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HEALTH

PGI body expels member
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 11
The PGI Medical Technologists’ Association has expelled Mr Prem Chand, junior lab technician in the Department of Experimental Medicine, from the post of general secretary of the association.

The decision to expel Mr Prem Chand was taken at a meeting of the executive body of the association. A press release issued here today claimed that Mr Prem Chand had been served a show cause notice but he did not reply to it. The reason for his expulsion was said to be his activities and efforts to defame the association and its office-bearers and members.

The press release said Mr Prem Chand did not perform certain works assigned to him and he had also failed to attend meetings of the association since May 8. It has also been alleged that he had addressed a general body meeting of the PGI Employees Union on May 4 without any consultation and authorisation by the association.

SPORTS

Anmol, Sahil clinch titles
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, August 11
Anmol Razdan and Sahil Bhatia, both of Tender Heart School, Sector 33, clinched first place in group D and E categories, respectively, while St Xavier’s School, Sector 44, was declared the overall champions by securing 17.5 points in the ICSE Inter-School Chess Tournament, Chandigarh region, held at Tender Heart school, Sector 33, here today. St Stephen’s School, Sector 45, secured 17 points and thus declared runner- up. Ms Prem Suri, Principal of the host school, gave away prizes.

Results — Group A — girls: Amneet Kaur (St Stephen’s) 1; and Navgeet Jangu (St Xavier’s) 2. Boys : Sandeep Dhodia (St Stephen’s) 1; and Amit Malik (St Xavier’s) 2.

Group B —girls: Preeti (St Xavier’s) 1; and Mona Kohli (YPS ) 2. Boys-Chetan Vikas( St Xavier’s) 1; Damanpreet Singh (St Kabir-26) 2. Group C —Rishu (St Xavier’s-44) 1; and Vimmi (Little Flower-14 Panchkula) 2. Boys: Ashish (Little Flower)1; and Karanvir Sharma (Tender Heart) 2. Group D — girls: Shivani Kathuria (St Xavier-44) 1; and Anya Sharma (St Stephen’s-45) 2. Boys: Anmol Razdan (Tender Heart-33) 1; and Jaskaranjeet (St Stephen’s-45) 2. Group E — girls; Anchal (LFS-14) 1; and Abha Kapoor (St Kabir-26) 2. Boys: Sahil Bhatia (TH-33) 1; and Akshay (Little Flower School-14). 2.

Badminton meet

Hansraj Public School, Sector 6, Panchkula, will take on St John’s High School, Sector 26, in the tomorrow’s final of the under-14 boys’ section of the Panchkula Inter-Schools Badminton Tournament, which entered the penultimate day at the Sector 7 community centre, Panchkula, on Saturday. In under-19 boys’ semi-final, DC Model School, Sector 7, Panchkula, will meet DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, Chandigarh.

Results-boys : under-14: SF: St John’s b Little Flower 2-0 (Adhiraj Neogi b Arjun 15-1,15-0; A.Neogi and Bhanu b Sanchit and Mohit 15-3,15-3). Hansraj Public School, Sector 6 b DC Model School 2-0 (Prateek Mittal b Ankur Pahwa 15-2, 15-3; Prateek and Prerak Sharma b Ankur and Sameer 15-3,15-5).

Under-19: SF: DCMSS b HPS 2-0 (Prateek b Munish 15-7, 15-3; Gaurav and Ankan b Munish and Anshul 15-10, 17-14). DAVSSS-8 b BhavanVidyalya, Panchkula, 2-0 (Puneet Bansal b Sachin Garg 15-12, 15-11; Vikrant and Akash Sethi b Sahil and Satyadeep 15-2, 15-2).

Panchkula carrom

Diksha Jain and Rinku Bansal outplayed their respective opponents Chandni 25-16 and Manish Malhotra 25-24 in the first Panchkula district carrom tournament, which began here today at Saupin’s School, Sector 9, Panchkula. Earlier, Ms J. Saupin, president of the Panchkula District Carrom Association, inaugurated the two-day meet.

