SPORT

Dev Samaj girls surge ahead
Our Sports Reporters

Chandigarh, May 4
Hosts Dev Samaj Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 21, surged ahead with two fine wins in the league section of the girls section of the UT Mini-State Basketball Championship being played here at the basketball courts of ISDSS-21.

Results:

Boys’ section: Moti Ram Arya School, Sector 27, beat St Stephen’s-45, 24-9; New Public School, Sector 18, beat Shishu Niketan-22, 36-1; St Xavier’s Senior Secondary School, Sector 44, beat Government Model High School, Sector 26, 26-10.

Girls’ section: ISDSSS-21 beat Government Model School, Sector 16, 20-13; Dev Samaj-21 defeated Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, 33-2; and Government Model High School, Sector 26, defeated Sacred Heart School, Sector 26, 12-1.

Cricketers honoured
The UT Cricket Association today honoured its boys (under-14 section) who stood runners-up place in the National School Games held in February last at Vijaywada (Andhra Pradesh). Col A.S. Judge gave away the prizes to players and asked them to continue with their efforts in times to come.

In this meet, Sumit Dhiman and Simranjit S. Bathlana were declared the best batsman and the best all-rounder, respectivley.

Those honoured included Sumit Dhiman, Simranjit S. Bathlana, Amit Prashar, Anupam Gambhir, Simranjit S. Bawa, Gurkirat Singh, Naresh Kumar, Karan Sofat, Abhijeet Singh, Simranjeet Sidhu, Arun Roy, Amanjot Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Rajnish Sharma,Narinder Khokhar and S. Thapa.

Cricket tournament
The Mohali Cricket Association, SAS Nagar, outplayed the Chandigarh Sports Club by 49 runs in the Pandit Chaman Lal Advocate Memorial Cricket Tournament, the semifinal matches of the same were played here today at SAS Nagar. Mandeep was the top scorer for winners. He scored 80 runs.

Brief scores: MCA: 211 for four in 40 overs (Mandeep 80, Sunny 33, Simranjit Bathlana 35, Gauravjeet 36); CSC-16:162 all out (Nitin 33, Simrandeep 25, Parminder 3 for 21, Nikhil 2 for 35, Pankaj 3 for 17).

Race events
Veena Yadav in the girls’ section and Naresh Kumar in the boys’ section won the races conducted by the UT Sports Department here on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Roger Bannister, a world record holder in one-mile race, here today at the Sukhna Lake. Mr Ajmer Singh (Arjuna awardee) flagged off the race and gave away the prizes to winners.

ADMINISTRATION

Bhabhat to be part of Zirakpur civic body?
Our Correspondent

Zirakpur, May 4
After a long wait, it seems that the dream of Bhabhat village residents, to be a part of the Zirakpur Nagar Panchayat, has started turning into reality as the Punjab government has proposed to issue a notification to include the village within the civic body’s limits.

The proposed notification states that the Governor was willing to include Bhabhat village, which presently falls in the jurisdiction of Mohali tehsil of Ropar district, within the Zirakpur Nagar Panchayat limits.

Keeping in view the density of population, the revenue generation for local administration, the percentage of employment in non-agricultural activities, the economic importance and overall development of the area in a planned manner, the government had planned to include the village within the limits of the civic body.

The proposal has also described the boundaries of the village to be merged with the seven other villages constituting the Nagar Panchayat. The government has also sought objections, if any from the inhabitants and effected parties in writing, favouring the Principal Secretary to the Punjab Government, Department of Local Government, within a period of 30 days from the publication of notification.

It may be recalled that the Bhabhat panchayat had been excluded from the Zirakpur Nagar Panchayat when the civic body was formed in 1999. Since then it had been seeking mergence with seven other villages, Zirakpur, Lohgarh, Himmatgarh, Bishanpura, Bishangarh, Bartana and Dhakauli, to form the civic body.

The Bhabhat panchayat had filed a writ petition in Punjab and Haryana High Court saying that the village had a population of over 10,000 and shared major facilities with other villages which were merged to constitute the Nagar Panchayat.

Later, the notification for the constitution of the Nagar Panchayat was quashed by the High Court.

The Punjab government then re-issued a notification for the constitution of the civic body in June last year and the civic body started functioning again.