HEALTH

PGI Medical Supdt in row over grade
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 25
The Medical Superintendent of the PGI here, Dr A.K. Gupta, is once again amid controversy as audit objections have been raised on the alleged irregular payment made to him after being appointed the MS here in 1995 in the designation of an Additional Professor.

Sources say that the audit has raised objections that Dr Gupta, who was promoted from Additional Professor to the post of Professor on January 24, 2003, had been drawing the salary in the Professor's grade since 1995, when he was actually an Additional Professor.

The audit objections state that the governing body of the PGI has wrongly granted the scale of Rs. 5900-200-7300 to Dr Gupta, who was selected as the MS in the designation of the Additional Professor by the selection committee on September 6, 1995.

But Dr Gupta is alleged to have been drawing the salary in the grade of Professor from 1995 to 2003. This anomaly has resulted in the ``irregular payment'' to the tune to Rs 2,67,123 made to Dr Gupta, to which the audit team has raised objections to. The team has recently raised objections and asked the financial adviser of the institute to look into the matter. Sources further add that the matter is yet to be addressed and resolved.

According of the PGI rules, the scale for the post of Additional Professor was Rs 5100-200-6300 and that of the professor Rs 5900-200-7300. These were later revised to Rs 16400-450-20900 for Additional Professor and Rs 18400-500-22400 for Professor with effect from January 1, 1996.

SPORTS

Sports meet at Mount Carmel
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, November 25
The annual sports meet of Mount Carmel School, Sector 47, Chandigarh, was held with much fanfare on the school premises today and children from Pre-Nursery to Class X took part in various events.

The programme began with flag hoisting by the chief guest, Mr Donald Banerjee, Chief News Editor, The Tribune, which was followed by march past. Mr Charles Samuel, Principal of the school, welcomed the chief guest and highlighted the achievements of the schoolchildren in sports. The chief guest in his brief speech said the sports were an integral part of life. Later, he also gave away the prizes.

The drill display by the Scouts and Guides Club of the school enthralled the audience. Various events held at the meet were: fetching the ball, elephant race, tricycle race, eating banana, monkey race, hockey race, potato race, train race, shifting ball, three-legged race, needle and thread race, carrying football and juggling and dribbling ball and juggling. This was followed by 100-metre race, long jump, slow cycling and discus throw. The students of all four houses — Wordsworth, Keats, Shakespeare and Milton, took part.

Results: (winner houses) — softball (boys) under-14 Wordsworth; under-16 — Wordsworth; (football) under-14 — Milton; under-16 — Wordsworth; (basketball) under-14 — Shakespeare; under-16 — Milton; under-14 — Keats; (girls): under-16 — Wordsworth; cricket (boys) under-12 — Milton; under-14 — Shakespeare; under-16 — Milton; (Kho-Kho) under-12 — Shakespeare; under-14-Shakespeare; under-16 — Shakespeare; (girls) under-12 — Keats; under-14 — Keats; under-16 — Wordsworth; (volleyball) boys under-14 — Wordsworth; under-16 — Shakespeare; (girls) under-14 — Milton.

Athletics Class VIII (long jump) boys — Karanveer 1, Manjinder 2 and Rajeshwar Rao 3; shot put — Paramveer Singh1, Jaskirat 2 and Charanveer 3; long jump (girls) — Rajput 1, Divya Harnal 2 and Navneet Kaur 3; shot put: Taranpreet 1, Aditi Verma 2 and Navneet Kaur 3.

Classes IX and X (boys) long jump — Jaskaran 1, Shavir Bansal 2 and A. Bhardwaj 3; shot put: Harnoop S. Dhillon 1, Rubal Arora 2 and Shavir Bansal 3; and Discus throw — Sahil Sharma 1, Rubal Arora 2 and S. Chaudhary 3; long jump (girls) — Talwinderjit Kaur 1, Gurleen Kaur 2 and Anju 3; shot put — Deepika 1, Garima 2 and Richa 3; and discus throw; Deepika 1, Anju 2 and Richa 3.

St John’s in UT inter-school cricket final
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 25
St John’s High School, Sector 26, Chandigarh, beat St Kabir Public School, Sector 26, Chandigarh, by seven wickets to enter the final of the U.T. Inter-school under-14 Cricket Tournament being played at GMSSS-35.

St Kabir won the toss and elected to bat, but accurate bowling by Gaurav (2 for 11) and Manan ( 2 for 4) restricted them to 93 runs in the allotted 20 overs.

In reply, the foundation for the chase was laid by openers Kunal Mahajan (24) and Vikram Talwar (21) and the chase was finished in the 18th over by Aayush Raj ( 19 n.o) and Vishal ( 15 n.o.).

Brief scores: St Kabir 93 for 6 in 20 overs (Navi 17, Gautam 16, Gaurav 2 for 11, Manan 2 for 4, Angad 1 for 16, Vishal 1 for 17); and St John’s 96 for 3 in 18 overs (Kunal 24, Vikram 21, Aayush 19 n.o., Vishal 15 n.o., Aakaeshit 2 for 24).

Annual sports day

St Mary’s School, Sector 46-B, Chandigarh, celebrated 14th annual sports day today. The kindergarten section participated in various games like biscuit-eating race, balloon race and obstacle race. The performance of the tiny tots was much applauded.

The sports events for primary and middle Sections were frog race, hurdle race, lemon and spoon race, book balance race, relay race (100 m), sack race, shuttle race, slow cycle race (50 m) and three-legged race.

The meet concluded with the tug-of-war in which students participated with full enthusiasm. The highest score was obtained by Bose House — 111. The score of the remaining houses are: Nehru — 102, Shastri — 83 and Gandhi — 63.

Korfball meet

The general body meeting of the Chandigarh Korfball Association has decided to hold the Chandigarh Senior State Korfball Championship on December 8 and 9 at SGGS College, Sector 26, Chandigarh.

The trials of the state team will also be held on December 9 for selection of the Chandigarh team for the 18th Senior National Korfball Championship to be held at Hyderabad from December 24.

Cricket tourney

The Chandigarh IT Club Cricket Tournament will start with two matches on November 28 at DAV College, Sector 10. The first match will be played between Intellimind System and IDS Infotech and on the same day the second match will be played between Sebiz and Universal Cyber Infoway. The matches will be played on 20 overs each side. 

Damodharn creates new record
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 25
Havildar Damodharn created a new record by picking up 337.5 kg in 105-kg plus category, while Hav Dharmender Sharma bagged first position in 105-kg weight category, during the Inter-Services Weightlifting Championship 2004-05 held at 3 Base Repair Depot (BRD), Air Force, Chandigarh. Dharmender also bagged the first position in 105-kg snatch.

The second position in 105 kg snatch category went to Das AK, while the third position was bagged by Mavai S.K. In clean and jerk, first position was bagged by Iqbal Singh, second position went to Dharmender Singh and Das A.K. was third. In total, he bagged the second position, while Iqbal Singh stood third. Satish Dahiya was second, while Deepak Kumar stood third.

In 105-kg plus category, the first position was bagged by Havildar Damodharn. He also stood first in clean and jerk. Dahiya bagged the second position, while the third position went to Deepak. In snatch, Damodharn bagged the first position, Dahiya the second, and Deepak the third.