HEALTH

Vision test for GCG-42
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 27— Experienced optometrists conducted vision tests on students of GCG-42 as part of the Confident look E-fest organised by Bausch and Lomb, in collaboration with NIIT, here today. These students were offered free medical advice and participated in the personality test conducted by the organisers.

The students answered questions regarding their personality and tried new looks with different computer generated hairstyles and contact lenses made available by the companies.

Mr J. P. Singh, Vice-President, Bauch and Lomb (India), stated that this festival was part of the many roadshows to be organised in the city to increase awareness about vision care and offer specialised career counselling to students.

SPORT

Manjit, Geeta are best athletes
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Nov 27 — The 33rd Central Revenue sub-zonal sports meet was organised at the Sector 46 sports complex here today.

The one day meet was inaugurated by Mr JS Ahluwalia, Commissioner, Income Tax, Panchkula. The athletics and volleyball events were held at the Sector 46 sports complex and badminton events in Sector 42.

Manjit Singh of Customs and Central Excise was declared best athlete in men’s section, while in women, Geeta Sharma of Income Tax was adjudged best athlete. In veteran’s sections, Baldev Singh of Income Tax was declared best athlete. The trophy for cricket was given to Rakesh Jolly.

The first position holders in other events were — chess- Vineet Kamar (CCE); table tennis- men’s singles- Ajay Thukral (CCE), doubles- Ajay and Ramakant (CCE), above 40 men’s singles- Subhash Batra (CCE); badminton-men’s singles- Sunil Behl (CCE), doubles- Raman Chopra and Navaljit Kapoor (IT); lawn tennis- SK Mittal, doubles- SK Mittal (IT) and PS Punia (IT); swimming- Sukhwinder Khanna. In team championship, Customs and Central Excise won titles in hockey, cricket, football, kabaddi and volleyball, while Income Tax was winners in basketball.

Cricket tourney
Satluj Juniors and JRD Institute won their matches against Explosive XI by three wickets and Hansraj XI by seven wickets, respectively, in the Satluj cricket cup tournament at Satluj Public School, Sector 4, Panchkula.

Brief scores: first match: Explosive XI-73 all out (Varun Garg 20, Peeyush 15, Arjun Kaushal 3 for 10, Karan Khosla 3 for 17); Satluj Juniors-74 for 7 in 19 overs (Navjat Singh 24 n.o., Pranav Soni 16 n.o., Karan Arora 2 for 19, Amarpreet Singh 2 for 14); second match: Hansraj XI-111 all out (Gaurav Chopra 28, Vishal Goyal 25, Apar Shakti 19, Sukhwinder Singh 6 for 12, Rythem Chopra 2 for 17); JRD Institute-112 for 3 (Sunny Sharma 55, Puneet Sharma 25, Gaurav Chopra 2 for 14.

Pramod in final
Pramod Kumar made it to the final of the junior snooker event of the NK Duggal memorial Chandigarh state senior and junior billiards championship, being played here at Coaching Centre, Sector 22. Pramod outplayed Anandit Joshi in his second league match 3-0, the scores being 50-33, 49-37, 52-40. Earlier, Pramod defeated Karun Handa 3-1. In second junior league match, Sumit Talwar beat Anandit Joshi 3-1 with scores being 49-19, 20-49, 52-38 and 90-34.

In a senior snooker match,Tarun Kumar beat Mohit Bajaj 3-1 with scores being 57-24, 59-44, 11-7, 53-2. In another match, Kamal Kant defeated Akshay Manchanda 3-2 with scores being 39-49, 10-53, 60-29, 74-69, 57-51. In a billiards match, Praveen Duggal outplayed Pradeep Kinger 423-249.

Golf Club poll, 3 withdraw papers
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 27 — Three candidates today withdrew their nomination papers for the executive committee of the Chandigarh Golf Club for 2001. They are Col B.S Goraya, Mr K.S. Brar and Mr Randeep Singh, all from the opposing group.

The Returning Officer, Mr J.S. Gill, when contacted said that their withdrawals had been accepted. This leaves 20 candidates in the fray for the contest.

Meanwhile, Mr K.S Sibia (Biru), who filed his withdrawal after 4.30 pm, has not been accepted. Though his name figures in the final list of contestants put up on the board, but if he decides to put up an application saying that he will not contest the forthcoming elections, it will be accepted as such. The polling will take place on December 9 in the club premises. 

CBSE roller skating
By Arvind Katyal

CHANDIGARH, Nov 27 — Preparations are in full swing for the three-day Central Board of Secondary Education, National Roller Skating Championships due to begin at the Kailash Bahl DAV Centenary School in Sector 7 on November 30. According to Ms Madhu Bahl, Principal of the school, competitions will be held in two age groups — under 11 and under 14 — both for boys and girls from more than 300 schools affiliated to the CBSE.

