SPORTS

Rock Rovers beat 3 BRD in hockey tourney
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, July 30
Rock Rovers Club defeated 3 BRD by 11-10 in a tie-breaker in the six-a-side Olympian Dharam Singh Gill Memorial Hockey Tournament played under floodlights at the Sector 18 hockey stadium today. In another match played today, Wanders Club trounced Spartan Club 11-4.

In the first match between Rock Rovers and 3 BRD, both teams were even in the stipulated period with scores levelled at 5-5. The half-time score was 2-1 in favour of Rock Rovers. For winners, the goals were scored by Davinder (2nd minute), Vikram (13th minute), S.S. Gill (25th minute), Jatinder (33rd and 36th minutes). For losers, goals were scored by I.P. Jain (7th minute), Manish (22nd minute), Joram (25th, 27th and 36th minutes).

In the second match between Wanders Club and Spartan Club, the half-time score was 6-0. Inderjeet Chadha scored six goals for the winners while for losers, Prabhjot scored two goals.

Gym, multimedia lab opened at Sector 33 school
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, July 30
A new gymnasium along with a multimedia lab was inaugurated at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 33, by Mr Virendra Singh, Adviser to the UT Administrator, this morning.

He appreciated the efforts of the Education Department in bringing the government schools on a par with private schools of repute in this area. He expressed hope that students would benefit from the multi-media lab and the gymnasium.

The gym is equipped with 13 machines. It will benefit more than 100 trainees of basketball, volleyball, lawn tennis and fencing, for whom separate days have been earmarked in the evening hours from 4.30 pm to 6 pm.

The lab and gymnasium have been established by the Education Department and aided by the Parent Teacher Association. With the installation of the lab, the students will have access to latest technology. It will help teachers as well as students to evolve better modes of learning through the use of motion pictures, 3D effects, and life-like presentation of various topics.

The Home Secretary-cum-Secretary Education, Mr R.S. Gujral, DPI (Schools), Mr D.S. Mangat, District Education Officer, Ms Rajesh Chaudhary, staff and students planted more than 200 saplings on the school premises. Principal Karan Singh said a wall for tennis players was nearing completion to encourage wall practice.

ADMINISTRATION

House allotment rules amended
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 30
The Chandigarh Administration has amended the procedures to allot government houses to the next of kin of deceased employees. Following the amendment, the next of the kin will be eligible to a house within a year of the death of the employee and no later than that.

The amendment says: “When a government employee in occupation of a government residence dies while in service, accommodation may be allotted to his spouse, or a son or an unmarried daughter, already in government service.”

Such members of the family of the deceased shall not be allotted accommodation of a type higher than the type already in occupation of the deceased, even though the applicant may be entitled to such higher type.

The changes have been made as several families have been staying in government houses, even if none of them are in queue for government service. In certain cases, the families have been staying on for more than five years while employees who are in queue for accommodation have been waiting.

Giving an example, an official said: “If an employee dies at the age of 57 and the families stay on for three years in the house, it is incorrect as the employee would have retired at 58 and would have vacated the accommodation.”