The Tribune, Chandigarh, India

Wednesday, November 22, 2000,
Chandigarh, India

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C H A N D I G A R H

Jacob wants bylaws for villages
Chandigarh, Nov 21 — The UT Administrator, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd), has suggested that there should be building bylaws for villages in the Union Territory. He asked the Municipal Commissioner, Mr M.P. Singh, to frame these bylaws soon. The Administrator suggested this during his visit to Sector 41 near Badheri village.

45 held under special drive
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — In the ongoing drive against "anti-social elements", the Chandigarh Police has rounded up 45 persons from the southern parts of the city. The thrust of the drive, carried out under the supervision of the Deputy Superintendent of Police (South), Mr S.C. Sagar, was reportedly against people indulging in brawls after gulping drinks.

Internet has hit postal delivery system
Chandigarh, Nov 21 — The spread of Internet has made the world smaller by bringing the people nearer to one another. But for the Department of Posts, the Internet coupled with private courier services has made its clientele go far away.

The Chief Post Master-General, Punjab Circle, Mr A.S.I.S. Paul (left), addresses a press conference in Chandigarh on Tuesday. — A Tribune photograph

REGIONAL BRIEFS

EARLIER STORIES

	US institute to get 300 acres in Anandgarh November 21, 2000
	Part-time lecturers still underpaid November 20, 2000
	Residents keep mum on servants’ antecedents November 19, 2000
	Capt Sharma’s body consigned to flames November 18, 2000
	Angry shopkeepers gherao police station November 17, 2000
	Pay phone bills on Sat, Sun November 16, 2000
	Admn reshuffles 11 bureaucrats November 15, 2000
	Caught in no man’s land November 14, 2000
	No PROs to polish UT, PGI image November 13, 2000
	Gaiety marks Gurpurb celebrations November 12, 2000

Pedestrian killed
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — An unknown pedestrian was killed while two cyclists were injured in separate accidents in different parts of the city during the past 24 hours. The pedestrian, aged about 15, was admitted to the Sector 32 Government Medical College and Hospital with serious injuries on November 19 after being hit by a scooter at about 12.50 p.m. According to sources in the police department, the pedestrian later succumbed to his injuries.

Hedges removed
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — The Enforcement Wing of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC) today removed hedges outside a row of houses in Sector 28-B.

Jagir Kaur summoned in defamation case
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — The President of the SGPC, Bibi Jagir Kaur has been summoned to appear before the court on January 22, by the UT Judicial Magistrate (Ist Class), Mr Naval Kumar in an alleged case of criminal conspiracy and defamation. Another co-accused in the case, Jaspal Singh Dhillon, has also been summoned for January 22.

The Bottomline

Cashing in on unemployment
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — Scanning newspapers for job opportunities is a habit with the unemployed youth. Besides, they also keep in touch with the job placement consultants who claim to hold the key to ‘a bright future’ for them. It is another matter that their hopes are dashed even after paying these consultants through their noses.

READERS WRITE

Replacing water meters
THE Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh has decided to privatise the task of replacing defective water meters and charge the consumer for it. It is difficult to imagine how this decision can be called “consumer friendly”, as the corporation has claimed. In fact it is a blow to the consumer.

DISADVANTAGED CITIZENS

Fight for gas cylinder
SAS NAGAR, Nov 21 — A senior citizen of Phase II here has been running from pillar to post to get his LPG cylinder back from an Assistant Sub Inspector posted at the Phase I police station. In the past seven months, Mr Jagan Nath has approached many senior police officials in this regard, but no one has helped him so far.

COMMUNITY

Jewellers shun hallmarking
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — The next time you walk into a jewellery shop, check the quality of the gold that you purchase. The possibility of getting duped while purchasing gold is increasing with every day. The 22 carat variety of gold no more exists and according to reports a lot of adulteration is done at the cost of the buyer. One way out for the buyer is to ask for a “hallmarked” (a licence which stamps the purity of gold) product, but the jewellers, at least most of them express ignorance about it. In Chandigarh, only one jeweller in Sector 22 stocks hallmarked gold.

‘Special group on corrosion problem’
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — A group of experts will be constituted to look into the problem of corrosion in aero-engines and work out techniques to extend the life span of the engines and related accessories.

Dining for a noble cause
Chandigarh, Nov 21 — If you are planning to dine out tomorrow, you should visit the Hot Millions-2 where the Rotarians would be waiting on you between 6.30 p.m and 10.30 p.m., to contribute towards buying a mobile van which will be utilised as a dental ambulance for the slum dwellers.

Spreading the message of peace
Chandigarh, Nov 21 — Starting from Karnataka and spreading the message of peace, brotherhood and communal harmony among people, Laxman M. Lamani is out on an expedition. “We must come out from the vicious circle of caste, creed and religion to form a human chain.We must follow human values and respect human rights,” he says emphatically.

Home gardening tips

CITU observes strike
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — Members of the Central Industrial Trade Union (CITU) today observed a strike and demonstrated against the Chandigarh Administration, in front of The Tribune office. They demanded that the minimum salary for the Industrial workers must be fixed at Rs 3,500 and facilities like attendance card, ESI and bonus be provided to them.

Demand for train to Kerala
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — A delegation of the local unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) met the Union Minister of State for Railways, Mr O. Rajagopal, and urged him to look into the demand of having a direct train connection from Chandigarh to Thiruvananthapuram.

CRIME

Man booked in cheating case
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — On the complaint of an SAS Nagar resident, Balwinder Kaur, against a Sector 18 booth owner, Des Raj Chawla, alleging cheating during the sale of a shop, the Chandigarh police has registered a case under Section 420 of the IPC.

