 |
|
| Tuesday,
November 7, 2000, Chandigarh, India |
|
|||
Instrument workshop
concludes CHANDIGARH Prof Sharma was giving the address at the recently concluded
Management Development Programme on Operation Maintenance and Repair of
Medical Equipment organsied by the CSIO.
He appreciated the institute’s initiative to disseminate its
expertise in repair and maintenance of medical instruments among
developing countries which is otherwise becoming quite expensive.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr E. Barwa, Joint Secretary, Ministry of
External Affairs, said that India was liasoning with as many as 145
countries, for technical cooperation. He added that the country had
trained about 1500 personnel in 55 institutions in 130 courses in the
civilian sector alone. In military, 215 officers and other ranks were
trained by 38 defence institutions. The target for the current year was
2,000 in the civilian and military sectors.
Mr Barwa added that with this massive breakthrough in creating a
reservoir of trained manpower in various fields of science and
technology, India has almost attained self-sufficiency in food
production. There is an immense demand for Indian science and technology
personal abroad. This has put India at an advantageous position over
other countries, particularly the developing ones, he added.
Dr R.P. Bajpai, Director, CSIO, in his welcome address, gave a
background of the programmes conducted by the CSIO earlier. Mr Suri and
Mrs Ramamuthy, the course co-ordinators presented the outline of the
course conducted at New Delhi and Chandigarh.
The programme had been sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs
and was attended by 24 delegates from as many as 19 countries like
Ethiopia, Zambia, Uganda, Botswana, Sudan, Tanzania, Cambodia and
Indonesia. Beginning with the management aspect, which enabled the
participants to gain a broad overview of the need for maintenance
facilities in hospitals, the position of maintenance facilities in the
hospital management structure and the need for networking such
facilities on a nationwide basis. |
|
Paediatrics
meet concludes CHANDIGARH According to the Organising Secretary, Prof K.L.N. Rao, Head, APC,
instruments used in endoscopic surgery were made up of delicate glass
and metal. Whereas, the least expensive instrument, called cytoscope,
used for looking inside the urinary bladder was worth Rs 1.50 lakh, the
most expensive instrument, the one used for abdominal laparoscopy
surgery, cost around Rs 25 lakh.
Later, Prof Snyder conducted ‘Hypospadias’ on a two-year-old male
child, a procedure which is performed on children to reconstruct the
urinary outlet. The outlet, in one out of every 300 male children is not
at the tip, but below the surface of the penis.
Prof Snyder assisted by Dr Sachin Suri and Dr K.L. Narsimhan from the
PGI, performed the delicate operation called Modern MAGPI by creating a
new passage with locally available tissues. He also demonstrated how
proper dressing should be done in such cases. Prof Snyder, presently
working with the Children’s Hospital Philadelphia USA , is a pioneer
in the treatment of most kidney disorders in newborns.
PGI is using MAGPI presently, and each modification in the surgery
betters results. Later, Prof Snyder also gave an overview of simple
adaptions in surgery to improve the results in the MAGPI
Prof Rao maintained that the conference had helped world’s
paediatric surgeons to come and visit Chandigarh, and the Advanced
Paediatrics Center at the PGI. “British surgeons, including Prof David
Lloyds, were impressed by our set up and with the amount of clinical
matter available. We can expect doctors from the UK, for practical
training in Chandigarh,” he said.
