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GMCH plea against ex-Adviser’s order Chandigarh, November 15 Mr H.S. Kandhola, Joint Director Administrtaion, GMCH, filed the petition in the local court. The petition pertains to seeking a review of an order passed on September 6 by Mr Virendra Singh to allow a chemist to function on the premises of GMCH at rentals fixed in 1997. Within three days of passing the order, Mr Virendra Singh was transferred out of Chandigarh by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs. Mr Virendra Singh allegedly issued a controversial order, which would cause an estimated loss of more than Rs 70 lakh to the Chandigarh Administration. He allowed Kumar Brothers, a chemist, to continue operating a shop in GMCH at rentals fixed in 1997. The case of arbitration to decide the rental had been pending before Mr Virendra Singh since April this year. The chemist had been granted extension till June 21, 2005. The contract between the chemist and GMCH expired on June 21 this year. The GMCH authorities had invited tenders for the shop in April this year. At present, the rent of the shop measuring 652 square feet is fixed at Rs 1.38 lakh per month. Interestingly, an adjoining shop measuring 193 square feet is fetching Rs 3.33 lakh. The GMCH authorities were expecting that the shop with Kumar Brothers should fetch a rental of at least Rs 4.50 lakh as its size was much bigger. Now the said shop would bring in revenue of only Rs 1.38 lakh per month, which is about Rs 3 lakh less than what was expected and Rs 2 lakh less than the market rates. The two-year extension in contract at present rates means a cumulative loss of about Rs 70 lakh, It was in April this year that the GMCH authorities decided to readvertise for the shop allotted in 1997 as they felt that the rent it was fetching was very less as compared to the market rent. |
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GMCH, Polyclinic to give birth
certificates on discharge Chandigarh, November 15 As part of the national campaign to distribute free birth certificates to children below the age of nine years, 35 newborn babies at the General Hospital here were given the document. Though free birth certificates are being distributed to children at the General Hospital for the past 15 days, the campaign was formally launched by the Joint Registrar-General of India, Mr Sham Lal Goyal, at the General Hospital, yesterday. Mr Goyal visited the various wards to hand over the birth certificates to the mothers of the newborn babies. The Director, Health Services, UT, Dr C.P. Bansal, said the facility was being provided at the General Hospital for the past 15 days on a trial basis and efforts were being made to streamline it, so that every child was issued a birth certificate.”The only problem we are facing is that infants who are discharged from hospital on Saturday or Sunday, cannot be given their birth certificates,” he remarked. Dr Bansal said the facility would be started at the GMCH within a fortnight and later at the maternity wing in the Sector 22 polyclinic. Dr Bansal said efforts were on to somehow overcome the problem either by sending the certificates to such children through post or get these delivered to their homes through nurses. At present, the birth of a child is entered in the register maintained in the hospital, which is sent to the office of the Registrar, Births and Death, Sector 17, once a week. Mr Goyal said it was generally seen that almost 40 per cent of the parents did not collect the birth certificates of their children and later at the time of joining school or college, they face problems.” A sum of Rs 15 per birth certificate is wasted when birth certificates are sent by post but due to change of address or other problems they are sent back,” explained Mr Goyal. Stressing the need for generating awareness about the campaign, he said a vast majority of the population in the country was not even aware that a birth certificate needed to be collected. |
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Drive to issue birth certificates Chandigarh, November 15 It is estimated that out of this number more than 50,000 children, below the age of nine years do not have a birth certificate. "To be completed in three months by the end of December, we have started distributing the forms to school children to know from their parents if they have a birth certificate," informed Dr C.P. Bansal, Director Health Services, UT. He said that the programme had already been started in six schools. It is the Director Census, who has got 50,000 forms published to be distributed in all the 123 private and government schools in the city. "Since a large per centage of the population is not even aware that a birth certificate has to be collected, it is essential to take the message to the public," stressed Dr Bansal. By distributing the forms to the children in the schools, we will get to know from the parents if they have a birth certificate and the one's not possessing it will be provided it as early as possible. The other strategy to provide every child with