The skating rink has been given a new look with changing rooms and bathrooms. The floor has been redone. Ms Bahl said that all players would be lodged in the school and food would be served at subsidised rates.

Ms Bahl who took a keen interest in preparing a rink of international standards said that holding this event was a gigantic task. The CBSE had sanctioned a grant of Rs 25000 while the actual expenditure might run into lakhs.

On November 30, the Governor of Punjab and the Administrator of the UT, Lieut Gen JFR Jacob, is expected to inaugurate the meet. The Roller Skating Federation of India will send a team of technical officials to conduct the speed events.

ADMINISTRATION

Residents against MC’s order on water meters
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 27 — The Welfare Association of Sector 27, Chandigarh, held a meeting recently to consider the directions of the Municipal Corporation (MC), asking the residents of Chandigarh to install their own water meters.

The members of the association resolved that the decision was illegal as there was no agreement of either the Chandigarh Administration or the MC with the residents to this effect at the time of giving water connections. The members also resolved that the decision of the MC was uncalled for and requested the MC to review its decision.

At the same time, the association requested other welfare associations to join hands and force the MC to rescind their decision. The association appealed to the MC to rescind the decision as it might lead to inconvenience to the residents of Chandigarh.

CORPORATION BEAT
PEC gets 1.6 lakh for field study on water augmentation
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 27 — The Water Supply and Sewerage Disposal Committee of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC), in its meeting held today, sanctioned Rs 1.60 lakhs to the Punjab Engineering College ( PEC) for conducting a field study with regard to the water supply augmentation scheme of bringing water from Gangowal (Punjab) to the city by gravity. The college had recently submitted its feasibility report, thereby giving its nod to the project.

Ms Ranjana Shahi, the chairperson of the committee, said the implementation of the project would serve as a long-term solution to the rising water needs of the city and there would be no water shortage even during summer months. She pointed out that the current shortage of water in the city was due to lack of far-sightedness on the part of the Administration. Had they thought of some solution to augment the water supply in view of the increased demand few years back, the MC would not be grappling with water shortage problems today, she added. The project would also ensure uninterrupted supply even in case of power failure, she added.

The members deliberated on the issue of providing a separate water supply grid for Industrial Area-I, proposed to come up at an estimated cost of Rs 2 crore. The industrial workers in the area had been demanding day-time water supply along with augmentation of the existing supply, since the supply was suspended at 9 am and was resumed at 6 pm.

The members observed that if the authorities provided these workers with a separate water supply grid to ensure uninterrupted supply during the day, they would also have to pay the revised water tariff, fixed separately for them. They would have to compensate the authorities for the amount incurred by them in the construction of underground reservoir, pump house, pumping machinery and other allied works for this area. The water supply for this grid would be received from the existing tubewells in the area as well as some additional tubewells, to be installed later. This was likely to ensure continous supply of water from 6 am to 9 pm.

The committee sanctioned Rs 4.52 lakh for purchasing a new Gypsy in lieu of the condemned Gypsy under the charge of Executive Engineer, Public Health, division 1. The members also sanctioned Rs 1.75 lakh to instal boosters to improve water supply to the MC building in Sector 17. Besides this, Rs 60,000 were sanctioned for storm water drainage in the parking area of Sector 35 market near the kerosene pump.

The item pertaining to the construction of a public toilet block along with public health services and electric instalments in Sector 41-D was deferred and the officials were asked to either explore sponsorships or make available the statement of funds for the work by the next meeting. The issue of putting pump and boosters in Sectors 47-C and 47-D at an estimated cost of Rs 12.81lakh and Rs 5.59 lakh, respectively, would also be taken up at the next meeting, with revised estimates.

The purchase of eight electronic cash register machines for the collection of cash at various collection centres was also cancelled, with the members proposing the computerisation of these centres. They santioned Rs 6.04 lakh for providing box-type road gullies on the V3 roads dividing Sectors 46-47, 31-32; 29-30 and 27-28. The item pertaining to providing storm water drainage and road gulllies on the circular road in Burail would be taken up at the next meeting as the officials had been asked to come up with the required details.

Another chance to register as voters
From Our Correspondent

SAS NAGAR, Nov 27 — Residents who have missed the opportunity to get their names included in the list of voters can do so till November 30.

The SDM, Mr Jaipal Singh, said here today that any resident who will be 18 years on January 1, 2001, can also apply on the prescribed form at the SDM’s office in Phase I here.

He said, four days (November 11, 12, 25 and 26) had earlier been fixed for the enrolment of new voters in the Vidhan Sabha and Lok Sabha constituencies concerned. At all polling stations, teachers were put on duty for getting new votes made. On November 25, Ms Usha R. Sharma, Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab, and Mr B. John, under Secretary in the office of the Election Commission of India, visited polling stations in Kharar, Morinda and Dera Bassi areas to see how the enrolment work was progressing.