Shiamak Davar’s Summer Funk
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 18
Summer workshops are at their innovative best with practically every school, cultural organisation and performing artiste jumping onto the creative bandwagon with a plethora of offerings for children.

The Durga Das Foundation, one of the earliest to have initiated the concept of engaging children in the hot summer vacations with pursuits which promised joyous learning, has scheduled a summer programme from May 30 to June 17. It has put together two workshops. One is Shiamak Davar’s branded Summer Funk dancercise medley and the other is Magical Fingers, a smattering of art n’ craft activities for participants in the age bracket 4-11 years.

Participants can choose between the two or go in for a package including both. According to the Director, Atul Khanna, opting for both would ensure that students have the right mix of energised physical movement on one hand and mentally stimulating creative outpourings on the other hand.

Shiamak Davar’s Annual Summer Funk Dancercise Programme has been a hit with all age groups. With aerobics, Salsa, Jazz, Hip Hop and rhythmic movements, his team helps students sway to different forms of music, exposing them to dance styles and installing in them the importance of fitness and grace which can be extended to their daily lives and thinking patterns too.

Magical Fingers is the craft workshop being conducted by Shalini Dhar. She will take them through the colourful fantasy-filled journey of experimenting with colour, paper, odds and ends and using these to churn out visually stunning soft boards, paper bags, paper boxes, woven baskets, paper roses and printing of an entire birthday kit with matching paper plates, napkins et al.

The Summer Programme will end with a dance performance at Tagore Theatre with all participants dancing to choreographed numbers. Magical Fingers too would have an exhibition of all the art and craft works created by students. Enrolment commences on May 20 at Nehru Bhavan in Sector 24.

Workshop on life skills from May 20
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 18
The Population and Development Education Cell in Regional Resource Centre, Panjab University is organising a five-day workshop on “Enabling Adolescents to Build Life Skills — Capacity Building of Facilitators’’ for the Programme Officers, Supervisors of JSS Chandigarh, Mohali, Ludhiana and Literacy functionaries of Chandigarh. The workshop will conclude in PU on May 20.

Dr Dazy Zarabi and Ms Binwant Pannu, Coordinators of the workshop, said health promotion and preventive education as a vehicle for human development are best reflected in the concept of life skills education that is universally recognized as the focus of all educational programmes and processes. They further said life skills can be taught only if these can be broken down into a set of sub-skills, they become real and viable only as sub-skills. Hence all sub-skills will be discussed and demonstrated in the workshop.

School students collect Rs 50,000 for kids
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 18
The students of CL DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 11, Panchkula, have collected Rs 49,055 for the SOS Children’s Villages of India under the “Young Ambassador Programme”. A cheque for this amount was presented by Mr Brijendra Singh, Deputy Commissioner, Panchkula, to Mr Jagir Singh, Assistant Director, SOS Children’s Villages of India, on behalf of the staff and the students of the school.

Summer workshop
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, May 18
Blue Bird High School will commence its summer workshop ‘Rainbow’ from May 23 here. Children in the four to 16 age group can join the workshop. Activities like dance, art and craft projects, personality development, English speaking course, singing and casio playing would be the attractions of the workshop.

HEALTH

NGO moves rights panel over working of hospital
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 18
All is not well with the Mohali Civil Hospital. At least this seems to be true if an on-the-spot investigation report of a local NGO, the Lawyers for Human Rights International LHRI, is any indication.

Concerned over the sorry state of affairs at the hospital, the LHRI today moved the Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC) for an independent inquiry into its functioning.

A complaint to the commission alleged that the on-the-spot report revealed lack of basic amenities at the hospital and the negligent attitude of medical and para-medical staff.

Acting on the complaint of Dr Sarandeep Singh, a LHRI team, led by the general secretary of the local unit, Mr Arvind Thakur, conducted an investigation into the functioning of the hospital.

The report alleged that Mr Lakhmir Singh, a resident of Kumbra village, who was admitted to the hospital following diarrhoea complaint on May 13, was not given proper treatment till 11.35 p.m. on May 15. Miffed at the shabby treatment meted out to him at the hospital, Mr Lakhmir Singh complained to the police on May 16.

Similarly, another patient, Raju, who was admitted to the hospital with severe chest pain, was not getting proper treatment, the report alleged.

What was surprising was the fact that out of 26 doctors, whose names figured in the list of doctors, no one was present at the hospital. The lady doctor on duty was not even willing to disclose her name, the report alleged adding that the attitude of the para-medical staff was “non-cooperative”.