a birth certificate is to give it free of any charges on his birthday from the office of the Registrar, Birth and Death, in Sector 17. In case the certificate has to be obtained from the Office of the Registrar, Birth and Death, a payment of Rs 14 has to be made but on the day of the child's birthday it will be given free. This way the authorities hope to issue birth certificates to all the children in UT. The past experience of the last decade has indicated that a lot of government money is wasted by dispatching the birth certificates through post. "We almost end up wasting about Rs 5 lakh by sending the certificates through post, so we chalked out this scheme of reaching out to the parents through the schools," said Dr Bansal. While the government ends up spending Rs nine on getting every birth certificate form printed, another Rs five is wasted on postal charges. In case the birth certificate is returned back for various reasons, the entire money spent goes waste. The health department is hopeful that it will be able to cover all the schools by the end of the year, so that they have the exact data about the number of children who do not have a birth certificate. After this the process of issuing certificates will be started. |
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Doctors stress on early
VAP diagnosis Chandigarh, November 15 The panel discussion on "Ventilator Associated Pneumonia" was organised by the department of Anaesthesia and the Chandigarh Branch of Indian Society of Anaestheologists at PGI, today. Doctors from PGI, Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), General Hospital, Command Hospital and Fortis Hospital attended the meet. The long term artificial respiration given to critically ill patients not only increases the cost of treatment due to longer stay but also leads to complications like pneumonia. "There is need to diagnose VAP at the earliest, as majority of the patients who are kept on a ventilator on the ICU for more than a week develop pneumonia leading to high mortality rate," said Dr Neerja Bhardwaj, the President of the
Chandigarh branch of the Society. The participants said it was rather difficult to diagnose VAP as it develops due to multiple factors and not due to single problem. "Though we have no exact data to see how serious the problem in India is but western studies indicate that there is mortality between 20 to 29 per cent due to VAP, which cannot be applied to our country," explained Dr Bhardwaj. Dr Sandhya, the Secretary of the Society, said PGI too had started feeding data regarding VAP so that the incidence of the problem in India can be ascertained and parameters to treat can be identified. She said one of the methods to detect VAP was to undertake Fibre Optic Bronchoscope, where a specimen from the bronchi is sent for culture but unfortunately the facility was available only at a few places. Discussing the alternatives of ventilators to avoid the resultant complications, the use of Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) was suggested. Though in this procedure the blood is oxygenated outside the body but it was very expensive. However, studies in the West, where ECMO is in use, have indicated that the results are not much different than in patients who are put on ventilators. The panel discussion on VAP was moderated by Dr L.N. Yaddanapudi. Dr A. Balram, Dr Ashutosh Taneja, Dr R. Arun and Dr S.R.K. Arvind discussed the strategies to diagnose, prevent and treat this condition. The programme included presentation of research papers by postgraduate students competing for T.N. Jha Memorial Award. The papers were judged by an eminent panel of judges including Dr G.S. Kochhar, Dr B.P. Panigrahi and Dr Madhu Khullar. The issue of acute shortage of anaesthesiologists in the country due to demand both in the surgical and non-surgical side was also discussed. |
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Honour for Prof Mahajan Chandigarh, November, 15 The honour has been bestowed on a medical scientist from North India for the first time since the award was instituted. Prof essor Mahajan has held the position of Adviser in communicable diseases, especially parasitic diseases, in the Indian Council of Medical Research. He has received 25 national awards from different scientific bodies and has over 400 publications to his credit. He has been a Fellow of various national and international academies, including the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) and the Third Academy of Sciences. Earlier this year, he received the INSA S.N. Dey Memorial Award and was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award in the field of parasitic diseases. Professor Mahajan said with safe drinking water still being a far cry in many parts of the country, diarrhoeal disease remained one of the major causes of mortality in
India. He regretted that with the basic health and education facilities still eluding a majority of the population in India, diarrhoeal and tropical diseases like dengue and malaria were rampant. “Unfortunately in our country, there is lack of coordination between various government agencies and though we have disaster management committees in papers, in times of crisis they fail to rise to the occasion,” he lamented. |
