20 lakh kids administered polio drops

New Delhi, January 5
Twenty lakh children were administered polio drops as part of the Phase III of Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme on Sunday. The Health Minister, Mr A K Walia, said 30 thousand health personnel administered the drops to children below five years of age at seven thousand-odd booths and also at railway stations, bus stations, entertainment centres, airport and entry and exit points of the NCT of Delhi.

SPORTS

Punjab Police to meet IA in final
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, January 5
Punjab Police will take on Border Security Force in the title clash of the fifth Chhattrapati Shivaji Hockey Tournament for the Dhyan Chand Cup at the Shivaji Stadium at 3 pm on Monday.

In the semi-finals on Saturday, Punjab Police nosed out Border Security Force (BSF) 2-1 while Indian Airlines defeated Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) 3-1.

In a battle of the Punjab teams, Punjab Police forged ahead in the 30th minute when Gabbar Singh converted their very first penalty corner. Immediately after resumption, Baljeet Dhillon hit home the second goal for Punjab Police.

BSF, who wasted two penalty corners in the first half, reduced the margin when Peter Tirkey scored off their fifth penalty corner in the 49th minute. Balwan Singh of Punjab Police was given a cash award of Rs 500 for his outstanding performance.

Indian Airlines rallied to knock out CRPF. CRPF took the lead in the 19th minute when Balkar Singh converted a penalty corner.

Samir Dad restored parity for Indian Airlines five minutes before half time.

Dilip Tirkey scored twice off penalty corners in the second half to help Airlines record a facile victory. Tirkey was declared the Man of the Match.

Sudha races to 1500m gold 
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, January 5
Sudha of Madhya Pradesh Zone posted a time of 7.41 minutes to bag the women’s 1500m gold in the athletic event of the 20th Punjab National Bank Inter-Zone Sports Meet at the Karnail Singh stadium on Sunday.

Kusum Lata of UP Zone and Anita of Northern Zone finished second and third. In the men’s 1500m race, seasoned J P Saroya of Punjab Zone clocked 4.33 minutes to annex the gold. He was followed by Narinder Singh of Northern Zone and Som Dutt of HP Zone.

MP defeated Chhattisgarh 3-0 in table tennis, Bihar beat South 25-13, 25-11, 25-11 in volleyball, Uttaranchal beat Gujarat 55-28 in kabaddi, Punjab defeated Chhattisgarh 3-0 and East UP Zone beat Rajasthan Zone 3-1 in men’s badminton ties.

D. K. Bhatti played an all-round role to help Delhi beat UP Central Zone by 55 runs in cricket. Delhi wicket-keeper Anil Gupta took two catches and effected two stumpings.

Scores: Delhi (D. K. Bhatti 36 n o, Anil Kumar 52, R K Sabharwal 3 for 19, R K Singh 2 for 42).

UP Central Zone (Bhupendra 30 n o, D K Bhatti 2 for 11, Ramesh 3 for 17).

UP West beat Gujarat by seven wickets.

Scores: Gujarat: 65 for 8 in 15 overs (Parag 26, Parimal 20, Lalit 2 for 10).

UP West: 66 for 3 in 14.1 overs (Rajesh Tomar 24, Parag 2 for 12).

Northern Zone defeated Jharkhand by ten wickets. Scores: Jharkhand: 75 (R K Jaiswal 24, R K Chatterjee 18, Anil Sharma 3 for 1, Surinder 2 for 12).

Northern Zone: 76 for no loss (Brijendra Rana 35 n o, P. K. Madan 29 n o).

Anand shines in K N Colts’ victory
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, January 5
Leg-spinner Anand Mishra ripped apart the Apex Club batting line-up with a 4 for 17 haul to help K N Colts record a 41-run victory and entered the quarter-final of the seventh Sahibzada Ajit Singh Cricket Tournament, organised by the Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, at Pitampura in West Delhi.

K N Colts will take on Malviya Club in the quarter-final on January 15. Anand Mishra was named the Man of the Match. Apex Club won the toss and elected to field.