He added that American doctors too appreciated the fact that
paediatric surgery in India had achieved a lot despite constraints of
resources. |
50 ladies in fray for
Punjab Open CHANDIGARH , Nov 6 — Fifty ladies will battle it out for the different titles at stake in the eighth Punjab Open Ladies Amateur Golf Championship which gets under way on the lush course of the Chandigarh Golf Club here tomorrow.Leading the challenge for the main title will be Irina Brar. But it will not be easy going for this 17-year-old defending champion. Hot on her heels will be another Chandigarh girl, Parneeta Garewal. Besides these two local contestants there will be Shruti Khanna and Shalini Malik from Delhi and Vandana Aggarwal from Calcutta. Addressing a Press conference at the club this afternoon, the captain of the ladies section, Mrs Dimple Minocha, said the tournament, sponsored by Quark Media, had been promoted to category A. The ceremonial tee off will be done by the club president, Mr G.S. Sandhu. Both Irina and Parneeta are in good form. Irina won the northern India in October and Parneeta did well in the Hong Kong tournament finishing second. Other players to watch out will be Guneet Raikhy of Chandigarh, Mayali Talwar from Delhi and Indumati from Andhra Pradesh. The youngest lady golfer to be seen in action will be nine-year-old Vaishavi Sinha from Noida. The titles for which the ladies will be putting in their best are: The winner of the championship (best gross score). Quark Silver Salver (handicap 0 to 12) best nett. Quark Challenge Bowl (handicap 13 to 24) best gross and best nett. Quark Bronze Plate (handicap 25 to 36) best gross and best nett. Quark Junior Shield (Up to 20) best gross and best nett. Quark Subjunior Trophy (Up to 14) best gross and best nett. Quark Senior Challenge (those born before Nov 7, 1950) best gross and best nett. Quark Super Senior Special (60 and above) best gross (36 holes).  |
|
Bridge,
the mind game, comes to city CHANDIGARH Mr Y. Kamalakara Rao, president of the Bridge Federation of India,
also participated in the tournament. He expressed hope that in 2006
Olympics, the game would be an Olympic sport. It had already been a
demonstration game in the recently held Olympics. Regarding the
international-level tournaments, he said Bridge Olympiad was the most
sought after. Last year it was held in Netherlands and next would be
held in 2003.
When asked about the presence of 40 plus age group people in the
game, he admitted that this remained the basic flaw in the development
of the sport. But now some states have come forward to train juniors. He
said, “although Indians do possess the talent to be world beaters, yet
the lack of discipline was holding them back.”
He appreciated the efforts made by the Chandigarh Bridge Association
in opening a coaching centre at Sector 42 and said that now their
national federation has 36 affiliated units including the institutions
like Ordnance Cable Factory and Railways among others. He said the BFI
organised two kind of nationals, summer and winter. The summer nationals
were a state meet where the entries were restricted to units, while in
winter nationals, entries were open for individual participants.
Regarding affiliation to the Indian Olympic Association, he said once
it becomes an Olympic sport, they would automatically get affiliation.
He said now big industrial units has started sponsoring the game and the
present all India meet was sponsored by the General Insurance
Corporation of India.
About the origin of the game, he said though many stories could be
traced, but as the name suggests, many centuries ago in Turkey, some
players started playing cards while crossing over a bridge. One of the
players had to take time off for making and serving coffee and hence
they devised the concept of dummy and named the game ‘bridge’. |
|
‘Nothing
like river rafting’ CHANDIGARH The three girls and three boys were thrilled after the successful
mission. Ashwini Ghatege, a final-year BA student of Mumbai, said she
had never expected river rafting to be so thrilling. Sabita Panda, a law
student of Orissa, said she had always wanted have such experience that
river rafting had given her. She said the team had done coastal training
in Orissa before the expedition. K. Krishnamurthy of Bangalore said all
members of the team had participated in various adventure-sport
expeditions before this, but the latest was rather unique. The other
members of the team were Shashi Tomar of Delhi, Rakesh of Ambala, both
students, and Rajiv Midha himself.
Rajiv said, before the expedition, they had done river rafting at
Kedar Tomb, Bandarpunch and Mount Kamet. He said the team was disturbed
after seeing a high level of pollution in the Ganges. They plan to
encourage people to join the Save Ganges Campaign next year.
Ashwini Ghatege said, “When we were in the raft, we saw two cows
slip down the mountain. We rescued those cows and took these to the
nearby veterinary hospital. It was a seven-day expedition with four days
of rafting.”
