Adolescent clinic at PGI
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 7
The PGI will start an adolescent clinic in the Advanced Paediatric Centre (APC) from July 18 to deal with the problems of adolescent of the city.

An official spokesperson of the PGI said the clinic would function on every Wednesday from 2 pm to 4 pm in room No: 6 and 7 at level D-III. The registration will be done at the reception counter of APC at 2 pm.

Since the adolescents comprise about 20 per cent of the population, they also have a unique set of health needs due to substantial physical, psychological and sexual development during adolescence. Hence, their health needs are unique such as problems related to the growth and development, nutrition, reproductive health, psychological problem and health risk behaviour etc.

Osteoporosis camp held, 210 examined
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 7
As many as 210 patients were examined at a free osteoporosis detection camp, organised by the Lions Club Chandigarh Vishal with the help of Elder Pharmaceutical Company on July 7 at a clinic, Sector 45-C.

An orthopaedician, Mr Mohinder Kaushal, was also available for free consultation along with Lion R.P. Gaba. The Regional Chairman of the Lions Club District 321 F inaugurated the camp.

Medicines, free of cost were also distributed.

SPORTS

SPORTS ROUND-UP
Tennis prodigy does city proud
Arvind Katyal

Chandigarh
It was a good week for tennis when Sunil Kumar Sipeya, reached the third round of Junior Wimbledon. It was Sunil’s first entry to Junior Wimbledon and he did the city proud with his valiant game. In the doubles, he paired well with Clinton Letcher of Australia and lost after a tough fight in the quarter-finals. In the singles he disposed of world number eight Florian Mayer of Germany. In the pre-quarterfinals, he went down fighting in three sets to a British player and his performance was praised by Ramesh Krishnan in his column.

Mr Rajan Kashyap, Chairman of the Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association, says: “This achievement has once again authenticated the success of our Rural Boys Scheme. It may be recalled that 18-year-old Sunil who belongs to Kapurthala was born in a lower middle class family. His father is an employee at the Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala. The CLTA, under its scheme to encourage rural boys, picked up this boy on the basis of talent search trials when he was nine years old. Years of hard work kept Sunil’s graph moving upwards, said Mr Kashyap.”

Shooting girls:
Local girl shooters, Sabeeha Dhillon and Chetan Preet, are back in the city after taking part in the 10th meeting of the Olympic Hopes Shooting Championship, Plzen (Czech republic). They took part in the 10 metres air rifle event and were placed 13th and 21st respectively. Sabeeha said though she was placed 13th, yet she scored 390 points out of 400 which was a good score at the international level. Sabeeha said she was struck by the perfection shown by a Czech girl, Ketrina, who shot 400 out of 400. She, however, was pained when some of her foreign friends asked her about the ranges here, and she had to tell a lie that they practised in air-conditioned ranges in India. It is an irony that the Sector 25 shooting range which has been there for many years, is without an indoor range and despite that shooters have shown good results.

Badminton camp ends:
The controversial national schools badminton camp ended on Saturday with 12 players and two coaches now ready to take off for the 3rd Asian Schools Badminton Championships in Malaysia. The players played on a wooden surface here, but in Malaysia they will have to play on synthetic surface. The organisers — the Schools Games Federation of India — seemed little perturbed over the situation and the head of the camp, TR Chauhan, was rarely seen there. There also were complaints of players being given sub-standard food though the daily allowance was fixed at Rs 150 per player. The Sports Authority of India’s regional office which sanctioned the camp, also did not seem serious about it, though the players stayed just 100 metres away from the SAI office.

Football association meeting
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, July 7
The Chandigarh Football Association held a meeting today at DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, which was presided over by its president Mr Ravinder Talwar. At the meeting it was decided to host Chandigarh state sub-juniors football championship for under-16 section in August which would be sponsored by Sanjay Public School, Sector 44.

The junior boys and girls championships would also be held in August and to be sponsored by SD Public school, Sector 32 and Shishu Niketan Senior Secondary School, Sector 22 Mr Rakesh Bakshi, secretary of the association, said Chandigarh senior league championship would be held in late August or September and would be organised by DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8. The state senior women championship would be in October and organised by the Deepak Kapania Memorial Trust. Mr Bakshi said the ‘B’ class and ‘C’ class referees’ examination would also be held this year in September.

ADMINISTRATION

MC launches special sanitation drive
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 7
The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC) has launched a special sanitation drive to step up cleanliness in the city and surrounding areas during the monsoons. The highlight of this month-long drive, which will conclude on July 28, is that senior officials of the MC are visiting various zones by rotation every week and action is recommended against those employees found missing from duty.

