SPORTS

Pinjore school skaters excel
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, December 4
Young skaters of the Delhi Public School, Pinjore, clinched a rich haul of medals in the recently concluded Haryana State Roller Skating Championship at Yamunanagar.

The school skaters, representing Panchkula district, won three gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal. Mudit Gupta won two gold medals in rink race I and II and one gold medal in speed skating.

Anshul Sharma got one bronze medal in rink II. Garima Gupta secured one silver medal in roller hockey. Ms Seema Malik, Principal, appreciated the achivements of the school skaters.

Guru Gobind Singh college win
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, December 4
Hosts Guru Gobind Singh College for Women, Sector 26, emerged winners in the Panjab University Inter-College Ball Badminton Tournament played here today. They got the better of Government College for Girls, Sector 11, 29-7, 29-8 in the final.

In the match for third place, MCM DAV College for Women, Sector 36, got third place. They defeated Dev Samaj College for Women, Sector 45, 18-29, 29-24, 29-18.

BBMB tourney

The inter-unit badminton and table tennis meet of the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) was inaugurated by Mr Rakesh Nath, Chairman, BBMB. Players from Nangal, Sundernagar and Talwara are taking part. Badminton matches are being played at Sector 42 badminton hall and table tennis matches at the Sector 35 BBMB Rest House. 

Training for golfers ends
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, December 4
The three-day golf teaching by a UK-based PGA team concluded at the Chandigarh Golf Club, here today.

Randeep Waraich, Director Operations, PGA Design Consulting, India and Middle East, who organised these lessons, said after the success of this first-ever camp in Chandigarh, they planned to have the follow-up camp probably in February next. The three-member team provided the total package programme, golf fitness sessions, golf psychology sessions, golf theory lectures, rules and etiquette seminars.

Beverly Hukes, founder member of the Ladies European tour, Peter Cain and Claire White, UK PGA golf professionals, and Mark Arnold, the fitness trainer, provided the best of training.

Gurpreet shines
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, December 4
Gurpreet Kaur of Panjab University, Chandigarh, stole the limelight by leading in various heats in different events on the second day of the All-India Inter-University Rowing Championship at Sukhna Lake here today. She stayed ahead in single scull, double scull, coxless pairs and coxless fours.

Shami and Vikinder Kumar of PU, Chandigarh, were at number one spot in double scull event. In coxless pairs, Surjeet Kumar and Sanjay Kumar were leading in one of the heats. In another heat in single scull, Sharmishtha Basu of Calcutta University was in the lead.

In another heat for coxless pairs, Ramanpreet Kaur and Kirandeep of the host university were in the lead while Gurpreet and Kirandeep excelled by remaining at first place in double scull. In coxless fours, the team of Gurpreet, Kirandeep, Ramanpreet and Pooja led in one of the heats.

New Golf Club facility
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Raja Malvinder Singh, president of Chandigarh Golf Club, tees off to inaugurate Champion’s Chipping and Putting Range at Chandigarh Golf Club on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

ADMINISTRATION

UT panchayat poll on December 21
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 4
The process to hold the general election for the posts of sarpanch and panch in the 17 gram panchayats of Chandigarh will begin from tomorrow. The elections would be held on December 21 from 8 am to 4 pm, the state Election Commissioner for Delhi and Chandigarh, Mr M.P. Tyagi, said here today.

Mr Tyagi, who was in the city to hold a meeting with election officers, told mediapersons that 40,000 voters in 17 villages would be exercising their franchise. The polling would take place in 51 polling stations.

The election process, including the counting of votes and the declaration of results, would be over by January 12. The seats reserved for women and Scheduled Caste candidates remained unchanged as the delimitation of the constituencies could not be done in the absence of the report of the Census 2001 on the population of reserved category voters.

The seats of sarpanch for women candidates are reserved in Kishangarh, Raipur Khurd, Dadu Majra, Sarangpur and Kaimbwala villages, while for the SC candidates they are in Kajheri and Khuda Ali Sher villages. In Maloya village, the post of sarpanch is reserved for SC and women candidates.

Mr Tyagi said those who did not have voter I-cards could cast their vote by showing proof of residence.

About sensitive booths, he said at a meeting with senior officials of the Chandigarh police, he had been told that adequate security arrangements would be made. The sensitive polling booths were still being ascertained by the police.

The commission had appointed four presiding officers and 10 assistant presiding officers. The storing of ballot boxes and the counting of votes would be done at Government College for Men, (Sector 11), Government College for Girls (Sector 11), Government Model Senior Secondary School (Sector 23) and Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology (Sector 26).

The state Election Commissioner said the model code of conduct would be implemented with the assistance of the police. Only static loud speakers would be allowed from 8 am to 7 pm. The maximum limit on expenditure for a candidate was Rs 5,000.

Mr Tyagi said a legal provision had to be made in the Act which governed the elections of the municipal corporation and the gram panchayats. Electronic voting machines could only be used after the Act was amended. He said the matter had been taken up with the Election Commission and the Chandigarh Administration.

MC forms task force on sanitation
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, December 4
The Municipal Council has formed a special task force to deal with insanitary conditions prevailing in the town.

MC President Seema Chaudhary said the force had been formed to deal with any complaints of insanitation.

She informed that five safai karamcharies had been drawn from each of the four zones and these would be stationed at the MC office. “Whenever we receive a complaint, we will rush the task force there”, she said.

In spite of the tall claims made by the Municipal Council authorities of taking every precaution while allotting a tender for sanitation works by four-zoning it, the sanitation facilities in the township have gone from bad to worse. Piles of garbage can be seen at various places in the township and garbage is also seen lined up near the garbage bins. Residents often complain of the roads not being cleaned regularly and underage safai karamcharis being employed by the sanitation contractors for the job.

It may be noted that the MC authorities had decided to distribute the township into four zones and allot separate tenders for sanitary work. Till last year, the sanitation tender was allotted for Rs 3. 87 lakh, but this year, the MC has allotted four tenders worth Rs 9.80 lakh ( tenders of Rs 2.55 lakh each for two zones and Rs 2.35 lakh each for the other two zones). Now, Mrs Chaudhary, too, has expressed her displeasure with the sanitation of the township. She says that she has imposed fines on the contractors in each zone, and that the tenders were allotted on a trail basis for two months, and it would be again reviewed later this month.