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1.8 lakh given polio drops
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 10
More than 1.8 lakh children below the age of 5 years were administered polio drops in the first phase of the campaign here today. Following the trend of the previous campaigns, the response from the southern sectors’ was more enthusiastic today as compared to the northern sectors’ campaign.

According to UT Health Department officials, the city was divided into three zones and 418 stationary booths were set up. In all 49 mobile booths catered to the high-risk areas, construction sites and roadside dwellers for administration of drops.

More than 2,000 health workers from all government hospitals were engaged in the campaign.

The officials add that number of children who had been administered polio drops had not differed from previous.

The next round of the campaign will be held on May 15. Earlier during the day, the UT Director, Health Services, Dr C.P. Bansal, along with the District Immunisation Officer, Dr Sadbhavana Pandit and the District Family Welfare Officer, Dr S.K. Garg took a round of all UT slums and villages and a few sectors to supervise the activities.

“While the polio drops have been administered in the camps today, on Monday and Tuesday the health workers will go to houses in the door-to-door campaign so that maximum number of children are given the drops,” said a senior health department official.

Since 2002, there has been no case of polio in the city. Doctors say that since the concentration of the disease is in UP and Bihar, the city faces a threat of the re-emergence of the disease due to its migrant population living in the slums.

The Sector 22 branch of the State Bank of India also organised a pulse polio camp and administered the drops on 165 children.

Meanwhile, around 2,150 children were administered polio drops at Chandi Mandir Cantonment and nearby military stations here on Sunday. Several booths were set up for the purpose, a statement issued here said. This round of immunisation would be followed by a house-to-house visit by paramedical staff over the next two days.

Members of the Rotary Club, Chandigarh, manned 42 booths for the polio immunisation campaign at Bapu Dham Colony, Indira Colony, Mani Majra, Modern Housing Complex and Fun Republic barrier on Sunday. In all, 15,600 children were administered polio drops.

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49,375 kids given polio drops
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, April 10
As many as 49,375 children, between the age of 0-5 years, were administrated polio drops during the pulse polio round in the district today.

The campaign was inaugurated by Deputy Commissioner, Brijendra Singh at the General Hospital, Sector 6.

The Civil Surgeon, Dr Satvir Chaudhary, said they had set a target of immunising 71,940 children against polio, and 69 per cent of the children were administered drops today. As many as 320 booths, including seven transit booths and 13 mobile teams, were set up. A total of 1,280 health workers and 58 supervisors were on duty for this work.

Dr Renu Malik informed that as many as 3,371 children in Raipur Rani, 4,188 children in Kot, 3,539 in Barwala, 2,779 in Hangola, 1,745 in Morni, 6,732 in Old Panchkula, 5,709 in Pinjore, 3,692 in Kalka, 15,983 in urban Panchkula , and1637 in Command Hospital, Chandi Mandir, were administered polio drops.

A door-to-door campaign for children who could not get the drops today, will be conducted on April 11 and 12.

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12, 250 given polio drops in Mohali
Tribune News Service

Mohali, April 10
As many as 12,250 children, between the age of 0-5 years, were administrated polio drops at Mohali today. In Kharar, 2,164 children were administered drops in the town, while another 25,319 children were immunised in Kharar villages.

The campaign in Mohali was carried out under the supervision of nodal officer, Dr Raju Dhir, while in Kharar, it was carried out under the supervision of nodal officer, Dr H.S. Oberoi.

In Mohali, the set target was of 17,300 children and 66 booths were set up for the purpose. Five mobile teams were also constituted for the drive. A total of 285 nursing college students and health workers and 13 supervisors were on duty for the work. All entry and exit points in the district were manned by transit teams.

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Workshop on laser in endo-urology ends
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 10
A workshop on PNL and holmium laser in endo-urology concluded at the PGI today. Academic sessions concerning various technical aspects of keyhole renal stone removal were organised, which were followed by a day-long exhaustive operative session.

Dr A. Varshney from New Delhi demonstrated the laser removal of prostrate. In all, seven procedures were performed by Dr R. Ahlawat, Dr S. K. Pal from Delhi, Dr Madhu Agarwal from Agra, Dr Anant Kumar, Dr D. Dalela from SGPGI, Lucknow, and Dr S. K. Singh, Dr Uttam K. Mete from the PGI, Chandigarh.

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Wrestling being neglected
Akash Ghai
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 10
Punjab has been the traditional ground for wrestling in India. The state has always given a boost to wrestlers like Dara Singh, Kartar Singh and Palwinder Singh Cheema.

However, this sport has been relegated to the background. With a population of over 9 lakh people in Chandigarh, less than 100 grapplers are taking the sport seriously. This includes around 10 women.

Besides in schools, the city has only two wrestling training centres being run by the UT Sports Department with only one coach. The main wrestling centre is located at Hockey Stadium, Sector 42 and the other is being run at the community centre at Sector 30. In each of these centres, only 30 to 35 wrestlers get training.

When this is compared to the royal treatment meted out to cricket, with more than 20 training centres with over 2,000 budding cricketers, the indifference is evident.

The reason may be that wrestling is a hard game which demands practice of minimum five or six hours daily. Apart from this, a grappler has to spend minimum Rs 500 for his diet daily. These may be the deterrents in adopting the game.

