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HEALTH

Show-cause notices to 20 chemists
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh , June 20
The Director, Health Services, UT Administration, has issued show-cause notices to 20 chemists in the Union Territory who are suspected to be running their shops without holding valid licences of a qualified pharmacist.

According to Dr Rameshwar Chander, DHS, UT Administration, most of these chemists who have been identified are operating from the periphery and villages of the city and have registered their shops on the names of pharmacists who do not even man the counters. A qualified pharmacist should be essentially present behind the counter to issue medicines and write bills, asserts Dr Chander.

Interestingly, many city chemists are running the shops on the behalf of their wives who are the ones actually holding the pharmacist degrees and have the licences for running the shops.

It is learnt that the DHS office had been receiving many complaints against these “fake chemists”. The Chandigarh Chemists Association had also sometime back urged the DHS to take action against such persons as they posed danger to human life.

Dr Chander asserts that chemist shops have to be run by persons holding technical degrees and licences and who are always physically present at the shop.

Meanwhile, he also said that following issuance of these show-cause notices, surprise visits will be conducted on these shops. Any chemist shop not being manned by a qualified pharmacist will face suspension and even cancellation of their licences.

CBI raids PGI lab
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh , June 20
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today raided one of the laboratories in the PGI. Sources said the team found hundreds of unaccounted stents, used in the opening of blocked arteries in the heart, of different sizes.

The raid which started in the morning continued till the evening. It was conducted by a DSP of the CBI along with PGI officials. The officials have sealed the stents and further investigations are on.

There had been talk for the past few months that PGI patients were being supplied with stents and other items used in heart surgery at exorbitant rates. Efforts by the TNS to contact Cardiology Department doctors of the PGI proved to be in vain.

ADMINISTRATION

Allotment panel invites objections
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 20
The Secretary of the Haryana House Allotment Committee today invited objections from the eligible Haryana Government employees in a tentative seniority list prepared by it for the allotment of type I, II and III houses at Panchkula and Sector 39 of Chandigarh.

A spokesman of the committee said the seniority list had been put up on the notice board of the House Allotment Committee and was also available in the offices of the Administrative Officer, Haryana Civil Secretariat, and the Under Secretary, Revenue, New Secretariat, Sector 17, Chandigarh.

The officials concerned can consult the list from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on any working day and submit their objections, if any, to the House Allotment Committee by June 29 so that the seniority list could be finalised. No objections would be entertained by the committee after June 29.

3 lakh spent under Indira Awas Yojna
Our Correspondent

Panchkula, June 20
The District administration has spent Rs 3,90,000 under the Indira Awas Yojna to construct houses during the last financial year.

An official spokesman said that under the Indira Awas Yojna, a number of people living below poverty line had benefited. He said that under this scheme 10 houses had been constructed in Baldwala, Thathar, Tikker, Katli, Shergujra, Shire ka Bas and Agri villages. A sum of Rs 10, 000 had been spent to renovate houses in villages, including Jabal, Chirwala, Marog, Bagwali, Kathi, Bal, Kot, Bhur, Chalon, Kandern, Bhinwar, Marar, Thathar, Mau Dayana and Chhamla villages.

He said that under the PRI scheme Rs 69, 450 would be spent on construction of irrigation tank and drains in Bhoj Kudana. Apart from this Rs 1,64, 893 had been spent on the construction of a school wall and on streets in Madhna and Shrine Ka Bas. He said that the work of the projects was in progress.

A sum of Rs 87,000 and Rs 48,000 had been spent on the construction of streets of Chamarwa and Mandhna villages under the EAS scheme recently. A water tank was being constructed at a cost of Rs 1 lakh in Bhiwar village. A sum of Rs 1,58, 900 had been spent on the construction of chaupals in Thakurdwara and Bhogpur villages and streets in Thar village.

Under the HRDF scheme an amount of Rs 2,73,900 had been spent on the construction of streets in Dhandhoot, Kharta, Dandoli, Bhoori, Chhamla, Late and Bhret villages. Under the de-plan scheme a sum of Rs 2,31,000 had been spent on the construction of school rooms and streets in Samrotha, Tikkar, Dhaman, Dhandog, Morni and Thar village.

22 jhuggis removed
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 20
The enforcement staff of the UT Estate Office today removed 22 jhuggis which had sprung up recently behind the Sector 26 grain market and 14 others from Kamal Colony, Palsora.

Besides this, 17 banners and eight advertisement boards were also removed from various parts of the city, particularly along the roadside and shopping areas. As many as 350 posters of the recently released film Gadar were also removed from around the cinema hall in Sector 17. A total of 13 rickshaws were impounded for plying without proper licence.

The MC enforcement wing, meanwhile, issued 102 challans. These include 26 challans of the rehri-phari vendors in Mani Majra, 39 in Sectors 11, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 and about 37 in southern sectors.

464 cr for uplift of safai karamcharis
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 20
A sum of Rs 464 crore has been placed at the disposal of the Rashtriya Safai Karamchari Ayog for the uplift of safai karamcharis, Mr Subhash Dawre, a member of the ayog, said here today.

Addressing a press conference here, Mr Dawre stated that Mr Bill Clinton, a former President of the USA, had donated Rs 400 crore for the betterment of the safai karamcharis and their families.

He said the Central Government was planning to provide Rs 50,000 per safai karamchari at 4 per cent rate of interest for buying three-wheelers or start any subsidiary industry.