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Drive to educate people on anaemia
Chandigarh, July 1 Dr J.S. Thakur of the Department of Community Medicine at the PGI delivered a talk on “Awareness of anaemia among the high-risk groups”, while Prof A.K. Attri of Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, was the coordinator. Prof H.M. Swami, Director Principal, GMCH, inaugurated the function and was the chief guest. The campaign will conclude on July 7 and experts would address various aspects of the deficiency and its treatment. |
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B.C. Roy Award for PGI doctor
Chandigarh, July 1 The President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, conferred the award on him at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Justice G.N. Roy, Chairman of the selection committee presided over the function. This is the second time that Dr Behera has received the Dr B.C. Roy Award. Earlier he received the award for his contribution to clinical research in 2000. Dr Behera is working at the PGI for last 27 years. He completed his postgraduation from this institute only. His area of work pertains to lung cancer, air pollution, bronchial asthma, COPD, smoking and other respiratory diseases. He has also authored a textbook on chest diseases and on bronchial asthma and lung cancer and has written several articles in various other books and publications. More than 200 research papers published in different scientific journals speaks of his achievement. He is also a member and fellow of many scientific societies and his research works have received national and international awards. His prominent international awards include Developing Nations Investigators Award, 2000, International Association for Study of Lung Cancer, International Cancer Research Exchange Technology Transfer Award by the International Union Against Cancer, John F. Perkin’s Memorial Award by the American Physiology Society, 1991, and the Cancer Research Fellowship Award by the International Union Against Cancer, 1989. |
Tennis camp for children concludes
Chandigarh, July 1 Elaborating the significance of the camp, Mr Rajan Kashyap, Chairman of the CLTA, said the idea was to develop affinity with the tennis for these young children who were yet to learn the fundamentals of the sport. He said since it was summer vacations time, children were called in the morning hours to spend one hour with tennis. Parents were also encouraged and motivated to send their wards. It also helped children to wake up early, remain active for sporting activity and then to had long time interest with the tennis. Children were also involved in various fun exercises, football, hitting the ball, improving hand eye coordination. He said the same experiment would be repeated in the coming months. Mr Kashyap said they had written to the various schools affiliated with the CLTA to undergo similar exercise in schools who could involve their Physical Education teachers where they need to spend one day of learning with the CLTA. Later, these PE teachers could themselves have such training camps with children. For the CLTA camp, 15 children below seven years age group attended the camp and were given tips by coaches Pala Ram and Gagandeep Singh. |
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DAV centre to work under CCA (Haryana)
Chandigarh, July 1 Mr Surinder Singh Baijee, hony secretary of the association, said that the budding cricketers will be trained at the centre under the supervision of former cricketer Yog Raj Singh. “It is just like home-coming for me as I can revive my old days when I started my cricket career from here and represented Haryana in my earlier days,” said Yog Raj. Replying a question, Mr Baijee revealed that the CCA (Haryana) would provide all the infrastructure like bats, balls, nets etc to the centre, but the ground maintenance would be looked after by the DAV authorities. Inter-district cricket meet tournament could be held on this ground. No fee will be charged from the up-and-coming players who come for coaching at the centre. But the academy will settle the fee structure later on. “Our motive behind giving affiliation to this ground is to produce and hone the skill of local talent in cricket so that our talent should not think of moving outside the state because of lack of chance and facilities,” he further told. Regarding the funds, Yog Raj stated that a couple of sponsors had come forward and were willing to meet the expenses. A fifteen-day camp of under-15 is under way in which about 40 probables are taking part. |
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Hockey players practise at Sec 42 stadium
Chandigarh, July 1 Earlier, Chandigarh had expressed its inability to accommodate the hockey players. Accordingly the players had opted to stay at Patiala. Meanwhile, the coach of the Indian hockey team Rajinder Singh (Junior) said a few of those playing in Bangalore tournament might also be included along with a few other promising junior hockey players taking part in the ongoing Rotterdam meet. Mr Sampat Kumar, physical trainer of the team, was also present with the team. Prabhjot Singh, forward, had a minor injury and did not practice. Rajpal Singh is the lone player from Chandigarh in the probables. Another local star Inderjit Chadha is busy playing in a Bangalore meet. The camp will conclude on July 13. |
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Rodrigues visits Sector 33 school
Chandigarh, July 1 He evinced interest in sports facilities existing in the school campus. He made a round of the gymnasium hall, tennis facilities and skating rink. Earlier he also visited a school in Sector 25. |
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