At the centres here, the department has provided only mats installed in the training hall. Grapplers have to bear all expenses from their own pocket. Even the expenditure on the diet has to be arranged by grapplers themselves. “Every wrestler needs at least Rs 20,000 for his diet and other expenses. So it is difficult to arrange such a huge amount every month. To encourage the game, the government should provide the diet to wrestlers”, said Rakesh Patel, who won 10 gold medals in the National Championships and two gold medals in the World Police Games, held at the USA in 2001.

Denying the fact that people were losing interest, Mr J.P. Sidhu, Joint Director of the UT Sports Department, says the popularity of the game was increasing as the local boys were taking a keen interest in traditional games.

He dismissed the fact that only a few trainee wrestlers were joining training centres. “No doubt, the modern age has eclipsed this game but now it has been reviving as the government is encouraging the game in schools and colleges and providing all facilities”, he claimed.

Supporting his views, Darshan Lal, the sole trainer for both centres, and Secretary of the Chandigarh Wrestling Association, says, “ The scenario has been changing now. A lot of people are adopting this game as the famed wrestlers of the region are earning good money.”

However, he hoped that the centres could be provided with international facilities like air-conditioned halls, along with steam and sauna, which are the basics to the game. “There should also be hostel attached with every wrestling training centre so that grapplers can take rest after the training,” said Lal.

Despite these scarcities, two or three wrestlers of Chandigarh have succeeded in securing a place in international events and Lal, who is also an executive member of the Wrestling Federation of India, is confident that with more care towards facilities, Indian wrestlers can bring laurels to the country.

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Tennis tourney from today
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 10
The qualifying rounds of the All-India Tennis Association Talent Series Tournament organised by the Sports Department, concluded today at the Lake Club, Sector 6 here. The main events will start from April 11 from 9.00 am onwards.

The tournament, which is being conducted in association with the Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association, will continue till April 17. Mr I.S. Sandhu, Additional Deputy Commissioner-cum-Director Sports, will inaugurate the tournament.

The results of the qualifying rounds are as follows:

(a) Final qualifying round singles boys under-14:

Kshitij Kamal beat Jivitesh Kang 8-0; Karan Bhai beat Senthil Kumar 8-7 (6); Raghav Singal beat Udit Jain 8-1; Pullock Bhattacharya beat Digvijay Naruka 8-0; Nitin beat Jasanvir Bhatti 8-4; Anmol Bains beat Deepak 8-1; Karanveer beat Jaivardhan Gupta 8-4.

(b) Final qualifying round boys under-16:

Kshitij Kamal beat Satvik Rajani 8-3; Harsh Vardhan beat Nishant Sood 8-1; Saurav beat Aditya Gurvara 8-2; Akshit Chaudhary beat Karanvir Singh 8-7 (8-6).

Seeded players:

Boys under-14:

Mandeep Singh Gill (Chandigarh)-1; Kshitij Kamal (Delhi)-2; Vaidik Munshaw (Gujarat)-3; Arjun Sehgal (Punjab)-4. Girls under-14:

Poorna (Chandigarh)-1; Sadgi Rajni (Gujarat)-2; Jaanesh Kaur (Chandigarh)-3; Mehat (Chandigarh)-4.

Wild card entries:

Boys under-14: Imanveer S. Maan; Shobhit Phutela; Paramvir S. Toor; Naveen Sankar. Boys under- 16: Shekhar Nehru; Ashwani Kumar; Mandeep Yadav, Pankaj Kumar.

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UIET beat Infosys by 5 runs
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, April 10
A friendly cricket match between Infosys Technologies Ltd. and UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh, was played today at the university grounds. Prof H. R. Seedhar inaugurated the match.

Organised by the Training and Placement Committee, UIET, the match was a part of the Campus Connect Programme launched by Infosys.

Each side had to play 25 overs. Winning the toss, UIET batted first and were all out for 191. Siddharth Sukhija top scored with 75 runs.

After a meek start, Infosys batsmen gradually picked up the tempo and gave a tough time to UIET guys and were able to make 186. Their highest scorer was Mohit Garg.

Siddharth Sukhija was declared ‘Man of the Match’.

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City lads win table soccer tournament
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, April 10
Shivam and Prakher of Chandigarh beat Ishan and Sudhanshu of Delhi by 10/3 in the 1st All-India Invitational Table Soccer Tournament, 2005, held at Doon Public School, here yesterday. Nine teams participated in the tournament organised by the Table Soccer Association of Panchkula. Brig S.S. Kahlon will distribute prizes among the winners.

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Polling held in golf club

Chandigarh, April 10
The election scene in the Chandigarh Golf Club reached a feverish pitch with the polling being held today. Mr Tegvir Singh Sibia, Mr Gurinderjit Singh Sandhu and Col A.P. Singh (retd) are in the fray for the post of president of the club.

The counting will begin tomorrow. As many as 970 members turned up for the polling. Last year, 1,050 cast their vote. OC

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4 SIs promoted inspectors
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, April 10
Four sub-inspectors of the Chandigarh Police were promoted to the rank of Inspectors Friday by UT, IG Rajesh Kumar.

The decision was taken after the recommendations of the Departmental Promotion Committee chaired by SSP Headquarter, Varinder Singh Chahal.

Those promoted are SI Jai Singh, currently on deputation with the Central Bureau of Investigation, SI Bishi Ram posted with the Vigilance Bureau, UT Administration, SI Surinder Malhotra posted at Industrial Area Police Station and SI Bakshish Singh posted at Police Post Sector 61. Orders on their new postings will be issued soon, said police sources.

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