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SPORTS

Wins for FCI, BBMB XI
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, September 29
The Food Corporation of India and Bhakra Beas Management Board XI surged ahead in the second Dilawari cricket tournament played here today at Gursagar grounds. In the first match played between the FCI and the HSIDC, the former outclassed the latter by ten wickets. In second match, BBMB XI outplayed Punjab Secretariat XI by nine wickets. Pawan Kumar of BBMB XI was the lone star who hammered 60 runs hitting five sixes with an equal number of boundaries.

Brief scores: HSIDC: 98 all out (Arun 36, Jagmohan 21, Kulwinder 2 for 14, Sonam 2 for 23) FCI: 99 for no loss in 12 overs (Kulwinder 57 n.o., Gurdeep 37 n.o.).

IInd match: Pb Sectt. 85 all out (Neeraj 41 n.o., Pawan 2 for 15, Subhash 3 for five). BBMB XI: 87 runs for one in 12 overs ( Pawan 60).

Cricket tourney

St John’s School, Sector 26, and Yadavindra Public School, SAS Nagar, prevailed upon their rivals Edmund Rice-26 and St Kabir’s School, Sector 26, by eight wickets and a narrow margin of two runs, respectively, in the under-10 section of the 4th Blessed Edmund Rice cricket tournament being played here at St John’s High School, Sector 26.

In under-12 section, St Kabir School, Sector 26, proved to be too good for Little Flower School, Panchkula, whom they defeated by 42 runs while DAV Public School, Sector 8, won by seven wickets against Mount Carmel Convent School, Sector 46.

Amateur Boxing Association

The Chandigarh Amateur Boxing Association in its annual general meeting held under the chairmanship of its chairman Satish Chandra, IAS, has announced the remaining days calendar for the session 2001-2002. This was stated by Mr C.K. Jerath, secretary of the CABA.

The coaching camp for the participation of the UT team in the national games will be held next month which will be followed by participation of UT team in National games in Punjab in November. UT team will take part in the Senior National boxing meet to be held at Jaipur in December. The UT state boxing championships will be held in January next year, then the UT team would take part in the national junior boxing championship to be held at Kanpur the same month.

The 9th All India A.K. Misra memorial boxing championships will be conducted also in the same month. The UT sub-junior state boxing championships will be held in February, 2002, followed by UT sub-junior team’s participation in the national sub-junior boxing meet at Jamshedpur next month. The Chandigarh state women boxing championships would be held in February, 2002 and UT women team would take part in the senior national women boxing championships. The Northern India men and women boxing meet will be held in the month of March next year.

SPORTS ROUND-UP
Milkha Singh raises a moot point
Arvind Katyal

Chandigarh
The controversy over Arjuna Awards has grown further with the former ace athlete, Flying Sikh Milkha Singh, once again refusing to attend the ceremony. Milkha Singh is of the view that it has not been right for the Union Sports Ministry to recommend awards on the basis of propaganda by some undeserving players. Milkha Singh’s voice became hot news and it was flashed all over India. There may be many Milkha Singhs who felt similarly but very few of them could be heard or noticed. Thought the award has been there for many years, but this year it received heavy criticism. The points raised by Milkha Singh include giving cash to those who got the Arjuna Award from 1961 to 1975 when the award was not accompanied by any cash. Many of them who got the Arjuna Award three or four decades ago are now living in penury. Some of them are in a critical health condition.

SPORTS QUIZ

Children participate in the ESPN Sports Quiz in Tender Heart School, Sector 33, Chandigarh. — A Tribune photograph

Last Sunday, a sports quiz was organised by ESPN at Tender Heart School , Sector 33, in which nearly 12 schools of the region participated. Each school sent two-member teams. Ms Prem Suri, Principal of the school, deserves praise for playing host to the event which gave a new thrust to sports awareness in the city.

Last year a sports quiz was held at Tagore Theatre, which was compered by Mr Charu from Delhi.