Scores: K N Colts: 164 for 8 in 35 overs (Rahul Nigam 39, Tara Chand 37, Sandeep Rana 23, Subhash Chander 3 for 23, Manoj Sharma 2 for 20, Yashpal Singh 2 for 35). Apex Club: 123 all out in 32.4 overs (Raj Gautam 35, Prayag Raj 28, Anand Mishra 4 for 17, Dinesh Rai 2 for 13, Tara Chand 2 for 20, Nishant Sharma 2 for 25).

DPS down Shanti Club

Delhi Public School (DPS), Vasant Kunj defeated Shanti Club by 112 runs in a league match of the first Shanti Memorial Under-14 Cricket Tournament at the Najafgarh Sports Club ground.

Scores: DPS: 202 for 3 in 24.2 overs (Harsh Yadav 32, Anchit Kumar 28, Prateek Kothari 3 for 13, Jayant Yadav 2 for 11, Ashwin Venkat Raman 2 for 12).

Citizen beat Paragon

Citizen Club beat Paragon Club by 30 runs in an A-II Division DDCA League match at the Kotla 2 ground. Scores: Citizen Club: 224 for 8 in 40 overs (Ravi Shankar Tripathi 74, Piyush Negi 63, Aditya Aima 36, Baljinder Singh 2 for 38, Ajay Parihar 2 for 30). Paragon Club: 194 for 9 in 30 overs (Manish Arora 31, Ravi Shankar Tripathi 6 for 38, Mohd Isrial 2 for 24).

R P Jain Trophy cricket

The sixth Reebok-Rohtak Road Gymkhana Inter-School Under-16 Cricket Tournament for the R P Jain Trophy will begin at the Bharat Nagar ground on January 6. Organising secretary Sarwan Kumar said 16 top teams would be participating in the tournament. Salwan Boys will take on St Mark’s School, Janakpuri in the opening match. Other teams in the fray are Hans Raj Model School (Punjabi Bagh), Modern School (Barakhamba Road), Bal Bharti Public School, Pitampura, DPS (R K Puram).

Shastri Club win

New Delhi, January 5
A devastating 4 for 36 bowling performance by Kamaldeep Chikara and equally impressive 3 for 20 spell by Vinay Sheel Baniwal helped Lal Bahadur Shastri Club defeat K N Colts by two wickets and entered the semi-final of the third Shakuntala Devi Dogra Memorial Under-19 Cricket Tournament at the East Point School ground, Vasundhra Enclave. Kamal was named the Man of the Match.

Sonnet Club move up

New Delhi, January 5
Sonnet Club defeated Ghaziabad Mahanagar Cricket Academy by 58 runs in the second Mata Durga Devi (Under-12) Cricket Tournament at the Bharat National Public School ground.

Neeraj Academy in final

New Delhi: Neeraj Cricket Academy defeated All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) by 20 runs and entered the final of the second All-India Devender Memorial Cricket Tournament at the Government School ground. T Anand was adjudged the Man of the Match.

AIIMS: 165 all out in 27.5 overs (Rajender Rawat 33, Sanjay Rawat 34, Ajay Kumar 30, T anand 3 for 32, Kuldeep Diwan 3 for 27, Aprajit Singh 2 for 42). OSR

ADMINISTRATION

Trade tax check-posts net Rs 4.6 cr
Our Correspondent

Ghaziabad, January 5
The check-posts set up by the Trade Tax Department have collected Rs 4.66 crore as security amount till the end of December 2002.The mobile teams have collected another Rs 2.14 crore.

The Joint Commissioner, Special Vigilance, Mr A. K. Gupta said so much money could be collected from the check-posts up to December last year as a result of the vigorous campaign launched by the department as compared to Rs 3.69 crore in the previous year. In December Rs 64 lakh were collected. Mobile teams collected Rs 2.14 crore as compared to Rs 1.69 crore in previous year.

The number of raids conducted by the vigilance wing have also gone up to 454 by December in which 323 case of tax evasion were detected. There is a tendency to prefer transportation of goods by the Railways. The volume of goods transported through the Railways had also increased two times this year, Mr Gupta said. Goods worth Rs 316 crore were transported by the Railways on the basis of Form 31.

He said special attention was being paid to check tax evasion on goods transported via kutcha roads. The mobile team had detected tax evasion of Rs 3 lakh on a truck at the TP Nagar check-post. There were no valid documents with these goods. The goods were released after collecting Rs 1.20 lakh from the evading party, the Joint Commissioner added.