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WAC win handball championship Chandigarh, June 7 For the winners Rana (6), Gurnele (6) and Ranganathan (3) were the main scorers while for the losers Godwin (6), Arjun (6) and Jagdish (3) reduced the margin. Jagdish of the Maintenance Command was declared the best player of the tournament. Air Cdre V.S. Govindrajan distributed the prizes. At the conclusion of the championship the probables for the Air Force team for the All-India Inter-Services Handball Championship, to be held at Pune, were selected. The following are the probables: Sunder Rajan (WAC), Uttam (SWAC), Naushad (WAC), Sachin (TC), Jaipal (CAC), R. K. Sharma (WAC), S. Chandran (MC), Gena (WAC), Rajesh (WAC), Zibi (EAC), Vinoy (EAC), P.K. Singh (Hq), Anand Roy (SWAC), F.R. Gurnela (WAC), Arjun (MC), Jayesh (MC) and Ranganathan (WAC).  |
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Probables for Chandigarh golf team Chandigarh, June 7 Twentyfour golfers participated in the trials at the Chandigarh Golf club on June 6 and 7. Mr Inderpal Singh, Assistant Secretary, Chandigarh Sports Council was the observer for the Chandigarh Sports Council. Those selected: Sujjan Singh, Sandeep Sandhu, Girish Virk, Nitin Mittal, Navtej Singh and Dinesh Kumar. Giving this information to The Tribune, Mr DP Azad, President of the CGA, said, names of two more golfers — Harinder Gupta and Navjot Mann — would be included in the coaching camp as at present they were playing abroad. The final team will be selected after watching their performance in the camp as well as in the various tournaments they will be playing. |
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Under-15 badminton squad Chandigarh, June 7 He said from June 11 to 18, these players will also have a training camp where he along with other coaches of the world, will have a mixed camp. There will be a seminar and inter-action with badminton experts on these days. The team: Apoorav Prakash, Gaurav Sharma, Vipul Saini, Oscar Bansal and Prerak Sharma, Girls: Samridhi Mahajan and Neha Sethi. |
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Cricket
match washed out Chandigarh, June 7 The match will now be played on June 9 at the same venue. The final of ‘A’ division and the prize distribution ceremony of the tournament will be held on June 17 at the Cricket Stadium, Sector 16. |
MC responsible for its losses SAS Nagar, June 7 Over the past several years the civic body has not charged a single penny from unauthorised taxi stands in the town. As per the records of the civic body, only six of the over 21 taxi stands were paying the lease money, resulting in a revenue loss running into lakhs of rupee. Sources in the civic body said during 1987 when the civic body was headed by an Administrator, sites were allotted on lease. The allotments were made after the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) earmarked the sites. The civic body was charging Rs 60 for raising a booth and Rs 30 per taxi for every month. Under the rules of the civic body the allotment were reviewed after one year and a private vehicle found parked at a taxi stand attracted a fine of Rs 500. The sites — mostly located near the road berms — were in possession of PUDA, but the allotment fee was being charged by the council. At least six sites in Sectors 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60 and 61 have been allotted in April 1987 for one year. Mr S.S. Grewal, President of the Taxi Operators Union, said only six taxi stands were permitted. The others were running in an unauthorised manner. Mr Kulwant Singh, President of the civic body, said since the land belonged to PUDA, the civic body did not have the powers to penalise the offenders. A survey report of the unauthorised taxi stands and the number of vehicles parked there was being sent to the district transport authorities for suitable action. He said the issue of allotting the remaining earmarked sites to the taxi stands would be taken up at the next meeting with the PUDA officials. The confusion between the civic body and PUDA over the allotment of the sites was to be sorted out, he said. It may pertinent to mention that last year PUDA had decided to auction taxi stand sites. Auctioning of sites for autorickshaw and rickshaw stands was also proposed by PUDA. The sources said a policy regarding the auctioning of the sites had already been approved at an Accounts and Finance Committee meeting of the authority then. The reserve price proposed for taxi stand had been fixed at Rs 100 per month for a taxi. In the case of an autorickshaw and rickshaw the proposed reserve price was Rs 50 and Rs 25 per month, respectively. The sites were to be leased for a period of one year. Though the sites had been identified but it could not be auctioned. Now the council wants that it should be allowed to allot and charge the lease money as it had to look after the maintenance works. |
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New tax on vehicles poses problems for ex-servicemen Chandigarh, June 7 As the CSDs are either located either in Ambala or Chandimandir — both in Haryana — a ruling of the Chandigarh Administration makes it mandatory for people purchasing vehicles in Haryana or any other state to pay a sort of entry tax at the rate of 13 per cent before the vehicle can be registered in the city. Several ex-servicemen purchase vehicles from Ambala, which is one of the biggest CSDs of the region. Naik Gurdip Singh, a resident of Behlana village, here purchased a Hero Honda motor cycle for Rs 35, 815 from the CSD Ambala. The market price of the motor cycle is Rs 38,815. But then he was asked by the UT Excise and Taxation Department to pay Rs 4,200 to get no objection certificate (NOC) for registration of the motor cycle. The tax is more than the Rs 3,000 discount he got from the CSD. Naik Gurdip Singh urged that the Administration should withdraw the tax as it was ‘‘incorrect, unjust, illegal and illogical’’. He demanded that the Administration should immediately withdraw the tax so that the city-based ex-servicemen could avail the CSD facilities from Ambala till alternative arrangements were made in any of the canteens of the city in the near future. |
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Transfer
of works hinges on survey SAS Nagar, June 7 A decision on the survey was taken at a meeting today between PUDA and Municipal Council officials in the office of the Additional Chief Administrator of PUDA. The survey will cover the water supply and sewer systems. Mr Kulwant Singh, Municipal Council President, said PUDA had been pressing the civic body to take over the works but the council had adopted a cautious approach. The civic body wanted that all the drawbacks in the water supply and sewer systems should be removed before the transfer. Complaints had been received from residents of the area that sewer pipes were chocked and the water from a few tubewells had sand content. Besides, it was not clear how many tubewells out of the 10 would be provided with gensets by PUDA. Officials of the Public Health Department said that according to norms 50 per cent of the tubewells should have gensets, while PUDA had put the figure at 25 per cent. The President said PUDA also wanted to hand over 135 MIG houses constructed by it in Phase X. He said that most of the parks in the town were with PUDA and only a few had been handed over to the civic body. The council wanted that either PUDA should develop the parks or hand them over to the former. At present only confusion prevailed which was hampering development work. He said if the officials of the engineering wing of the council wanted to carry out some development work in a park they claimed that the area was under them and on the other hand if they were not interested in the work they said that the park was under PUDA. Some decision in this regard would also be taken on Tuesday. Mr Kulwant Singh said after taking decision on these matters on Tuesday the issues would be kept on the agenda of the next meeting to be cleared by the house.
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