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Doctors concerned over
gender-test kits
Mohali, July 27 There is a possibility that the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act, 1994, will not be able to play an important role if the kit enters the Indian market unless the government makes the necessary amendments to the Act. There are apprehensions that the kit will have devastating effects on the anti-foeticide laws. Manufacturers of the home DNA gender testing kit have claimed that a few drops of mothers blood is needed to determine the baby’s sex as early as five weeks after conception. The baby releases DNA in the mother’s blood plasma. If the baby is a boy it has Y chromosome and if the Y chromosome is not present in the mother’s blood, the baby is a girl. Dr S.P. Singla, SMO, In charge of the local Civil Hospital, said the kit would prove to be a major setback to the progress made by officials in controlling female foeticide over the years. He said simplification of the technique to determine the sex of the child and that too at an early stage would pose problems in enforcing the Act. Some measures would have to be adopted by the government to check the sale of such kits if it managed to enter the Indian market, he added. Dr Rana Harinder, Civil Surgeon, Ropar, said the sale of such kits was not going to be easy in India as permission for the same could not be given under the Act. Dr Jasmer Singh, a private practitioner, said the ultrasound machines did not give 100 per cent accuracy, but the DNA test was fully accurate in determining the sex of a child. |
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Monitor cases of female foeticide CM tells DCs
Chandigarh, July 27 The DCs were asked to fix accountability for any lapse on the part of the agencies executing the development works to ensure proper utilization of public money. Presiding over a high- level meeting of the Divisional Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners of the state here today, the Chief Minister expressed concern over the grim situation of drug addiction that warranted immediate attention. The Chief Minister called upon the Deputy Commissioners of the state to chalk out a multi-pronged strategy to effectively check the growing menace of drug addiction amongst youth and also monitor cases of female foeticide. |
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Colony No. 5 gets mobile medicare van
Chandigarh, July 27 The van was presented to Mr Mathew Cherian, chief executive of the organisation. It is meant to facilitate the treatment of the elderly people of the area, which has been adopted by the HelpAge. Besides the elderly of the colony, the van will cater to the medical requirements of old slum dwellers in other areas of the city. Addressing a gathering on the occasion that included representatives of NGOs, prominent citizens and slum dwellers, Mr Cherian said despite efforts by the government the country lacked infrastructure to provide care for the older persons especially the poor who constituted more than 40 per cent of the aged population. He said the HelpAge had supported over 3,000 projects in the country, which were in the nature of old age homes, day care centres, income generating programmes, ophthalmic care programmes and adopt-a-granny scheme. He added that mobile medicare unit programme had been launched with the objective of reaching the unreached. "Through this programme, we help 15 lakhs older people living in urban slums and backward rural areas." Dr Harvinder Bakshi, Director-North, HelpAge, said the organisation was spending Rs 100 lakh every year to help destitute older people in Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Moga, Batala, Amritsar and Jagadhri. Mr Bhavenshwar Sharma, Manager, Chandigarh HelpAge was also present on the occasion.
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Dr Tankeshwar to get Vijay Shree Award
Chandigarh, July 27 Dr Tankeshwar completed his Ph.D from Panjab University in 1990. During his 15 years of academic career, he has contributed significantly towards the understanding of properties of the liquid matter. He has contributed 105 research papers at international and national-level out of which about 50 were published from the USA and the UK. Dr Tankeshwar is also a member of the Senate and the Board of Finance of the university. Invited
Prof Jitendra Mohan,
ICSSR, National Fellow, and President, Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, has been invited by the Psychology and Social Health Research Unit of University Malaysia Sabah to conduct a workshop on “Stress Management” during the Malaysian Psychological Conference to be held from July 31 to August 2. Interview
The Department of Anthropology will interview the candidates who have applied for Diploma in Forensic Science and Criminology Course on August 3 at 11 am in the office of the Chairperson, Department of Anthropology. |
City archers finally get coach
Chandigarh, July 27 The city has been without any archery coach for a long time. The Chandigarh Archery Association had approached various government organisations to appoint a coach all these years but in vain. As a result, the sport suffered a lot. For few months, however, the association was able to rope in a qualified male archer from the National Institute of Sports, Patiala, whose salary was paid from association's own resources. General secretary of the association said, "How long we could manage from own funds, though it was the loss of players we had to say good bye to the coach." He said archery was an Olympics and Asian Games sport and the country was already doing better at the world level, but still no coach was appointed. He said Rajni was a talented archer from Delhi and had good experience, adding that her proposal to help train city youngsters would boost the sport. Rajni, who used to represent Delhi before her marriage under the name Rajni Manchanda had won three gold medals in the Indian and FITA rounds. As a student of Ramjas College, Delhi, Rajni also helped the college in winning inter-college meets. Rajni plans to have an archery coaching centre at Moti Ram Arya Senior Secondary School, Sector 27, where she works as a teacher. |
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Trials held for dodge ball team
Chandigarh, July 27 Naveen Kumar of GHS, Sector 40, will impart technical training while Vipin Kumar from Shishu Niketan School will give physical training to the players. The Senior National Dodge Ball Championship will be held from August 5 to 7. The following have been selected for the camp: Kumar Vashisht, Nand Lal Verma, Gurpal Singh and Sikinder all from GMSSS, Sec-19, Abhimanyu, Vijay Kumar and Ashish Sharma from GSSS, Manimajra, Harpal Singh and Raminder from Manav Mangal School, Sec-21, Vikas and Navdeep of GMSSS, Sec-23, Jaskaran Singh of St. Peters High School, Sec-37, Amar of GMHS, Sec-12, Kushal, Satish and Satnam GHS, Raipur Khurd, Sunil of GMHS, Sec-39, Ujjawal Kant of Shishu Niketan School, Sec-21, Abhishek and Krishan Malik of DAV College, Sec-10. |
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Video session for judging hockey players’ skill
Chandigarh, July 27 Today, a special ‘video session’ was conducted for analysing their technical skills and mistakes committed during the matches. The players along with Rajinder Singh, chief coach and other officials of the team attended the session, which started at 2.15 pm and continued till 3.45 pm. During the session, officials showed the recording of the match, held between the probables of the camp on July 23. The match was also witnessed by Mr K.P.S. Gill, President, Indian Hockey Federation. The players were told about their mistakes and weaknesses through this practice session. On fitness aspect, Mr Sampat Kumar, physical trainer of the team, expressed satisfaction and termed every player up to mark. He was of the view that players had enough time to pay attention on their fitness and it would definitely pay in coming big events. The probables were being prepared for the forthcoming eight-nation hockey meet, scheduled to start from August 14 in Holland. |
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