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HEALTH

280 students donate blood
Tribune News Service

Students of DAV College, Sector 10, Chandigarh, at the blood donation camp on the college premises on Friday. — A Tribune photograph

Chandigarh, September 7
More than 280 students of DAV College, Sector 10, donated blood at a blood donation camp held on the college premises here today. The camp was organised by the college in collaboration with the Medical Institute Branch of the State Bank of India (SBI).

Mr Rajinder Kakkar, Chief General Manager, SBI, addressing the students stated that the bank was proud to be associated with an institution like DAV College for a noble cause such as blood donation.

Mr R.C. Jeevan, Principal of the college, thanked the blood donors for their active participation. Mr Kakkar also honoured the regular blood donors on the occasion.

SPORTS

Parminder, Kirandeep, Yadwinder excel
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, September 7
Parminder Singh, a student of Guru Nanak Public School, Sector 36, won three gold medals in the swimming meet, organised by the UT Sports Department, which concluded at Government Yoga Centre swimming pool, Sector 23, here this evening. The other swimmers who bagged three medals each included Kirandeep Kaur and Yadwinder Rawat. Winners were given Rs 100, runnersup Rs 75 and third place holders Rs 50.

The results were: 25 m freestyle — boys below eight yrs: Parminder Singh 1, Robin 2, Vivek Mehta 3; girls: Tanya 1, Tejbir Kaur 2, Kanika Sharma 3; 200 m individual medley — open girls: Kirandeep Kaur 1, Amita Heer 2, Kriti Rana 3; 50 m freestyle — boys below 10 yrs: Vivek Yadav 1, Sparsh Arora 2, Akash Bansal 3; 100 m freestyle — girls below 10: Harsimran Kaur 1, Chitraganshna 2, Nikhat Pannu 3; 100 m butterfly — boys below 14: Ankit Kalia 1, Aman Sharma 2, Mohit Bhutani 3; 100 m butterfly — boys below 12: Eshaan Bakshi 1, Kanav Dosajh 2, Sangam 3; 50 m freestyle — girls below 14 yrs: Sukhman Ghuman 1, Aparna Dua 2, Ishrat Pannu 3; 100 m freestyle — girls open: Kirandeep Kaur 1, Kriti Rana 2, Amita Heer 3; 50 m freestyle — boys below 12: Eshaan Bakshi1, Kanav Dosajh 2, Sundeep Singh 3; 50 m freestyle — boys below 14: Ankit Kalia 1, Abhinav Kaushal 2, Gaganpreet Singh 3; girls open: Kirandeep Kaur 1, Kriti Rana 2, Amita Heer 3; 50 m butterfly — boys below 10: Uday Grewal 1, Vivek Yadav 2, Kunal Bhardwaj 3; boys below 12 yrs: Eshaan Bakshi 1, Kanav Dosajh 2, Sundeep Singh 3; below 14 yrs: Ankit Kalia 1, Abhinav Kaushal 2, Gaganpreet Singh 3; girls open: Kirandeep Kaur 1, Kriti Rana 2, Amita Heer 3; 100 m freestyle — open boys: Harsimran Brar 1, Abhimanyu Tiwari 2, Vivek Kapoor 3; 50 m freestyle — below 12 girls: Isha Kalia 1, Shruti Sharma 2, Japneet Kaur 3; open boys: Puneet Rana 1, Paras 2, Harsimran Brar 3.

Panchkula win

A knock of unbeaten 71 runs off 68 deliveries by Puneet and good bowling by Varender and Vineet enabled Panchkula district in overpowering Chandigarh by 103 runs in the opening match of the Haryana State Inter-District Cricket Tournament for under-14 trophy played at Satluj Public School, Sector 4, Panchkula. Panchkula won the toss and elected to bat first.

Brief scores — Panchkula : 205 for six in 35 overs (Puneet 71 n.o., Amit Prabhakar 42, Rahul 16, Maninder 15, Harbeer 2 for 33, Gaurav 2 for 19); Chandigarh : 102 all out in 22.1 overs (Harbeer 17, Sandeep 16, Amit Jain 14, Varender 4 for 28, Vineet 3 for 3, Rahul Kamboj 2 for 25.

Cricket tourney

The fourth Blessed Edmund Rice Cricket Inter School tournament will begin from September 27. The draws in all age groups will be taken out on September 14. The last date for accepting forms is September 13.

