HEALTH

AWWA holds blood donation camp
Tribune Reporters

Chandigarh, August 23
Thirty-four members of the Army Wives Welfare Association (AWWA) donated blood at a camp organised today at Command Hospital, Chandimandir, near here, to mark the association’s 38th anniversary.

The regional president of AWWA, Mrs Madhu Mehta, presented an eight-seater Maruti van to the Ex-Servicemen’s Helpline, functioning at Command Hospital, to enable it to ferry aged ex-servicemen who are without transport to and from the hospital.

Gifts were also distributed among patients admitted to the hospital by AWWA members. The hospital Commandant, Maj- Gen B. Sadanand was also present on the occasion.

A puppet show was also organised for mentally and physically challenged students of Asha School, an AWWA venture, as well as students of Golden Jubilee School. About 200 students attended the show.

Blood donation camp in memory of Captain Batra
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 23
More than 100 students donated blood at a camp organised by the Himachal Pradesh Students Union in memory of Capt Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra, at Panjab University.

The chief guest on the occasion, Mrs Chandresh Kumari, Himachal Health Minister, distributed trophies among students who donated blood.

Mr Vishal Batra, brother of Captain Batra, was also present. Thanking the union for holding the camp in memory of his brother who sacrificed his life during the Kargil conflict, he donated Rs 10,000.

The Health Minister also accepted the demand for providing stretchers and wheel chairs at the Himachal Serai in Sector 24.

She also donated Rs 10,000 to the union. She was accompanied by the Himachal National Students Union of India (NSUI) chief, Mr Kewal Pathania.

Talk on positive health at PU
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 23
A former PGI physician and cardiologist, Dr J.S. Chadha, was invited by the Department of Correspondence Studies, Panjab University, to deliver a talk on positive health.

In his lecture on “Prevention is better than cure”, he gave some useful tips on good health. He said stress was a demand made upon the adaptive capacity of the mind and the body. Talking on the role of stress in today’s life, he said it was the cause of most of the diseases but ways to deal with stress was also suggested by him.

Refresher course inaugurated: A three-week refresher course in physics was inagurated by Prof. Raj Hans Gill, Dean University Instructions, Panjab University yesterday. Twenty five teachers from various colleges and universities from different parts of country are attending the course. The Director of Academic staff college, Prof. P.S.Verma, highlighted the guidelines of UGC wherein evaluation of performance of participants will also take place. Prof T.S. Cheena, Chairman of the department, apprised the participants of the front, line research activities of the department. Mathematician Prof. Raj Hans Gill stressed the need and usefulness of the such courses in the fast emerging fields such as physics.

SPORTS

St Stephen’s, Sacred Heart sail into last four
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, August 23
St Stephen’s School, Sector 45, and Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School, Sector 26, won their respective matches to sail into the last four of the first Chandigarh sub-junior girls football championship being played at Shivalik Public School, Sector 41, here.

Of the four quarterfinal matches scheduled for the day three were played while one between Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 46, and Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 37, was cancelled as the latter failed to turn up.

In the first tie St. Stephen’s School outplayed St. Soldier’s International Public School, Sector 28, by a solitary goal. Ali Shah Negi scored in the 35th minute.

In the second match Sacred Heart School defeated Government High School, Sector 11, by one goal which was scored by right striker Jasveen in the 15th minute.

In the last quarterfinal tie Saupin’s School, Sector 32, beat St Peter’s School, Sector 37, by 5-3 through a tie- breaker. The full time score was 1-1.

Carrom championship

The third Panchkula district carrom championship began here on Saturday at Saupin's School, Sector 9. Tanya Singh and Ridhi Kanwar made it to the finals of the sub-junior girls’ section. In the two-day meet 146 participants are taking part.

Those who entered the third round of the junior boys’ singles included Karan, Sumit Gupta, Sameer, Sanjeev and Sunit Jishtu.

In the sub-junior boys’ section the players who made it to the third round were Sahil Sood, Manish Gupta, Amit Sharma,Vishal, Aviral Rishi, Puneet, Mandeep, Sumit Gupta, Lokesh Kamra, Rahul Verma,Mukul Sharma, Shiva Dhir, Sameer Chadha, Ankit Chauhan, Sahil and Mohit Saharan. The finals will begin tomorrow at 12.30 p.m.

