Foundation to hold free eye check-up camps
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 28
Aimed at creating awareness among the public about common eye ailments, the Chugh Eye Microsurgery Foundation Clinics, will launch “Eye Super Six” seminars, followed by a free eye testing and check-up.

Dr Rajan Chugh, CEO of the foundation, said international research had revealed that incidence of infections in and around the eye was estimated to be 15 times more in the developing countries as compared to the developed nations. “People tend to be callous about their eye care and often ignore blurring, redness and watering of the eyes as normal till their vision starts getting affected, which could be dangerous if ignored for too long,” said Dr Chugh, while addressing a press conference here today.

He said as part of the charity programme on eye health education, they would create awareness about the symptoms, causes and remedies for common eye ailments like cataract, glaucoma, children’s eyesight, diabetic blindness, infections and festival eye hazards and side effects of various diseases and medicines taken for their treatment.

He said prevalence of eye diseases was reaching enormous proportions in India despite significant advances in the management of eye diseases. The first “Eye Super Six” seminar will be held at Lala Lajpat Rai Bhavan, Sector 15-B, on November 30. There will be more such seminars, which will be followed by free eye testing and check-up to dispel all doubts of patients regarding eye ailments. Such camps will also be held in some of the areas in the periphery like Morinda and Kharar.

GGSCW win hockey title
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, November 28
Hockey team of Guru Gobind Singh College for Women, Sector 26, romped home with title in the Panjab University Inter-College Hockey (Women) tournament which concluded last evening at Ludhiana. In the finals, GGSCW girls got the better of Government College for Women, Ludhiana, by four goals to nil. On the basis of league matches, however, both GCW, Ludhiana, and Khalsa College for Women, Ludhiana, were declared joint runners-up.

The GGSCW team was coached by Sports Authority of India hockey coach Jaswinder Singh.

The team consisted of, Goalkeeper — Kavita Singh and Kavita Sharma, Rajnish, Prem Lata, Vanita, Savita, Jasmeet, Sweety, Usha, Rajni, Suman, Kulwinder and Dimple.

PU win match
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, November 28
Panjab University Chandigarh, moved ahead in tennis when their men team defeated CSJM University, Kanpur, by three matches to one in the North-East Zone Inter-University Tennis (men) Tournament which entered the fifth day here today at the campus.

In other matches of the day, Delhi University, Delhi, defeated HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar (Garhwal), 3-0, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, defeated GND University, Amritsar, 3-2 while Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, beat Jadavpur University, Kolkata, by 3-1.

Expedite probe into suicide by cop, says DC
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, November 28
The Deputy Commissioner, Ms Satwanti Ahlawat has asked the SDM, Panchkula, Mr Inder singh to expedite the inquiry into the suicide case of Head Constable Jaiveer.

The letter was sent to the SDM yesterday and he was asked to expedite the inquiry, so that the report could be submitted to the Punjab and Haryana High Court during the next hearing of the case in December. His wife had filed an appeal in the High Court demanding that those responsible for abetting her husband to commit suicide be brought to book.

The cop had shot himself with a 9 mm pistol at the Sector 5 police station on the night of October 10. A hand written suicide note, in which the cop had allegedly accused senior police officials including the Director-General of Police (DGP), of harassing him by framing him in false cases, was recovered from him. The suicide note by Jaiveer stated that he was taking the extreme step because of the harassment meted out to him by DGP M.S. Malik, AIG Welfare M.S. Malik, Senior IPS officer Navdeep Singh Virk, who is presently on deputation to the Central Government, DSP Jagwant Lamba; stenographer to Yamunanagar SP Mehar Singh, Head Constable Raj Pal posted at Ambala and a property dealer Hardeep Singh Jaggi.

Jaiveer, who had been transferred to Madhuban had handed over the charge of the maalkhana to Head Constable Krishan Kumar on October 9. Though the charge was handed over after the cash was counted, Head Constable Krishan Kumar complained to the Station House Officer (SHO) Bakhshi about the cash worth Rs 95,000, stacked in two packets, being missing from the maalkhana, yesterday afternoon.