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Ayurveda programme launched Chandigarh, May 31 This was announced jointly by renowned Vaidya of the country Padma Shree Balendu Prakash at a press conference in the college, along with the Director R&D, Dabur India Limited, Dr D.B.A. Narayana. The project called, I 3 CAP, aims to integrate two streams of ayurveda and modern pharmacology. Stating this, Vaidya Balendu Prakash pointed out that in today’s world when things are changing so fast, there is a need to work on ayurveda scientifically. “There is science behind ayurveda too, it’s just that we do not know about it. The aim is to document the way ayurveda works on patients in the clinics and submit these findings for refereeing by renowned allopaths. After the clinical efficacy of ayurveda medicines are proved, these will be made available to the masses”, he said. The project, which is the first of its kind in the country, will be launched in other cities also after the first weeks of experimentation are found successful in the city. “Vaidya Balendu Prakash will be visiting the college and hospital each month and will undertake the treatment of 19 problems, which include abortions, backaches, childhood asthma, chronic bronchitis, chronic fatigue symptoms, corns, epitaxis, headaches, ulcers, obesity, liver diseases, urticaria, gout etc,” informed Dr D.B.A. Narayana. The clinical data collected will be monitored and evaluated by a special committee formed for the I3CAP. The members include, Dr Debashish Hota, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, PGI, as Chairman, Dr C.K. Katiyar, Deputy General Manager, Medical Services and Clinical Research, Dabur India Limited, Vaidya Suresh Chand Kapathia, Advisor, Dhanwantri Educational Society and Dr Naresh Mittal, vice-president, Sri Dhanwantri Ayurvedic Hospital. This special clinical research unit will function from the Sri Dhanwantri Ayurvedic Hospital Sector 46. The BAMS graduates working in the college will also be converted into ‘Confident ayurvedic practitioners’ as part of the project. The clinical experience of the Vaidya will be documented and demonstrated to the BAMS students and trainees.  |
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Medical
seminar on June 2 Chandigarh, May 31 This was announced here today by Dr R. Kumar, chairman of the organising committee of the seminar. Dr S.K. Jindal, professor of respiratory medicine, PGI, will deliver the keynote address on allergies, highlighing the problems in their diagnosis and latest trends in the management of common allergic diseases. There will be a dozen experts from the PGI and other institutions to participate in the panel discussion that will follow the lecture. Other speakers will be Prof Bhusan Kumar, Prof Deepak Bhasin, Prof S.K. Prabhakar, Dr Ashok Sharma and Dr Ashok Gupta. The seminar will be inaugurated by Dr Rameshwar Chander, Director, Health Services, UT, Chandigarh, and president of the association. Dr Ravinder Singh, Principal, Medical College, Patiala, will be the guest of honour. |
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Awareness
camp Panchkula, May 31 The Superintendent of Police, Ms Charu Bali, said a lot of physical, behavioural and mental changes tool place in adolescence. These changes caused inconvenience to children and their parents. She said there was a need to create
awareness among children and parents as well. Members of the FPAI, including the president, Ms Pushpa Khanna and the Additional Superintendent of Police, Ms Bharti Arora, also addressed the gathering . Two films on adolescence were screened and skits on problems faced by adolescents were also presented. A health examination camp for adolescents was also organised here. Meanwhile, the police also organised an exhibition of arms, anti-riot gear and investigation kits. |
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30 women get stipend,
certificates Chandigarh, May 31 The women were also issued certificates on the completion of their vocational training under the Swarn Jayanti Shehri Rojgar Yojna funded by the Central Government. The women were trained in making soft toys and fabric painting. The Additional Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation, Mr Ashok Vashishth, while distributing certificates urged the women to make efforts to be self-dependent through economic empowerment schemes of the government. |
Teaching youngsters cricketing skills Chandigarh, May 31 Mr Sandeep Moudgil, secretary of the Panchkula District Cricket Association and the person responsible for providing budding cricketers a platform to hone their skills, revealed that nearly 30-odd cricketers visit the academy daily. First they are put through various drills designed to improve their physical fitness. After that they take to regular practice. Two cement wickets are already there primarily for the batsmen so that they become used to playing on hard surface. One turf wicket is nearing completion, while another was likely to be completed soon for the benefit of cricketers in the school known more for the excellent skating rink it has. Mr Moudgil, who took over as the secretary of the association in 1998, said there was no dearth of talented cricketers in the district. "Only specialised coaching is the need of the hour