In fact, when efforts were made to bring the matter to the notice of the CMO and the SMO concerned on the phone, they seemed to be evasive. However, efforts to contact the local MLA on his mobile phone proved futile, the report alleged.

150 students donate blood
Our Correspondent

Mohali, May 18
A blood donation camp was organised by the Mata Sahib Kaur Institute of Nursing here today. As many as 150 students donated blood at the camp which was organised with the help of the Baba Sheikh Farid Blood Donors Council.

Ms Sandeep Kaur was honoured for being a regular donor. She has donated blood 11 times. The camp was inaugurated by Ms Kusumjit Kaur Sidhu, Principal Secretary, Medical Education and Research, Punjab.

Blood camp

Mohali, May 18
As many as 100 persons donated blood at a camp organised by the Punj Dariya Sabhyacharak Manch in Phase III B 2 here today. The manch honoured a regular blood donor, Mr Jagmohan Singh. He has donated blood 90 times. A free ambulance service was launched by Bhai Jasbir Singh Khalsa. OC

SPORTS

4 Punjab shooters for Czech meet
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, May 18
Chetanpreet Nilon, Navdeep Dhillon, Amanpreet Singh and Harveen Sarao, all from Punjab, have been selected to represent India in the International Shooting Competitions (Olympic hopes) shooting tournament to be held in Plzen (Czech Republic) from May 30 to June 5.

Navdeep Dhillon will take part in three events — 10 metre Air Rifle women, 50 metre sports women prone position and 50 metre sports rifle free position.

Chetanpreet, who has already got long experience of taking part in various competitions will participate in Air Rifle 10 metre.

Amanpreet Singh has recently won the gold medal in the recently concluded International Shooting competitions held in Suhl, Germany.

Harveen Sarao, who belongs to Patiala and also given commendable performance by winning bronze medal in the Commonwealth Shooting Championship held in Melbourne early this March.

In all 27 shooters from different parts of the country will take part. Minerva Singh of Chandigarh will also flex her muscles in Air Pistol event.

Badminton camp draws poor response
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, May 18
The under-19 badminton camp which began at Panchkula on May 15 has so far got mixed response with only six trainees reporting for the 21-day camp. As a result, it has given opportunity to the local players to avail of the expert training by four national level coaches.

Mr Sanjeev Sachdeva, a senior SAI badminton coach based at Chennai, said the players from various parts of the country could not make it to Panchkula due to various reasons, like non-availability of rail reservation, excessive heat and examinations.

He said the camp provided local and other reserve players to hone vein skills. The players have been put up in Sports Complex Sector 3 where both residential and sports playing facility were being provided. He said the decision of holding the national camp at Panchkula by BAI will go a long way in providing one of the best playing centres for the players in the North India.

He said he would BAI to consider allotting even the senior national camps to Panchkula.

It may be recalled that BAI had given first-ever national camp to Panchkula and another junior national camp prior to the Indian teams’ departure to German and Dutch Open might also be allotted to Panchkula.

Meanwhile, as per sources the poor turnout for the above camp could be attributed to forthcoming two selection tournaments named All India Krishna Khaitan memorial junior ranking meet at Chennai from June 7 to 12 and another meet from June 13 to 18 at Cochin. 

31 selected for Dhaka football tourney
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 18
The following players have been selected to attend coaching camp for under-16 (boys) team of Chandigarh to participate in the third BKPS Cup Football Tournament scheduled to be held at Dhaka (Bangladesh) in the last week of June, according to Principal Ravinder Talwar, President, Chandigarh Football Association.

In all 60 players appeared for field trials, out of which only 31 could qualify. The coaching camp for the selected players will start from June 10 onwards till the team leaves for Bangladesh.

The players are: Sukhman, Jaspreet, Jasanpreet, Kamei, Rahul, Nikhil, Preetpal Singh, Sahil, Sudhir, Gyaneshwar Singh (all from St. Stephen’s Football Academy), Ashutosh Sharma, Mukul, Jagjeet Singh, Arjun (all from DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8) Naveen (Government Model School, Sector 26) Robin Singh, Sahejpal, Abdul Shamim, Gurjinder, Pradeep, Amit, Gurjot Singh, Akhil, Ravinder Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Rakesh, Rinku-M, Gagan Deep, Gurtej Singh, Harminder Singh, Pawan Kumar (all from Chandgarh Football Academy).

The coaching camp will be held under the supervision of Mr Dinesh Sharma, football coach of the Sports Department, Chandigarh Administration.