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HEALTH

Hope for hearing impaired
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, August 8
People who are hard-of-hearing live a life of social stigma with psychological problems attached to it. Unable to fully utilise their potential these people fail to do justice to their profession”, Mr T.S. Anand, M.D. Widex India Pvt. Ltd said.

According to Mr Anand Widex India Pvt. Ltd is a joint venture between Widex A/S, Denmark and his hearing aid company, Electrotech Corporation. Widex A/S, Denmark, is one of the leading manufacturers of 100 per cent digital and fully automatic hearing aids. Now for past seven years Widex India has been providing the most advanced and efficient hearing aids to the Indians at competitive rates.

Widex hearing aids guarantee accurate fitting in the ear, separation of speech and noise and amplification according to the situation. A pre-programmed 3mm to 4mm microchip controls all the reaction and responses of the device with varying conditions.

About 10 per cent of Indian population and 30 per cent of those above the age of 60 are hard-of-hearing. Traffic police officers, defence personnel and those working in noisy factories are particularly susceptible to this disease due to occupational hazards.

To serve them Widex offers extremely hearing aids that can placed inside the ear. Widex distributes its products under three names: Bravo, Senso and Senso-Diva.

The products range from Rs 7,000 to Rs 75,000 depending upon the built-in adaptive features.

One in every thousand children is deaf and in such cases early detection proves to be highly beneficial.

Widex India with its headquarters in Chandigarh has its various sale and service outlets in major cities.

It has opened exclusive hearing and speech therapy centre — the Senso Hearing Centres. Besides this Widex India plans to open a Widex academy in India, to train the dealers, dispensers and speech thearpist.

SPORTS

Sanjay Public School qualify for Subroto Cup
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, August 8
Sanjay Public School, Sector 44, defeated Guru Nanak Public School, Sector 36, by five goals to nil to qualify for the All-India Subroto Cup Football Tournament to be organised in Delhi. The finals was played here today at the Sector 42 sports complex. The score at half-tme was 3-0 in favour of Sanjay Public School. Earlier yesterday, Government Model High school, Sector 42, qualified for Subroto cup by winning the under 14 title. Sushil Kumar became the star player by scoring three goals.

It was Ajay of Sanjay Public School who opened the account for his school by scoring the first goal in the 18th minute. Just after eight minutes, Sushil Kumar struck and her goal, followed by Karan Walia in the 27th minute.

In the second half, Sushil Kumar scored the second goal and fourth for his team in the 45th minute. In the 68th minute, Sushil scored the third goal and his fifth goal for his team. In the 69th minute, Baljit of Guru Nanak School missed a penalty but eventually Sanjay Public School won the match.

Gymnast leaves

Rajni Sharma of the Punjab police today left for Azerbaijan for taking part in the World Rythmic Gymnastics Championship being organised at Baku (Azerbaijan). She has been selected by the Gymnastics Federation of India. She along with Sonia of Jammu and Kashmir has been selected for this championship

Rajni had won three gold medals in the 32nd National games organised in Punjab and was honoured by the Punjab Government in this regard. She is being coached by Ms Kalpana Debnath at the National Institute of Sports, Patiala.

Cricket tournament

The UT Cricket Association will organise the annual inter-school cricket tournament for Shivalik trophy from August 16. The tournament will be played in the Sector 16 cricket stadium and DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8. Last date for receiving the entries at the office of the association is August 10.

PATIALA

Korfball trials

Trials to select the Punjab korfball team will be organised at the Punjabi University sports complex tomorrow at 5 pm.

The selected team will take part in the 10th Federation Cup Korfball tournament scheduled to be organised at Kurukshetra from August 15 to 17.

Forest Hill honours Johl, Kahlon, Simran
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 8
International golfers Harmeet Kahlon, Amandeep Johl and Simran Singh were given honorary membership of the Forest Hill Golf Resort today.

It’s a wonderful experience and an honour to be associated with this club. The golf course is a delight to play on”, said Harmeet Kahlon, winner of Hero Honda Masters 2002.

Harmeet Kahlon and Simran Singh, one of the few founder members of the Indian PGA, along with Amandeep Johl, were present to receive the honorary membership.

Mr Devinder Sandhu, Senior Director, Forest Hill, said “Forest Hill Golf Resort today is on the path of becoming a golfing holiday destination as we are planning to add Swiss cottages and tents.”

ADMINISTRATION

PUDA, Mohali council lock horns over directional boards
Kulwinder Sangha

SAS Nagar, August 8
The town is “lucky” in having two main agencies to look after its development, each competing with the other to do the same type of work. The lack of coordination between the agencies — the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) and the municipal council — is often not only amusing but also wasteful in terms of money and time.

A recent example that has come under the spotlight is the decision of the two agencies to provide illuminated directional boards at various chowks in the town on the Chandigarh pattern. While PUDA has already executed work at certain chowks, the municipal council was about to allot the same work to private parties after receiving tenders in this regard. The council, on getting to know that PUDA has begun the work, is now being forced to adopt a wait-and-watch attitude.

While PUDA officials say that the Chief Administrator has directed local officials to put up boards at various chowks, the council authorities say that they have been asked by the Ropar Deputy Commission-er, Ms Seems Jain, to put up the boards. Moreover, PUDA officials work on the ground that all original works have to be carried out by them in the town and the council has only to carry out the maintenance part.

Sources at the council office said Ms Jain had directed the civic body to put up directional boards at the main chowks like Madanpur Chowk, Diplast Chowk, YPS Chowk, PTL Chowk, Stadium Chowk, etc of the town for the convenience of the public. The Engineering Wing of the council had then prepared an estimate of Rs 4.94 lakh in this regard which was put up at the council meeting held on April 8 and cleared by the house.

The council received tenders from private contractors on July 8 putting up 40 directional boards at 10 chowks in the town and each board was to cost Rs 7,312. However, for the time being the work on this project has come to a halt.

According to sources, PUDA is providing 22 boards at five chowks and two triangular junctions in the town. The estimated cost of the project is Rs 2.24 lakh and the cost of each board is Rs 9,700. However, PUDA has plans to provide more expensive boards at other chowks in the town though this project is at an initial stage at present.

The work to provide boards by PUDA is in progress at YPS Chowk, Madanpur Chowk and Diplast Chowk. The contractor has dug the road at different points at each chowk to link the wires inside the boards with the streetlight poles for getting power for illumination much to the annoyance of council officials. It is learnt that council employees have disconnected such wires, though PUDA officials have denied this.

The sources say that the civic body has written a letter to the Additional Chief Administrator, PUDA, saying that action should be taken against persons who had connected the illuminated boards to the council’s streetlights as this is wrong.

It has also been pointed out in the letter that no permission had been taken by PUDA to carry out the digging up of the roads at three chowks where the work of providing directional boards was in progress. The letter asked PUDA to deposit the necessary fee for carrying out the digging up of the road.