Kho-kho meet Pune University beat Punjabi University, Patiala, by two points,
Calcutta University beat Bangalore University by three points and
Calicut University beat Delhi University by seven points.
The winners have qualified for the semi-finals of the meet.
Roller skating He said that more than 200 skaters were likely to take part in this
two-day meet. The performance in the meet will be a basis for the
selection of the city team for the national championship at Faridabad.
Entries close with Ms Gurinder, member of the CRSA, in the Sector 10
rink from November 15 to 17 (4 pm to 5.30 pm).
UT chess The top two players from each category will take part in the XIVth
National Children’s Chess Championship that is to be held in Ahmedabad
(Gujarat) from December 22 to 31. This was said by Mr Vipnesh Bhardwaj,
Secretary of the association. Entries close with Karma Angdui at 1341-B,
Sector 41- B, Chandigarh.
SD-32 win Sport day |
Special cell required
for cyber crime: DGP PANCHKULA, Nov
6 — Special training programmes for all Inspectors likely to be
promoted to gazetted officers and training to police personnel in
checking cyber crime, a new phenomenon which has recently come up, will
be initiated by the police department. This was stated by the Director
General of Police, Haryana, Mr S.P.S. Rathore, here today, while
addressing a press conference.
He said that a special cell for detection of cyber crime would soon
become functional at the police headquarters followed by one each at all
the range headquarters.
“The idea is to seek help from all quarters be it the Information
Technology Department of Haryana, or other agencies, to help in the
training of police personnel,’’ Mr Rathore informed.
Earlier, supported by statistics, Mr Rathore said that the crime rate
in the state had gone down by 3.21 per cent. While murder had reduced by
3.69 per cent, culpable homicide by 27 per cent, kidnapping and
abduction had been reduced by 9.95 per cent. In crime against property
— dacoity, robbery, burglary and theft had gone down by 3.84 per cent
on an average. He further stated that crime against women was also down
by 1.23 per cent though crime against scheduled castes and criminal
gangs operative had shown an upward trend with the rise being 3.38 per
cent and 60.22 per cent respectively.
Meanwhile, at the Khula Darbar, while addressing the grievances of
the public, the DGP attended to 70 complaints out of which 20 pertained
to ex-gratia. While four of these were sent to the government for
sanction, others were rejected since these were time-barred.
Mr Rathore ordered IG, Rohtak, to look into a kidnapping case
personally. Another case where a woman was stripped and kicked in Rewari,
the complainants said that since the incident in June, they had already
appeared twice in the darbar but to no avail. Their demand for justice
had been met with empty assurances.
Head Constable Kanshi Ram was promoted as ASI for recovery of 60 kg
of opium, Constable Gauri Shanker was promoted as Head Constable for
helping in nabbing Mahal Singh, a dreaded criminal in Sirsa, and
Constable Vijender was promoted to the rank of Head Constable for
excelling in sports.
As many as 40 cases of mutual transfers of police personnel were also
put before the DGP among the 120 cases. |
|
Progress
of MCC work reviewed CHANDIGARH The development of pocket No 1, Mani Majra was taken up and it was
noted that priority should be given to the work of parking areas, roads
and providing sewerage connections in the area. The commissioner had
visited the area last week, along with the chief engineer to evaluate
the progress of work.
The construction work of garbage conversion plant at Dadu Majra was
also reviewed. SPJ, Bio Agro Limited, which has taken up the
construction of the plant had decided to complete the same by June 2001.
The progress of the computerisation work of MC was also discussed and it
was pointed out that two software programmes relating to complaint
monitoring and personnel management Information system developed by the
NIC, would be demonstrated on November 9 in the committee room.
