HEALTH

Faulty food habits trigger heart diseases
Tribune News Service

SAS Nagar, April 16
The rise of cardiac ailments is due to multiple factors, including genetics, faulty food habits and stress levels.

This observation was made by Dr Achintya Moulick, Senior Consultant, Cardio-thoracic surgery, Fortis Heart Institute, yesterday while addressing Rotary Club members of Chandigarh. The doctor spoke at length about surgeries performed on small babies, octogenarians, conventional beating heart CABG’s and laid special emphasis on cosmetic cardiac-surgical procedures which had become the need of the hour today, specially for the young women who were scared of a big scar after the surgery is performed.

At this point of time the need for the people was to understand that cardiac ailments needed the most advanced sequential and logical management. This could only be provided through a tertiary care hospital having an entire range of investigational and therapeutic expertise. With the rise in coronary artery disease and subsequently heart-related emergencies, citizens within the city should avail of fast-response management provided by the hospital which would allow people to reach the right hospital at the right time, he added. Fortis Heart Institute, as part of their outreach program, has been closely associated with and promoting educational awareness program on ‘Cardiac Care’ throughout Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu.

The objective of the talk today was aimed at spreading awareness about the prevention and management of cardiac-related diseases.

Heart disease was the number one killer today of people in the prime of their life. A WHO study revealed an alarming fact that whereas the world average of the incidence of heart disease was 1.5 per cent and an Indian average per cent, in Punjab it rose to 6 per cent. In a dismal scenario like this, there was a need of the hour that more institutions which were committed not just in providing the best care but also educating people and helping them in preventing the problem. It was very important for the medical fraternity to keep abreast of the latest techniques so that it could provide the best to patients.

SPORTS

Fine play by Devin 
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, April 16
Devin played a thrilling match of the under-10 boys’ section when he got the better of Gurmeher 6-4 on the second day of the Total Tennis Championships organised at YMCA, Sector-11, here today. The matches in under-12 section were one sided.

The results are: Boys under-10: first round: Gurinder Singh b Pukhraj Singh 6-0; Ravmehar b Fateh 6-0; Devin b Gurmeher 6-4; and Jaivardhan Gupta b Ankur Diwan.

Boys under-12: first round: Vijayant Malik b Mrinal Sharma 6-1; Mandeep Gill b Akash Ghai 6-0; Gurmohit b Arpit Sharma 6-3; Gouravinder b Vikrant Jain 6-2; Akshat Joshi b Jaskaran 6-1; Udai Brar b Jasraj 6-2; Sidharth Singh b Dhruv Sihag 6-0; Lovin Narula b Keshav Pratap 6-3; and Jaibeer Singh b Akash Bansal 6-3.

Parle trophy

Boys Town, Hyderabad, and Salwan Boys School, New Delhi, defeated St Joseph’s, Bangalore, and Don Bosco, Chennai, by four wickets and nine wickets, respectively, on the second day of the Parle Champions Trophy for under-16 section played here on Tuesday. S.N. Ali was declared the man of the match.

In the first tie, St Joseph’s scored 200 runs in 49.4 overs. In reply, Boys Town made 202 runs for the loss of six wickets in 29.5 overs.

In the second tie, Don Bosco scored 113 runs in 46.1 overs.

In reply, Salwan Boys achieved the target in 24 overs and won the match by nine wickets. Gaurav Sharma was adjudged the man of the match.

Wrestling meet

Wrestling Coaching Centre, Sector 30, clinched the overall championship in the UT Sub-Junior Wrestling Championships played here on Tuesday. Vijay Pal of the centre, bagged the first place in below-50 kg section. The other winners in various weight categories were: Arvind (below 46 kg), Jaspal (below 54 kg), Sunil (below 58 kg), Dalbir (below 63 kg), Devinder (below 69 kg), Anil (below 76 kg), Bijender (below 85 kg) and, Satinder (above 85 kg).

In the Greco Roman style, Manbir bagged first place in below 50 kg, Mandeep in below 54 kg, Harinder in 58 kg, Virender in 63 kg, Parveen in below 69 kg, Naresh in below 76 kg, Rajbir in below 85 kg and Dhirender in above 85 kg.

Meeting postponed

The general body meeting of the Panjab University Sports Committee, which is to be held on April 18 at ICSSR seminar hall, to elect the new executive committee for the 2002-2003 has been postponed.

ADMINISTRATION

Decision over industrial sheds soon
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 16
The long-pending issue of ownership rights of about 500 industrial sheds sold by the Chandigarh Industrial Tourism Corporation (CITCO) more than 20 years ago, will be decided within the next month.

The issue was raised at the Industrial Advisory Committee meeting of the Chandigarh Administration here today when the Adviser to the UT Administrator promised to take a decision in this regard within a specified time frame. The committee had met after a gap of 18 months.

The ownership rights have not been given to the industrial units as promised by CITCO at the time of allotment. These 500 industrial units spread across the Industrial Area, Phase I and II, are collectively valued at Rs 75 crore to Rs 100 crore.

Interestingly, CITCO was allotted land by the Estate Office to build sheds and rent these out. The corporation gave an advertisement inviting applications and sold the sheds. The allottees were promised that ownership rights would be transferred after 15 years if the allottees cleared all dues with CITCO.

Now, the Estate Office is asking for payment on present market rates and on per square yard basis. Representatives of federations of various units said the allottees were suffering without any fault. Banks were not forwarding loans to them, they said. It was pointed out that when the Estate Office allotted land to the Chandigarh Housing Board to build flats, allottees of the flats became owners after full payment.

A demand was made to reduce fee in case of the transfer of ownership. The fee is Rs 2100 per square feet in the city while in neighbouring Haryana and Punjab, it is Rs 200 and Rs 40 per square feet, respectively. On this, the Estate Officer-cum-Deputy Commissioner, Mr M. Ramsekhar, pointed out that value of property in Chandigarh was much more than that in the adjoining states and as such this logic did not apply. The representatives pointed out that the sale was already taking place on a General Power of Attorney (GPA) basis and the Administration was losing revenue.

A demand was also raised to categorise the Industries on their respective polluting basis as was done in Punjab and Haryana. This would do away with the need to get pollution certificates each year. The secretary of the Federation of Small Scale Industries, Mr Rajeev Gupta, said this was an important task as several industries fall in the categories in which pollution checks are required after three to five years.

The industrialists also demanded that more staff be employed in the electricity department to check faults in the Industrial Area. The Industrial Area brings in Rs 67 crore revenue out of the total Rs 217 crore revenue of the administration.