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Fortis plans free medical camp SAS Nagar, April 12 The specialities in which leading doctors will be available for consultation at the multi-specialty medical centre, including endocrinology (diabetes), gastroenterology (stomach), nephrology (kidneys), orthodontics (dental), orthopaedics (bones and joints), gynaecology, neurology (nervous system), ophthalmology (eyes), ENT (ear, nose and throat), general surgery, internal medicine, urology (urinary tract and kidneys, etc), dermatology (skin), paediatrics (children), pulmonology (lungs, asthma and bronchitis, etc), psychiatry (anxiety, stress and depression), plastic surgery, and neurosurgery. Announcing the offer, Dr R.V Karanjekar, Medical Director, Fortis Heart Institute, said, “The speciality range at the medical centre covers practically every ailment that any member of the family is ever likely to suffer and an early detection through our state-of-art equipment and investigating laboratories can help prolong and save many lives.” According to Mr Shivinder Mohan Singh, chief operating officer, “It has always been our endeavor to reach out to the masses and offer quality healthcare. We hope that the maximum number of people take benefit of this free camp.” |
National star in cue sport Chandigarh, April 12 Alok played badminton from 1978 to 1986 and practised at the Ranbir Club, Sangrur, under the watchful eyes of Mr Suresh Thakur. Then he shifted to snooker. With Arvind Savur as his ideal and mentor, Alok won his first junior championship title in 1990. Savur honed his skills and helped him in reaching the present level. Alok said now Michael Ferreira has begun giving him tips. Alok said he would be taking part in the forthcoming international championships such as Asian Snooker Championship in China later this month. He disclosed that it now being a medal sport in the Asian Games, the Pusan (Korea) Asian Games in September this year would prove to be a testifying period for the Indian cue sport players if they could fetch any medal. Alok said the national team was yet to be selected and at least four national coaching camps would be organised before that. Alok felt sad that even after the game’s visibility among the masses, a very few youngsters were keen to join the sport to make it a regular profession. Alok said even he could not find a permanent sponsor during his decade of winning national titles. Alok said he got a sponsorship from Indian Airlines from 1992 to 1995, which gave him a lot of support. On the question of any coveted national award, Alok said their national federation named Billiards and Snooker Federation of India (BSFI) never recommended his name for the Arjuna award or so. Alok said his foremost task would be to help organise tournaments like the ones planned in Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar. This would give enough exposure to the existing players and those who would come to watch tournaments. Alok said once these parlours hold tournaments and then with media help and word of mouth, the game was likely to grow. Alok said like badminton and other sport, he had suggested the national federation to start national meets in cue sports in sub-junior section, which will create more interest in children. Alok was of the firm view that North India, specially Punjab and Chandigarh, hold much potential for the cue sports and hoped the day was not far when world class players would be produced in every age group in this sport.  |
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Verka Milk Plant win volleyball title Chandigarh, April 12 Tennis championship The Total Tennis Academy will host the Total Tennis Championship for juniors at the Total Tennis Academy, YMCA, Sector 11,
Chandigarh, from April 15 to 21. According to Mr Devinder Kapoor, tournament director, the matches will be played in various age groups — under 10, under 12, under 14 and under 16 for the boys section, while for girls it would be under 12, under 14 and under 18 in both singles and doubles. Mr Arvind Noel, secretary general, YMCA, over 150 players drawn from the entire region were expected to take part in this prestigious tournament. There will be special prizes for the youngest participant and upcoming and best behaved boy of the meet. Entry closes with tournament director at 7 pm on April 14. Attack condemned The Chandigarh Sport Coaches Association in a press statement today condemned the ghastly incident held on Thursday where tennis coach Sandeep Singh working at the Lake Club was stabbed. The association has demanded the authorities concerned to provide adequate security at the various sports venues. |
Modifications will cut cost of flyover by Rs 4 crore Chandigarh, April 12 The flyover will have a 6 lane dual carriageway with a central verge of 1.2
metre. It has also been proposed by the consultant the gradient shall be given as 1:40 on both sides of the flyover. To reduce the cost of construction and make the proposed flyover more viable as compared with other flyovers in the country, It was suggested by the Chief Engineer, Mr Puranjit Singh, a gradient of 1:30 on both side of the flyover be approved. The gradient means to climb each foot the horizontal layout is 30 feet. Several bridges are built on a 1: 25 gradient. The box girder pre-stressed concrete design with two boxes was approved in today’s presentation. The flyover will consist of 3 spans of pre-stressed concrete of about 150-metre-long and with approximately 600-metre-long approaches. The existing signalised crossing will continue to cater for the traffic turning right from the Madhya Marg and slow moving traffic. The slow moving traffic between Chandigarh and Panchkula will pass straight at the base of the flyover. The rough cost as projected by the consultant of Rs 16.25 crore was examined in detail by the Chief Engineer, the quantities and rates were reduced, which will bring down the cost to about Rs 12.00 crores. The rough cost estimate shall be recasted by the consultant within a week’s time. It will take about 21 months to complete the project after the allotment of work. Once the flyover is completed traffic movement between Panchkula and Chandigarh will be better. The travelling time to Panchkula shall also be reduced from 7 to 10 minutes and the public will not have to wait for signals. With the construction of the flyover the road junction will be decongested of traffic volume. The technical presentation was attended by Mr Karan A. Singh, Finance Secy-cum-Secy
(Engg), Mr Puranjit Singh and Mrs Renu Sehgal, Sr architect and other officials of the Engineering Department. The detailed project report, including structural drawings etc, shall be submitted by the consultant within a week’s time. |
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Partiality alleged in
houses’ allotment Chandigarh, April 12 Mr Kumar, a
compositor, was allotted a house situated at the first floor on April 1, 2002. In supersession of this order, he was asked to change the said house with the top floor house allotted to a junior employee only after 10 days. It has also been alleged that while some employees are not getting government accommodation, others have sublet the government houses. |
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City to have Cheshire Home Chandigarh, April 12 A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting held at Punjab Raj Bhavan and presided over by the Governor in which Gen Virendra Singh, Chairman, Gen O.P. Malhotra, former Governor, Punjab, and Major-Gen K.M. Dhody, Finance Secretary Karan A. Singh, Deputy Commissioner M. Ramsekhar, Secretary Social Welfare G.K. Marwaha and Major-Gen A.S. Kahlon (retd) participated. It was decided that Cheshire Home would be made functional within two months at a temporary location. The Administration and the Cheshire Home Managing Committee will select a site and get the construction work completed. |
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Confusion over ban on
registration of vehicles SAS Nagar, April 12 It has, however, not been specified whether the ban was also applicable on private vehicles. This has led to confusion among of the owners of private vehicles who are being refused reregistration of their vehicles. Acting on the directions of the State Transport Commissioner, the transport authorities at the district and the subdivisional level have stopped reregistration of private vehicles also. An official in the transport department said in the past few months it had been observed that 15-year-old commercial and private vehicles from other states, specially from Delhi, were being sold in Punjab. The transport officers have also been asked not to reregister vehicles that would become 15-year-old in the coming months. Already the Punjab and Haryana High court has banned the reregistration of 15-year-old commercial vehicles. |
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