ITBP win tent-pegging championship Chandigarh, November 15 The two-day show is being organised under the banner of the Shivalik Riding and Pony Club and is sponsored by the Indian Oil Corporation. In the well-decorated surroundings where Army personnel guide the visitors to the main venue of the show, the
civilians got a taste of military discipline. Riders from age six to 50 years exhibited their skills. The teams from ASC Centre, Bangalore and Assam Rifles team are also proving their might. As many as 275 horses are stabled at the horse camp. Earlier the show was inaugurated by Lt-Gen P.K. Grover, Chief of Staff, Headquarters, Western Command. The opening ceremony was followed by a dance display of a horse named Rustam, trained by Rajender Singh from Talwandi, Hoshiarpur. In the very first event, the preliminary jumping top, having 23 riders and ponies, Major Deep Ahlawat was the most impressive rider. While seniors jumped their horses in Arena I, children trotted their mounts in Arena II. Young Samraj Singh riding Manisha of SRPC, HQ, Western Command, won applause. Then it was the turn of national team tent-pegging Round A, where 17 teams took part. The sub-junior jumping and children jumping enthralled the audience. The jumps had a maximum height of 1.10 metres and spread of 1.20 metres. In the open challenge jumping, a total of 15 riders took part and the first place was clinched by Major Deep Ahlawat. The ITBP team won the national tent-pegging championship. Punjab Public School, Nabha, dominated in the junior and sub-junior categories. In the children trotting race for 11-12 years, Asses Singh of YPS, SAS Nagar, riding Uheno-uro, won the first place, followed by another YPS rider Jagat Singh Dhillon, who was on Apollo Lancer. Charanpreet Singh of PPS, Nabha got the third place. In the successive relay junior and sub-junior event, the team of Prithvijit Singh and Sandeep Singh riding Dauntless and Sultan won the first place in team event. In the children ball and bucket race for 8-10 years, Mayank on Noble Prize bagged the first prize. Udai on Emperor won the first place in sub-junior jumping normal event. Angad Deep Singh of PPS, Nabha, on Dauntless got the first place in children jumping event. Meanwhile, as per a complaint faxed by Mr Ajay Thiara, the father of Zorawar, whose was the lone entry from Chandigarh Equestrian Association for this meet, was denied permission to take part since he did not have his own horse. Mr Thiara alleged that the organisers had earlier promised to lend Zoravar a horse, but later refused. Otherwise, the local riders who represented the Chandigarh Horse Riders Society, did well on day one. Apurv Gupta astride Prince Beauty bagged the third place in the under-10 section. |
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Karamjit, Rajni declared best athletes Chandigarh, November 15 The lecturer of physical education of the college, Mr Piara Singh Sra and the lecturer of physical education, Government College, Kalka, Mr Gulab Singh, played the major role in organising the meet. A large number of students participated in the meet. The winners of various events are: 800-metre race (boys):
Satvinder Singh (BA II) 1, Karamjit Singh (BA II) 2, Virender (BA II) 3; 800-metre race (girls) Seema Rani (BA III) I, Parmeet Kaur (BA II) 2, Pooja (BA III) 3; Shot put (girls) Gurjeet Kaur (BA II) 1, Manjeet Kaur (BA III) 2, Seema Rani (BA III) 3; Shot put (boys) Gautam (BA III) I, Ajay Kalsi (BA III) 2, Mohit (BA III) 3, Nishu Kalra (B.Com III) 3. High jump
(boys) Ram Pal (BA I) 1, Manoj (B.Sc II) 2, Kamal (BA III) 3; High jump (girls) Seema (BA III) 1, Gurdeep Kaur (BA II) 2, Parmeet Kaur (BA II) 3; 200-metre race (girls) Rajni (BA II) 1, Parmit (BA II) 2, Seema (BA III) 3; 100-metre race boys Karamjit (BA II) 1, Sandeep (BCom III) 2, Tejvir Singh (BA I) 3, Manoj (BSc II) 3; 100-metre race (girls) Rajni (BA II) 1, Parmit Kaur (BA II) 2, Gurjit Kaur (BA II) 3; Discuss throw: Manjeet Singh (BA I) 1, Mohit (BA III) 2, Nishu Kalra (B.Com III) 3. Long jump
(boys) Nirmal Singh (BA I) 1, Kamal (BA III) 2, Manoj Kumar (B.Sc II) 3, Kamal Jit (BA II) 3; Discuss throw (girls) Pooja Sharma (BA III) 1, Seema Saini (BA III) 2, Parmeet Kaur (BA II) 3; 1500-metre race (boys) Ramesh (BA I) 1, Virendera (BA II) 2, Satvinder Kumar (BA II) 3; Long jump (girls) Rajni (BA II) 1, Gurjeet Kaur (BA II) 2, Pooja (BA III) 3, Parmeet Kaur (BA II) 3; 400-metre race (girls) Gurjeet Kaur (BA II) 1, Rajni (BA II) 2, Parmeet Kaur (BA II) 3. Three-legged race
(girls) Gurjeet Kaur (BA II) 1, Parmeet Kaur (BA II) 1, Manjit (BA III) 2, Seema (BA III) 2, Dalvinder Kaur (B.Sc II) 3, Rajni (BA II) 3; 200-metre race (boys) Karamjit (BA II) 1, Sandeep Monga (B.Com III) 2, Manoj (B.Sc II) 3; Three-leged race (boys) Karamjit (BA II) 1, Manoj (B.Sc II) 1, Sandeep Monga (B.Com III) 2, Mohit Garg (B.Com II) 2, Rajiv Kashap (BA III) 3, Taranjit Singh (BA II) 3; Javeline throw (girls) Taranjit (BA III) 1, Rajni (BA II) 2, Seema Saini (BA III) 3; Javeline throw (boys) Manjit Singh (BA I) 1, Gautam (BA III) 2, Kuldeep Singh (BA II) 3, Sukhvinder (BA I) 3. 5000-metre race
