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HEALTH

Plan to eradicate blindness
Our Correspondent

Panchkula, August 18
The district health authorities have prepared a micro-plan to eradicate blindness from the district. According to the Deputy Commissioner and Chairman of the District Blindness Control Society, Ms Jyoti Arora, different eye check-up camps would be organised in the second week of September and in January 2002. The camps would be organised at Community Health Care (CHC), Kalka, and CHC, Raipur Rani in the first week of October, and third week of November.

Eye camps would also be organised during the second week of February 2002 and in the third week of October in addition to that of a camp in the second week of March, 2002, at Primary Health Centre, Morni.

Similar camp would be held at General Hospital, Panchkula, in the second week of December. She said that apart from this, cataract operations would be performed on every Tuesday and Friday at General Hospital, Sector 6, Panchkula.

While briefing the programme, Dr H.C. Nagpal, Director, Health Services, Haryana, disclosed that one-day orientation training camp for the villagers for a village having a population of more than 1,000 would be held at CHC, Kalka, on August 31.

Similarly, orientation training camp would be held at CHC, Raipur Rani, on September 4, PHC, Kot, on September 7 and at PHC, Pinjore, on September 12, he added.

400 to attend PGI conference
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 18
The 11th annual conference on paediatrics gastroenterology will be held from August 31 to September 2 at the PGI.

According to the organising secretary of the conference, Dr B.R. Thapa, about 400 delegates from all over the country are expected to participate in the conference. These will include paediatric gastroenterologists, paediatric hepatologists, paediatric surgeons, paediatricians, nutrionists, radiologists, pathologists, microbiologists and basic scientists.

The scientific deliberations will focus on various diseases of gastrointestinal, liver and nutritional disorders in children. The main stress, according to Dr Thapa, will be on the modern skills required to make diagnosis and about the recent advances in the treatment and prevention of various diseases amongst children.

During the conference there will be state of art lectures, symposia, clinical case discussions, panel discussions and quiz interactive sessions for the audience. There will be an open interactive session for the audience in which people can ask any question regarding the difficulties they face to treat particular problems in children.

SPORTS

SPORTS ROUND-UP
A shot in the arm for roller skating
Arvind Katyal

Chandigarh
Roller skating got a boost when a roller hockey team from the UK came to the city for a series of matches with Indian roller hockey teams. Thanks to the president of the Roller Skating Federation of India, Mr Pradeep Ganeriwal, a tie-up with England, the reigning world roller hockey Group B champions, became possible. The most happy person at this development was Ms Madhu Bahl, Principal of the KB DAV Centenary School, Sector 7. The skating rink of the school was liked by the visiting players. Mr Keith Allen, President of the UK Roller Skating Association, and his wife were impressed by the facilities and encouragement given to skaters and other sportspersons in the school.Mr Allen told this reporter that before coming to India, he never visualised that any institution here would be taking such care of its skaters. He said the lighting, the music system and the surface of the rink were liked by his teams.

The UK team was on its way to Japan to take part in the World Non-Olympic Games. They will return to India on August 21 to play two more matches in Delhi and elsewhere. Mr Ganeriwal, who came all the way from Kolkata, said Chandigarh had indoor as well as outdoor skating rinks of world standards, and apart from roller hockey, other events such as speed and artistic events should also be held here. He said KB DAV rink would be the choice for any kind of skating activity.

Ms Bahl has been made a special invitee at the RSFI, considering her services to the cause of skating. Ms Bahl said, she had always been fascinated by the sport. She said she visited the USA every year to meet her son and the good skating facilities there had inspired her to create similar facilities here.

The second phase of the camp for Indian roller hockey team was in progress in the school. The DPI Schools, Mr D.S. Saroya, promised the other day to hold national schools skating events at the schools rink.

Samuel Banerjee Badminton

The second Samuel Banerjee Memorial Badminton Tournament, hosted by the Chandigarh Badminton Players Welfare Association, began at Panjab University gymnasium on August 16. More than 300 players are taking part in this event. Ms Geeta Goyal, a former national badminton player and now president of the association said it was a herculian task to host this meet as generally the sponsors turned a blind eye to badminton. The meet will end tomorrow, and it has earned praise from players who have come from all over the northern region. Jatinder Singh an 11-year-old boy from Nawanshahr, said in Punjab they rarely came across big tournaments where the players were given free food, stay and shuttle-cocks. Vipul Saini of Jammu was of the view that only players could understand the problems of fellow players, so a tournament hosted by a players’ association would keep the welfare of players in mind.

Another notable feature of the tournament is the distribution of Rs 1 lakh as prize money including Rs 70,000 for the winners and runners- up. At the inaugural ceremony, Mr Parminder S Dhindsa, a young MLA, came to the rescue of the association when he announced a grant of Rs 50,000 for the association.

