MCD extends date of joining medical plan
for retd staff
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 27
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has extended the last date of joining the scheme of medical facilities to the retired municipal employees and their dependants up to December 31, 2003. The decision has been taken on the persistent demand of the pensioners who reside out of Delhi. This scheme was introduced by the MCD on November 22, 2002.

The aim of the scheme is to provide a comprehensive medical care to the retired municipal employees as well as their dependants.

A spokesman of the MCD said that under the scheme, the pensioners or their family members would have to pay just a meagre amount to avail themselves of the benefits. Monthly contribution by each pensioner will be made on the basis of the last basic pay drawn.

The employees drawing the basic salaries at the date of retirement up to Rs 3,000 will have to pay Rs 15 per month, Rs 3,001 to Rs 6,000, Rs 40 per month, Rs 6,001 to Rs 10,001 Rs 70 per month, Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,001, Rs 100 per month and above from Rs 15,000, Rs 150 per month. For pensioners who retired prior to January 1, 1996 before the implementation of the recommendations of Fifth Pay Commission, the basic pay will be arrived at by taking into account the corresponding stage in the pre-revised analogous scale of pay and subscription will be regulated accordingly.

The pensioners or their family members should get their identity cards issued from the drawing and disbursing officer from where they have had retired. The identity cards should be undersigned by the Deputy Health Officer of the zone from where he opts for claiming medical reimbursement. They have to submit photographs, along with duly filled option forms in duplicate. Besides, the documentary proof of dependency in duplicate will also have to be submitted. The pensioners will also be provided with health care facilities through municipal dispensaries, poly-clinics, hospitals, government and private health centres recognised or adopted by the corporation. Free supply of necessary medicines will be ensured as well.

Samitis constituted to improve working
of health centres
Our Correspondent

Sonepat, October 27
In order to improve the working conditions of the health centres of the district, Health Welfare Samitis have been constituted at the health centre and district levels.

The samitis have sought information’s from the village panchayats about the estimated expenditures on repairs etc., so as to make the health centres more effective.

According to information, the district level samiti will be headed by the Deputy Commissioner and the Civil Surgeon will be the vice-chairman of the samiti.

The other members of the samiti will include the Additional Deputy Commissioner, Executive Engineer of the Public Health Department, secretary of the District Red Cross Society, District Development and Panchyat Officers and a few non- government organisations.

At the health centre level, the samiti will be headed by the Medical Superintendent and will include representatives of paramedical lab technicians and village panchayat.

The samitis will have multi-purpose roles aimed towards providing basic facilities in the civil hospitals, community health centres, primary health centres and civil dispensaries. It will also share the responsibility for the implementation of the government health policies and population control.

According to Dr O. P. Bakshi of the Civil Hospital, around Rs one lakh had been distributed under the scheme, in which each centre has been given at least Rs 3,000 to meet their emergency requirements.

The amount received under the schemes will be channeled to the samitis through the concerned village panchayat.

The main aim of constituting these samitis is to ensure the involvement of NGOs and panchayats in improving facilities like furniture, medical equipments, carrying out immediate repairs and other low budget works.

SPORTS

Lalita, Minakshi help SPM College to victory
Our Sports Reporter

The team from Maitrey had to bow to the rivals, who put up a tough defence on the University Cricket Ground. The SPM girls batted and bowled with aplomb and walked home with 132 for eight in 40 overs. The girls from Maitrey managed just 92 runs in 38.4 overs with Neha scoring 38 runs. Lalita was declared the man of the match for her stellar performance.

Big win for GE Capital

Excellent all-round performance by Rodney Charles (4 for 4 runs and 25 runs) helped GE Capital defeat Apollo Tyres by 55 runs in the 3rd Turf Twenty20 Cup at the Guru Gobind Singh College Grounds.

Batting first, GE Capital could manage only 99 for 9 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. For Apollo Tyres, skipper Sudheer Wadhawan was the top wicket taker with 4 wickets while Anil Prakash took 3 wickets. In replay, Apollo Tyres was bowled out for a partly 35 with Rodney Charles and Kartik taking 4 and 2 wickets respectively.

Rodney Charles was given the man of the match award while Surender Kumar and Sudheer Wadhawan were given the best all-rounder and best bowler of the match awards respectively.

Scores: GE Capital: 99 for 9 in 20 overs: Joginder Sehagal 20, Surender Kumar 22, Rodney Charles 25, Sudheer Wadhawan 4 for 24, Anil Prakash 3 for 11.

Apollo Tyres: 35 all out in 13.1 overs: Rodney Charles 4 for 4, Kartik 2 for 8, Surender 1 for 3.

DTC Subhania win in DDCA league

Fine all-round performance (4 for 28 and n o 50) by Mahesh Sharma helped DTC beat T N Colts by 6 wickets in the DDCA A-I Division league at RSKP Ground.

Score: T N Clots: 110 all out in 36.2 overs: Gurjeet Singh 28, Mahesh Sharma 4 for 28, Bhuwan Chand 2 for 13.

DTC: 133 for 4 in 33 overs: Mahesh Sharma not out 50,

Kulvinder Singh 32, Som Nath 2 for 18.

In other match Subhania Club beat Delhi Adm by 19 runs in A-I division at YSCT.

Score: Subhania Club: 154 all out in 36.5 overs: Sanjay Kumar 50, J. S. Bisth 3 for 20, Subhash Chand 3 for 23.

