SPORT

St Stephen’s boys win six-a-side hockey meet
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Feb 4 — The six-a-side hockey tournament for school boys of Chandigarh and its periphery concluded today in the Sector 41 Shivalik Public School. The tournament was organised by an Indian hockey portal promoted by Sandeep Mishra, a journalist.

The tournament was aimed at encouraging youngsters to take up hockey. The matches were played on a basketball court that was turned into a small hockey field with goalposts of roller hockey.

Mr D.S. Bedi, Director-Principal of the school, said indoor hockey would be introduced in the SAS Nagar branch of the school after synthetic courts were laid there. He said the hall would also be used for tennis, badminton, volleyball and basketball.

The final match was played today under floodlights. In the juniors section, Speed Stephens of the Sector 45 St Stephen’s School beat Vivek Nights of Vivek High School, 8-1, after leading, 3-1, at halftime. Aseem scored five goals Gurparkash two and Deepanshu one. All matches of the meet were played with coloured balls. In the final of the seniors section today, Shivalik Lions beat Shivalik Tigers, 6-2, after leading, 5-1, at halftime. Balbir Singh, a former Olympian, was the chief guest. Tarlochan S.Bawa, another former Olympian was also there.

TT meet

On the second day of The Tribune Table Tennis Tournament here today, Rajiv Bajaj, Surinder Puri, Vinod Jaidhka and Parmod Lama entered the semi finals of the meet in above 40 age group. In the open singles, Munish beat Rajan and A.C. Bali to enter the last four.

Results: Above 40 Surinder Puri b A.P. Sodhi, 21-6, 21-17; Rajiv Bajaj b Anil Bhardwaj 21-15, 21-14.

Open singles: Munish b Rajan 21-16, 21-9; Munish b A.C. Bali, 21-15, 17-21, 21-14; Sukhvinder Sodhi b Vinay, 22-20, 26-24; Rajiv Bajaj b Tarun, 21-10, 21-12; Lucky doubles; Umesh and Raju b Arvind and AC Bali, 21-12, 15-21, 21-16; Navtej and Sushil Tewari b Ajay and Parkash, 21-18, 19-21, 21-18.

Open doubles: Munish and Sukhvinder Sodhi b Vikas Ghai and A.C. Bali, 21-17, 21-18; Arvind and Surinder Rawat b Vikas Ghai and AC Bali, 21-17, 21-8; Arvind and Surinder b Navtej and Ajay, 21-16, 21-14.

ADMINISTRATION

Power meters to be replaced
From Our Correspondent

PANCHKULA, Feb 4 — The Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam has decided to privatise the work of bill-distribution and meter-reading in this financial year and introduce paging services for receiving public complaints.

All electromagnetic meters are being replaced with electronic ones and Rs 3.5 crores will be spent on this project. More than 7,000 such meters have already been installed.

The department has also decided to introduce mobile complaint centres for public convenience. Consumers have been urged to get their unauthorised load regularised and replaced tampered under meters the VDS scheme.