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HEALTH

Prof Banerjee retires
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 31
The Head of the Histopathology Department, PGI, Prof Ashru Kumar Banerjee, retired after serving the institute for over 37 years.

He became Professor and Head of the Histopathology Department in 1986. Prof Banerjee has been a Commonwealth Fellow in 1969-70 and 1977-78. He has been on numerous administrative committees of the PGI, has to his credit over 200 publications in national and international journals and has contributed chapters in 10 books.

SPORTS

Table tennis meet from August 12
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, July 31
The Third Manav Mangal Open Table Tennis Tournament will be played from August 12 to 14 at Sector 23 TT hall. According to Mr Sanjay Sardana, Principal of the school. He said that more than 300 players drawn from the various states of the region are expected to take part in this meet. The events going to be conducted in boys and girls section are, cadet singles (u-12), sub-junior singles (u-14), junior singles (u-17) and men and women singles.

Mr Sardana said outstation players will be provided with free lodging facilities and meet to have four prizes in each group.

Entries close on August 8 at Sector 23 TT hall or Manav Mangal School, Sector 21, Chandigarh.

Weightlifting championship

The 45th Services Weightlifting Championship-2001 began here today evening at the LECHMA Auditorium, 3 BRD, with Indian Navy lifters dominating the first day of the meet. It was inaugurated by AVM H.S. Sidhu of Maintenance Command.

Results — 56 kg : snatch:G Murugan (IN) 105 kg 1; R Ravichandran (IN) 102.5 kg 2; MP Radhakrishnan (Army red) 100 kg 3; clean and jerk — G Murugan (Ind navy) 130 kg 1, R. Ravichandran (IN) 130 kg 2; MP Radhakrishnan (AR) 125 kg 3; total weight — G. Murugan (IN) 1, 235 kg ; Ravichandran (IN) 232.5 kg 2; MP Radhakrishnan (Army red) 225 kg 3.

Soccer tourney

Sanjay Public school, Sector 44, sailed into the final of the u-17 section of the pre-subroto Cup soccer tournament being played here today at football stadium, Sector 17. They blanked DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8 at 1-0 scored by Ram Bilas in 45th minute of the match.

Other results — u-14 : Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 22, beat Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 20-B, 4-0; Guru Nanak Public School, Sector 36, beat Government Model Senior Secondary School-23, 2-0; St Xavier’s SS-44 b DAVSSS-8 2-0.

New courts at YMCA

The YMCA Total Tennis Academy decided to have three new grass courts in the premises of YMCA, Sector 11, which will be functional by August 4. According to Mr Arvind Noel, secretary of the academy, the number of grass courts were on the decline due to its huge maintenance costs, but at TTA, the emphasis will be to groom tennis players at grass-root level.

ADMINISTRATION

Drive against illegal mining
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, July 31
A joint campaign against illegal mining would be launched by the staff of the Mines and Geology, Drainage, PWD (B and R), DFO, Kandi, Morni and Pinjore Department from August 8.

Directing officials at a meeting of officers of these departments, the Deputy Commissioner, Ms Jyoti Arora, asked the District Mining Officer to prepare a map, demarcating the prohibited and functional mines’ list by August 4. He was also asked to provide a list of rules and regulations in the context to all officers of the department concerned.

Further, Ms Arora said that a committee under the SDM, Kalka, had been constituted to carry out inspections and register cases against those indulging in illegal mining.

Giving details about the mining status in the district, she said that there were 48 mines of which 30 were on annual contract basis, six on short-term basis and 12 were still vacant for auction.

On the occasion, the Superintendent of Police, Mr Manoj Yadav, said that all SHOs had been instructed to accompany the officers wherever assistance was sought.