Table tennis getting popular

Table tennis is now one of the most popular sports in the city. The Sector 23 TT hall, constructed a few years ago at the initiative of the then president of Chandigarh Table Tennis Association, Mr P.K. Verma, has given a new lease of life to the game. But another notable feature is the hosting of a number of tournaments by different schools. Last week Manav Mangal School played host to the Manav Mangal Open TT Tournament in which players from all over the northern region took part. Mr Sanjay Sardana, the principal who had himself been a TT player, said that they always wanted to have an independent tournament in their school. Another event named Bhawan Hawks TT Tournament organised by Bhavan Vidyalya school is on the cards and will start next week.

Rahul outplays Sumit in carrom meet
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, August 18
Rahul Nanda scored an upset victory in the junior boys event in the first round, when he outplayed Sumit Chakarvorty, fourth seed, on the first day of the 4th St Stephen’s Ranking Carrom Tournament played here today at St Stephen’s School, Sector 45. The two-day meet is being organised by St Stephen’s School under the aegis of the Chandigarh Carrom Association. The finals will be played here tomorrow.

Results: Men (singles) 1st round Pankaj Nath b Ravinder Sharma 25-0, 22-11; S.K. Mishra b Azem Begh 25-17, 25-6; B.S. Negi b Saleem Ahmeed 25-0, 25-13; Darshan Singh b Dilshad 25-4, 20-4; B.H. Singh b Pawan K. Rai 25-0, 25-0; D.S. Aithani b Tarlok Sanga 24-6, 25-0; N.K. Arora b Amit 25-0, 25-4; Dhurva b Amaninder Dhillon 25-1, 25-7; Anu Papneja b Naresh 25-0, 25-10; Gurinder Singh b Varin Raghan 24-8, 25-1; Jamshed Alam b Manpreet Singh 25-3, 25-1; Rozario Sampson b Taran Preet 25-10, 19-15; and Joseph Samuel b Amit Taheja 25-0, 16-12.

Boys (junior) Ist round — Ramanpreet b Vishalsukla 25-0, 25-0; Nitin b Tarlok Sangha 25-14, 17-12; Gagandeep Azad b Anoop Brar 25-3, 25-1; Gurinder b Varun Garg 25-0, 25-4; Varun Raghav b Manbir Singh 25-0, 25-0; Vikrant b Nipunbhagraj 15-14, 25-0; Rahul Nanda b Sumit Chakravorthy 21-8, 6-13, 24-23; Dhurva b Ishwinder 25-0, 25-0; Harmanpreet b Hargun 25-6, 25-2; Abhinav Sood b Shray Bhardwaj 25-0, 25-0; Hardeep Harnal b Gaurav Kaushish 25-0, 25-0; Abhinandan b Partap 25-4, 25-0; Taranpreet b Vijay Garg 25-0, 25-0; and Jills Karun b Ashish 25-5, 17-11.

Boys (sub-junior) singles (Ist round) — Abhinandan b Deepak 25-0; Harmanpreet b Akalya Sharma 25-0; Sukhpal b Depan Palwa 25-0; Akash Brar b Jaskirat Singh 25-0; Amanpreet b Parminder Thakur 25-0; Karan Kapoor b Deepak Kapoor 25-0; and Bhupinder Thakur b Vishal Pal Abrol 23-6.

Soccer meet

Shishu Niketan Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 22, defeated Jawahar Navodya Vidyalaya, Sector 25, by 2-0 while in another match Guru Nanak Public School, Sector 36, won the match on the second day of the Chandigarh Sub-Junior Football Championship for Sanjay Trophy played here today at the Football Stadium, Sector 17.

Tennis ball cricket tourney

IS Dev Samaj Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 21, will take on Chandigarh Tennis Ball Cricket Club in the girls section of the Ist Chandigarh Junior State Tennis Ball Cricket Tournament played here at Government High School, Sector 37. In boys section, ICC, Shishu Niketan SS School-22, Manav Mangal School-21, ISKCON Club and Blaster XI won their respective matches.

Football championship

Jawahar Navodya Vidyalya, Sector 25, Government Model Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 23, and Shishu Niketan Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 22, defeated MRA Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 27 at 1-0, Government Model Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 20, at 1-0 and IS Dev Samaj School, Sector 21 at 4-2 via tie breaker, respectively, in the Chandigarh Junior Girls Football Championship played here today at St Stephen’s school, Sector 45.

Elected

Col A.S. Judge was unanimously re-elected the president of the Chandigarh Basketball Association at its elections held last evening. He was authorised by the house to nominate the rest of the office-bearers of the association.

Bridge tourney

The Chandigarh Bridge Association will hold bridge tourney ‘a team of four events’, at Hot Millions, Sector 17-C, tomorrow at 10-30 a.m. This was stated in a press release of the association.