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HEALTH

Bir Devinder raids health centre
Our Correspondent

SAS Nagar, April 19
The Deputy Speaker of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha and Kharar MLA, Mr Bir Devinder Singh, conducted a raid on the primary health centre and the veterinary hospital at Landran, near here today.

The doctor and the pharmacist were not present at the centre. It was found that the doctor was on leave while the pharmacist had left an undated leave application at the centre.

The Deputy Speaker handed over the attendance register to the SMO concerned and directed him to issue a show cause notice to the pharmacist.

Later the MLA met residents of Ivory Towers in Sector 70 here and gave an assurance that their problems would be solved soon.

SPORTS

6 teams for Parle trophy
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, April 19
DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, will be among the top six teams chosen from the whole country for participation in Parle Champions Trophy going to begin at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore from April 24 to 29. Other five teams are: Presidency School, Bangalore, St Bedes AIHS School, Chennai, Salwan Boys School, Delhi, Ramakrishna Junior College, Hyderabad and Sharda Ashram Vidya Mandir, Mumbai.

The players will be given free boarding and lodging facilities, to and fro train fare, cash awards of Rs 22,500 for winners while Rs 15,000 for the runner-up, and T shirts and caps to all the participants. The matches will be of 50-over duration.

Cricket tourney

Harminder Bawa scored 55 runs and enabled his team Century Steel Industries, in beating Air Force 3 BRD XI by 106 runs in the ICL Certification cup league cricket tournament played at JR Institute of Cricket Technology, Barwala, near here today. In another match of the day, Nestle XI defeated Satluj Coaching Centre by eight wickets.

Chandigarh piles up 304 runs

Chandigarh put up a huge total of 304 runs in their match against Mohali in the Inter-District Cricket (under-15) tournament played today at SAS Nagar.

Chandigarh scored 304 runs and were all out in 79 overs, with Awijit scoring 104 runs, followed by Vishal with 53 runs, Gurkirat 51 runs while Sidhartha Kaul scored 23 runs. From Mohali side, Harmanbir Singh bagged four wickets for 52 runs. Sukhmeen Singh claimed four wickets for 103 runs.

Chess meet

The ICSE Inter-School Chess Tournament was held today at Tender Heart School, Sector 33. In the team championship, St Kabir Public School, Sector 26, emerged winner while the hosts bagged second place. Various ICSE affiliated schools of the region took part in this annual event.

ADMINISTRATION

Zirakpur area to have sewerage, water supply
Bipin Bhardwaj

Zirakpur, April 19
To streamline all development projects which had slowed down in the past year, the Zirakpur Nagar Panchayat authorities have taken up a new project for setting up sewerage and water supply in the area. This will be done at a cost of Rs 8.5 crore in the next two years.

Owing to paucity of funds, the Punjab Sewerage and Water Supply Board had approached the Housing Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) for a loan on an instalment basis for the project.

As per the terms and conditions, HUDCO had agreed to release the second instalment on a request from the board. Since the development works moved at a snail’s pace, the board authorities were able to get the second instalment this month after a gap of over three years, sources in the civic body said.

Sources revealed that HUDCO had released two loan instalments of Rs 1.45 crore each. While the first instalment was spent on sinking three deep-bore tubewells and some other development works, the second one would be spent on laying of main sewer and main water pipes.

The civic body would have to contribute 20 per cent of the money to be spent on the project while the rest would be shared by HUDCO. The loan would be recovered by HUDCO after four years.

Mr Narinder Sharma, President of the civic body, said the project would be taken up stage wise. In the first stage, the main sewer and water pipes would be laid along the Chandigarh-Ambala highway. The job of laying internal sewers in different colonies and villages would be taken up in the second stage. Finally the sewers laid in these colonies and villages would be linked to the main sewer, he said.

He said three deep-bore tubewells — in Lohgarh, Bartana and Dhakauli villages — had been sunk.

UT to get more power from PTC
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 19
The Chandigarh Administration today received a fax message from the Power Trading Corporation (PTC), informing 30 MW of additional power had been arranged for Chandigarh at Rs 2.40 per unit during the summer. This power will be supplied between May 1 and September 30.

The PTC has also asked the Administration to notify any demand for more power immediately. Sources said with this, the situation in Chandigarh will be comfortable for the summer. The additional power will be supplied between peak demand hours i.e between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The PTC and the Chandigarh Administration are partners in power supply agreements and a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed last year.

Orders on new DC’s appointment soon
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 19
Orders to appoint Mr Arun Kumar, a 1989-batch Haryana-cadre IAS officer as the new Deputy Commissioner of Chandigarh in place of Mr M. Ramsekhar, who has served here for four years, are expected any day.

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs which is the controlling ministry for Chandigarh is to issue the orders.

Senior officials of the MHA made discreet enquiries on Wednesday giving rise to speculation that the appointment orders of Mr Arun Kumar were expected. Till late in the evening, the Chandigarh Administration had asked a person manning the fax machine in the Home Department to stay.

By this evening, no formal orders were received, but sources confirmed that the MHA was about to issue formal orders as the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) had given its nod.

Holidays in Central Government offices had delayed the orders. Now these are expected either tomorrow or on Monday.

The UT Administrator, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd), had interviewed three IAS officials of the Haryana cadre for the post of Deputy Commissioner in the last week of January. Other than Mr Arun Kumar, Mr Abhilaksh Likhi of the 1991 batch and Mr R.K. Rao of the 1991 batch were also in the race. The MHA had picked Mr Arun Kumar.