The functioning of the nodal officers, who had been recently
appointed in charges of various sectors was also reviewed. The officers
also took stock of the receipts and expenses of the second quarter and
planned the expenditure to be incurred in November and December. |
|
Vigilance
Awareness Week CHANDIGARH All sub-offices of the CDA in the Western Command region are
observing the week. Posters of Mahatma Gandhi as well as anti-corruption
slogans and quotations on honesty have been displayed at prominent
places on the office premises.
A pledge to strive for greater integrity and transparency in all
spheres of activities of the organisation was also administered to all
the employees earlier. |
|
List of
holidays released CHANDIGARH The following days will be closed day in the year 2001, Republic Day
— January 26; Maha Shivaratri — February 21; Idu’l Zuha (Bakrid)
— March 6; Holi — March 9; Ram Navami — April 2; Muhharram —
April 5; Mahavir Jayanti — April 6; Good Friday — April 13; Budha
Purnima — May 7; Milad-Un-Nebi or Id-e-Milad — June 5; Independence
Day — August 15; Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday — October 2; Dasehra
— October 26; Divali — November 14; Guru Nanak’s Birthday —
November 30; Idul’l Fitr — December 17; Christmas — December 25. |
|
READERS
WRITE This
refers to the report “Solemn ceremony marks Police Commemoration Day”
(Chandigarh Tribune, Oct 22). The views expressed by Mr S.K. Madan,
President of the President’s Police Gallantry Awardees Association,
deserve serious consideration by the top brass of the various police
forces of our country.
It is a shame that the CRPF men who laid down their lives fighting
Chinese intruders at Hot Springs in Leh in 1959 have not received due
recognition till now. Observing Police Commemoration Day on October 21
every year and reading out the names of the martyrs as a matter of
routine serve little purpose.
Mr Madan’s proposal to trace the families or the next of kin of the
martyrs and to listen to their grievances and mitigate their suffering
should be put into practice, and it will be a true recognition of the
sacrifices of these gallant men. I suggest that the widows or the next
of kin of the martyrs should be honoured on Police Commemoration Day
every year.
I call upon the Directors-General of state police forces and the CPOs
of the BSF, ITBP, Assam Rifles, CISF etc to seriously consider these
suggestions. Such steps will go a long way to enhance the image of the
police forces of our country and instil a sense of honour and pride in
all policemen.
P. S. BEDI, B. Tech. and B.E. I was amused to read the report “B.E. in IT course okayed” (Chandigarh Tribune, Oct 26). I graduated in mechanical engineering from Lakehead University, Canada. I want to know from Panjab University how can a technology degree be an engineering degree at the same time? It can either be B.Sc. in Information Technology or B.Tech (Information), but it cannot be B. E. in Information Technology. It appears that the PU does not distinguish between a technology degree (B.Tech) and an engineering degree (B.E.). A person with a B.Tech. degree is a technologist and one with an engineering degree is an engineer. Technologists work in close cooperation with engineers. A technology degree is more focused on manufacturing whereas an engineering degree concentrates largely on engineering design and complex analysis. In North America, and, I think also in Australia, a B.Tech. degree is not recognised for the grant of a licence as a professional engineer. One has to pass additional examinations to get that recognition. A. S. KANG It was shocking to read about the death of Sanjay Manchanda, Public Relations Officer, Chandigarh Administration, under tragic circumstances. What made him commit suicide would perhaps be difficult to know. He was an able PRO and was much sought after by journalists who used to drop in at his office and could get to know the latest about Chandigarh’s social life, sports and development activities and myriad other things. He also used to write frequently for newspapers, especially on sports in The Tribune. Tennis was his favourite sport. He will indeed be missed. |
 |
| Punjab
| Haryana
| Jammu &
Kashmir | Himachal
Pradesh | Regional
Briefs | Nation
| Editorial
| | Business | Sport | World | Mailbag | In Spotlight | Chandigarh Tribune | Ludhiana Tribune 50 years of Independence | Tercentenary Celebrations | | 120 Years of Trust | Calendar | Weather | Archive | Subscribe | Suggestion | E-mail | |
