HEALTH

8 food samples found adulterated
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, August 6
During the campaign launched by the District Health Department for checking water, ice, adulterated food and other eatable items to prevent the spread of water-born diseases in the district, as least eight samples of these items have been found adulterated and unhygienic.

Stating this here today, the Deputy Commissioner, Mrs Jyoti Arora, said the samples of a product containing cow’s milk by Devinder Yadav and Amar Nath, the residents of Rajiv Colony , Panchkula, a sample of Royal Grand Whisky from English Wine & Beer Shop, Haryana Wine, Pinjore, coriander powder samples from Sahara Resort, near HMT Pinjore, have been found adulterated.

She said similarly the sample of Equal packed drinking water and Equal mineral soda taken from the shop of Ravinder Kumar and Ashok Kumar, proprietors in Industrial Area Phase-II, Panchkula, and a sample of sweetened orange water taken from the shop of Gopal Bhatia, Sector 10 Panchkula, have been found unhygienic. A sample of “burfi” taken from the shop of Pooja Sweets, Rally village, has also been found adulterated.

She said cases have been filed against the seven accused in the court of the CJM, Panchkula, while the court has imposed a punishment of six months in prison and a fine of Rs 1000 on Rameshwar Parshad, a grocer of Pinjore, for selling adulterated wheat flour, she added.

Programme to control rheumatic fever
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 6
The Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, Punjab, and the Indian Council of Medical Research will launch a pilot programme for control of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart diseases in Ropar district of Punjab.

Dr Rajesh Sharma, Head of Community Medicine Department at the PGI, said the main objective of the programme would be to define the time trend of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease among children and sensitise the community for primary prophylaxis by providing relevant health education .

The programme to be initially launched for a period of three years , would be extended to other parts of the country after its successful completion in Ropar, he said.

A workshop to control the ailments will be organised at the PGI on August 13 and 14 to work out the implementation plan.

SPORTS

‘Need to set Test match record straight’
Our Correspondent

SAS Nagar, August 6
“India has done well in one-day series but in Test matches played abroad their performance was not good enough and efforts are being made to improve this aspect”. Stating this here today, Yuvraj Singh, who will be a member of the Indian cricket team selected to play against Sri Lanka on September 12, could not spell out the reasons for the unsatisfactory performance of the team in Test matches. He said he had played only in one-day matches. The Indian team, he said, had to do well to go in for the World Cup.

Yuvraj Singh, who had come here to meet a family friend and also to seek the blessings of Brahm Giani Sant Baba Ajit Singh of Hansali, said he was a better batsman than a bowler and enjoyed playing against Australia the most. He gave all credit to his coach, Sukhwinder Bawa, and his parents for his achievements in the cricketing world. He said he liked batting in the fifth and sixth positions and considered the forth position as unlucky as he had not scored much in that position.

Yuvraj said he disagreed with the view that Indians were not doing well in sports in general. He said Indians had won 32 gold medals in the Commonwealth Games. However, sports facilities in the country were not up to the mark. He said sportspersons must be given more financial help so that they were not worried about their future. Foreign coaches were needed to train Indian sportspersons, he opined.

Ajitesh Sandhu wins Pitch and Putt Contest
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 6
The foursome of Harinder Gupta, Ajitesh Sandhu, Anish Gupta and Ashwani Sharma returned a score of plus seven to clinch the team event in the Pitch and Putt Competition inaugurated by Indian Cricketer of the Century Kapil Dev at the CGA Golf Range here today.

Ajitesh Sandhu clinched the individual title returning a one under card.

The results:

Winners: Harinder Gupta, Ajitesh Sandhu, Anish Gupta, Ashwani Sharma (plus 7)

Runners-up: Biru Sibia, Sandeep Sandhu, Rohan Bakshi, Raja K.S. Sidhu (plus 9)

Second runners-up: Simran Singh, Karan Singh, Ashu Singh, S.P. Singh (plus 12)

Individual winner: Ajitesh Sandhu (1 under)

Runner-up: H.S. Kang (plus 2)

Junior winner: Fatehbir Dhaliwal (plus 4)

Runner-up: Zorawar Rai (plus 5)

Closest to the pin: Amandeep Johl.

Closest to the pin (Junior): Ajitesh Sandhu

Hole in one: Ashwani Luthra

ADMINISTRATION

F&CC meeting on August 8
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 6
The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh has set the ball rolling for the imposition of paid parking in Sectors 34, 35 and 22 seeking approval from the Finance and Contract Committee to allow expenditure for inviting suggestions from the public for a paid parking system.

The F and CC is meeting on August 8. The matter has been placed on the agenda of the meeting of the committee. The corporation has sought permission from the committee to allow hiring 405 daily wagers as sweepers.

Congress leader in the Municipal Corporation and F&CC member Subhash Chawla’s proposals of converting the Nehru Park into a hightech children park and development of mela and circus grounds on the pattern of the Parade Ground are also going to be brought before the committee.

The committee will also consider a proposal of a private company, Planet Group, to maintain road berms and green belts of the city free of charge for the next five years in lieu of a permission to allow display of advertisements in these areas.

The other agenda items include the approval of various road gullies and storm water drainages, cow dung removal contract, carcass removal contract in Mani Majra, permission for DSOI to manage the area adjoining the institute, purchase of 700 MT of cement and continuance of security cover to the offices of the corporation.