Panchkula gears up for state-level games
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, October 5
The town is all decked up to host the state-level games at Tau Devi Lal Sports Complex in Sector 3 from October 7 to October 10.

This is the first time that Panchkula district is hosting the Haryana State Games. These games are an annual feature and are organised by the Haryana Olympic Association. Last year, the games were held at Yamunanagar.

Twenty welcome gates are being erected on all main roads of the town, and on National Highway-22 from Majri chowk to Zirakpur (with 19 gates being erected by each district in the state). Life- size cut -outs of former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal, Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala and his two sons, Abhey and Ajay, have been erected at the Sports Complex.

A kids carnival and cultural bonanza is being planned for the inaugural function. Over 1,000 school children, from all major schools in the town, will present cultural items on the occasion, said Deputy Commissioner Neelam P. Kasni.

Municipal Council president Seema Chaudhary said the council had deputed a team of sanitation staff to clean the city and clear the city of parthenium and other weeds along roads and other open spaces.

Inter-school TT meet from Oct 14
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 5
The CBSE Inter-school Table Tennis Tournament-2004 for Cluster XIII will be organised by Manav Mangal High School, Sector 21-C, Chandigarh, from October 14 to 16. Teams from Chandigarh, Panchkula, Ambala, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh will compete in this tournament.

This tournament will be played as per the rules and regulation of the Table Tennis Federation of India. The tournament will be organised in three categories for both boys and girls — under 14 years, under 16 years and under 19 years.

Boarding and lodging will be provided for the outstation teams on prior intimation. Players studying in Classes IX and X will be required to provide CBSE registration number and players studying in Classes XI and XII will be required to provide CBSE Class X certificate.

St Stephens win

A fine half century by Ankush helped St Stephens to beat Vivek High School by 73 runs in the St Kabir Trophy Cricket Tournament at St Kabir School cricket ground, Sector 26, here today.

St Stephens won the toss and elected to bat first. They scored 134 for 5 in 20 overs with an opening partnership of 79 runs between Ankush (54 runs) and Vivek (21). In reply Vivek High School were all out for 61 runs.

Brief scores — St Stephens: 134 for 5 in 20 overs (Ankush 54, Vivek 21, Ratvir 2 for 20 and Akshit 2 for 22); and Vivek High School: 61 all out in 17.3 overs (Anurag 3 for 16, Hitesh 2 for 9).

In another match Mount Carmel beat Sri Guru Harkirshan School by five wickets.

Brief scores — Sri Harkirshan School: 96 for 8 in 20 overs (Ravi 23, Jaswinder 16, Amrinder 2 for 12, ketan Bakshi 2 for 13); and Mount Carmel: 97 for five in 18.2 overs (Nikhil 26, Amrinder 18, Deepak Rana 2 for 18).

Patiala

Volleyball meet

The Patiala District Volleyball Championship will be held at the local Polo ground on October 9 and 10.

The meet, which is being organised by the Patiala District Volleyball Association (PDVA), will be held in various age categories for both boys and girls. Teams desirous of taking part in the tourney should contact volleyball coach Sukhdev Singh Sidhu at the venue of the meet.

Sanjay Public School win kho-kho title
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 5
Sanjay Public School, Chandigarh, beat St Vivekanand Millennium School, Pinjore, to win the boys title in the CBSE cluster XIII kho-kho tournament held on the Vivekanand School campus today. Shishu Niketan, Chandigarh, stood third.

In the girls final, IS Dev Samaj beat St Vivekanand Millennium School, Pinjore. Hans Raj Public School, Panchkula, stood third.

The chief guest, Mrs Kamal Rai, founder, Punj Education Society, New Delhi, gave away prizes to the winning teams.

The top two teams will compete in the national championship to be held at Indore.

Cricket tourney

The Chandigarh Sports Club will organise the second Girish Nayyar Memorial Inter-Institutional Cup League Cricket Tournament at Cricket Stadiums of Chandigarh and Panchkula from October 16.

Teams from banks, financial institutions and other government offices having non-sports quota players are eligible to participate in the tournament.

