HEALTH

Free medical camps organised
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, December 25
The Helping Organisation for Poor and Excluded (HOPE), an NGO, and Infrastructure Professionals Enterprise Private Limited organised a free medical camp at Jassian Road here today.

The camp was inaugurated by Mr H.S. Rana, chief, Civil Defence, and Mr Simarjeet Bains, councillor of ward no 24. Other civil defence members, including Dr Rajinder Chug, Mr Honey Khanna, Mr Nitin Bhatt, Mr Surinder Sharma and Mr Rajan Sharma, were also present at the function.

Dr Gurinder Singh Kapoor and Dr Rajwinder Kapoor rendered free services at the camp. Ms Suman Bakshi, president of society, said the aim of the society was to bring the underprivileged and neglected sections of society in the mainstream by improving their access to social and economic resources.

It also aimed to work for uplifting the status of women and girl child as also to work against dowry system, female infanticide and violence against women.

She added that the aim behind the camp was to make people conscious of their health. She added that the area was selected for the camp as it lacked proper medical facilities.

A free sugar check-up and surgical camp was organised here today by the Lions Club Ludhiana Venus in collaboration with Alembic Limited Company in Haibowal Kalan.

The camp was inaugurated by the councillor of ward no. 2, Ms Amarjeet Kaur.

Addressing the gathering, she applauded the role of club members for organising such camps for the welfare of needy persons.

A team of doctors comprising Dr Lovdesh Soni, Dr Rajesh Kaura, Dr G.S. Grewal and Dr Sandeep Chauhan checked the patients.

A team of researchers doctors, led by Dr D.K. Sanghera from Pittsburg University, South Africa, attended the camp.

The team is conducting an Indo-US collaborative study on diabetes to examine which genes may cause non-insulin-dependent diabetes, particularly in Sikh families.

Pulse polio drive on Jan 4

Amloh, December 25
A pulse polio campaign will be launched here on January 4 and February 22. This was stated here today by Mr Bhag Singh, Block Extension educator, in a press note. It was decided to cover 22,000 children through 104 service camps besides four mobile teams. An appeal was made to voluntary organisations, teachers, religious bodies and Anganwari workers to help in administering polio drops to the children below 5 years on these days. OC

SPORTS

2 city paddlers for national meet
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, December 25
Two paddlers of Ludhiana figure in the Punjab table tennis team for the Sub Junior Open National Table Tennis Tournament for boys and girls scheduled to be held at Ajmer from December 26 to 31.

According to Mr Suresh Kumar, SAI coach, imparting training to the players at the local Shastri Hall of the Guru Nank Sports Complex, the young promising players who have been selected for the nationals are Kirti Aggarwal, student of Bhartiya Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Udham Singh Nagar and Manpreet Singh of Green Land Model Senior Secondary School, G.T. Road.

Kirti Aggarwal will compete in the cadet section while Manpreet Singh will take part in the sub-junior category.

Chess championship

Unseeded Angad Singh of Ludhiana beat seventh seeded Shival Jethi of Jalandhar in the first round of the Punjab State Open Chess Championship which started at R S Model Senior Secondary School, Shastri Nagar, here today. Sanjeev Kumar and Diljeet Singh, also from Ludhiana, registered wins in their respective matches.

Earlier, Mr M L Kalra, Principal of the host school, inaugurated the tournament in which a total of 122 participants are taking part.

The following were the results on the opening day: Kanwarjeet Singh of Jalandhar beat Yogesh Gupta of Ludhiana; Moti Lal of Patiala beat Gursher Singh of Ludhiana; Jatinder Kapoor of Jalandhar beat Gauarv Garg of Ludhiana; Arvindrepreet Singh of Ludhiana beat Sanjeev Kumar of Ludhiana; Pardeep Arora of Amritsar beat Tejvir Singh of Jalandhar; Neeraj Khera of Jalandhar beat Amit Tandon of Patiala; Chetan Bansal of Moga beat Sahil Kumar of Ludhiana; Sangat Rai of Jalandhar beat Munish Arora of Jalandhar; Harinder Kochhar of Ludhiana beat Ashutosh of Jalandhar; Mukesh Kumar of Jalandhar drew with Harinderjit Singh of Amritsar; Randip of Faridkot beat Harbans Singh of Ludhiana; Diljeet Singh of Ludhiana beat Ankur Mahajan of Ludhiana; Harinder Singh of Ludhiana beat Amarjeet of Ludhiana and Rattan Raj of Jalandhar beat Vinod Kumar of Ludhiana.

Athletics meet

Bharatiya Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Udham Singh Nagar, Ludhiana, will organise a two-day annual athletics meet at the Kitchlu Nagar branch ground on Friday and Saturday.

According to Ms Sunil Arora, Principal of the school, Mr Sohan Lal Lotey, District Sports Officer, will inaugurate the meet on Friday at 11 a.m. There will be an inter-section competition for the students of Classes 1 to V, while students from Classes VI to XII will be divided in inter-house teams for competing in various events.

Sports meet

A one-day sports meet was organised at Child Heart Day Boarding School, Gobind Nagar, Jamalpur, here on Friday. Mr Mangat Rai Saini, a leading industrialist of the town, was the chief guest at the opening ceremony. Tiny tots performed a dance number during the inaugural function.

Rahul of Class II emerged victorious in the one-leg race, while in the three-leg race, Watan Zaidi and Daljeet Singh secured the first position. In the stick race, Raja Verma came out triumphant. Simranjeet Singh was declared the best player of the year. 

Sprinting her way to success
Anil Datt

Ludhiana, December 25
Manpreet Kaur Ahluwalia, a local girl, is sprinting her way to success. A class IX student of GGN Public School, Ludhiana, Manpreet is all set to prove her mettle in the national as well as international-level tournaments. She began to dominate track events during the 2000-2001 academic year when she was adjudged ‘best athlete’ and was decorated with this title next year also.

Manpreet Kaur tasted the success for the first time last year when, in the under-14 year group, she came out triumphant to clinch the gold medal in the 100m race during the Inter- District Cluster Games held at Dhuri. This achievement paved her way to be selected in the state team for the National School Games-2002 conducted at Bhubneshwar (Orissa). However, she failed to finish among the medal winners there and she had to content with the seventh position.

Manpreet continued to hog limelight in the state-level cluster tournaments, annexing a gold medal in the inter-16 year group at Patiala last year.

Her talent was acclaimed at the national-level early this month during the National School Games held in Mehsana (Gujarat) where she gave anxious moments to her rivals in the 100 metres to bag a bronze medal.

Appreciating Manpreet’s efforts at the state and the national-level tournaments, Mr R.S. Grewal, Principal, GGN Public School, felicitated her at the school’s annual function. Mr Grewal gave her a cash prize of Rs 1,100 and a trophy.

Besides sports, Manpreet is good at studies. She is a regular contributor to the school magazine for the past four years.

For her achievements in the field of sports and studies, Manpreet gives credit to Ms Sandeep Kaur, in charge sports, GGN Public School, and her mother, Ms Sushma Ahluwalia. One hopes that in the near future, Manpreet’s efforts will stand in good stead in becoming her cynosure of all eyes in athletics.