HEALTH

1,000 checked at medical camp
Tribune News Service

PANCHKULA, Nov 20 — As many as 1,000 patients were examined at a free health check-up camp at a private hospital in Sector 21. Free laboratory tests, ECG and examination by a team of specialists of all medical and surgical fraternities was provided at the camp.

All patients registered at the camp would be examined free of cost within the next one week. The team of doctors comprised Dr Jagmohan Varma and Dr S. Dhatt (cardiology), Dr Sandeep Dhawan (gastroenterology), Dr Sanjay Mehra and Dr R. Das (surgery and urology), Dr Arun Nibber and Dr Jyotika (medicine), Dr Amit Gupta (paediatrics), Dr R.K. Bajaj (orthopaedics), Dr Devinder Kaur (gynaecology), Dr Priti Goyal (radiology), Dr Suman (ENT), Dr Monika (eye) and Dr Vijay Malhotra (pathology).

SPORT

Bawa to accompany team

THE Sports Authority of India (SAI) Coach, Sukhwinder Bawa, will accompany the Indian Women Cricket Team to New Zealand for the Women’s World Cup commencing from November 29.

Bawa is posted at the DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8 coaching centre, and Yuvraj Singh is one of his trainee.

Football tourney:
The Youngsters Club will play the Laloo Ram Club in the tomorrow’s final of the Chandigarh Seniors Club League Football Championships for the Sanjay Trophy, being played here at Football stadium, Sector 17.

In the matches played today, the Sanjay Club and the Capital Club played a goallessdraw match at 1-1 while the Laloo Ram Club and the Chandigarh Football Club also played a drawn match. The Laloo Club qualified on the basis of better goal average. Earlier, the meet was inaugurated by Mr D.R. Yadav, Registrar, PGI. The final match will be played at 11.30 a.m. tomorrow.

ADMINISTRATION

Governor back in city
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 20 — Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd), Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh, has returned from his visit Bangalore and Chennai. The aim of the visit was to find ways to create employment opportunities and encourage investment in the IT industry in Chandigarh and its neighbouring states.

The Chandigarh Administration plans to make the city an important IT centre and has already taken steps to create the necessary infrastructure for this purpose. The main resource of the IT industry is qualified manpower. There is a large pool of educated persons in Chandigarh and its neighbouring states who can get employment in this sector.

In Bangalore, he met the Chairman of Wipro, Mr Azim Premji, the Managing Director of Infosys, Mr Nandan Nilekani, the management body of First Ring Limited and the Director of the Software Technology Park of India (STPI). The companies said they were interested in coming to Chandigarh, but wanted to evaluate the facilities and the manpower that were available here.

Representatives of these companies are expected to visit Chandigarh soon.

In Chennai, he held meetings with top executives of Satyam, Pentasoft and Visitron Software Operations. He also met the CEO of Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) India, a company owned by the Government of Singapore. 

‘Fill vacant posts of SDE’
Tribune News Service

PANCHKULA, Nov 20 — The junior engineers of the Haryana Urban Development Authority stressed the need of filling up the 28 vacant posts of the SDEs while demanding repatriation of deputationists working in HUDA.

Addressing a press conference, the general secretary of the association, Mr M.L. Gupta, said that even though five years have lapsed, pending chargesheets and disciplinary action against the erring JEs has not been finalised. Further, it was alleged that the pending demand of quarters for the staff had not been fulfilled.

Mr Gupta said that even after 22 years of service, HUDA did not have any service rules.``We are guided by rules of the Haryana Government as far as promotion and other service matters are concerned while we are treated as a corporation at the time of giving scales and other benefits,'' he added.

The JEs lamented that the pension scheme had not been implemented so far in spite of the announcements by the Minister of Town and Country Planning and its approval by the concerned authority.

They also demanded regularisation of the JEs holding current duty charge, two additional increments for degrees and grant of conveyance allowance .

MC panel sanctions 2 more apni mandis
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 20 — The Apni Mandi Committee of the MC which met here today has sanctioned the setting up of two more apni mandis for the benefit of residents of Sector 38 and the Housing Board Complex, Mani Majra. The two will be formally inaugurated within a week or two.

Giving this information, Mr Kanhya Lal, chairman of the committee said that these mandis would be held on every Monday in the area between Sector 38 A and D, and the open space near the Housing Board Complex, Mani Majra.

The Sector 15 Apni Mandi would now be permanently held at its original venue every Wednesday as the committee members have not approved the proposal of putting up railing around the mandi. According to Mr Lal, the entire ground has been levelled for a permanent venue and putting railings would only have posed problems in holding the mandi there.

The members also decided that the parking area in front of the Sector 41-D market would now onwards be made available for scooter market every Sunday. The market was till now being held on the V-3 road dividing Sectors 40 and 41, much to the inconvenience of the residents of these areas.

The committee also proposed that Inspectors who work on Sundays, to challan the violators of car and scooter bazaars should be given an additional allowance of Rs 200 per month for working on a holiday. The matter has been referred to the F and CC meeting and the House for approval. Such a step would only help them to discharge their duties more effectively. Mr Lal pointed out that the MC has already started earning a monthly income of Rs 15,000 per month by imposing a car fee of Rs 500 per day from those who hold car bazars. The income which will accrue from the scooter markets is yet to be assessed.

The item pertaining to the setting up of day markets and whether the day market phari wallahs and apni mandi vendors should sit together or separately will be taken up during the next meeting.