SPORTS

4 players for Gurgaon academy
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, April 24
Promising tennis players of the city, including Tushar Liberhan, Chhatwinder Singh, Sanam K Singh, and Shiva Sangwan, have brought pride to Chandigarh for their inclusion in the new National Tennis Academy launched by the All India Tennis Association (AITA) at Gurgaon. The AITA had entered into a joint venture with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to promote tennis in the country on professional lines by tying up with a permanent corporate sponsor for tennis. In order to give fillip to tennis in the country, the AITA came up with the idea to set up a tennis academy for boys and girls below the age of 18.

According to the CLTA, there will be a one-year contract whereby trainees will be given free lodging, boarding and training in India and abroad.

Tushar Liberhan, a former Asia under-14 champion, has also played in a number of ITF tournaments. He has been the winner of the AITA sub-junior meets. Tushar’s father told Chandigarh Tribune that Tushar had joined a rigorous 15-day coaching camp at the academy under the guidance of coach Akhtar Ali. He said, Tushar had finished his Class X examinations, and sending him to Delhi for a year won’t be a big problem.

Apart from the above mentioned tennis players, Jatin Bishnoi and Vijayant Malik, who play from Haryana but practise in Chandigarh, might also be included in the AITA academy.

Sunil Kumar, a former national champion, currently in Chandigarh for a few days told this correspondent that the academy would be a big stepping stone for the budding youngsters. The academy would provide them more exposure than was available at Chandigarh, he added.

Taekwondo trials on April 27
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, April 24
The Chandigarh Taekwondo Association will hold the selection trials for the UT taekwondo team in the sub-junior category in the boys and girls section on April 27 for the 21st National Taekwondo championship to be held at Bangalore from May 23 to 25, at Skating Rink, in Sector 10 here.

Football trainees: Ten Football trainees who were shortlisted on the basis of two-day selection trials, will appear for the medical fitness examinations tomorrow at General Hospital, Sector 16, for the final selection in the Chandigarh Football Academy in Sector 42.

Meanwhile, all hockey academy boys passed their annual examinations. But few football boys who failed in some subjects, would lose one year as per the policy of the UT Education department and thus cannot be promoted. The boys, however, showed marked improvement all through the year as they were provided with extra coaching facility.

PATIALA
Basketball championship: Hosts Punjab Public School (PPS) Nabha on Thursday thrashed Army Public School Dagshai by a margin of 40-7 in the inaugural match of the All India Inter Public School(IPSC) Basketball Girls Championship.

In the second match, last year’s champion Modern School New Delhi beat YPS Mohali 44-24.

Max 8 tournament from today
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, April 24
Max 8 day-night cricket matches will be held from tomorrow in Sector 49. According to an organiser, the matches will be played in the ground near Ryan International School from 5.30 pm to 3 am. Each team will get 10 overs to play. The entry fee for each team is Rs 800 and the last date for submitting entries is tomorrow. Interested persons can contact Sanjeev on telephone No. 98154-89977 or Romi on telephone No. 642395 for further details. 

Police to maintain ruffian register
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 24
To keep a tab on persons whose names figure in non-cognizable offences, the Chandigarh Police will now be maintaining their record in ruffian register at police stations and other units.

The ruffian register will be in addition to the 25 different registers maintained in police stations.

Entering date in the ruffian register will be at the discretion of the Station House Officers (SHOs). Information about any person, whose name figures in first information report (FIR), a non-cognizable offence or a complaint, could be entered in the register, said a police official. The register would contain information about age, physical description, relation, reference of name in FIR, DDR or complaints and remarks.

The decision was taken after the inspection of different police stations by the Inspector General of Police (IGP). It would not be necessary to keep a surveillance of the persons whose name had been entered in the register. The register would be used as a data bank to supply background material for the opening of personal files and history files.

The issue was also discussed at a recent meeting of the Sub-Divisional Officers (SDPOs) and SHOs, chaired by the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP). It has been clearly specified that the ruffian register would be used as an internal police document. All officials concerned have been asked to complete the ruffian register by the first week of the next month. 

SIs, ASIs reshuffled
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 24
Taking note of the well-connected policemen who had been enjoyed “plum” postings in the police stations and other sought-after units of the city, the top brass of the city police today ordered reshuffling at least 50 Sub-Inspectors (SIs) and Assistant Sub-Inspectors (ASIs). This is first large-scale reshuffling among the non-gazetted officers in the city police. The officials who had completed three years of service were reshuffled, said a senior police official.

Today, the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in a single order transferred 50 non-gazetted officers. Earlier at least 130 Head Constables and Constables, posted in the Police Control Room (PCR) unit, were transferred to different police stations. The staff, relieved from the respective police stations, have been sent to the PCR unit, police lines and other units.

In the traffic and security wing, which comes under the Superintendent of Police (Traffic and Security), at least 50 policemen upto the rank of Assistant Sub-Inspectors (ASIs) have been transferred from the traffic wing to the security wing in phases in the past few days. 

Arun Sekhri

Chandigarh, April 24
Punjab Chief Secretary Y.S. Ratra issued orders to send Mr Arun Sekhri, a PCS officer, to Chandigarh on deputation. Mr Sekhri was posted as Joint Secretary Excise and Taxation in addition to be being Deputy Director, Colonisation, Punjab. TNS