57,000 children given polio drops
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, May 23
Over 57,000 children below five years of age were administrated polio drops during the sub-national polio campaign in the district here today. According to official sources, Deputy Commissioner Neelam P. Kasni, administered polio drops to children at Ramgarh, Jaloli, Barwala, and the Sector 6 General Hospital here.

The administration had fixed a target of 71,000 children for immunisation. A total of 317 polio booths had been set up — 299 stationary booths, five transit booths and 13 mobile teams. The administration had deputed over 1,250 persons for the campaign.

The Civil Surgeon, Dr Satvir Chaudhary, said a door-to-door campaign for children not covered would be conducted on May 24 and 25.

Mohali pile up 304 in under-19 cricket tourney
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, May 23
Sunny Sohal and Simranjit Singh together put up huge scores of 101 and 56, respectively, to help Mohali pile up 304 in 86.22 overs in the Punjab State Inter-District Under-19 Dhruv Pandove Cricket tournament played here at the PCA stadium, Mohali, today.

Earlier, Chandigarh won the toss and opted to field. In reply, Chandigarh were 26 for no loss with Amrinder batting at 23.

Brief scores: Mohali: Sunny Sohal 101, Simranjit Singh 56, Harman 42, (Bharat Sharma 4 for 46, Akashdeep 2 for 62). Chandigarh 26 for no loss in six overs (Amrinder 23 not out, Vijay two not out).

UT league tournament

A superb batting by Amit Uniyal who hammered 95 in 62 deliveries enabled DAV Coaching Centre to beat AG, Haryana, by 172 runs in the 8th UT league ‘B’ cricket tournament played here at the PEC grounds. In another match for ‘C’ division, BBMB XI beat Sagar Sports by seven wickets. In yet another tie, Mohali Gymkhana defeated CCA Xi by 11 runs.

Platinum Pension Scheme

The President of the Punjab Cricket Association, Mr I.S. Bindra, handed over a cheque for Rs 5,000 to Yograj Singh, former Test cricketer, as part of the Platinum Pension Scheme initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) at a function held at the PCA stadium, Mohali, on Saturday. Under the scheme, launched to celebrate the 75th year of BCCI’s existence, all former test cricketers and umpires will get a monthly payment of Rs 5,000. Mr Bindra highlighted the achievements of Yograj Singh.

Simardeep wins taekwondo meet

Simardeep Singh of Shemrock school was adjudged winner in the sub-junior (under-14) in the 14th Chandigarh State Taekwondo championship which concluded at the skating rink, Sector 10, here today.

Other gold medallists in different age groups are, Chunky Mahajan, Sunil Kumar, Sikandar Pal, Arvinder Singh Bhinder, Vijay, Sonalika and Simran Chawla.

A club committed to encourage volleyball
Arvind Katyal

Chandigarh, May 23
More than six years ago, a few apple orchardists of Jubbal village in Himachal Pradesh formed a club — Wills Sports — to encourage volleyball in the region. The tournanment organised by the club was of the status of north zone only till last year. But this year the club has taken the decision to further expand the tournament to the national level.

The club is organising a tournament in which top volleyball teams of the country, including Haryana State Industrial Development Corporation, ONGC, Dehra Dun, Norhern Railways, Delhi, Shivalik Volleyball Academy, Chandigarh, AG, HP, will vie for top honours. Mr Manoj Chauhan, president of the club, said there were at present 108 members of the club and everyone was serving the club on a voluntary basis.

Mr Chauhan said residents of Jubbal village with a population of nearly 40000, had enormous interest for sports. He said when they saw children playing cricket without proper infrastructure, they convinced them to join volleyball which would give them the right kind of exposure.

Mr Chauhan said they had invited the Shivalik Volleyball Academy players to attend a camp at Jubbal beginning first week of June till the start of the meet on June 10.

The academy players for the camp will include the boys who won Junior National Volleyball title as member of the UT team last year. Three players — Raju Chauhan, Balwant Singh and Balwant Tanta — also hail from Jubbal who play at the national level and are now part of the academy, he said.

Mr Chauhan who was accompanied by members of his club said volleyball was otherwise state game of Himachal Pradesh. The state had produced a number of spikers of the national level.

New Mohali SP takes over
Tribune News Service

Mohali, May 23
Mr Rakesh Aggarwal, a 1998 batch IPS officer, has joined as the Superintendent of Police, Mohali. The post was lying vacant for the past one month following the promotion of the former SP, Mr Vijay Kunwar Partap Singh, as SSP, Ferozepore. Mr Aggarwal was earlier posted as SP (Headquarters) Hoshiarpur.