SPORTS

ICSE chess meet on April 19
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, April 17
The IIIrd ICSE Chess tournament, Chandigarh region, will be held on April 19 at Tender Heart School from 9 am to 12 noon, informed Ms Prem Suri, Principal of the school. Various ICSE schools of the Chandigarh region, such as St Stephen's, St Xavier's School, Sector 44, YPS, SAS Nagar, St Kabir Public School will take part in the meet.

Beating the heat

Youngsters take a splash in the Lake Club swimming pool as various pools in the city reopened following the onset of summers. — Photo Pankaj Sharma

Though the onset of warm weather has compelled people to throng various swimming pools in the city, but still, if one goes by the number of people visiting pools, it was almost negligible. On a visit to the Lake Club pool, hardly few youngsters could be noticed. The club opens the swimming pool both in the morning and evening hours. While in the morning, from 6 am to 10.30 and in the evening from 4 pm to 8.30 pm.

The other two sought after pools in Sector 23 were still not thrown open. One of the sports official told Chandigarh Tribune that Public Health wing of the UT Administration provides supply of water from Sector 37 water works which was the general supply for domestic purposes.

MCA team

The Mohali Cricket Association (MCA) has selected a 16-member (under-15) team for the under-15 cricket tournament beginning April 19 at PCA Stadium, SAS Nagar. The team is: Satyajit Singh Padam (captain), Harpreet Singh, Harmanbir Singh, Gurvivek Singh, Rahul, Jaskaran Singh, Sukmeen Singh, Rustam Singh, Abhishek Munjal, Rohit, Jasminder Singh Bedi, Aneet Pal Singh, Harjot Singh, Jayant, Inderjit Singh and Geet Kishan. Coach- Inderjit Singh.

Audio-visual library

Chandigarh will soon have an audio-visual library exclusively meant for sports activities. The library, the first of its kind in this region, initiated by the UT Sports Department, will be operational by this week.

Giving details of the library, Dr J.P.S. Sidhu, Joint Director, Sports, UT, said the latest gadgets like multimedia projector, big screen and CDs had been procured. He said the library would start functioning on the first floor of the sports hostel complex in Sector 42.

Mr Sidhu said the latest techniques derived from world-class matches and individual matches of top ranked sportspersons would be shown to the trainees. He said each coach would be asked to devote some hours with its trainees so that both could share the ideas to bring improvement in their performance.

He said apart from regular trainees of various coaching centres, the trainees of the Chandigarh football and hockey academies would use this library.

Selection trials

The Chandigarh Football Academy will hold selection trials to fill vacant seats in the academy on April 23 and 24 at Sports Complex, Sector 42, Chandigarh. The boys born between January 1, 1990, and December 31, 1991 are eligible.

The following tests will be conducted on the same days: 800-m run, standing broad jump, shuttle run (6x10 metres), 30 m dash (flying start), sit and reach test (flexibility), medicine ball put, 30 m dribbling, shooting test (kicking for accuracy), obstacle dribbling, Johnson wall volley test and 10 x 4 shuttle run with ball and then on the playing ability.

Tribune TT tourney winners
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, April 17
The prize distribution function of the VIIth Tribune Table Tennis Tournament was held this afternoon. Mr O.P. Arora, Additional General Manager, The Tribune, gave away the prizes. Various winners in order of merit were: singles: Munish 1, Rajan Raikhy 2, Umesh Rajpal 3; doubles: Munish and Sukhwinder Sodhi 1, Rajiv Bajaj and A.C. Bali 2, and Rajan Raikhy and Dharminder 3.

ADMINISTRATION

263 Head Constables, constables shifted
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 17
As many as 263 Head Constables and constables of the Chandigarh police were transferred today.

The exercise was aimed at “well-connected” cops who had been getting “plum postings”, said a police official.

About two week ago, the SSP had transferred at least 130 Head Constables and constables, posted in the Police Control Room (PCR) unit, to police stations. The staff relieved from the respective police stations was sent to the PCR unit, the police lines and other units.

The transferred cops have now been asked to join at their new places. Failure to comply with the orders could attract disciplinary action, said a senior police official.

The exercise was aimed at giving a fair chance to those who had not worked in police stations and discouraging vested interests to be active among the uniformed force. The transfers were done under Section 14, 16(3) of the Punjab Police Rules.

Regional Director insurance corpn
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 17
Mr Arun Kumar, Joint Director, Employees’ State Insurance Corporation, Chandigarh, took charge as Regional Director of the corporation yesterday at the new regional office of the ESI Hospital complex, Parwanoo (HP). Earlier, the regional office of the corporation at Chandigarh was catering to the state of Himachal Pradesh.

The office has been opened in pursuance of the demand of the employers and employees.