SPORTS

Bridge tournament
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 5
An open pair bridge tournament will be conducted at the banquet hall, Hot Millions-2, Sector 17, Chandigarh, on September 8, 2002.

Entries will be at 9.30 a.m. on the spot, according to an official press note.

ADMINISTRATION

69 vehicles challaned
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 5
The Chandigarh police today challaned 18 vehicles for using red lights without permission and 51 vehicles for using black films without permission.

According to information, the challaned vehicles included a vehicle of a Haryana bureaucrat, a vehicle of the DSP (Vigilance), Punjab, and senior officials of Punjab and Haryana. Most of the vehicles challaned were the escort Gypsies which were using the red light.

UT writes to Centre on bonus
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 5
The Chandigarh Administration has once again written to the Government of India saying bonus must be paid to UT employees.

The issue needs to be delinked from Punjab pay scales as Punjab was a fund starved state while no such exigency prevails in Chandigarh Administration.

Since Chandigarh follows the Punjab pattern of pay scales bonus cannot be paid till Punjab pays bonus. The employees have been demanding that bonus needs to be given for a good performance. In Chandigarh, almost all departments are generating more revenue than the expenses.