SPORTS

120 take part in veterans athletics competition
Tribune News Service

Mohali, March 15
Ninety men and 30 women took part in the VII Veterans Athletics Competition which was organised at the Dasehra Grounds, Phase VIII, here today.

The competition, organised by the Senior Citizens Pensioners Council, Mohali, was inaugurated by the President of the local Municipal Council, Mr Kulwant Singh. Prizes were given by the SDM, Mohali, Mr M.L. Sharma.

In the fast walking competition for men (61 to 65 years): Surinder Singh Parmar won the first prize while Gurmit Singh Sodhi stood second whereas Karam Singh was declared third. In the 66 to 70 years age group: Col R.S. Bajwa won the first prize while Jagjit Singh stood second and Gurdev Singh was declared third. In the 71 to 75 years age group: B.S. Tej won the first prize while Hardayal Singh stood second and P.S.Chauhan and Ramprakash were jointly declared third. In the 76 to 79 years age group: Hardayal Singh won the first prize while J.S. Arora stood second and Bhupinder Singh was declared third. In 79 years and above age group: Pritam Singh won the first prize while A.N. Sharma stood second and Amar Singh was declared third.

In the fast walking competition for women (61 to 67 years): Harbhajan Kaur Sodhi won the first prize while Surjit Kaur Bhatti stood second and Kuljit Kaur Uppal was declared third. In the 68 to 71years age group: Harbinder Kaur won the first prize while Harinder Kaur Mann stood second and Krishan Kaur was declared third.

In the musical chair competition for men up to 71 years: M.R. Ahuja won the first prize while Kartar Singh Chopra stood second and Niranjan Singh third. In above 71 years category: T.S. Brar stood first while Sarabjit Singh stood second and hardayal Singh third. Among women, Kamlesh stood first while Sudesh Pathak was second and Surjit Kaur Bhatti third.

In the cycle race for men ( up to 70 years): Devinder Kumar won the first prize while Jagjit Singh stood second and S.S.Kanwar third. In the above 70 years category: Jai Singh got the first prize while Madan Lal stood second and Hardayal Singh third.

In shot put for men (above 67 years): Rajinder Singh, M.D. Sodhi and Anoop Singh won the top three prizes while in below 68 years category: Karam Singh, Surjit Singh and T.S. Brar stood first, second and third, respectively. In the discus throw competitions: Karam Singh stood first, Surinder Singh second and T. S. Brar won the third prize. In the chatti race for women ( above 60): Harbhajan Kaur Sodhi stood first, Harinder Kaur Mann second and Surjit Kaur Bhatti won the third prize.

20 youngsters attend tennis camp
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, March 15
A special training camp involving youngsters below 14 years began here today at the CLTA tennis stadium, Sector 10. A total of 20 youngsters attended the first day of the camp. Mr Kawaljeet Singh, Director, Coaching, said the basic idea of the camp was to look at the overall physical conditioning of trainees.

Mr S.M. Sharma, secretary of the CLTA, said the objective of the camp was to prepare the participants for various tournaments in the coming season. Physical training, including yoga, will be an essential part of the camp. It is open to all children, including CLTA trainees.

Cricket tourney

A superb partnership off 112 runs off 82 deliveries between Harish Garg (68 runs) and Vaneet Chawla (62 not out) helped International Testing Centre XI beat Diamond Cricket Club by seven wickets in the Satluj Cup league cricket tournament played here at Satluj Public School, Sector 4, Panchkula.

Brief scores; Diamond CC:184 for nine in 25 overs (Shiva Mehta 86, Jai Kapil 42, Rahul Chauhan 28, Sanjay Ahuja 3 for 28, Ankush Mittal 2 for 27, Ajay Bhardwaj 2 for 28, Paryas Panchuri 2 for 31).

ITC XI:186 for three in 22.4 overs (Harish Garg 68, Vaneet Chawla 62 n.o., Harminder Bawa 24, Joginder 2 for 32).

Rural sports meet

The annual rural sports tournament in athletics, kabaddi, volleyball and wrestling in the under-16 age group will begin here tomorrow at the Sports Complex, Sector 46. The matches will be played on a league basis and all players of UT villages are eligible to take part.

ADMINISTRATION

Admn proposal to set up chicken slaughtering plant
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 15
Worried over the sale of unhygienically slaughtered chicken in the city, the Administration has asked the Union Animal Husbandry Ministry to hand over a portion of its poultry farm in Chandigarh for setting up of a state-of-the-art chicken slaughtering plant.

The Central Poultry Farm, spread in an area of 24 acres, is located in the Industrial Area, Phase I, on the Chandigarh-Ambala road. It has a slaughtering plant which is lying inoperative. The Administration is keen on installing a plant there.

Sources in the corporation say everything will depend on how the Government of India reacts to the proposal.

The idea behind the proposal is to have a centralised bird slaughtering facility. At present, no such system exists in Chandigarh despite a huge demand of chicken and chicken products.

There are a large number of chicken shops in the city. Birds are generally kept in a small cage in these shops which are slaughtered by the seller on the spot. A large number of unauthorised butcheries exist in various slum colonies that dot the city. The products sold at these shops are mostly unhygienic.

At present, the buyer has to go by his personal judgement while deciding from where to purchase poultry products. Now, the Administration, under its plan, aims to have a proper check on all birds which are slaughtered and standardise the sale of chicken.

Traffic police strength to be raised, says SSP
Our Correspondent

Mohali, March 15
The strength of the traffic police in the town would be increased soon as more staff was allotted for this purpose.

This was stated by Mr Surinder Pal Singh, SSP, Ropar, while talking to mediapersons here today. He had come as chief guest at a function organised to mark the conclusion of the Traffic Education Week, which had started on March 8. He said more staff had been allotted from the Commandos Battalion to look after traffic in Mohali. Motor cycles for the force were also being provided so that patrolling in the streets of the town could be made possible.

He said during the past month there were 350 challans, out of which 150 were related to overspeeding.

Earlier, while addressing the gathering the SSP said that awareness about traffic rules had been provided to the public during the week and now people should abide by the rules. After March 22 traffic enforcement week would begin and offenders would be brought to book. Challans would be done at the level of the Inspector.

He said the number of persons murdered in Punjab in a year was about 748 but about 3,000 persons lost their lives in road accidents. He said the maximum imprisonment in accident cases was six months and only a few of the accused went through this punishment.

Mr Pritam Singh Johal, DTO, Ropar, said driving licences should be issued only after proper verification.

He appealed to the police authorities to do something about noise pollution. Students were having their examinations these days but loud music was played at social functions, adversely affecting their studies.