Chandigarh, October 22
To create awareness about the risks of the cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in the city, three departments at the PGI — Department of Community Medicine, along with the Department of Cardiology and internal medicine — joined hands with the the UT Health Department yesterday to launch the “Chandigarh CVD Prevention Project.’’

The project, which is aimed at providing relevant health education for primary prevention of CVD, will undertake the training and reorientation of more than 250 doctors and paramedical staff working in the government and private sector. Doctors from any specialisation will counsel the patients about the risk and causes of CVD.

“This is first of its kind pilot project in the country which is funded by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The project will run in the city and the adjoining slums and villages for two years after its effectiveness will be assessed. If successful, the project will be replicated in other Indian cities as well,’’ said Dr Rajesh Kumar, Head of the Department of Community Medicine while interacting with the media-persons.

Chandigarh, October 22
Cancer specialist Dr Prem Masand gave a talk on “Stress Management for Health care workers’’ at the PGI here on Thursday to motivate and empower them to deliver their services in a more efficient manner.

Dr Masand talked about reprogramming of the mind. In his speech he said that the goal of psychotherapy was to change the self-image of the patient. He emphasised on making people realise their own worth and said that man was designed for accomplishment and engineered for success and one should appreciate one’s own efforts daily.

Advising people to control their anger, Dr Masand said that anger was a great force which if controlled could be transmuted into a power which could move the world.

Dr Masand, who is honorary consultant at Global Hospital and Research Centre, Mount Abu and Faculty at the Academy of Higher Learning at International Headquarters of Brahma Kumaris, is in the city till October 25. 

Chandigarh, October 22
Gitanjali Sharma and Tushar Sharma, both from Patiala became the women’s and men’s singles champion respectively in the Head Total Tennis Championship which concluded here today at YMCA, Sector 11. Top seed Tushar proved his top ranking by getting the better of Sanjeev Kumar also from Patiala. In the first set, Tushar took the lead with a service break in the second game to win the first set at 6-2. In the second set Sanjeev showed some fight to Tushar, when he took the lead of 4-2 but Tushar played some aggressive tennis from baseline to win the next four games to clinch the set, match and the title. Tushar won 6-2, 6-4.

Top seed Prabhamrit Kaur, however failed to impress in the finals against the second seed Gitanjali Sharma who displayed a better game and did not give any chance to the top seed Prabhamrit Kaur. In the first set Prabhamrit played aggressive tennis and held her both service games. Then she gave just one game in the next 10 games, and finally allowed her opponent Gitanjali to win her maiden title at 6-2, 6-1.

The men’s doubles title went in favour of Sanjeev Kumar and Varun Sharma. It was a see-saw match played against the pair of Karan Patnaik and Pardeep Kumar from Total Tennis Academy . The first set was a smooth cakewalk for Karan Patnaik and Pardeep Kumar. They took the first set at 6-1 in just 25 minutes and had a comfortable lead of 5-3 in the second set. But Sanjeev and Varun fought off two match points to take the set at 7-5 by winning four games in a row. And the decider set was just repeat of the first set but this time it was the pair of Sanjeev and Varun which took the third set to clinch the men’s doubles title at 1-6, 7-5, 6-1.

The boys under 18 singles title went to Karan Patnaik from Total Tennis Academy who beat Jay Vinod of Patiala in straight sets at 6-2, 6-3.

The girls under 14 title went in favour of to Pallak Grewal who beat Shaleen Chandra of Total Tennis Academy at 6-3, 6-3. Pallak had beaten the top seed Prabhamrit Kaur in the semi-finals.

Mr Satish Chandra, Secretary Medical Education and Research, Punjab gave away the prizes to the winners. All prizes were sponsored by HEAD Company. The company gave a tennis racket each, a T-shirt and kit bags to all the winners. Mr S. Aggarwal, Managing Director, HEAD India (P) Ltd was the guest of honour.

Results: Boys under 10: Digvijay Singh Mehta b Anmol Singh Bains 6-0, 6-0

Girls under 10:Sonali Bansal b Sheshna Sekhari 8-0.

