breast stroke (women) — Bhavana 1, Puneet 2 and Sheetu Arora 3; 200 m breast stroke (men) — Jagroop Singh 1, Nitin 2 and Agamdeep Singh 3; in 100 m individual medley (women) — Bhavana 1, Sheetu Arora 2 and Shruti Jain 3.

GSA gesture to animals
From Our Sports Reporter

LUDHIANA, Sept 15 — In a significant development, the Grewal Sports Association (GSA) has resolved that in future all events which involve the violation of the provisions of the Prevention of Cruelty Act will not be allowed in the Rural Olympics scheduled to be held in February, 2001 at Kila Raipur.

The resolution was passed at a meeting on September 10 presided over by Mr S.S. Grewal, president. Mr Grewal in a press release said the GSA was fully responsible for implementing the rules and for conducting all events during the festival in the manner permitted by law.

The GSA took this action because of reports published in various newspapers regarding cruelty towards animals in certain events. Mr Grewal had a detailed meeting with the president, People For Animals (PFA) before passing the said resolution. He on the behalf of the GSA invited observes from the PFA to “Rural Olympics” to guide them. He requested the PFA to put up a stall to educate the rural people about the activities of the PFA and cruelty towards animal. Mr Grewal promised to give free space for the stall.

ADMINISTRATION

Paddy procurement measures reviewed
From Our Correspondent

LUDHIANA, Sept 15 — The district administration today claimed to have finalised all arrangements for the procurement of paddy in 110 purchase centres of the district by various agencies, scheduled to start from September 21.

A meeting of the officers of various purchase agencies and other departments concerned was held here today under the chairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner, Mr S. K. Sandhu.

Giving details of the arrangements, Mr Sandhu said the purchasing staff by different agencies had been appointed in the mandis and sufficient stock of gunny bags, polythene covers and crates had been arranged.

The DC informed that the allotment of purchase centres among different purchase agencies had been finalised as per the distribution of mandis. The Food Corporation of India tops the list with 48 purchase centres, followed by PUNSUP with 14, Markfed 12, Food and Civil Supplies 7, Punjab State Warehousing Corporation 6 and Punjab Agro Industrial Corporation 2. In the remaining 21 centres, purchase would be shared by more than one agency.

Mr Sandhu revealed that different market committees had made elaborate arrangements for cleanliness of the purchase centres, drinking water and proper shelter for the farmers, who required lights in all the purchase centres. He said the market committees had also been directed to ensure comprehensive checking of the weighing system and nobody would be allowed to create any kind of difficulty for the farmers in the mandis.

He said to ensure speedy disposal of the procurement work, comprehensive supervision and checking would be carried out during the procurement season by senior officers of the district administration and Food and Civil Supplies Department. He disclosed that the SDM of all subdivisions had been asked to visit and look into the arrangements to check any kind of last stage lapse.

The Deputy Commissioner informed that during the last year, 11,80,417 tonnes of paddy had arrived in all the mandis of the district and during this season, 13.5 lakh tonnes was expected. The District Food and Supply Controller, Mr Parveen Vij, informed that the arrival of paddy had started in the different mandis in the district and so far, 7213 tonnes of paddy had arrived.