as cricketers had the ability to serve the state and the country." The association was granted affiliation by the Haryana Cricket Association in 1999. Bemoaning the absence of a proper cricket ground, Mr Moudgil, who has played for Haryana for five years and has now taken the onus to train youngsters, stated that at nets flaws in technique could be ironed out, but it was only during the match situation that the actual worth and temperament of a player could be properly ascertained. He, however, revealed that efforts were under way to arrange a ground for the players. Efforts made during the past couple of years, he revealed, had started yielding results. "The Panchkula team, in fact, a motley group of youngsters invariably used to go down to the Chandigarh team. But, as a result of sustained coaching, the trend has been reversed. "Now the team had, at least, started reaching the quarter-finals in almost all age-group tournaments." With the presence of players like pacer Vineet Jain and Girish Bhanot, both Ranji Trophy players, the team was likely to fair even better. Gaurav Chopra and Nitin Mehtani, both academy players, had already played in the under-14 North Zone inter-state tournaments. The association, Moudgil said, had organised the Major Sandeep Sagar Memorial Cricket Tournament and the Girish Nayyar Memorial Tournament last year in which top players of the zone took part. Mr Moudgil, who learnt basics from former India fast bowler Yograj Singh and Dronacharya D.P. Azad, said special emphasis during the daily nets was being given to improve the fielding skills of the players as well as fitness level. From the summer vacation the practice session would be extended to morning hours. The association, he said, had written to the Haryana Sports Department nearly a year back seeking permission to use ground and other facilities besides allotment of a permanent office in the Sector 3 multipurpose sports complex which was nearing completion. But nothing had been heard so far. He said a proposal was under consideration to hold a tournament at the end of June, while an inter-district tournament for school children was likely to be held in the month of July. He said a team comprising 14 boys would be sent on a one-week tour of Amritsar to play matches there. He said fresh admissions to the academy would be conducted through trials slated to be conducted on June 3. He was appreciative of the gesture of Ms Rajni Thareja, Principal of the school who is also vice-president of the PDCA, for allowing the setting up of academy by granting land on the school premises. |
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Sheetal
clinches ITF title Chandigarh, May 31 The singles final played between Ankita and Sheetal went on unexpected lines. When Sheetal won the first set at 6-4, it seemed Ankita will come back which she did by winning the second set at 6-2. But the negative play of Delhi girl weakened her chances as the game progressed. Finally, Sheetal proved herself in all departments of the game and wrapped the set and the match at 6-4 to win this first leg of the meet. The doubles final was played between Liza-Radhika and Shruti-Sheetal pair. Like singles, Shruti after performing well in the initial part of the set, lost the confidence to fight back to finish along with her partner. This led in Liza-Radhika pair clinching the first set after a tough fight at 7-6 (6). The second set was also evenly played but Shruti- Sheetal pair did not variate their strokes to put pressure on their opponents who played in same rhythm to finally conquer the match and the title. The next leg of the ITF Women Tennis Meet will begin at Muzaffarnagar from June 3. Results: all finals—singles: Sheetal Goutham b Ankita Bhambri 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. doubles: Liza Pareira and Radhika Tulpule b Sheetal Goutham and Shruti Dhawan 7-6 (6), 6-4. Tennis meet Three city tennis players entered finals in different age group events in the AITA Junior Ranking Zonal Tennis Tournament played at the St Soldier’s Total Tennis Academy courts, Sector 16, Panchkula, today. Simer, in girls’ under-16 section, Gursher Harika in under-14 boys’ section, while Taskeen Bains in under-14 girls’ section entered the finals, which will be played tomorrow. Results — semi-finals: boys under-14: Krishna Karsolia (UP) b Rahul Belwal (Delhi) 6-1, 6-4; Gursher Harika (Chandigarh) b Pankaj Thapa (Delhi) 6-2, 6-3; girls under-14: Sanjana Kapoor (Delhi) b Navjot Saini (Punjab) 6-1, 6-1; Taskeen Bains (Chandigarh) b Amrita Seth (Delhi) 7-5,6-2; boys under-16: Vijit Sehgal (Delhi) b Gursher Harika (Chandigarh) 5-7, 6-2, 6-4; Sandeep Kumar (Delhi) b Rohit Chaudhary (Delhi) 6-3, 6-0. girls under-16: Simer (Chandigarh) b Alipt Sandhu (Chandigarh) 7-6, 6-2; Sanjana Kapoor (Delhi) b Inayat Khosla (Chandigarh) 7-6, 6-0. City lad shines Isha Toor, a trainee of a Total Tennis Academy, Sector 11, bagged the girls’ under-18 section in the All-India Open Tennis Tournament played at Doon School, Dehradun, on Friday. It was organised by the Uttranchal Tennis Association. In the finals, Isha outplayed Astha Uppal of New Delhi in two sets with scores 6-3, 7-5. Earlier in the semifinals, Isha downed Anjani Kant of New Delhi 6-1, 6-0, while in quarterfinals, she beat Varsha Meena of Rajasthan 6-0, 6-0. Cricket tournament PATIALA Brief scores: SDSE School: 86 all out (Mohit 28, Sunil 14, Tanmeet Bawa 5 for 12, Yuvraj Singh 2 for 12, Gursharan Singh 1 for 18) PCA XI: 88 for 4 ( Shivkaran Gill 24, Ishpreet Singh 20, Rupeetinder Singh 20 n.o, Manoj 3 for 4, Anupam 1 for 10). |