Two cops suspended
PANCHKULA, Nov 21—The police has registered a case under Section 160 of the IPC against two Haryana Police constables, Satish Kumar and Sukhbir Singh, who were involved in a drunken brawl with a priest, Narinder, here today. All three have been apprehended and put behind bars following the submission of a medical report.

Pirated cassettes seized
SAS NAGAR, Nov 21 — The police today raided at least three shops in the town and recovered a large quantity of pirated audio cassettes. The owners of the three shops have been booked under the Copyright Act, 1957.

BUSINESS

CMA programme
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — The Chandigarh Management Association (CMA) is organising a half-day programme on “towards e-solutions” on November 24 in association with IBM India Limited.

UTI bank branch inaugurated

EDUCATION

Accused teacher wants CBI inquiry
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — The fate of a Panjab University lecturer of the University Business School hangs in balance as the Senate and Syndicate still deliberate on his alleged involvement in increasing marks of a candidate from zero to 42 in re-evaluation.

Natyotsav on Nov 24
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — Natyotsav 2000, an inter-college and inter-school one act play and histrionics festival will be held on November 24, at DAV College, Sector 10. The festival is being organised by Sambhang group in collaboration with the Department of Public Relations (UT) Chandigarh and the PGI branch of the State Bank of India.

Linguistic Harmony Day
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — The NSS unit of Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, celebrated Linguistic Harmony Day here today as part of the National Integration Week celebrations. Students from various parts of the country spoke about their language, dialects and cultural significance and participated in a linguistic quiz organised to mark the occasion.

Finnish students present play
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — Students from Finland presented a play Aino Ja Vaino, based on the Finnish national epic ‘Kalevala’ on the concluding day of the one-week celebrations of Children’s Day at Bal Bhavan here today.

Board to computerise exam process
SAS NAGAR, Nov 21 — The Punjab School Education Board has decided to computerise its entire examination process of the matriculation and senior secondary examinations from the current academic session. Under the move, right from the processing of the examination forms to the preparation of the results, the entire job would be done on computers.

COURTS

Order to withhold HSSC test result
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court comprising Mr Justice Amarbir Singh Gill and Mr Justice V.S. Aggarwal today stayed the declaration of result of the proposed test being held by the Haryana Staff selection Commission for the selection of math masters and mistresses in Haryana.

3 acquitted in separate cases
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — Ajad Singh, a city resident, was today acquitted by the UT Judicial Magistrate (First Class) in a rash driving case. It was alleged that the accused, Ajad Singh, who was driving a Maruti car, had hit Brij Bahadur in April, 1999, and caused him injuries. The case against the accused had been registered under Sections 289 and 337 of the Indian Penal Code on April 21, 1999. The accused was acquitted due to lack of evidence.

CULTURE

Majestic Himalayan moments captured in lens
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — The genesis of the photo exhibition on the Himalayas which opened at the Panjab University Fine Arts Museum today is quite strange, but there is something very special about its creation. The Lucknow-based lensmen Anil Risal and Threesh Kapoor share an affectionate smile as they disclose how the 50 prints on the majesty of the Himalayan Range came alive.

‘Our art does not reflect modernity’
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — He has a very illustrious career, at least in his role as an art critic. Santo Datta, the scholar in art, who has to his credit long stints as an art critic with various national dailies, is in the city for two days to deliver lectures on specific issues at the Government College of Art, Sector 10. The lectures are being organised by the college as part of the ongoing celebrations of the golden jubilee year of the college.

Trilingual poetic symposium organised

HEALTH

‘Bring down neonatal deaths’
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — The risk of a newborn baby dying in India is roughly 10 to 15 times more than any developed country. In India, every year as many as 12 lakh newborn babies die within the first month of their birth. Out of these, while one third die due to infection, the other main causes of the newborn deaths are asphyxia , low birth weight and premature deliveries.

Health services on IAS pattern needed
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — As part of the martyrdom fortnight of Lala Lajpat Rai, Jan Shakti, a social organisation, organised an open discussion on ‘‘India still fighting for its freedom against disease’’ here yesterday. Brig ML Kataria (retd) lamented that even after 53 years of Independence, the rural and slum areas, which constituted 80 per cent of the population spent only about 20 per cent of the total expenditure of government medical expenditure.

SPORT

PU enter semis of soccer meet
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — Panjab University Chandigarh, Punjabi University Patiala, Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar and Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, have made it to the semi-finals of the North Zone Inter-University Football (men’s) Tournament. The tournament is being played on the PU grounds here.

A promising shuttler
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — Gutta Jwala, the 17-year-old Hyderabad based badminton player, who stormed the Indian Uber cup team past February, was here in the city for taking part in the ongoing National Badminton Championships.

ADMINISTRATION

16 firms default on EPF, get notices
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — The Regional Provident Fund Commissioner has issued show-cause notices to as many as 16 establishments of Chandigarh and Punjab which are defaulting on depositing of Employees Provident Fund.

Fruitless auction for HUDA
PANCHKULA, Nov 21 — The Haryana Urban Development Authority received only Rs 7,88,000 in an auction of commercial sites here. Only a few bidders were there for the auction. HUDA could sell only eight of the 65 commercial sites by the end of the day.

30 shopkeepers challaned
CHANDIGARH, Nov 21 — The UT Enforcement Wing challaned 30 shopkeepers during a drive in Sectors 18 and 22 yesterday to clear the pavements and corridors from encroachers. While 15 shopkeepers were issued challans in Sector 18 radio market for sub-letting the verandahs in front of their shops to mechanics to carry out their repair work, those in Sector 22 were challaned for encroaching upon public corridors by displaying their ware.