HEALTH

Surgeon invited to Malaysia
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 11
Dr Kuldip Singh, a pioneer in laparoscopic surgery in north India, has been invited as a guest faculty in the Sixth Asia Pacific Congress of Endoscopic Surgery beginning from tomorrow in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

He will be delivering guest lectures in symposia on “Laparoscopic gall bladder surgery in acute and gangrenous gall bladder” and “How to avoid bile duct injuries during difficult gall bladder surgery”. He will also be chairing the scientific session on new technologies and development of laparoscopic surgery in Asia. This is an honour for a surgeon from North India to have been invited as a faculty in the international meeting. Earlier, in June 2003 his paper on “difficult gall bladder surgery-technical aspects” was nominated among the best 10 papers in the 11th European Congress of Endoscopic Surgery held in Glasgow, Britain.

Talking to TNS before flying to Malaysia, he said in the beginning of laparoscopic surgery in 1990, difficult cases of gall bladder stone disease like infections, pus in the gall bladder, cirrhosis of the liver, pregnancy with gall stones and some other difficult problems were not recommended for laparoscopic surgery.

This was mainly because of new technique and surgeons were not experienced in this technology. There were lot of complications of bile duct injuries during surgery and more and more cases were converted to open surgery because of the difficulty in dealing such cases. In the past few years’ surgeons gaining expertise in this technology had succeeded in dealing all difficult gallbladder stone cases by laparoscopic method at present.

Dental check-up camp

SAS Nagar, September 11
A dental check-up camp was organised at Sanjay Public School in Sector 70 here today. The camp was an integral part of the health orientation programme.

Students from Playway to Class X were examined. The doctors made the students aware of the growing dental problems among children and suggested that proper treatment at the right time was necessary. Doctors who attended the camp included Dr Navneet, Dr Suman, Dr Palwinder, Dr Navjeet and Dr Mandeep. OC

SPORTS

Chandigarh in commanding position
Our Sports Reporter

Harikrishan Kali claimed two wickets for 68 runs followed by Mandeep with two wickets for 58 runs and Ranjeet with two wickets for 107 runs.

Under-19 cricket meet

Anupam Gambhir will lead Panchkula cricket team in the Haryana State Inter-District Cricket Tournament for under-19 trophy. Mr Sandeep Moudgil, secretary of the association, said Panchkula would play their first tie against Chandigarh at the JR Institute of Cricket Technology, Barwala, tomorrow. The tie would be of 35 overs a side and would begin at 9.30 am.

The team: Sunny Sharma, Varun Khanna, Vishal Goel, Sukhwinder Singh, Ashutosh Walia, Karandeep, Raman Vats, Javed Hassan, Arvind Rawat, Ravi Shankar, Vaneet Goyal, Shiv Raj, Trilok Sangha, Kulbir Singh, Amanpreet Singh. Standbys: Rubal Kapil, Pankaj Sharma, Varun.

Kabaddi tourney

The Third Punjab Circle Kabaddi Championship began at football grounds, Sector 17, here today. It was inaugurated by Mr P.S. Aujla, president of the Punjab Amateur Circle Kabaddi Association. In a match played between Sangrur and Ropar, latter won 16-12.

In men’s tie, Faridkot beat Ropar 47-27.

Basketball courts get floodlights
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, September 11
Floodlights at basketball courts in the Sports Training Centre of the Sports Authority of India, Sector 18, have been made functional. Two volleyball courts at the centre earlier had the facility.

Ms Ritu Pathik, Assistant Director, Sports Authority of India, said it was during the inauguration ceremony of floodlights of the volleyball courts few months back that the local MP, Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, had promised to provide money from his MP’s Local Area Development Fund for floodlights at the basketball courts. Ms Pathik said the trainees used to face difficulty during winter, since the days were short. Now with proper lighting of the courts they could practice for more hours and get adapted to playing under floodlights. She felt grateful to Mr Bansal for showing concern towards improving sports infrastructure in the centre. However, formal inauguration of the floodlights would be done shortly, she said.

Meanwhile, on the second day of the ongoing selection trials being held for the admission to four disciplines — athletics, hockey, volleyball and basketball — in the STC today, skill tests were held. Ms Pathik said in hockey, old trainees played a match with prospective trainees. The participants also played exhibition matches in volleyball and basketball. She said the response had been encouraging and girls had come from far off places.

Tomorrow the personal interviews of the candidates would be held and the names of those recommended would be sent to the Corporate Office of the Sports Authority of India for final approval.

ADMINISTRATION

Expedite work on Kajauli waterworks, says Verma
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 11
The UT Administrator, Justice O.P. Verma (retd), today directed the officers of the Chandigarh Administration and the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh to complete work of the Kajauli waterworks, Phase IV, on schedule.

At a meeting with senior officers held to review the progress of the project, Justice Verma sought details of the project.

The Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Mr M.P. Singh, informed the Administrator that out of 25 km waterline falling in Punjab territory, work had already been completed in 5 km and the construction company was asked to expedite the work.

He said a payment of Rs 7.1 crore had already been released to the construction company and arrangements were being made by the Administration to release the money to Punjab for further release to the construction company. Justice Verma asked the Home Secretary to review the funds requirement and if required extra budget may be demanded in the revised estimates to be prepared by the Chandigarh Administration.

Mr M.P. Singh informed the Administrator that there had been a good response to the BOT bus queue shelters and tenders would be finalised by September 17. He said keeping in view the demand of people of Manimajra, six bus queue shelters would be constructed in the first phase on both side of main road. In the second phase, bus queue shelter would be constructed in internal areas of Manimajra.

Justice Verma asked the Deputy Commissioner to expedite the allotment of built up sites of ‘phari’ market in the Sector 26 vegetable market. He said the allotment process should be completed within one month. Justice Verma directed the Chandigarh Housing Board to expedite the allotment of 1,056 rehabilitation tenements at the earliest.

IT surveys at two leading toy stores
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 11
After a plywood dealer of Sector 26, Star Plywood, surrendered an unaccounted income of Rs 1.20 crore during a survey conducted by the Income Tax Department yesterday, sleuths of the department today conducted a survey at two leading toy stores in the city.

Till the filing of this report, the surveys were in progress at Budhi Raja Toys in Sectors 17 and 22. An IT officer said after suspecting certain discrepancies in the stock position of two leading toy stores extensive surveys had been undertaken.