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HEALTH

Scabies cases in winter go up
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 18
As personal hygiene during winter goes down, many city residents, especially slum-dwellers are walking to clinics with scabies — the itching of skin. Lack of bathing and wearing of infected clothes is the main cause of this infectious skin disease.

“In winter, people do not take bath daily and many do without a bath for days together. Scabies, which accompanies itching, is highly infectious and if one family member gets infected, the entire family acquires the disease from him,” says skin specialist at the General Hospital, Sector 16, Dr Vanita Gupta.

Cases of scabies are coming from the slums as doctors at GH-16 say that 50 persons are coming to the OPD clinics daily with the infection that is caused by a mite. Cases are also reported from the city’s polyclinics and dispensaries.

“Cases of scabies keep coming in the clinics till March, as long as the residents use the quilt to keep the chill away,” adds the doctor.

For treatment, clothes should be boiled and ironed before wearing to kill germs. If one member is showing the symptoms of the disease, the entire family is required to undergo the treatment.

“In many families towels and clothes are shared. This should be stopped.

Experts recommend nails should not be grown, says the doctor.

SPORTS

Final showdown: Amar Ujala Vs The Indian Express
The Tribune 'A' and The Times of India tumble at penultimate hurdle
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, December 18
The cricket teams of Amar Ujala and The Indian Express will be pitted against each other in the tomorrow's final of the Hutch Inter-Media Cricket Tournament, being played here at the DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8. In the first semi-final, Amar Ujala romped the match by a resounding seven-wicket win over The Times of India.

The highest scorer for Amar Ujala was Satish who made sturdy 59 runs. The Amar Ujala team achieved the target in only 15 overs with the loss of only three wickets.

Earlier, The Times of India, helped by a rapid-fire 81 by R.P. Singh, piled up 152 runs for the loss of six wickets.

In the second semi-final played between The Indian Express and The Tribune 'A' XI, Kamleshwar from The Indian Express was at his best and hammered a wide variety of strokes to the frustration of The Tribune 'A' bowlers.

Kamleshwar made 79 runs in 46 deliveries only and helped put up a total of 167 runs for his team.

It was a great rescue effort by Kamleshwar after his team was tottering at 68 runs for six.

In the initial stages, when The Indian Express started batting, early dismisal of three wickets dampened the spirits of their batsmen.

In reply, The Tribune 'A' were out for a paltry 84 runs in 14.5 overs. Akash Ghai and Sanjay Bhambroo, who scored 15 runs each, were the only batsman to enter double figures.

Rajesh Malik, who claimed 5 wickets for 17 runs for The Indian Express and Kamleshwar were adjudged joint Men of the Match. Vikas Ghai was the most successful bowler for The Tribune 'A' by claiming three wickets for 19 runs. The Tribune 'A' skipper Prabhjot Singh, who was also the wicket keeper, and Maneesh Chhibber gave a splendid display on field which helped in restricting the scores of the rival team.

The finals will be played tomorrow at PCA Stadium, Mohali from 9 am onwards.

Brief Scores :

Ist Semi-Final: The Times of India :- 152 runs for six in 20 Overs (RP Singh 81, Sanju – 26, Ajay Bhardwaj 13, Praveen Antal – 2 for 26).

Amar Ujala:- 154 for three in 15 Overs (Satish 59, Gurdeep 12, Karan 2 for 47 runs,

IInd Semi-Final:

Brief scores: The Indian Express : 167 runs all out (Kamleshwar 79, Vikas Ghai 3 for 19 runs , Sanjay Kalia 2 for 25 runs, Munish 2 for 45 runs).

The Tribune (A): 84 runs all out in 14.5 Overs (Akash Ghai 15, Sanjay Bhambroo 15, Prabhjot seven runs n.o., Rajesh Malik 5 for 17 runs.

Glittering sports day at Sherwood

The Sherwood Convent School, Mohali, today organised its annual sports day on its school premises.

The tiny tots from the kindergarten enjoyed every event and enthralled the audience. Students from class I onwards participated in different games. The four houses participated in major games like badminton, kho-kho, football.

