HEALTH

GMCH residents’ CL today
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Dec 14 — To protest against the “callous attitude of the hospital administration”, senior residents of Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, will proceed on a mass casual leave tomorrow.

The doctors alleged that one of the senior residents of the Department of Surgery was given a termination order without establishing any charges through an inquiry against him.

According to the doctors, a negotiation with the Director-Principal, Prof S.B.S. Mann, to give the doctor, whose services were terminated, to be given a fair hearing, had failed.

SPORT

Rowing yet to pick up in Malaysia: Ghani
By Arvind Katyal

CHANDIGARH, Dec 14— “In Malaysia rowing is still at an infant stage and we are concentrating more on our juniors”, said Mr Abdul Malik Bin Haji Abdul Ghani, president of the Malaysian Rowing Association who is in the city to attend the Asian Rowing Congress scheduled to be held on December 16.

Mr Ghani, who has come to Chandigarh along with two umpires, said he would suggest that the Asian junior meet should be made an annual feature. Mr Ghani said their rowers did not turn up since Ramzan clashed with the championship. Another point which he proposals to raise at the Congress is organising the Asian meet before December in order to have more participation. He said in their country, they had only one six-lane rowing course conforming to international standards at Kuala Lumpur while at other places makeshift arrangements are made. Mr Abdul Ghani, who is Director Sports in the University of Technology, Malaysia, at Kuala Lumpur revealed that in their country they organised competitions at three levels — state, university and club level. At present, three kinds of tournaments are being held — nationals (for seniors and juniors) and inter-varsity meets. He said in their country at the school level they did not encourage rowing competitions because the normal age for rowing in their country was 14 plus. He said emphasis was generally laid on height since it helped a rower in gaining better control in rotating.

Mr Ghani said apart from national and Asian meets, they also send their teams for the South East Asian Rowing Meet where teams from Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam and Malaysia complete. The meet will be held in 2001 in Malaysia.

Referring to financial support to the rowers, Mr Ghani said priority was accorded to football, squash and badminton but government aid for rowing was being extended. He said at the beginning of the year, they chalked out the programme for competitions and got financial support. He said the corporate sector was still not giving much support to rowing.

On the question of coaches in Malaysia, he said that at present they had six level III rowing coaches but more coaches to train the youngsters were needed.

When asked about the supremacy of Chinese rowers he said it was due to government support but in Malaysia the rowers had to depend on the associations. He said next year the Malaysian team would certainly take part in the VIIth Asian Junior Rowing Meet to be held in China. He was all praise for the Sukhna Lake course and hoped that more youngsters would take to rowing.

GGSCW-26 secure 29 points
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Dec 14 — GGS College for Women, Sector 26, Chandigarh, won the overall championship by securing 29 points in the Panjab University inter-college weightlifting championship, which concluded here today. Government College for Girls, Sector 11, secured second place with 15 points, while MCM DAV College for Women, Sector 36, were third with 8 points and Dev Samaj College for Women, Sector 36, got fourth place.

The other results are: below 48 kg —Seema Rani (GGS-W,Chd) 1, Navira Bhatia (GCG-42) 2, Parveen (Dev Samaj-36) 3, Rajinder Kaur (GCG-11) 4; below 53 kg — Anita (GGD SD-32) 1, Sneh Lata (GGS-W, Chd) 2, Vipin Gulia (GCG-11) 3, Mamta (MCM DAV-36) 4; below 58 kg — Geeta Rawat (GGS-W,Chd) 1, Veena (DS-36) 2, Leena Saini (MCM-36) 3, Komal Dhull (GCG-11) 4; below 63 kg — Munshadi Khatubn (GGS-W) 1, Saroj Bala (GCG-11) 2, Punam Rani (DS-36) 3, Shinderpal Kaur (Ramgarhia-Ludhiana) 4; below 69 kg — Madhulika (GGS-W) 1, Sangeeta Tushir (GCG-11) 2, Jagdeep Bawa (MCM-36) 3; below 75 kg — Sarbjit Kaur (GCG-11) 1, Jasvir Kaur (GCG-42) 2, Manpreet Kaur (Ramgarhia-Ludhiana) 3; Bhagwanti (GGS-W) 4; above 75 kg —Harpreet Kaur (GGS-W) 1, Renu Raikhy (MCM-36) 2.

Volleyball meet

AG Haryana outplayed AG Delhi at 25-8, 25-13, 25-17 in the North Zone (IA and AD) volleyball championship which began here today. In the second match, AG HP defeated AG Punjab 25-22, 25-23, 25-22. In the last match, AG UP beat AG Haryana 18-25, 25-12, 28-26, 25-11.

ADMINISTRATION

PUDA nets Rs 8.73 lakh through auction
From Our Correspondent

SAS NAGAR, Dec 14— PUDA earned a revenue of over Rs 8.73 crore by disposing of 30 freehold commercial sites at an auction held here today.

A total of 35 sites had been put to auction. They were in Phases II, V, VII, IX, X and XI.

An SCF site measuring 16 ft, 6 inches by 66 ft for general trade in Phase VII fetched Rs 87 lakh against the reserve price of Rs 42,27,300. However, another site having the same measurements and the same reserve price in Phase VII could fetch only 63 lakh. All the five SCF sites in the phase were auctioned.

In Phase XI also all the SCF sites put to auction were disposed of. Though the sites here were meant for semi-industrial use the measurements were the same as those in Phase VII. The maximum bid in Phase XI was Rs 41.40 lakh while the minimum was Rs 36.10 lakh. The reserve price here was Rs 35,05,500.

In Phase X PUDA had put three SCF sites and eight booth sites to auction. All the SCF sites were disposed of, but the authorities were able to sell only three booth sites. The maximum bid an SCF site of general trade in this phase could fetch was Rs 55.25 lakh and the minimum Rs 53.10 lakh. The reserve price here was Rs 45,04,500. One of the three booth sites was sold of for Rs 13.10 lakh while the other two fetched Rs 12.70 lakh each. The reserve price in this case was Rs 12,07,100.

In Phase V all the three booth sites meant for auction were sold of. The maximum bid in this case was Rs 7.75 lakh and the minimum was Rs 7.11 lakh. Each booth site measured 8 ft, 3 inches by 24 ft, 9 inches and the reserve price was Rs 6,57,900. A single SCF site in Phase II was also disposed of.

All the 10 booth sites meant for semi-industrial use in Phase IX were also sold of. The maximum bid in this phase was Rs 8.25 lakh and the minimum was Rs 7.35 lakh against the reserve price of Rs 6,85,800.