SPORT

Physical Fitness Festival at PU
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, March 30
On the third day of the 10th Physical Fitness Festival of the Panjab University employees, being organised today at the university grounds, Administrative office cricket team outplayed Science Departments by one wicket.

Brief scores: Science department: Ashok Kumar 29, Ved Prakash 22, Anil Sharma 10, Rakesh Gupta 3 for 15, Rakesh 2 for 17, Munish Kumar 2 for 19, Naresh Kumar 2 for 23). Admn. Office:112 runs for nine wickets in 19 overs (Naresh Kumar 24,Vijay Rana 14, Dan Singh 14, Zaila Singh 11 n.o., Raj Kumar 10 no., Balwant 4 for 15).

In football also Administrative office team won the tournament by defeating Science Department by one goal to nil. Rajinder Saini scored the vital goal in 5th minute of the match.

Markfed sports meet

Hardaljit Singh Bains excelled in Markfed sports meet concluded recently. A former state-level badminton player, Bains, apart from winning men doubles badminton title held at Sector 42 Indoor hall, also clinched the singles table tennis title. In badminton, he partnered with SP Singh to outwit Charanjit and Rajesh Kumar in straight games. In TT singles final,

Bains surprised fancied JS Bhalla representing head office. He was also declared star player in the volleyball team championships. While representing Patiala, he helped his team secure second place.

Selection trials

The UT Sports Department will enrol fresh trainees for various coaching centres of the city being run by the department on the basis of selection trials to be conducted discipline wise by the concerned coaches from April 1 to 15. The interested trainees may contact the respective coaching centres from 3.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. on the above dates. This was stated by Mr J.P.S Sidhu, Joint Director, Sports, UT Administration.

ADMINISTRATION

Jhuggis removed from Zirakpur-Panchkula road
Our Correspondent

Zirakpur, March 30
Over 45 jhuggis, which had come up on panchayat land on the Zirakpur-Panchkula highway, were removed by the enforcement wing of the Zirakpur Nagar Panchayat, here today. Some of the jhuggis were as much as 20-year- old.

According to sources, a team of the enforcement wing started the four-hour-long operation against the jhuggi-dwellers and foot-path vendors on the Zirakpur-Panchkula road in the morning. A number of reharis and pharis were also removed from the encroached land, which had been earmarked for a proposed park.

Some of the dwellers started removing the jhuggis’ themselves and took the belongings to safer places as soon as the operation started. The jhuggi- dwellers were also seen collecting their belongings from the site as the drive ended.

They complained that the Nagar Panchayat authorities removed their jhuggis without prior notice. Mr Ram Singh, a jhuggi-owner, claimed that they had occupied the piece of land about 20 years ago and now had no shelter for their families.

It being a rainy day, they had to pass the nights in the open or pitch makeshift jhuggis. Small children were also seen collecting household goods and shifting what ever was left, to safer places.

The Nagar Panchayat authorities said the encroachers were given prior notices. The Zirakpur Nagar Panchayat has planned to develop a park at a cost of over Rs1 crore at the site from where the unauthorised jhuggis and reharis were removed, authorities claimed.

F&CC meeting
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh , March 30
While the Finance and Contract Committee (FCC) of the Chandigarh MC today approved the issue of land disposal in pockets 2 and 3 of Mani Majra for the Group Housing Society through auction, the long-pending issues pertaining to review of cable network policy and privatisation of streetlights for operation and maintenance remained deferred.

The issue regarding privatisation of street lights has figured in the FCC agenda nearly thrice before. Meanwhile, modernisation of slaughter houses, another long-pending agenda item, was approved today and details regarding prices of various items have also been sought by the committee.

The committee comprising Mayor Mr Rajkumar Goyal and councillors Ms Ranjana Shahi, Mr O.P. Goyal , Mr R. K. Aggarwal and Ms Surya Pandit cleared the proposal of disposal of land in pockets 2 and 3 by auction and the subsequent allotment to the middle-rung employees of the Corporation. It was proposed that the land be allotted at a rate of Rs 2,500 per square yard, which is also the rate at which UT Administration has allotted land to the various group housing societies.

Other agenda items approved by the Committee include, a Rs 8.89 lakh budget to provide for sanitation items for day-to-day use by field staff, as against Rs 11 lakh cleared last year. Besides, the long-pending issue regarding the use of open space adjoining hotels in the city was also discussed and the rates slashed by one third.

Other agenda items which were cleared today include publication of the quarterly news letter of the MC and purchase of one gypsy in lieu of the condemned vehicle under the charge of XEN (Public Health division 1), procurement of spare parts of pumps and motors for augmenting the water supply scheme of phase 3 at Kajauli water works. Supplementary agenda items, including approval of estimates worth Rs 67.80 lakh for augmenting pumping machinery at water works, Sector 32, were also cleared.

Other items cleared today include allotment of institutional sites in Pocket No 1 in Mani Majra at the rate of Rs 5,800 per square yard to the government, semi-government and corporation offices. Besides, condemned vehicles and machinery, auction prices were also slashed by 20 per cent.