Chandigarh team

Udey Kaul will lead the Chandigarh district under-14 cricket team in the Punjab Inter-District Cricket Tournament. Chandigarh will play against Mohali on September 10 at SAS Nagar. The other members of the team are, Gaurav Gambhir (vice-captain), Gurkirat Singh, Sidhharth Sharma, Naresh , Amanjit, Gaurav Chopra, Rajnish, Vishal, Amit, Karanbir, Gunjot, Simranjit Singh, Jaskaran, Simranjit Bawa, Mukal and Lakhwinder. Standbyes are Sumit Dhiman, Yudhishter and Amit Sarangal. This was stated by Mr Mohinder Singh, secretary of the Chandigarh Cricket Association.

Seven-a-side soccer

The first Ashwani Memorial Seven-A-Side Soccer Tournament will be held at War Heroes Stadium, Ambala Cantt, from September 12 to 16. Teams from Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana will take part in this five-day tournament. This was stated by Mr Rakesh Kumar, organising secretary, in a press note.

ADMINISTRATION

Mayor takes stock of development projects
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 7
The Mayor, Ms Harjinder Kaur, today visited various parts of the city to take stock of the pace of the ongoing development works of the Municipal Corporation. Accompanied by senior officials of the MC, she visited the Sector 26 Transport Area, Manimajra, Industrial Area, Phase I, Ram Darbar; New Grain Market and the Waterworks in Sector 39. The visit commenced from the Sector 26 Transport Area, where storm water drainage was being laid to check the problem of flooding of Bapu Dham and Madrasi colonies. A Congress leader, Mr Krishan Lal, highlighted some other problems of the area. She took note of the work on road berms and road gullies in Mani Majra, besides inspecting the horticulture works being undertaken in Ram Darbar.

The Mayor also expressed satisfaction over the quality of recarpeting work in Industrial Area Phase I. She was impressed with the maintenance and upkeep of the Sector 39 waterworks and observed that the same was at a par with what she saw in London. She exhorted the officials and councillors to find ways and means to step up the daily supply of water to the city. The daily requirement of the city was 96 MGD, whereas it received about 68 MGD from Kajauli waterworks and tubewells. The work of recarpeting the roads in the New Grain Market in Sector 39 was in progress and the officials assured her that the same would be completed in the next three days. She also asked them to undertake the recarpeting of roads in the slum areas of various colonies.

She also highlighted the lapse in the quality of road work undertaken in Sectors 35-C and 37-A and some other parts of the city during the past five years.

Participating in a seminar-cum-parbhat pheri, organised by the Citizens Awareness Group in collaboration with the State Resource Centre for Adult and Continuing Education, UT, at Government Senior Secondary School, Karsan, Ms Harjinder Kaur emphasised the need to organise women-oriented programmes in community centres and other such public places, this being the Women Empowerment year. She also called upon the area councillors to mitigate literacy from their areas so that the target of 100 per cent literacy could be achieved.

She further said special attention must be paid in making migratory labourers residing in slum areas literate. The councillors who represent these wards should also take the initiative to remove illiteracy from their areas. She offered that the programmes related to adult continuing education could also be run from the community centres of the MC.

PUDA fetches 3.97 cr in auction
Tribune News Service

SAS Nagar, September 7
A two-day auction of sites in bulk material market in Sector 65-A here ended today. The Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) has earned Rs 3.97 crore by selling 22 sites out of the 110 sites put under hammer. The sites were for general, timber, iron and marble trades.

An official of PUDA said on the first day, 10 sites were sold for Rs 1.65 crore. A 10-marla site ( no 418) for timber trade was sold for Rs 14 lakh against a reserved price of Rs 12.50 lakh. Another similar site was sold for Rs 13.43 lakh against a reserved price of Rs 12.50 lakh. A one-kanal corner plot (no 370-C) was sold for Rs 28 lakh against a reserved price of Rs 27.08 lakh. Another one-kanal plot was sold for Rs 22.66 lakh against a reserved price of Rs 22.39 lakh.

On the second day, PUDA earned Rs 2.32 crore by selling 22 sites. Most of the sites sold were booths. The official said two booth sites (no 346 and no 348) were sold for Rs 6.95 lakh against a reserved price of Rs 2.39 lakh. Among the 10-marla sites, a plot (no 300) was sold for Rs 13 lakh against a reserved price of Rs 12.50 lakh. Eight similar sites were sold for Rs 12.65 lakh each against a reserved price of Rs 12.50 lakh. A one-kanal corner (28-C), was sold for Rs 25.55 lakh against a reserved price of Rs 25,41 lakh.