Carrom tournament ends

St Joseph’s Senior Secondary School,Sector 44, bagged the under-14 carrom title in the UT inter-school carrom tournament (girls) which concluded here on Saturday at St Stephen’s School. In the final they defeated Sacred Heart School 3-0.

St Kabir School, Sector 26, clinched the under-17 title by beating GMSSS-44 3-0.

The under-19 final was won by GMSSS, Sector 16, when they overpowered St Joseph’s School, Sector 44 2-1.

Cycling tourney on Aug 31

The fifth Chandigarh mountain bike cycling championship will be held on August 31 at Forest Trails, behind Panjab University, Chandigarh. The event will begin at 7.30 a.m.

According to Mr Rakesh Mohindra, secretary of the Chandigarh Amateur Cycling Association, the events would be held in the senior men/women six-lap massed start cross-country race and one lap point to point time trial race.

The junior section comprising boys and girls event in under-16 and 18 will have four-lap massed start cross-country race and one-lap point to point time trial race.

In sub-junior boys and girls’ section in under-14 section a two-lap massed strat cross-country race and one-lap point to point time-trial race will be held.

Mohindra said the cyclists would then be selected to take part in the trials for the Chandigarh cycling team for the national mountain bike cycling championship to be held at Anandpur Sahib from September 13 to 17. Those interested may contact the secretary of the association at Phone No. 778182.

Nine-ball pool open

The third Vishnu Pal Singh Memorial Chandigarh State Nine Ball Pool Open Championship in junior, senior and ladies will be held from August 31. It will be played at the Chandigarh Billiards Coaching Centre, Sector 22-D.

According to Mr R.K.Duggal, secretary of the Chandigarh Billiards and Snooker Association, the winner will represent UT in the forthcoming national meet. Entries will close on August 30.

Cricket tourney results

United India Insurance (UII)XI defeated Oriental Bank of Commerce(OBC) XI by eight wickets in the inter-institutional cricket tournament played here on Saturday at Punjab Engineering College, Sector 12, here.

In other matches of the day New India Assurance (NIA)XI beat Chandigarh City Employees Xi by one wicket.

Brief scores: OBC XI: 107 for nine (N.P. Singh 32, Anil Arya 23, Arun 21, N.K.Sidhu 5 for 24, Ajay Sharma 3 for14, Raj Kumar 2 for 18).

UII XI: 109 for two in 14.4 overs (Amarjeet Kumar 36, N.K.Sidhu 34 n.o. , Ajay Sharma 30 n.o.,Sanjay Sharma 2 for 14).

Chandigarh City Employees XI: 74 for nine in 20 overs (Bitu 23, Gajinder Singh 21, Rajiv 4 for 12, Sanjeev Sethi 3 for 13, Gaurav Sharma 3 for 16).

NIA: 75 for nine in 19.3 overs (Anil Sharma 28, S.P.Sharma 20, Sanjeev Sethi 21, Gajinder Singh 3 for nine, Raja 3 for 16, Harinder Singh 2 for 5).

ADMINISTRATION

IT Dept to target big violators
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 23
Income Tax assessees who hide their income, especially “other” sources of income while filing their returns, should be ready for penalty and imprisonment, said Mr Raj Narain, Member of the Settlement Commission of the Income Tax Department, here today.

Under the amended provisions of the Income Tax Act, the assessees could also reveal their undisclosed income during the past six years. Talking to TNS, Mr Narain said the focus of the department was to raise tax revenue by voluntary compliance.

He said the department would initially target the big violators. Prosecuting them would set an example for the others. It had also been decided that the search and seizure operations of the Income Tax Department would be limited to a few big defaulters and so there would be fewer raiding parties. The focus was to do away with tax raids and raise tax collection by voluntary compliance.

To check that the tax defaulters did not get away, the department would depend on a yet-to-be launched tax information network (TIN) to rack high volume transactions. In the budget for 2003-04, the provision of block assessment had been removed. The defaulters would have to pay tax arrears by getting their entire liability assessed at a penal 60 per cent rate of interest.

Mr S.C. Parijha, former Chairman of the Settlement Commission, said the amendments in the Income Tax Act was not aimed at harassing the assessees but at voluntary disclosure of income.