Blood donation camp
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 28
Markfed Blood Trust, an employees’ body of Markfed, organised a blood donation camp, today at its head office in Chandigarh in association with the PGI Chandigarh.

Mrs Raji P. Shrivastava IAS, Additional Managing Director, Markfed inaugurated the camp. As many as 100 volunteers of Markfed donated blood. The importance of blood donation was stressed by doctors and a film on thalassemia was also shown.

National judo meet begins
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, October 28
The third CBSE National Judo championship began at Bhavan Vidyalya, Sector 15, Panchkula, this morning. This four-day meet was inaugurated by Mr A.N. Mathur, Chief Secretary, Haryana, who stressed the need for giving equal importance to co-curricular activities alongwith academics. Mr G.P. Gautam, OSD, Sports, CBSE, New Delhi, was the guest of honour.

Later in the various events held, Poonam of SSSG School, Sirsa won the first place and in boys under-16, Amarjit Singh of RKSD School, Kaithal, got the first position. In the girls below-16 years, Sarita of IS Dev Samaj Girls School, Sector 21, bagged the first position. The boys under-14 title went to Yogesh Kataria of CB School, Gurgaon. In the under-19 section, Vishvajit of CB School, Gurgaon, got the first place and in the girls’ section, Alka of Shah Satnam Ji school, Sirsa, bagged the first place.

Inter-media badminton meet

The second Inter- media Badminton tournament will be held at the Chandigarh Press Club, Sector 27, from November 14 to 17. Giving details of this four-day meet, Mr Ramesh Chaudhary, secretary general of the club, said this year the format of the championship had been changed a little. It would be more open — to include a separate singles and doubles championships for both men and women’s categories. There will be no team championship. Entries for both singles and doubles events would be accepted from the individual media publications, news agencies and electronic media, which would be allowed three single entries and two double entries. He said those players who did not belong to any local media organisation had the option to represent the club for whom four entries in singles and three double entries had been allowed. The tournament will be played on league-cum-knockout basis and entries close on November 8. These can be given directly to the Manager, Press Club, or to Mr Rajesh Deol, tournament coordinator, at an email — rajeshdeol@sify.com

Office-bearers

Mr Ashwani Kumar has been elected as president of the Estate Office Employees Sports Association. The other office-bearers are: Mr Vijay Kumar Bhasin — secretary-general; Mr Rajiv Tiwari and Ms Uma Shanker — vice-presidents; and Mr Parveen Bhambri — organising secretary; Mr Surinder Kumar — finance secretary; — Mr Ashok Verma, Mr Ravinder Sharma, Mr Rakesh Mohan and Mr Yogesh Joshi — joint secretaries. The association has decided to host the Fourth City Beautiful Invitation Cricket Tournament in November on league-cum-knockout basis.

Throwball trials

The Amateur Throwball Association of Chandigarh will hold the selection trials for below-14 boys and girls on October 30 at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 37, at 4 p.m.

According to Mr P.S. Brar, general secretary of the association, the selected teams will represent UT in the 13th National Sub-junior Basketball Championship for both boys and girls’ section to be held in Mysore from November 15 to17.

CHB team gets house evicted
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 28
A two-storey house in Dhanas, located on the western side of the city beyond the cremation ground, was got evicted by a team of the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) today. According to sources, the house had been wrongly allotted in the first place and then sold off at a premium.

The original allotment had been made to one Mr Gandharv Sen. At the time of the actual possession, someone had forged the signatures of the allottee and taken over the physical possession. The person then sold it off to the present occupant, who paid a premium to purchase the semi-built portion and then went on to make the house a double-storey unit.

A direction from court was to give the house to the original allottee. Sources in the CHB said this will act as an example for those who purchase houses from allottees of various rehabilitation schemes.

MC to hear charges against clerks
Tribune News Service

SAS Nagar, October 28
The cases of two clerks, allegedly involved in corruption, will be heard at the monthly meeting of the Municipal Council here tomorrow.

The Vigilance Bureau had arrested Padam Prakash, a senior clerk of the MC, in August on the charge of corruption. After his remand, his services were suspended. His reinstatement plea is to be discussed tomorrow.

The other case is of an octroi clerk, Virender Kumar, who is being held accountable for a missing octroi receipt book from the council’s office. The report of an inquiry against him will be placed before the council.