MC finances to be reviewed Chandigarh, May 31 The action taken reports are being keenly awaited in the wake of reported allegations and counter-allegations between officials and Congress councillors on the issue of development and influence pedaling. While the Congress leadership is in no mood to entertain any official agenda except for the action taken reports on various decisions, the Mayor, Ms Lalit Joshi, has not yet confirmed whether any official agenda will be accepted at the meeting for discussion. She has kept the option of official agenda open for further consideration. The Congress leadership indicated the party skipped last month’s Finance and Contract Committee (F&CC) meeting in the absence of action taken reports on various decisions. With the tubewells being the biggest expenditure head in the corporation, Congress members had been seeking a detailed report on status and performance of their functioning, indicating prudence in their use could drastically bring down expenditure. The last meeting of the Water and Sewerage Committee could not do any worthwhile business in the absence of the report on tubewells which officials promised to provide in a week’s time. The date of the F&CC will be confirmed on June 3, but tentatively the date has been fixed for June 7, sources told Chandigarh Tribune. The F&CC will like to exercise utmost expenditure control in the wake of Rs 13 crore cut in the grant-in-aid effected by the Chandigarh Administration and the central government to make the budget zero deficit, as per the requirement of the Punjab Municipal Act extended to Chandigarh. Among important decisions, the F&CC had earlier decided to review expenditure on monthly basis and quarterly the budget, but the exercise had not been followed in the last meetings. The decision to monitor even non-plan expenditure was welcomed by all quarters as it formed the largest chunk of the corporation’s budget and a cut in this through intelligent management and monitoring will certainly be welcomed by the higher authorities. The mid-way review of expenditures and budget will also provide the corporation and opportunity to divert funds to those areas where the need is higher against a little allocation. |
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More wait for fund-starved corporation Chandigarh, May 31 An appointment had been fixed yesterday with the SDFC Chairman, Mr B.S. Baidwan, and Mr Ramesh Chandra, a member, but was cancelled in the evening. The Municipal Commissioner, Mr M.P. Singh, and the Mayor, Ms Lalit Joshi, were to meet the SDFC representatives. The meeting was to come immediately after the municipal corporation had passed a resolution yesterday to restore the Rs 13 crore grant-in-aid cut from the Chandigarh Administration and protest that the corporation was not getting its due share in resources. All parties reached a consensus in the House that a fund-surplus Chandigarh Administration had been getting higher allocations, while the corporation was getting a reduced aid. The House yesterday asked the Mayor to fix an appointment at today’s meeting with the Delhi Finance Commission immediately to get justice in resource allocation after today’s meeting. Indications are that the SDFC might meet all councillors shortly. |
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MC served notice on dumping ground Chandigarh, May 31 The CPCB wanted the corporation to use concrete in the dumping ground, fence it and put up hedges around it and make a network of approach roads for dumping vehicles inside the ground. The notice dated May 27 and addressed to Municipal Commissioner was received today in the corporation. With the corporation having no immediate funds for the purpose, an emergent meeting of the Sanitation Committee of the corporation was called to take note of the notice. The committee immediately authorised the Medical Officer Health, Mr G.C. Bansal, to undertake works up to Rs 5 lakh through the corporation staff and asked him to show results in 15 days to escape legal action. The committee also fixed a tentative time till December 31 this year to complete the works directed by the Pollution Control Board. The committee also decided to condemn the sweeping staff for yesterday’s confrontation and appealed to them to cooperate in keeping the city clean. It was also decided to start the cleaning of markets in Sectors 17, 8 and 9 in the night till 8.30 and to challan those who were found littering garbage. This was already being done in Bangalore and Hyderabad. They also asked to float tender for the