Results — men: Pawan Sharma b Aditya Kashyap; Riyasat b Mohit; Amanpreet Singh b Z. Sultan; Akhtar Sultan b Qayyam Khan; Mukul Wadhawan b Saurav Garg; junior boys: Saurabh Sharma b Sanjeev; Deepak Bhagat b Naveen Ahuja; Harvir Singh b Yashdeep; Rinku b Manish; Parul b Pardeep; Honey b Luv Mahajan; sub-junior boys: Ravneet Gill b Sachin Gupta; Piyush b Vimal Singh; Aniket Aggarwal b Paramveer; Raman b Jasmeet; Prince Dhiman b Atul; Sachin b Prince Goyal ; Ishan b Akhil; Rahul b Abhishek; women: Monika Khanna b Reema Devi; Diksha Jain b Chandni; junior girls; Shiva b Kriti; Surbhi b Priya; Pallavi b Neha; Nitika b Sheena; sub-junior girls: Mansi b Shalini; Sneha Bansal b Taruna; Suguna Dewan b Prerna.

Cricket trials

The Panchkula District Cricket Association will hold selection trials for under-19 cricket team to take part in the Haryana state inter-district cricket meet to begin from August 19. The trials will be held tomorrow at 2 pm at Satluj Public School, Sector 4, Panchkula.

Officials’ exams

Sixty technical officials today reported for the federation technical officials examinations here at DAV College, Sector 10. The prominent athletes taking part are Kuldeep Singh, C.S. Rathi, Balwinder Singh, Prithvi Chand, Prabjot Singh, Satnam Singh, Avtar Singh, Bhagirithi and Sukhcharan Singh among others. The two-day examinations are being organised by the Amateur Athletics Association, Chandigarh.

Soccer match or battle?
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, August 11
The semi-final soccer match at Football Stadium, Sector 17, as part of the Fanta Fiesta today turned out to be a battle. The match was played between Sanjay Public Senior Secondary School, Sector 44, and SD Public School, Sector 32.

No goal was scored by either team in the first half. The team of Sanjay school scored a goal through Sushil in the second half. The Sanjay school authorities alleged that the moment the goal was scored, rival team members led by physical education teacher Arunesh Chaudhary ran along with some persons and started beating up Ram Bilas, captain of the Sanjay school team, as a result of which he suffered serious injuries. He was taken to General Hospital, Sector 16.

They further alleged that the coach Dinesh Sharma was made in charge of the event, who wanted to favour his son Piyush Sharma, whose team SD Public School was trailing at that time. As per rules, any player or coach who had blood relations could be disqualified, which was ignored by the organisers. The school authorities also alleged that the coach Arunesh Chaudhary also threatened the manager, coach and member of the team.

ADMINISTRATION

Additional posts for Admn recommended
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, August 11
The recent meeting of the Commissioner, Mr Maha Singh, with Deputy Commissioners of four district under him on the issue of “rightsizing” the administration augurs victory for Panchkula as far as staff size is concerned.

Going by what transpired at the meeting, instead of a slash in the number of existing posts, the demand of the Deputy Commissioner, Ms Jyoti Arora, for sanctioning additional posts found support of the head. “While the Commissioner agreed against abolition of posts lying vacant for the past five years, additional posts for system analysts and data entry operator have been recommended. If sanctioning of posts is not possible, we have given the option of conversion to these,’’ Ms Jyoti Arora said.

Vacant posts and shortage of staff has been the bane of smooth working in the district which came into being in August, 1995. In comparison to other districts falling in this division, the district got the minimum posts at its inception. Later, the Bansi Lal government banned creation of additional posts and status quo was maintained for the vacant ones.

The Chautala government has further announced streamlining the extravagant expenditures in the government by going in for “rightsizing” of staff in all offices, the beginning being made by abolishing posts lying vacant for the past five years.

However, despite this, Ms Arora managed to explain her viewpoint and, besides keeping these posts intact, recommended additional staff for the district at the meeting.

In the district, as many as 21 posts have been lying vacant for over five years and 12 others have not been filled since the last two years. Among these figure posts of clerks, stenos, drivers and others.

Sources said against a sanctioned clerk strength of 56, only 32 seats were filled while in Ambala there were 68 clerks against 82 seats and 50 against 76 in Kaithal. While demanding the filling of 24 vacant posts, sanctioning of 10 new posts has also been recommended. In case of assistants and peons, the situation is no better though in comparison to other districts, the sanctioned posts, too, fall very short of the required number.