The Principal of the school gave away the prizes. The day concluded with a glimpse of history embedded with feeling of brotherhood and national integrity.

Sports day at Satluj school

Shivani and Karan Khosla were declared the best athletes in below 14 girls and boys sections, respectively, in the Annual Sports Day of the Satluj Public School, Sector 4, Panchkula.

The programme began with an impressive march past followed by various track events. A cultural programme along with an aerobic dance show was also held. Mr Krit Serai, Principal of the Satluj School gave away the prizes to the winners.

Best athletes boys: under 19-Mohit; under16 -Mehtab Katoch; under14-Karan Khosla; girls:under19-Gurpreet; under16-Divya; under14-Shivani.

Quark Media has the last laugh at CRY-Cadence meet
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, December 18
The Quark Media XI clinched the Second CRY Cadence Corporate Cricket Challenge meet, which concluded here today at the Sector 3 Sports Complex, Panchkula. The Quark XI outplayed the Infosys XI by 17 runs.

Earlier, the Infosys XI won the toss and put the Quark XI to bat who made 148 runs. In reply, the Infosys XI were bundled out for 131 runs.

Tej Gobind of the Quark Media was declared man of the match as well as the player of the tournament. Mohit Garg of Infosys was adjudged batsman of the tournament, Puneet also of Infosys the player of the tournament. Dronacharya awardee Desh Prem Azad was the chief guest and gave away the prizes.

Brief scores: Quark media XI: 148 runs all out in 33.2 overs (Rohit 24, Javed 24, Sanjeev 23, Nikhil 4 for 33, Amit Garg 2 for 21). Infosys XI:131 runs all out in 33 overs (Rahul Singh 36, Mohit Garg 18, Tej Gobind 4 for 35, Rohit 2 for nine).

Gala sports day at Doon Public school

The annual sports day of the Doon Public School, Sector 21, Panchkula, was celebrated with great pomp and show in the school premises.

Various inter-house matches were also held. A march past was also held followed by drills, races and demonstration of Yoga.

Major-General U.S. Sidhu was the chief guest and gave away the prizes.

Minerva Academy outplayed in cricket
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, December 18
The Professional Cricket club outplayed Minerva Academy by nine runs in a close finish in the Second Lieut-Colonel IS Deol Memorial Cricket Champions League Tournament played here today at PCA Stadium, Mohali. Mr IS Bindra, President, Punjab Cricket Association gave away the prizes. Radhey Sham of Professional Cricket club was declared man of the match.

Brief scores: PFC: 208 runs (Radhey Sham 67, Bhageshwar Bisht 50, Narender Kumar 30, Ravi 17, Karan 4 for 22, Tejwinder 2 for 40, Rocky 2 for 46).

Minerva Academy: 199 runs all out (Harish 68, Prabhjot Singh 47, Tejwinder Gill 16, Radhey Sham for 37, Rahul 2 for 33).

City junior table tennis team

An eight-member Chandigarh Table Tennis team had been selected by the Chandigarh Table Tennis Assocation for taking part in the Junior National (under17) and Inter State Table Tennis Championship to be held at Manesar (Gurgaon) from December 20 to 25.

The team is: boys: Amanpreet Singh, Rajan Malhotra, Sumit Kumar and Raghav Sharma. Girls: Nadia Saini, Sunanda Mahindra, Barbie Nagpal and Naina Suri. Officials: Harmanpreet Singh (coach), Narinder Saini (manager) and ASP Singh (Umpire).

ADMINISTRATION

Admn notifies holidays for 2005
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 18
The Chandigarh Administration yesterday notified the schedule of holidays for the next year. The number of holidays has been kept almost the same as last year. Besides Sundays and Saturdays, the following will be the closed days in the offices of the Chandigarh Administration.

Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh, January 5, Wednesday; Id-ul-Zuha (Bakrid), January 21, Friday; Republic Day, January 26, Sunday; Guru Ravi Dass Jayanti, February 24, Thursday; Mahashivratri, March 08, Tuesday; Good Friday, March 25, Friday; Holi, March 26, Saturday; Baisakhi, April 13, Wednesday; Birthday of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, April 14, Thursday; Mahavir Jayanti, April 22, Friday; Milad-Un-Nabi (Birthday of Prophet Mohammad/ Arpil 22, Friday; Independence Day, August 15, Monday; Janmashtami, August 26, Friday; Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, October 02, Sunday; Dussehra, October 12, Wednesday; Maharishi Balmiki birthday, October 17, Monday; Diwali, November 01, Tuesday; Id-ul-Fitr, November 04, Friday; Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev, November 15, Tuesday

The following festivals and occasions, which fall on a closed day, have been excluded from the above list.

Ram Navami, April 17 and Christmas, December 25.

Besides this, each employee will also be permitted, during the calendar year 2005, to avail himself/herself any of two holidays to be chosen by him/her out of the restricted holidays mentioned below:-

New Year’s Day, January 01,Saturday; Lohri, January 14, Friday; Basant Panchami, February 13, Sunday; Muhharram February 20, Sunday; Maharishi Dayanand Jayanti, March 05, Saturday; Martyrdom Day of Bhagat Singh, March 23, Wednesday; Holika, March 25, Friday; Parshuram Jayanti, May 11, Wednesday; Budh Purnima, May 23,Monday; Martyrdom Day of Guru Arjun Dev, June 11, Saturday; Shaheed Udham Singh’s Martyrdom Day, July 31, Sunday; Raksha Bandhan, August 19, Friday; Karvachauth October 20, Thursday; Goverdhan Pooja, November 02, Wednesday; Bhai Duj, November 03, Thursday; Martyrdom Day of Guru Teg Bahadur, November 24, Thursday and Jor Mela, Fatehgarh Sahib, December 26, 27 & 28.

The following will be holidays under Section 25 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881:-

Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh, Republic Day, Guru Ravi Dass Jayanti, Mahashivratri, Good Friday, Holi, Birthday of Dr Ambedkar, Indep-endence day, Janmasthmi, Mahatama Gandhis Birthday, Dasehra, Maharishi Balmiki birthday, Divali, Id-ul-fitr, Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev. Besides, the annual closing of Banks on April 01 11 Friday and Half yearly closing of Banks September 30, Friday will be the closed days.

EO to post property records on website
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 18
Under an ambitious project, the UT Estate Office here will post the details of about 65,000 property records held by the office on the Chandigarh Administration’s website www.chd.nic.in. This is aimed at bringing about transparency in the land records and provide easy access to city residents.

As the process is quite time consuming, the Estate Office proposes to put up details of the commercial property i.e. of SCO, SCF and Booths sometime in April, next year. Thereafter the other properties shall be taken up the DC-cum-Estate Officer, Arun Kumar expects to complete the entire work by the end of the next year.

It is an experiment of probably the first of its kind in the country. Mr Arun Kumar, informed that the efforts to computerise the record had been going on for past sometime and about 15,000 property records have already been put on computer.

These files detail a number of things which include sale criteria — auction, allotment, hire purchase and licensing, scheme, property number, sector number, permanent address; type of property-plot or built-up, area of property (in sq.yds), status of property — resumed, cancelled or normal; land category — residential, commercial i.e. SCF/Booth/SCO with trade, industrial, institutional i.e.religion/education/press. It will also include the type of tenure — leasehold, freeholder or rent, whether converted and date of conversion and amount of sale/premium; floor area ratio — original/current, date of allotment/auction, allotment letter No. with date of issue of allotment letter, and sewer connection number and date, occupation certificate number.

The Estate Office shall also give the ownership details starting with the name of the original owner to the current owner, their shares and the basis/source of their share and the source of their transfer i.e. by way of registered will/unregistered will/intestate death/sale deed/gift deed/ relinquishment deed or court decree.

It will describe the post sale transactions also. It will also give the details of case relating to building violation, type of violations, date of notice, date of demolition and details, date of resumption order. Court cases relating with the property with details and name of the court, date of decision shall also be indicated.

Any objection, suggestion or advice in this regard can be sent to the Estate Officer in writing or can be faxed on 0172-2704548 or on e.mail address - dc@chd.nic.in by January 31, 2005.