“These days school children have expanded the sphere of their sports knowledge to sports other than cricket which is a welcome sign for the development of sports” commented one of the sports teacher of a school.

INTER-SCHOOL SPORTS

A UT Inter-School Sports Meet is being organised every month by the UT Education Department for boys and girls. The coaches and associations are taking pains to make the events a success, but the UT Education Department is facing a shortage of technical experts to manage events of this magnitude. The Director, Public Instruction, UT, should take personal interest in the competitions to ensure that these are held in an impartial manner.

Young cyclists paddle it out
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, September 29
It was an eventful occasion for the young cyclists of the local Tender Heart School, Sector 33, as the cross country cycling race saw as many as 80 boys and girls from Class X and XI.

After the flag off, in four batches of 20 each, the cyclists covered the distance of 7 km between Jayanti Majri rivulet and Tanda Baghnidi (District Ropar) comprising of varying terrain.

Children were seen pushing their bicycles through wet sand. Some lifted their cycles to cross a stream. At the finish line, a hot drink along with apples and chocolates refreshed the participants. The Robin House was declared winner with 148 points.

The results were: group I — Rohit Anand 1, Ravish Batra 2.

group II — Druv Sharma 1, Gaganbir Singh 2. group III — Karamjeet 1, Simranjeet 2.

The best timing was shown by Druv Sharma of Robin House. The running trophy was sponsored by Atlas Cycles.

Scramble golf tournament
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 29
The Chandigarh Golf Club will be hosting the scramble golf tournament tomorrow. This interesting tournament will be played for the first time on the lush course of the local club.

Giving this information, Dr Ravinder Chadha, chairman, media and publicity of the club, said in this tournament both players would tee off at the same time. This was unlike the regular tournaments in which both partners tee off one after the other. Of the two balls hit the one placed at a better position would be counted. Similarly on the green, the ball which was closer and has better chances of putting would be counted. The tournament would have comparatively smaller scores. Prizes will be given away to the winners.

ADMINISTRATION

PANCHKULA DIARY
New EO talks tough
Tribune News Service

Panchkula
With a new Estate Officer, Ms Geeta Bharti, taking charge this week, things have started looking up as far as the problem of encroachments is concerned.

After gone round the city, she said that the problem of encroachment largely revolved around occupation of HUDA land by jhuggi-dwellers and rehris at roundabouts.

Ms Bharti said she would try to spend most of her working hours in the office to ensure that employees in different branches under her did not get an opportunity to play truant or to harass the public.

“I have already issued instructions to clear cases within two days. To make them accountable, I plan to introduce a system wherein they will be required to file a weekly report”, she added.

The Enforcement Department will also be asked to pull up its socks. “We will ensure that anti-encroachment drives are carried out on a regular basis. To ensure that instructions are followed to the letter, I will also carry out checks and seek a compliance report of my orders,” she said.

According to her, there is a lot of scope for improvement in the public dealing sector and steps will be taken to ensure prompt disposal of cases at all levels. For the first time since it was set up, the Hindustan Machine Tools has made its presence felt along the National Highway-22. In an attempt to draw attention, the public enterprise, has put up a granite slab at the entrance to the administrative block.

“The idea behind this new look and image is to project ourselves. For long, we have maintained a publicity-shy image and we want to come out of this,” the official spokesman, Mr Jatinder Vijh, said.

Plan to reduce accidents
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 29
To bring a decline in the rush-hour accident rate at areas of traffic hazards here, the traffic police has come up with a plan of deploying personnel at at least 10 spots.

The traffic police has already deployed policemen at 10 key crossings and light points, where there is a heavy traffic between 8 am and 10 am and between 4 pm and 6 pm everyday.

Policemen have been deployed at Gurdwara Chowk, Labour Chowk, Piccadily Chowk, Traffic Light Point, Grain Market Chowk, HP Chowk, the East police station, the Press light point, the railway station light point and Housing Board Chowk.