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PGI staff seek backlog promotion scheme Chandigarh, July 11 These include second backlog promotion scheme with effect from January 1, 1993, uniform CCA as per settlement dated February 5, 1997, wages for forced, legal and justified strikes from 1990-1996 as recommended by the high-powered committee on October 4, 1997, and implementation of Part B of the fourth and fifth Central Pay Commission. The union has also demanded overtime allowance to shift duty and immediate implementation of cadre review report of the engineering staff and grant of hospital care allowance to the group A and B of the non-faculty staff. According to its general secretary, Mr Ashwini
Munjal, there should be an immediate implementation of October 10, 1999, orders by Dr
A.K. Patel, former Union Health Minister, revoking deemed suspension, grant of benefit of past services to the employees of sanatorium in
Kasauli, implementation of cadre review report of sweepers, ward servants and security guards and immediate decision on the Bakshi committee constituted by the institute body on April 6, 1999, for the non-faculty staff subsequent to the Fifth Pay Commission report. |
Free cardiac consultancy SAS Nagar, July 11  |
Golfers prepare for National
Games Chandigarh, July 11 The first camp with nine young, budding and competition-hardened golfers was formerly inaugurated by Mr Rajan Kashyap, President of the Chandigarh Olympic Association, at the CGA Golf Range this evening. The function was attended among others by senior functionaries of the Chandigarh Olympic Association, members of CGA, prominent sports personality of the region and a large number of CGA Golf Range members. Briefing the players and the gathering, Mr D.P. Azad, Dronacharya Awardee and president of the Chandigarh Golf Association, said the present camp would be of 15 days. At the end of the camp the CGA team would be shortlisted to six (including two reserve). These six players will participate in two IGU conducted categorised tournaments to be held in South India from August 5. On return, the second camp will get under way and will continue till the start of the competition. Mr Kashyap was conducted around the CGA Golf Range by Senior Vice-Presidents J.S. Cheema and Rajiv Bali. He saw the facilities available at the range. Mr Daljit Singh, Vice-President, Lt-Col B.S. Chahal (retd) Mr J.S. Sukhija, along with Mr D.D. Khanna and Mr Vivek Vahi explained the operations of the Driving Range to Mr Kashyap. The camp will be conducted by Mr Harmeet Kahlon, professional golfer, and Col Nirmal
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Indoor tennis courts in Mohali
soon Chandigarh, July 11 While talking to Chandigarh Tribune Mr Bedi said he was always in favour of providing more opportunities and latest facilities to the sportspersons. He said the idea about converting hall into synthetic court for tennis came into his mind while watching an ITF tennis meet at tennis stadium, Sector 10, which had to be postponed due to heavy rain. He said they already had the indoor hall which was used for badminton and other indoor sports on a wooden floor. When he discussed the proposal with Mr Rajan Kashyap, Chairman, Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association last year, Mr Kashyap liked the idea and advised him to go for deco-turf synthetic courts. He said the CLTA replaced its two centre courts with deco-turf surface and this year big event namely the ATP Challenger, ITF women circuit and ITF juniors event were organised. He said the two courts would be first laid with charcoal and then the final layers with synthetic material would be laid. The Principal said though he was also planning an indoor hall in his Sector 41 school, Chandigarh, where the outdoor sports facilities were being provided in different sports like basketball, hockey, volleyball, ball badminton and yoga. He further said for nearly 10 years they had successfully run the National Talent Sport Contest scheme of the Sports Authority of India in various disciplines. Now for the past two years they had been running the Shivalik hockey academy and Rajpal Singh, a player in the Indian junior hockey team, was the product of their academy. Last year, the volleyball academy was started and Sunil Kumar, who is also in Indian youth team, belonged to their academy. Mr Bedi said he was of the view that in order to give more emphasis on creating specific need-based academies in different disciplines, this year the school has started basketball academy. When asked about the facilities given to the players, he said free lodging, boarding, education and training were given to them. Just they have to do training sincerely with hard work. He said after the indoor tennis courts completion, they would go in for tennis academy and they were also planning one outdoor synthetic court with same material. |
Encroachments
removed Panchkula, July 11 The operation began with HUDA employees arriving at the Sector 9 market around noon along with police personnel. While most shopkeepers had removed their belongings from the corridors, the remaining were taken away during the special drive. While there was no resistance from any other shopkeeper, a sweetmeat shop owner opposed the taking away of his utensils and tandoor, following which the Estate Officer, Mr D.P. Singh, was called in to settle the dispute and his belongings in the passage were impounded. HUDA had received directions from the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commissioner, New Delhi, to remove the encroachments in corridors following a case against the sweetmeat preparations by the shopkeeper. In this particular case, a neighbouring electrical goods shop owner had stated that cooking of eatables by the sweetmeat shop owner was responsible for his blindness, caused by the resulting smoke. Following the complaint, the forum had directed HUDA to remove all encroachments from the corridors of markets and submit an affidavit for the same by July 31. Later, the enforcement staff cleared the Sectors 10 and 14 markets without any hassle. |
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Poor response to housing board
scheme Chandigarh, July 11 With tomorrow being the last day for submission of applications, about 3,000 applications each have been received for the 336 Category I (HIG) and 600 Category II (MIG) flats. This is perhaps the poorest response to any of the CHB schemes so far as thousands of persons had applied for earlier schemes of the board, sources said. Under the scheme, the category I (HIG) allottees will have to shell out 80% of the total cost at the time of the physical possession while the Category II(MIG) allottees would be required to pay up 60% under the self-financing system. It may be recalled that the CHB had come out with the scheme in May this year. Under the scheme, the ground floor HIG flats are priced at Rs 13.47 lakh and the upper storey flats at Rs 11.48 lakh. The ground floor MIG flats are priced at Rs 10.86 and the upper storey flats at Rs 9.28 lakh. The sources added that the response to both schemes was far below the expectations of the board, whose earlier schemes had evoked an overwhelming response with the schemes being oversubscribed 20 to 30 times. Apart from the high cost, particularly in the case of MIG flats, whose cost has virtually doubled in the past about five years, another factor responsible for the poor response was the “faulty design” under which there was no rear courtyard and inadequate parking space for the allottees. In the flats constructed by the CHB earlier, the rear courtyard used to be a major incentive and a majority of the ground floor allottees constructed an extra room in their dwelling units. The maintenance of more “common area” for a block of allottees is also likely to pose problems as the ground-floor allottees might encroach upon it. Sources, on the other hand, argued that with the Chandigarh Administration transferring the land at the rate of Rs 2,500 per square yard for the present scheme, there was hardly anything the board could do to reduce the prices. |
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Money released Panchkula, July 11 |
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