(boys) Dhoom Singh (BA III) 1, Jasvinder (BA III) 2, Kishore (BA I) 3, Taranjit (BA II) consolation prize; 400-metre race (boys) Ramesh Kumar (BA I) 1, Virendra (BA II) 2, Karamjit (BA II) 3. Fancy dress
Bharat Bhushan (BA II) 1, Rajiv (BA II) 2, Karamjeet (BA II) 3. |
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Italian coach trains budding golfers Chandigarh, November 15 Impressed with the overwhelming response from young golfers, Donato started identifying the shortcomings of the individual players. Mr Jesse Grewal, Director of the CGA Hero Honda Golf Academy said: “Video will be used to record the actions of the trainees. After analyzing the actions, we will show the clippings to the players and tell them their defects and plus points.” Corrective measures would be taken by the Italian coach to remove the defects of the trainees through scientific methods. Mr Desh Prem Azad, President of the Chandigarh Golf Associations said besides the golfers, golf trainees were also part of the national coaching camp. Among those attending the camp are Jesse Grewal, Nonita Lal Qureshi, Romit Bose, Vijay Divecha and Vikram Sethi to improve their golf skills and knowledge. The camp will provide the golfers and trainers an opportunity to update their knowledge under the guidance of Dr Ponziano, one of the top coaches in the world. And the cost involved in attending the camp is one-tenth the cost of a similar coaching programme abroad. Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, MP, inaugurated the camp which concludes on November 20. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Bansal congratulated the management of the Chandigarh Golf Association for providing excellent facilities to the trainees to practice and hone their skills. Mr Bansal was confident that more Jeevs, Kahlons, Johals and Irinas would emerge to bring laurels to the City Beautiful. He also promised to extend all possible help to the association in its efforts to promote golf in the region. The CGA management has decided to confer the honorary membership on Mr Bansal, Mr Azad said. Mr J.S. Cheema, Senior Vice-President of the Chandigarh Golf Association, is the coordinator of the camp. He also proposed a vote of thanks to the chief guests. Mr Rajiv Bali, another Senior Vice-President, was also present on the occasion. |
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CBSE hockey championship
begins tomorrow Chandigarh, November 15 Giving this information, Mr D.S. Bedi, the Director-Principal of the school, said more than 600 players would be seen in action. He said they had made arrangements for lodging and boarding at Shivalik Public School, Phase VI, SAS Nagar. He said they would provide free transport facility to the participants and the officials. He said the boys’ matches would be played on the Panjab University grounds while for girls, it would be Shivalik Public School, Sector 41. Mr Bedi said the teams had been divided into two pools, A and B. In under-19 boys section, Pool A consist of four schools, Greenwood Senior Secondary
School, Rampur, Mayo College, Ajmer, Shah Satnam Ji Boys School, Sirsa
and Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan, Bhimavaram. Pool B comprises Ganga International School, New Delhi, Parbhodananda Prashanti Niketan, Ghakesar, JKG Public
School, Ghaziabad and White Eagle school, Devpur. The under-19 girls section will also have two pools. Pool A will have St Mary’s School, Rampur, White Eagle School, Devpur, Vidya Devi Jindal School, Hisar and Bhavan Sri Ramakrishna Vidyala, Secunderabad. In Pool B, the teams are Maharaja Agarsen Girls Senior Secondary School, Sirsa, The Lawrence School, Ooty, Greenwood Senior Secondary School, Rampur and Divine Public School, Mehsana. In under-14 boys section the teams in Pool A are St Anthony’s School, Rampur, Mayo College, Ajmer, Police DAV Public School, Jalandhar and Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Bhimavaram. Pool B comprises, SGGJ Khalsa Academy, Amritsar, St John’s International Residential School, Chennai, and SVM Public School, Jaipur. The under-14 girls section will have four teams in Pool A — St Anthony’s School, Rampur, White Eagle School, Devpur, Vidya Devi Jindal School, Hisar and Lawrence School, Ooty. Pool B comprises Maharaja Agarsen Girls Senior Secondary School, Sirsa, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Bhimavaram, Guru
Nanak Dev Public School, Rampur and VMPS, Rai Singh Nagar. The semi-finals will be played on November 19 and the finals on November 20. Dr Ajmer Singh, an Arjuna awardee, will inaugurate the meet on November 17 at 10.30 am on the Panjab University sports grounds. |
