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Health Dept gears up to face
outbreak of water-borne diseases Chandigarh, May 19 A meeting of the senior health functionaries of the UT held here today under the chairmanship of the Director, Health Services, Dr C. P. Bansal, decided to divide the city into four zones and appoint zonal officers in each zone. These zonal officers include Dr S.S. Cheema, Dr N. M. Sharma, Dr Anil Garg and Dr P. K. Shridhar. The zonal officers shall make periodical visits in their respective areas for taking all preventive steps to check the water or vector-borne diseases. The medical officers and senior medical officers in charge of dispensaries have also been asked to provide the information with regard to sudden and abrupt increase in the diarrhoeal cases to the central zonal officer, Dr S.S. Cheema. A special rapid response team has also been constituted to investigate any rising trend in the diarrhoeal cases in a particular area. The team will promptly visit the affected area on the same day to take stock of the situation and sugget immediate meaures to the zonal offices. The department shall also maintain liaison with the sanitation wing and engineering wing of the Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh for making joint efforts in prevention and control of water and vector borne diseases in Chandigarh. Steps to check the quality of water in different areas of Chandigarh have also been strengthened. The department of Microbiology in collaboration with Engineering Department have already started taking water samples from different sources in UT for bacteriological examination. Weeky meetings will be held to review the situation. |
City to play host to
hockey camp Chandigarh, May 19 Dr J.P.S. Sidhu, Joint Director, Sports, said a few of the players who were at present in Barog would also attend the camp. The players are:
A D’ Souza, Kamaldeep, K Suraj Kanta, William, Kamalpreet, Vikram Pillay, Viren, Vivek Gupta, Arjun
Halappa, Inderjeet Singh Chadha, Adam, Vinay VS, Ignese Tirkey, Bimal Lakra, Jalwinder, Nitin Kumar, Gurpal Singh, V Katra, Harparasad, Girish, Sandeep Michael, Tushar, Prabodh Tirkey, V Raja, Muthu
Selvan, Vikram Kant, Sunil Yadav and Harpal.
Football tourney St Stephen’s School, Sector 45, Chandigarh, bagged the ESPN Star Sports Inter School Football tournament by overpowering DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8. The matches were held on the grounds of Yadavindra Public School, Mohali. Mr Kewal Singh, Director, Panjab University Sports Association, gave away the prizes to the winners. The meet, organised by ESPN STAR Sports as part of the sports summer camps across cities, saw participation by 10 schools of Chandigarh.
Kho-kho selections The Chandigarh Kho-Kho Association has selected 20 boys and an equal number of girls for a coaching camp for the Junior National Kho-Kho championship to be held at Solan from June 2 to 6. The camp is being held at Government Model High School, Sector 42, for boys and girls at Shishu Niketan Model School, Sector 22. The selected trainees are boys: Rakesh, Pardeep, Sandeep, Munish, Nitish, Ramesh, Abhinav, Nilesh, Mani Walia, Dinesh, Shiv Poojan, Vijay, Ravinder, Chandan, Ajit, Kirandeep, Kushal, Bhupinder, Anish Sharma and Vishal. Girls: Priya, Nisha, Shivani, Pooja, Neelam, Pushpa, Aman Bajwa, Raman Bajwa, Monika, Rekha, Chanra, Neeta I, Neeta II, Neha, Meenakshi, Seema, Shruti, Shivani, Prabhjot and Priya.
Ball badminton Sonika of St Joseph’s coaching centre, Sector 44, and Chetan Suri of DAV College, Sector 10, will lead the girls and boys section, respectively, in the Chandigarh Ball Badminton team for the 49th Senior National Ball Badminton championship to be held at Ernakulam from May 22 to 26. The team members are: girls: Sonika, Roma Pamey, Priya, Vandana, Gagandeep, Paramjit, Indra,Talwinder, Kamal and Poonam. boys: Chetan Suri, Harjot Singh, Tejeshwarjit Singh, Sudesh Kumar, Abneet, Manish, Ashish, Naveen, Ankit Malik and
Satinder. |
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Rowing championship on May 23 Chandigarh, May 19 The following events will be conducted in the Championship: single scull, double scull, coxlessed pairs and coxed four. The selection of the team to represent Chandigarh in the 7th Sub-Junior and 9th Challenger Men’s Sprint National Rowing Championships - 2004 to be held at Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu from June 7 to 12 will be made on the basis of performance of competitors in the State Championship. The oars persons born on or after January 1,1989, will be eligible for the Sub-Junior Nationals. Entries close with Parmod Kumar Singla, Hony. Secretary, Chandigarh Rowing Association on May 22. |
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Tennis tourney Chandigarh, May 19 The following events will be conducted in the State Championship, men’s singles, men’s doubles, ladies singles, boys Under 18 singles, Veteran’s Doubles. Entries close with General Manager, CLTA on May 28. |
50 hordings removed in Sector
17 Chandigarh, May 19 A press note issued by Mr M.P. Singh, Commissioner of the corporation, claimed that the signboards boards and glowsigns had been displayed by Spice, Airtel, HDFC and others from buildings in Sector 17. The companies were not doing business from these buildings. He claimed that the corporation had conducted a survey of Sector 17 and found more than 900 such hoardings having been put up in violation of the Chandigarh Advertisement Control Order. The commissioner asked the violators in Sector 17-C and 17-D to pull down their hoardings on their own, failing which the corporation would take necessary action. |
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