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HEALTH

Two-day session: Student parliamentarians
brainstorm health issues
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 22
While the city is grappling with dengue and other communicable diseases sparked off by the unhygienic living conditions, the first-ever All India Student Parliament on Health was inaugurated by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit here today.

Lauding the efforts of the young activists and mock parliamentarians, Ms Dikshit emphasised the need for the individual to take care of their health and help in the national development.

Addressing the young parliamentarians, she said simple efforts and precautions like self-discipline and keeping one’s surroundings clean need no funding.

Organised by Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth (HRIDAY) and Student Health Action Network (SHAN), the mock parliament provided a forum to the youth from 10 different cities to address the issues that directly affect them, like financial allocation to the health sector, agricultural policies related to nutrition, provision of safe drinking water and healthy environment for children among others.

Replicating the parliamentary procedures, the two-day session began with the President’s joint address to the two Houses, followed by a debate on the motion of thanks.

HRIDAY-SHAN has been actively involved in generating awareness among the school and college students for the past one year and has received the WHO’s Tobacco Free World Award for 2000, besides having its programme listed as a best practice model and recommended for global replication by the organisation.

Supported by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the WHO, the first student parliament was organised in 2001, involving Class IX-XII students from 48 government and private schools of Delhi.

SPORTS

Vipin Suri beats Puri, enters final
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, October 22
Vipin Suri beat K. K. Puri and P. K. Soni in the semi-finals to enter the final of DDCA Annual Table Tennis Tournament held at Ferozeshah Kotla ground. Vipin suri will now meet Rakesh Kaushal in the final.

In the doubles event, K K Puri and Rakesh Kaushal will meet Vipin Suri and P. K. Soni in the final.

Semi-finals: Vipin Suri beat K. K. Puri by 21-11, 21-17; Vipin Suri beat P. K. Soni by 21-18, 21-14; Rakesh Kaushal beat P. K. Soni by 21-14, 21-18; Rakesh Kuashal beat K. K. Puri by 21-15, 21-16.

Quarter finals: K. K. Puri beat Rajesh Walia; K. K. Puri beat J. B. Saini by 21-14, 21-14; Vipin Suri beat S. S. Chhiller by 21-15, 17-21, 21-17; R. Kaushal beat Deepak Govil 23-21,16-21,21-19.

Doubles: Rakesh Kaushal and K. K. Puri beat Subhash Dua and Rajesh Walia by 21-10, 21-17, Vipin Suri and P. K. Soni beat Ashok Ghai and Ashok Nangia by 21-13, 22-20. Ashok Ghai and Ahsok Nangia beat N. K. Lakhotia and R. D. Singh by 21-12, 21-14.

Surjit Kaur TT

The 14th All India Surjit Kaur Memorial (Prize Money) Open Table Tennis Tournament will be held from October 29 to November 1, at Talkatora Indoor Stadium, New Delhi. The tourney will organise by Delhi Table Tennis Association. Entries close on October 24, with Shri Hukam Singh, Organising Secretary.

Judo championship

The following students of Ganga International School have won the medals in the Zonal Judo Championship held at Partiva Vikas School, Pachim Vihar:

Gold: Sahil Dhankar, Ravinder, Narender Dhaya, Gourav Barwala, Sandeep Kumar, Manjeet, and Joginder Singh have won gold medals.

GECF rout Associates
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, October 22
Fine all-round performance by Prateek (3 for 11 and 21 runs) and excellent bowling (3 for 17) by skipper Mohan helped GECF (SBI) defeat Associates in the 3rd Turf Twenty20 Cup at the Jamia grounds.

Batting first, Associates could manage only 103 for 8 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. S. Hariharan was the top scorer for Associates with 27 runs.

Prateek and Mohan were the main wicket takers for GECF (SBI) with 3 wickets each.

In replay, GECF achieved the victory target with 5 wickets in hand.

Prateek was given the man of the match award while S. Hariharan and Mohan were given the best batsman and best bowler respectively.

Scores: Associates: 103 for 8 in 20 overs: S. Hariharan 27, Nitin Chanda 18, Mohan 3 for 17, Prateek 3 for 11.

GECF (SBI): 104 for 5 in 18.5 overs: Ajay 22, Prateek 21, Rakesh Makkar 2 for 32, S Hariharan 1
for 14.

HDFC win

HDFC defeated Cr Infotech by 9 wickets in the 7th DG Phadkar Memorial Cricket Tournament at Teri Oval. Deepak Sharma was declared the man of the match

Chetan Chauhan, Surender Khanna felicitated
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, October 22
Former Test players Chetan Chauhan and Surender Khanna, former international umpire D. R. Ram Babu Gupta were honoured by DDCA staff at a function here today.

General secretary S. P. Bansal, director Ravi Jain, V.P. Suresh Chopra, club secretary Anil Khanna. Anil Jain, Sunil Jain, B. M. Gupta, G. P. Gupta from sports committee, Ashok Sharma, Vinod Tihara, P. S. Chauhan, Ajeet Singh, Anil Chaudhary, M. K. Sharma were also honoured by the DDCA staff president C. K. Bhardwaj.

Satnamji School bag 20 golds
Tribune News Service

Gurgaon, October 22
Shah Satnamji Girls School, Sirsa, stood first in the CBSE Cluster IX Inter-School Athletic Meet 2003, which was held in local Rotary Public School.

While Shah Satnamji Boys School, Sirsa, emerged second, Modern School, Faridabad, stood third respectively.

Shah Satnamji Girls School bagged 20 gold medals and three silvers. Shah Satnamji Boys School bagged nine golds, five silvers and four bronzes. Modern School, Faridabad, got four golds, eight silvers and four bronzes.

Around 1,000 participants from about 60 schools from Haryana took part in the event