MC Commissioner, M.P Singh visited Zone No: 1 (7, 8, 18, 19, 26, 27, 28, Bapu Dham) today. Following his visit, he impressed upon the need to provide more trolleys to private contractors to lift garbage and more garbage containers in Bapu Dham Colony.

Assistant Commissioner-I Ashok Vashistha during his inspection to area in Zone No: 3 — Industrial Area,Phase-II, Ram Durbar, Colony No. 5, 44, 45, 46, 47, 34 and 21 yesterday had found that at least three employees had been absenting them selves from duty for long durations. Mr Vashishtha has asked the MOH to take disciplinary action against the erring staff for wilful absence, dereliction of duty and insubordination. He has already visited Zone No: 1 and 2.

A petrol pump owner in Sector 22 was challenged for burning garbage on the premises. The Commissioner said the exercise had been undertaken with a view to make the city clean and beautiful.

This will not only help us check the preparedness of the safai karamcharis but also make the common man more responsive towards his surroundings.

As part of the drive, the city has been divided into four zones. Even though no special teams of safai karamcharis have been constituted for these zones, the supervising officials are keeping a strict vigil on their performance.

According to sources in MC, the roster has been drawn in such a way that senior officials complete the visit to these four zones once every week. While the Commissioner, and Assistant Commissioner-I will visit the areas for two days every week, AC-II, Mr Ashwani Kumar and Medical Officer of Health, Mr G.C. Bansal will visit it once a week. The officials will take strict action against those found wanting in their duty.

55 PUDA men transferred
Tribune News Service

SAS Nagar, July 7
As many as 55 officials in the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) have been transferred as part of the general inter-departmental transfers.

Sources said some Executive Engineers have swapped places. Mr A.K. Jindal, DE (Design) has been transferred to DE (Headquarter-3). Mr Jatinder Mohan, DE (Headquarter-3) has been transferred to DE (Headquarter -1), Mr RK Jaidka , DE (Headquarter-1) has been posted as DE (Projects) at SAS Nagar, Mr DP Mittal, DE (Planning) SAS Nagar has been posted as DE (Planning and Design cell).

Five Subdivisional Engineers, seven Junior Engineers, three head draftsmen, four draftsmen have also been transferred. Four ADOs, three superintendents, two section officers, six senior assistants and four clerks have also been transferred.

Police holds camps, 263 complaints disposed of
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, July 7
As many as 263 complaints were disposed of at five nodal police stations during ‘alternate complaint resolution’ camps organised by the Chandigarh police here today. Registration of criminal cases in three complaints and preventive action in two cases were also recommended by the authorities during these camps.

The camps were held up at police stations of Sector 17, 34, 26, 17 and 11. The Deputy Superintendents of Police, Mr S S Randhawa (Central), Mr S C Sagar (South), Mr Surjit Singh (East), Mr B D Bector (EOW and CAW) and Mr S C Abrol (crime) were present at the nodal police stations. In addition SHOs, inspectors, in charge of units and inquiry officers were also present at the respective police stations. Prior notice was given to the complainants and the persons against whom the complaints were given.

The details of the complaints which were redressed include: Matrimonial and family disputes (32), land-lord - tenant disputes (45), property disputes (14), cheating and money transaction disputes (69), civil disputes (24) and miscellaneous (79).

The Senior Superintendent of Police, Mr Parag Jain, supervised the camps. Mr H G S Dhaliwal, Superintendent of Police (operations), supervised the camps at CAW and EOW. Mr B C Gupta, Judge Permanent Lok Adalat, visited the camps at police stations of Sectors 17 and 34. The local police plans to organise more such camps in future.

Kanodia repatriated
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 7
The Chandigarh Administration has ordered the repatriation of Mr R.L. Kanodia, Executive Engineer, Electricity Operations, to his parent state of Haryana. The repatriation has been ordered as a sequel to the order of the Central Administrative Tribunal that deputation period of neither Mr R.L. Kanodia (Haryana) nor Mr Arun Kumar Verma (Executive Engineer, Punjab) would be extended.

After repatriation of Mr Kanodia, the seniormost Assistant Executive Engineer, Mr D.P. Singh, has been given the current duty charge of Executive Engineer.

Carrying of plastic bags banned
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 7
Carrying of plastic bags and containers has been banned in the Sukhna wildlife sanctuary and also the city bird sanctuary, following an order issued by the Chandigarh Administration here yesterday. The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has issued instructions to the Administration to this effect.