Boys under 12: Digvijay Singh Mehta b Fateh Singh Ladhar 6-0, 6-0

Boys under 14: Saurav Sharma b Mandeep Singh Gill 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(7-4)

Girls under 14: Pallak Grewal b Shaleen Chandra 6-3,6-3.

Boys under 18: Karan Patnaik b Jay Vinod 6-2,6-3.

Men’s Singles: Tushar Sharma b Sanjeev Kumar 6-2,6-4.

Women’s Singles: Gitanjali Sharma b Prabhamrit Kaur 6-2, 6-1.

Men’s Doubles: Sanjeev and Varun Sharma b Pardeep and Karan Patnaik 1-6, 7-5, 6-1 

Chandigarh, October 22
Hosts Sanjay Public School, Sector 44, and Ganga International School, Delhi, will meet each other in the tomorrow’s final of the CBSE North Zone Football Championship being played here at the Football Stadium, Sector 17.

In the semi-finals played today, SPS-44 downed St Mark School, Delhi by three goals to nil. Jagmeet scored first goal, while second goal was scored by Sushil and third goal by Sandeep.

In the second semi-final, Ganga International school, Delhi, outplayed CSKM school, Delhi also by 3-0. Rahmat scored first goal in seventh minute, Suraj Singh struck with two goals, one each in 33nd minute and 46th minute respectively.

The matches for the third and final placings will begin tomorrow from 9 am onwards.

Guru Nanak Public School, Modern School surge ahead
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, October 22
Guru Nanak Public School, Chandigarh, and Modern School, New Delhi, surged ahead in the under-14 boys' section of the CBSE North Zone I and II Tennis Tournament played at Mount Carmel School Tennis courts, Sector 47, here today. The matches in the under-19 section were also held.

Results: Under-14 boys: Spring Dales School, Delhi b Sri Guru Harkishan School, Chandigarh 2-0; Modern School, New Delhi b Hansraj Public School, Panchkula 2-0; Apeejay School, Faridabad b St Peter's School, Chandigarh 2-1; DAV Public School, Delhi b SR Century School, Bahadurgarh 2-0; St John's School, Chandigarh b Bal Bharti Public School, Delhi 2-0; DAV Public School, Delhi b Apeejay School, Faridabad 2-0; Modern School, Delhi b Bhavan's SL Public School, Amritsar 2-0; Spring Dales, Delhi b Guru Nanak Public School, Chandigarh 2-1; St John's School, Chandigarh b DAV Public School, Amritsar 2-1; Bhavan's SL Public School, Amritsar b KC Public School, Jammu 2-0; Guru Nanak Public School, Chandigarh b Apeejay School, Jalandhar 2-0.

Under-14 girls: Bal Bharti School, Delhi b St Peter's School, Chandigarh 2-1; Modern School, Delhi b Bal Bharti Public School, Delhi 2-0.

Under19 boys: Spring Dale School, Amritsar b St Columbus, New Delhi 2-1; Saint Nischal Public School, Yamunanagar b Ryan International, Delhi 2-1; MGN Public School, Jalandhar b Guru Nanak Public School, Patiala 2-1; Modern School, Delhi b Darbari Lal DAV School, Delhi 2-1.

Chandigarh, October 22
Chandigarh needs roads of concrete, UT Administrator Justice O.P. Verma said yesterday. He asked the Chief Engineer to prepare a conceptual plan in this regard.

At a coordination meeting, he said the Engineering Department must put a proposal to make the existing roads of concrete instead of bitumen due to low maintenance and long life. He said though concrete technology was three time costlier than the bitumen one, there was no maintenance involved for five to 10 years.

The department will provide a study as to how many services like water supply lines, sewers and storm water drainage lines will need to be shifted to make it feasible

Justice Verma also asked the Chandigarh Housing Board to ensure that before handing over dwelling units to allottees, all services should be provided to them. The matter had come up after Sector 51 allottees complained of no services.

It was informed at the meeting that the draw of lots of 240 EWS Houses in the Industrial Phase-I had been completed and the dwelling units would be allotted in November.