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PGI surgeon honoured Chandigarh, February 6 He is known the world over for his work on oesophageal (food pipe) diseases, especially cancer. Dr Gupta is also President-elect, Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology. |
Sodhi: A role model
in hockey Chandigarh, February 6 Sodhi became the first player from Chandigarh to represent India in the International hockey match as far back as 1984. This was no small achievement because it was only in 1982 that the Chandigarh Hockey Association got direct affiliation with the Indian Hockey Federation. He left playing active hockey nearly 18 years back and took to this arduous task of coaching. The 43-year-old coach is an officer of the State Bank of India. Yet, he has been serving the nation in his own humble way by coaching young hockey players. India’s hockey team has been doing well of late and this holds true with Sodhi’s active assignments as coach. His latest achievement is India’s fine win at the first Challenger cup at Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) in December 2001 in which he was one of the coaches of the national team. His earlier success was the coveted Junior World Hockey Cup ( under 21) held at Hobart (Australia) in October where India was crowned winners. In fact, this victory was appreciated by one and all. Even the two boys from the city — Rajpal Singh and Inderjeet Chadha — were in the Indian Junior hockey team. On being contacted , Rajpal said, “ Sodhi Sir’s presence at Hobart was a moral booster for the players and they were able to score this historic win. In August 2001 too, Sodhi was the coach of the Indian hockey team that got silver medal in the six-national hockey meet held at Poland. The prestigious Asia Cup held at Ipoh (Malaysia) was another major tournament for under 18 section, which India won with Sodhi again being the coach. The Chandigarh Junior team could register a spectacular victory at the national level in 2000 because of the active guidance of Sodhi who trained these boys in a camp also. Mr Yash Vohra, secretary of the Chandigarh Hockey Association, is of the opinion that Sodhi should be honoured appropriately at the national level so that his services will become a role model for others to break new grounds in hockey. |
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Gurinder, Jagdish, Nirmaljit win Chandigarh, February 6 In the 90 kg class, Jagdish Singh, a trainee of Public Sports Club, Mohali, won by lifting a total weight of 635 kg. He also won the Federation Cup and gold medal in bench-press and silver medal in deadlift. In 110 kg class, Nirmaljit Singh secured a gold medal by lifting a total weight of 765 kg. He secured second place in the Federation Cup and won three gold medals in squat, bench-press and deadlift. He was adjudged first runner-up in the Masters Strongest Man of India. Nirmaljit Singh and Jagdish Singh have been selected to represent India in the Senior Asian Men and Women Powerlifting Championships to be held in Korea in May.
Annual athletics meet The 37th Annual Athletics Meet of the local Government Home Science College, Sector 10, was held today where Mandeep Atwal was adjudged best athlete. Earlier, the meet was declared open by Dr Usha Dhawal, Principal of the college, while Mr M. Ramsekhar, Deputy Commissioner, UT, was the chief guest on the closing ceremony. He also gave away the prizes to the winners. |
MCC looks up to Admn again Chandigarh, February 6 This emerged as a reaction to a technology demonstration by the Terrasafe Technologies Private Limited at the Municipal Corporation office here today. The company explained that there was a non-polluting solid waste management technology available which generated power as well as manufactured by-products for the building material industry. The cost of power generated was as cheap as Rs 2.70 per unit and around 15 mw power would be generated through 500 metric tones of garbage and the project would cost Rs 140 crore. The technology demonstration was given by a company representative O. P. Nambiar in the presence of Mayor Lalit Joshi, Senior Deputy Mayor Surinder Singh, Deputy Mayor Balraj Singh, 12 other councillors and all officials of the Municipal Corporation. Out of 15-mw power generated through solid waste at a plant on Dadu Majra site in an area of five acres, 3 mw would be required for running the power project and rest could be sold to the Chandigarh Administration. The company has promised to arrange finance from international agencies at an interest rate of 6 per cent per annum and asked to have 20 per cent equity participation in the project. The corporation is not in a position to arrange Rs 28 crore as equity participation. Unless the Chandigarh Administration contributed to the project, it could not be taken up despite being ''very good'', an official told the Chandigarh Tribune. The project would be 100 per cent pollution free. The project would close for only 15 days for maintenance in a year. |
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Show-cause notice to be
issued to contractor Chandigarh, February 6 “Any action can be taken against the contractor for violating conditions for which directions had been issued couple of days back,” Mr Bhardwaj told the Chandigarh Tribune. Meanwhile, a sector-17 shopkeeper, Mr Rakesh Gupta, today filed a written complaint with the Municipal Corporation saying that he was charged Re 1 at the entry itself despite reminding the staff of the contractor that it was violative of terms and conditions. Mr Gupta has also sent copies of complaint to the Traders Association, Sector-17 president Subhash Kataria, SSP Parag Jain, SHO Sector-17, Mayor Lalit Joshi, MP Pawan Bansal and Administrator. The complaint has photocopies of receipt collected by Mr Gupta. |
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