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April 14, 2001, Chandigarh, India
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Health campaign
from April 16 Panchkula, April 13 According to Panchkula Deputy Commissioner Jyoti Arora, the prime aim of the campaign was to spread awareness about
sexually transmitted diseases. She said about 2.66 lakh people were expected to be examined. A total of 1.20 lakh residents would he benefited, she added. The DC also claimed that people in the age group of 15 to 49 would be treated free of cost for certain diseases during the campaign covering as many as 257 villages. Patients would also be given free medicines for STDs. Giving details of the drive, the DC stated that special camps would be held in Kalka, Pinjore, Old Panchkula, Morni, Raipur Rani, Hangola, Barwala, Kot and Indira colony. The Civil Surgeon
and Vice Chairman of the campaign, Dr HC Nagpal, said that the first phase of the campaign would be inaugurated by Mr Pradeep Chaudhary, INLD General Secretary, at the Primary Health Centre,
Pinjore. |
BCCI panel in
city Chandigarh, April 13 They met the members from the three associations in Chandigarh. At present the UT Cricket Association was controlling affairs in Chandigarh, which also had two Chandigarh Cricket Associations, one
affiliated to the Haryana Cricket Association, and the other to Punjab Cricket Association respectively. Committee members include Shiv Lal Yadav, former test player and a senior functionary of the Hyderabad Cricket Association; Ratnakar Shetty, joint secretary of the Mumbai Cricket Association and Mr Sharad Dhiwadkar, executive secretary of the BCCI. The fact-finding committee would submit its report before April 24 when the BCCI meeting would be held. It may be recalled that the decision to grant separate affiliation to Chandigarh was taken at the annual general meeting of the BCCI held in September last. Mr Yadav later told reporters that the facilities at Chandigarh were at par with the best fields in the country. The UT Cricket Association was represented by Mr S.S. Bawa and former Ranji player, Rakesh Jolly, and the visiting team was taken around various facilities in the city such as Punjab Engineering College, Sector 12, Panjab University, DAV College, Sector 10 and the Sector 16 Cricket stadium. They were reportedly grilled for two hours and visiting members asked them about the functioning of the association. Earlier, Mr Surinder Singh Baijee, representing CCA with HCA and Mr Vicky Bajwa from CCA affiliated to PCA highlighted their viewpoint on granting affiliation to them and agreed to have a panel on a joint basis for the promotion of cricket in the city.
Dera Bassi Police-public
athletic meet The two-day police-public athletic meet, organised by the Dera Bassi police, concluded here yesterday. Apart from police teams, a number of village teams comprising social organisations, youth clubs and other groups participated in different rounds of kabaddi, volleyball and tug of war. Mr Harpreet Singh Sidhu, SSP, Patiala, who was the chief guest, said that efforts were being made to make police public friendly and such events would also be organised in future. Later, he gave away prizes to the winning teams. |
No
takers for five parking lots Chandigarh, April 13 According to information available, there were no takers for the same, for the bidders present during the auction told officials that the reserve price fixed for the same was rather high. The same will now come up in the Finance and Contract Committee ( F and CC) for a review and further reduction. The bidders also pointed out that the charges of car parking should also be enhanced from Rs 5 to Rs 10 for these sites are exclusively for cinema parking. Keeping in view few cinema-goers the bidders are even finding it difficult to recover the reserve prices paid by them to bag the contract of a site. Earlier, the MC had netted a total of Rs 6.60 lakh in the re-auction of the sites adjoining District courts, Kiran and Jagat cinema halls. For the parking site adjacent to the District Courts complex, the MC got highest bid of Rs 4 lakh against the reserve price of Rs 2.20 lakh. All sites are now with MC instead of the cinema-owners. The lease period of the parking sites has already expired and the same were to be auctioned for further one year to the highest bidders through open auction. |
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MC chief ‘issuing baseless statements’ SAS Nagar, April 13 The councillors said at a press
conference here that the president, Mr Kulwant Singh, that been claiming that the Department of Local Bodies had rejected the resolution passed by the council reducing the water and sewerage charges. They said no such intimation had been received by the council from the department. The councillors — Mr Manjit Singh, vice-president, Mr Sukhdev Singh Patwari, Mrs Harbans Kaur, Mr Manmohan Singh Lang and Mr Tirlochan Singh, said the president was trying to “provoke” residents against the department by issuing such wrong statements. They said they had submitted a memorandum to the Director of the department on March 30 demanding complete withdrawal of the hike in the charges. They claimed that the Director had assured that the demand would be considered by the department. The councillors said that Mr Kulwant Singh had no right to declare that the work of octroi collection would be given to private parties as no such resolution had been adopted by the civic body or instructions to this effect received from the government. They accused the president of failing to recover the penalty, equivalent to 20 times the octroi amount, from an industrial unit power owner who had evaded octroi on March 29. They said the president had merely suspended two clerks in this connection. |
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