propose. The Congress Councillor, Mr Chandermukhi Sharma, who had approached the Administrator with the suggestion, was today called as a special invitee in the meeting. Mr Sharma gave this presentation to all councillors. The committee also considered another suggestion by Mr Sharma to buy vacuum cleaners for cleaning the city. The committee was today confronted with an uncomfortable information that electricity connections of one of the public toilets was disconnected by the Electricity Department for a due of Rs 70,000. The committee was also informed about the same problem in other public toilets that the corporation had decided to privatise for maintenance. But the electricity dues, sometimes even during the period of the Chandigarh Administration, had become a stumbling block in the privatisation of these toilets. The committee asked the Municipal Commissioner to take up the matter with the Chandigarh Administration to collectively clear electricity dues lying with the administration as well as the corporation. |
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Drive to check use of LEDs on number plates Chandigarh, May 31 According to a police officer, the problem was being faced during checking of vehicles at night. Several traffic violators got away without stopping when signalled by the police, he said. The LEDs are small diodes which emit a sharp blue light. Two such LEDs are installed on a number plate, which makes it impossible for any person beyond a distance of about 15 meters to read the number plate. Theses LEDs are available in the market for about Rs 30. The police says though the LEDs are being used to escape the police, yet their use affects the vision those driving in the vicinity of an LED, which may lead to irritaion or disorientation. The police says the use of LEDs is against the provision of the Motor Vehicles Act. A senior officer, when contacted, admitted that so far the police had turned a blind eye to the use of LEDs, but with increasing incidents of violators slipping the police net at night, they intend to “come down with a heavy hand” on LED users. Policemen point out that if a driver using LEDs knocks down a pedestrian or a two-wheeler, eye-witnesses may not be able to provide any clue. |
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Water harvesting project on anvil Panchkula, May 31 Sources informed TNS that a comprehensive work plan for the project had already been prepared. It is proposed to construct water harvesting structures such as low cost check dams or masonry cement structures, dry stone masonry structures for breaking the speed of water flowing down the Shivaliks; sub-surface dams and water harvesting dams will be constructed under this scheme. Kuhl development programmes will also be included in the programme. This will help raise the water table in the region, which is depleting at a very rapid rate. While 38 check dams are proposed to be constructed in different parts of Pinjore, 25 dry stone masonry structures, 17 silt detention dams, eight water harvesting structures and about one lakh running feet of channels will be constructed in this programme. The programme aims at completing the shortcomings of the Kandi project and work beyond these for making effective recharging of groundwater, says the Deputy Commissioner, Ms Jyoti Arora. This project has been launched by the district administration for the Kiratpur-Sirsa, Ram Nagar, Nanakpur Nadies and Surajpur choe at the cost of Rs 483.48 lakh for integrated development of 8,058 hectares land , spread across 49 villages of the Pinjore block. Till now a sum of Rs. 62 lakhs has already been received by the administration. Besides aiming at bringing the maximum area under cultivation, this will help improve the irrigation facilities in these areas. This project will also include afforestation, including block plantations like silvy pastures and vegetative shrub barriers at various seasonal rivulets, and sand dune stabilisation. This will not just help in recharging the groundwater, but ensure that land erosion is minimised. The Village Development Committees will be involved in the project during decision making, quality control and assurance. The authorities claim that alternate sources of water need to be tapped. At the present rate of groundwater consumption, water is estimated to last only for the next 20 years. It is not possible to augment this shortfall by installing more tubewells — which could further deplete the underground water, lead to overdraws and lack of charging. The project will initially be launched in 12 villages of Pinjore after the survey of the sites and planning for the construction of these water harvesting structures has been carried out. The first work under this scheme is being carried out on the junction of Nanakput and Rampur Jangi villages, where a check dam is being constructed. |
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Controversial
Form 56-C withdrawn Ludhiana, May 31 Mr Aggarwal said yesterday, a delegation of the Beopar Mandal, led by its state president, Mr Amrit Lal Jain, had met the sales tax commissioner at Chandigarh. The delegation explained to the commissioner the difficulty and harassment that may be caused to the traders by the introduction of this form. The commissioner, according to Mr Aggarwal, issued written directions to all Sales Tax offices in the state, making it clear that Form 56 C had been withdrawn. Mr Aggarwal said the commissioner, while appreciating the concern of the traders, told them in case they were harassed by any officials of the ST department on any count, the matter should be immediately brought to his notice so that action is taken against such an official. |
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