HEALTH

Registration date of nursing homes extended
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 10
The date for registration of hospitals (both government and private) and nursing homes under the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Act has been extended till July 15.

The Director Family Welfare, Dr M.P Minocha, said today that all nursing homes, which are having genetic clinic, counselling and genetic laboratory, to get registered with the Director Health Services, UT, by July 15 positively. The application forms are available in the office of Director Family Welfare, Health Centre, Sector 22, on all working days. The registeration of the diagnostic centres, nursing homes and laboratories will enable them to identify the places from where the bio-medical waste is to be collected before transporting the same to the PGI.

It may be recalled that the nursing homes in the city had recently reached an agreement with the PGI for incineration of their bio-medical waste. Following this the Central Pollution Control Committee had asked them to get authorisation certificates before June 15 so that the bio-medical waste can be disposed off scientifically after proper segregation.

Further to solve the problem of transportation, the Indian Medical Association ( IMA) had tied up with a Delhi-based firm for delivering the bio-medical waste from the backyard of the nursing homes to the incinerator at the PGI at the cost of Rs 20 per kg.

SPORTS

A budding shuttler 
Arvind Katyal

Chandigarh, July 10
Prerak Sharma has, over a period of time, shown consistent improvement in playing badminton and his recent tour to Czech Republic for participation in the International Youth Tournament has made him more confident of his abilities as a player and person as a whole. Prerak (II) is a student of Hansraj Public School, Panchkula, and took to badminton at the age of seven and had his initial coaching at the badminton court of Community Centre Sector 7, Panchkula.

It was Ravinder Kapoor, coach with the Department of Sports, who has moulded Prerak to a promising young player. Mention must also be made of his Principal Rajni Thareja for extending all help as far as school was concerned. The District Badminton Association, Panchkula and also the State Association for the game had also promoted him by giving him exposure through various tournaments.

In 1999, Prerak played in the Haryana Open at Rohtak when she was only nine years old. In the following year he became a runner-up in the under-10 singles event in the Pachkula District Championship. He was a member of Hansraj Public School team which had in August last won the inter-school team championship in which schools from Panchkula and SAS Nagar had participated. He had another feather in his crown when he helped his school in securing a third place at CBSE schools meet at Delhi.

Last year in November, he played in the Tara Chand Memorial meet at Panchkula and created a sensation by defeating Dhruv, defending champion in under-10 category.

In the Haryana State Open Championship, last year, Prerak had been able to secure good place in the singles section. Prerak said his grandfather and father had all the time been encouraging him and he wanted to mould his game on the style of Prakash Padukone and P. Gopichand, who, he said were his idols.

His recent visit abroad has proved a turning-point for him. He said he played and trained with European players. Though he was the youngest of all players yet the Czech players encouraged him and exchanged various tips on the game. He was all praise for the coaching being imparted by the Czech coaches who he said combined both theoretical and practical in an astonishingly player friendly way.

Prerak said badminton was very popular in the Czech Republic and that there was a badminton hall in almost every city. He was very appreciative of Coach Surinder Mahajan of Sports Authority of India who had accompanied the team abroad and who had proved a great help in rectifying his weak-points. He said he was practising, hard to live upto the expectations of his coaches, parents and school.

14 football trainees selected
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, July 10
The two-day trials conducted by the Sports Authority of India to select football trainees for DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, concluded here today with 14 boys in the age group of eight to 14 finally being recommended for the approval of the corporate office, SAI Delhi. More than 80 trainees drawn from neighbouring states had taken part in the trials. The students will have the option to avail the day-boarding facility and free training to be imparted by SAI coaches.

Karate team

The Sports Karate Federation of India has selected eight men and four women players to represent Indian karate team for its participation in the 6th World Games-2001, Japan, from August 16 to 19, on the basis of the trials held recently at rink hall in Patiala.

Members of the team are: men—Ramandeep Singh, Mahesh Gurung, Satish Dalal, Charanjit Singh, Rakesh Kumar, Anil Kaushik, Ravind Kaushik and Gopal Krishan.

Women — Neelima Sharma, Vivek Yadav, Sheetal Hansari and Shabana Zaidi.

ADMINISTRATION

Encroachments removed
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, July 10
The Enforcement Department of the Estate Office, Haryana Urban Development Authority, removed encroachments by shopkeepers in the market corridors here today.

The exercise was carried out in the markets of Sectors 2, 6 and 8, with the employees clearing up the passages of the items. These were returned to the shopkeepers, this being the first time the officials took action.

The Assistant Estate Officer said the shopkeepers had been issued a warning against encroaching upon this space in the corridors. “We have told them that their belongings will be taken away next time if they fail to comply with directions,” he said. The Estate Officer was also present in Sector 8 while the operation was on.

The removal of encroachment was filmed by the department to submit as evidence in court since directions for the same had come by way of an order of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commissioner, New Delhi. HUDA had been asked to file an affidavit and compliance report of the orders by July 31.

85 challans issued
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 10
The enforcement wing of the Municipal Corporation today issued 85 challans in various parts of the city.

These include 39 challans of the rehriwalas in northern sectors, including Sectors 4, 9, 10, 11, 15 and 16; the PGI and lake; 19 in the southern areas of Ram Darbar Sector 39 and 27 and in Mani Majra.

The staff also seized their goods lying on the MC land in the public verandahs.