The matches will be held on league basis and each team will play in three matches in the league phase. The final of the tournament will be played either at PCA stadium, Mohali, or the Panchkula Cricket Stadium.

Football tourney

The Prof D.N. Mittal Memorial Trust would organise All-India University Football League from October 8 to 10 at ITI grounds, Bassi Pathana.

According to Mr Surjit Singh, secretary of the trust, teams of Punjabi University, Patiala, Panjab University, Chandigarh, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar and Aligarh Muslim University are participating in the tournament.

He said these four teams have qualified for the All-India Inter-University Football Chanipionship from north zone and before playing inter-university tournament, these teams would compete here. 

Women football meet from October 7
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 5
The Chandigarh Senior (Women) Football Championship for the Deepak Kapania Memorial Trophy will start from October 7 at Football Stadium, Sector 17, Chandigarh, according to Principal Ravinder Talwar, President, Chandigarh Football Association.

The championship will be played on knockout-cum-league basis and more than eight teams have confirmed their participation. The defending champion St Stephens Club will also be competing to retain the trophy for the third time continuously.

The teams are St Stephens School, Sector 26, Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 46, Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 23, MCM DAV Club, Deepak Kapania Club, Panjab University Campus and Government College for Girls, Sector 11.

He also stated that 30 probables would be selected to attend a coaching camp for the forthcoming Senior Women National Football Championship which is likely to be held in the last week of October.

Junior throwball championship

The Chandigarh Sports Club has decided to conduct the UT Inter-School Junior Throwball Championship on October 9 and 10 at Sports Complex, Sector 7, Chandigarh.

Players born on or after 31.12.88 can participate in this championship. The players have to report for the matches in Sports Complex, Sector 7, Chandigarh, on October 9 at 8.30 am.

ADMINISTRATION

Sweepers found missing from duty
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 5
To check the practice of sweepers playing truant, the chairman of the Sanitation Committee, Mr Chander Mukhi Sharma, began inspections in different pockets of the city. These would be intensified in the next fortnight. While a number of sweepers were “missing”, some of them, for the first time, sent in their leave applications later in the day.

In Sector 22, which has 71 sweepers, 20 were found absent from duty while in Sector 24, 24 of the 42 sweepers were present when the inspection was carried out. Later, 10 applications for leave were received by the authorities. In the evening, a surprise check was carried out in Sector 47 where seven of the 32 sweepers were “bunking” duty and four were on leave. Similar checks were carried out in Sectors 18 and 19 as well yesterday and a number of sweepers were found absent from duty. One positive outcome of yesterday’s inspections was that some of the sweepers sent in their applications today. Till now, the authorities had no prior information of leave of these sweepers.

Also, by evening, Mr Sharma claimed that he began receiving threatening calls on his mobile phone. “They asked me to discontinue the drive and used abusive language. I have the numbers from which the calls came. However, I don’t intend to pursue the matter with the police though I have brought the matter to the notice of the Commissioner. Besides, I plan to intensify my drive against them to ensure that they fall in line and sanitation in the city does not suffer,” he said.

This is the first time that the Sanitation Committee has undertaken such a drive to identify sweepers who fail to abide by the rules. Action to be taken against the sweepers will also be finalised after similar inspections have been carried out in other sectors.

Deputy Director inspects MC office
Our Correspondent

Mohali, October 5
The Deputy Director, Urban Local Bodies, Ludhiana, Ms Sarojini Sharda Gautam, inspected files related to development works in the town at the Municipal Council office here today.

She spent more than four hours, sitting in the office of the Municipal Engineer, going through various records. It is learnt that she has taken along about 15 files with her for going through the documents properly. She had visited the office on Friday as well and took along six files. Sources say that she wanted to take along another 15 files which could not be traced in the office. Officials have been asked to locate the files and hand them over to her for a through probe. She reached the council office around 1.30 pm and left around 6 pm.

Sources say that some irregularities in the records had been noticed by the Deputy Director and that is why she wanted to go through about 30 files. She found that some works were not up to the mark.