Delhi Adm: 135 all out in 37 overs: Subhash Chand 30, Inderdeep 2 for 16, Sanjay Kumar 2 for 24.

Faridabad emerges as neutral venue for ODIs
A. Gulati

Rohtak, October 27
Australia will take on New Zealand in a one-day international of the triangular series on October 29 at Faridabad’s Nahar Singh Stadium. This would be the seventh ODI to be staged at this venue.

New Zealand would become the sixth team after West Indies, India, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Australia to figure in an ODI at this venue. South Africa and West Indies have earned a cent percent victory percentage at this venue, having won all the matches played by them on Nahar Singh Stadium. Playing record of each of the five teams having appeared at this venue in ODIs is as under:

Faridabad would serve as ‘neutral venue’ of ODIs for the second time. Earlier, South Africa and Australia have played here in 1996 during Titan Cup tourney.

The highest score at this venue is 277 for 9 scored in 49.4 overs by Zimbabwe against India in 2001-2002, whereas the lowest score at this venue was recorded by India in 1994-95, when they were all out against West Indies at 177 in 45 overs of play.

Only one individual three-figure knock has been played at this venue so far. India’s Mohinder Amarnath has the distinction of achieving this feat in the first ever ODI held in 1987-88. He scored exactly 100 runs while playing against West Indies.

A century partnership has been reached on four occasions at Nahar Singh Stadium. Caribbean batsmen P V Simmons and S C Williams scored 132 runs against India in 1994-95, for the first wicket.

In 1987-88, P V Simmons was associated in 108 runs partnership for the second wicket with R B Richardson for West Indies against India. Zimbabwean pair of A D R Campbell and Andrew Flower added 111 runs for the third wicket against India in 2001-02. Gary Kirsten and Hensie Cronje went on to add 113 runs for South Africa against India in 1999-2000 for the fourth wicket.

Bagging four wickets in an innings remains the ultimate feat for a bowler at this venue. This incident has occurred four times at Faridabad.

In 1996-97 Alan Donald had dismissed four Australians. His feat was equalled by Australia’s-Paul Reiffel in the same match, when he dismissed four South Africans after giving away 35 runs. India’s Zaheer Khan (4 for 47 in 2001-2002) and Sachin Tendulkar (4 for 56 in 1999-2000) against Zimbabwe and South Africa respectively, are the other bowlers to get four wickets in an innings of a ODI played at Nahar Singh Stadium.

Interactive training workshop concludes
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, October 27
Internationally acclaimed sports trainers from the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) Judi Myers from Australia concluded a one-day interactive training workshop for one hundred parents at the Heritage School, Gurgaon. The emphasis of the workshop is on participation and not competition.

This is the first time in India a workshop was organised to train parents the basic skills of sports. The one-day workshop provided training in the areas, which include: communication, motivation, organisation/planning, delegation, confidence, teamwork, problem solving, safety, knowledge, evaluation and responsibility.

The aim of the workshop is to look at practical games and activities that will highlight the skills required of a good leader.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Manit Jain, Director, The Heritage School, said: “We are extremely privileged to be a part of the unique workshop. The sports talent if nurtured at school level can show good results. We hope to continue with these sessions.

Heritage School endeavours to provide ample opportunity to each student to identify their potential in one activity or the other. The aim is to help students identify their strengths and talents.

Himanshu and Ekta get top rankings
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, October 27
Himanshi P. Kala of Central Bank of India and Ekta Bhambri of South Campus got the top rankings in men and women singles respectively in the 14th All India Surjit Kaur Memorial Open Table Tennis Tournament beginning from October 29 at Talkatora Indoor Stadium in the Capital.

As many as 600 entries in all 12 events have been received. The finals in men and women will be played at 6 pm November 1.

On the same day, special cash awards will also be given to Neha Aggarwal, Shikha Sharma, Nishank Bajaj and Ashish Duklan for winning Silver Medals in the last sub-junior national held at Sirsa and junior national held at Chennai respectively.

The following are the complete seedings:

Men’s Singles: Himanshi P.Kala, Rajiv Ghai, Ajay Jha, Nitin Mahajan, Abhishek Puri, Rajat Chepra, Mrinal Mandal and Ashish Duklan.

Women’s Singles: Ekta Bhambri, Neha Aggarwal, Shikha Sharma and Esha Bhambri.

Boys Singles: Sunal Jain, Nishank Bajaj, Varun Jindal, Harshit Chand (UP), Karan Arora, Tejeshwar Parmar, Jasdeep Singh and Vishal Aggarwal.

Girls Singles: Neha Aggarwal, Shikha Sharma, Esha Monga, Apna Bhalla, Joshita Bhushan, Deepshikha Verma, V. Malini and Sanya Sehgal.

Sub-Junior Boys: Aman Ahuja, Dhruv Arora, Sarthak Gandhi, Ramit Bhatnagar, Sajal Khandelwal, Varun Anand, Akash Verma and Kartik Kukreja.

Sub-Junior Girls: Neha Aggarwal, Shikha Sharma, Sanya Sehgal and Esha Monga.

Cadet Boys: Sarthak Gandhi, Kartik Kukreja, Dipesh Tekchandani, Piyush Dwivedi, Rajat Kumar, Sajal Khandelwal, Kunal Kathuria and Nikhil Gupta.

Cadet Girls: Esha Monga, Sanya Sehgal, Nishtha Garg and Vedica Garg.