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New Public School clinch basketball title Chandigarh, November 15 Mr Mervin West, the Principal of the hosts school, said in this three-day meet, 10 boys’ teams in under-17 section and seven girls’ teams in under-19 section took part. In the girls’ final played between St Xavier’s-44 and Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School, Sector 26, the latter won 28-11. Srishti and Aditi were the highest scorers for winners. For runners-up, Navneet scored seven points while Prikrit got four points. Aditi was also declared the best player of the tournament. In the boys final, played between St Xavier’s-44 and New Public School, Sector 18, the former went down fighting 36-51. Ivan was the highest scorer as he netted 16 points while Jakhar scored 14 points. For losers, Manu scored to ten points while Vikas basketed 8 points. Vikas was adjudged the best player of the meet. |
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Silver for PU in medlay relay Chandigarh, November 15 VTU, Belgaum got third place. In 200 m medlay for the men section, Jaydev Shukla of Gujarat University won gold medal followed by Parikshat Shetty of Mumbai University who cornered silver medal. Varun Sethi of Delhi University bagged bronze medal. Rahul Batra of VTU, Belgaum, won gold medal in 200 m free style for men while Ankur Kanoja of Bangalore University clinched silver medal. Parikshat Shetty of Mumbai University won bronze medal in the same event. In 200 m free style (women section), V. Remya of Calicut bagged gold medal while Archana of Bangalore University remained at second place. Calcutta University, Kolkata, won the 4x100 m medlay relay women event while Calicut University won the second place. Bangalore University got the third place. |
MC ignores illegal ads, loses lakhs Chandigarh, November 15 After modifications in the Advertisement Control Order, 1954, a drive launched a few months ago by the corporation staff to remove hoardings, banners and handbills from public buildings has lost its momentum. An officer of the corporation attributed the lack of enforcement to shortage of staff. A sizeable number of businessmen in the city have been using private vehicles to advertise their products which is a violation of the Advertisement Control Order. Only a few vehicles used for advertisements by multinationals were impounded in the past. Sources in the corporation said after the modifications in the Advertisement Control Order, a drive was launched from Sector 17 for voluntary removal of advertisements from walls. All imposing advertisement panels were brought in conformity with the modified control order. An effort was made to have a uniform advertisement pattern on all SCOs in the Sector 17 market. Following this, a door-to-door survey was conducted by the Municipal Corporation staff. The effort was to bring a symmetry in advertisement display in the entire city. The traders in Sector 17-E were allowed advertisement panels with six-inch projections outside the verandah, two by eight feet display on the floors above the ground and between windows and two by 10 feet advertisements along the beams inside the verandah. A trader whose display is up to 25 square feet will have to pay to the corporation Rs 2,500 per square feet per annum and Rs 3,000 per square feet per annum in excess of each 25 square feet. However, the drive to streamline the advertisements was not extended to the other sector markets. A survey revealed that the corporation had failed to check the hoardings and banners in open spaces and on roadsides in the city. The Mayor, Mr Subhash Chawla, maintained that the drive was launched from time to time. He admitted that the corporation did not have adequate staff to check the violations on a daily basis. He said during the recent festival season, the corporation had charged fee from market associations to put up decorative gates at the entrances to their markets and separate fee for allowing display of gift items. |
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Illegal construction demolished Chandigarh, November 15 The rear part of the showroom had been covered with a concrete roof complete with pillars and all. The enforcement team used a JCB to demolish the roof. The showroom along the Madhya Marg has a unique design. The courtyard is as big as the showroom and some of the owners have used it as their business expanded. Within an hour, members of the Chandigarh Beopar Mandal arrived on the scene and wanted the demolition drive to be stopped. The enforcement team refused to accept their demands. The Deputy Commissioner heard them. Members of the Beopar Mandal urged the UT Administrator, Justice O.P. Verma, to amend the outdated enforcement laws which was affecting their business. On removal of the LGP godown the sources said alternative sites had been provided to these agencies as they had agreed to shift their godowns outside the city limits. An agreement between nine gas agencies and the Sarpanch on behalf of the Gram Panchayat, Mauli Jagran, had been signed about two months ago. The village is located between Chandigarh and Panchkula. The nine LPG godowns with 1,000 sq yard each will be located in the village lands. The agencies will be getting the space at Rs 3 per sq yard per month. |
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