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PGI staff pay homage to Prof Rastogi
Chandigarh, October 10 Born on November 12, 1936, Professor Rastogi did his MBBS and MS from King George Medical College, Lucknow, and joined the PGI in 1964. He founded the Department of Endocrinology and started DM course in endocrinology in 1969. He was the first in the country to start the radio-immunoassay. Dr Rastogi left the PGI in 1978 for the USA. He had come for alumni meet at Kodaikanal on September 13 and contracted a viral infection for chikungunya. — TNS
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Roller skaters face
bleak future
Chandigarh, October 10 It was more than a decade ago when the department stopped issuing sports gradation certificates to deserving roller skaters seeking admission to professional and other courses on the basis of sports merit. The skating fraternity argues that the sports departments in Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir and several other states in the country continue to issue such certificates to skaters. When the Union Territory of Chandigarh follows rules of the Punjab Government in terms of other matters, why is it not following Punjab in respect of sports? The players pursuing sports under the gradation system enjoy benefits allowed by the state government while those practising non-graded sports are left high and dry. One per cent seats in educational institutions and government jobs are reserved for players from the graded sports. When international skater Shakun Salwan was awarded the provisional sports gradation certificate by the Chandigarh Sports Department about two years ago, it was being understood that she had paved the way for the future skaters. After being denied the right to apply for sports gradation by the department, Shakun approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The court, considering roller skating as a sport, had ruled that a provisional sports gradation certificate be issued to her within seven days. The officials concerned delivered the gradation certificate to Shakun at her residence. “The gradation for this sport was granted by the Punjab Government about three years ago. Earlier, the game was only recognised by Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir. So, on behalf of the Punjab Roller Skating Association, we put our petition before the Punjab Government and got it sanctioned,” said J.S. Dhaliwal, general secretary, District Roller Skating Association, Ludhiana. The Director (Sports), Chandigarh, Mr Inderjit Singh Sandhu, said, “We certainly need to set a limitation, so we have included those disciplines for gradation that are on the Charter of Athens Olympics 2004. Of course, now cricket has been included. Our plan is to groom players in those disciplines, which are recognised on global parameters. Otherwise, there would be no
end to it”. Moreover, The UT Education Department had been conducting the UT inter-school roller skating tournament regularly. Many city-based outstanding skaters represented the country abroad and even bagged remarkable positions at Asian Skating Championship in roller hockey in Japan and Germany. They were honoured by the Chandigarh Administration. Skaters like Kriti Puri and Mehak Paul were honoured on the Republic Day and Independence Day functions, which spoke of the patronage to the sport. |
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Next Table Soccer Asia Cup likely in city
Chandigarh, October 10 According to Mr Balwinder Singh Johal, president of the federation, the next Table Soccer Asia Cup is likely to be held in Chandigarh. An assurance in this regard has been given by Mr Joe Ueno, chairman of the Japan Table Soccer Federation. |
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Ball badminton teams
Chandigarh, October 10 Boys: Gurkatain Singh (Captain), Lovely Thakur, Bheeru, Bhuvan Kapil, Sandeep Kumar, Pankaj Balray, Kamlesh Sharma and Kunal. Papinder will be the coach of the team while Naresh Kumar will accompany it as manager. Girls: Garima (Captain), Gagan, Harsh, Rohani, Jaspreet Kaur, Bheem, Ankita and Preeti. Harpreet Kaur is the coach of the team while Danesh has been selected its manager. Mr P.S. Lamba and Mr J.S. Lamba are respective team in charges. |
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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
memorial tourney
Chandigarh, October 10 In the men’s section, CCMB Hyderabad (eight points) and NAL Bangalore (six points) qualified for the semifinals in pool A whereas in pool B CFTRI Mysore (eight points) and CFRI Dhanbad (six points) qualified for the semifinals in pool B. In the table tennis event in pool A, CFTRI Mysore and NML Jamshedpur qualified for the semifinals while in pool B, CLRI Chennai and NAL Bangalore entered semifinals from pool B. |
Sandhu to head finance panel
Chandigarh, October 10 The committee will comprise the Joint Secretary, Finance, Ms Raji P. Srivastava, the Chief Engineer, Mr V.K. Bhardwaj, the Chief Architect, Ms Sunita Monga, and the Head of the Department (whose scheme or project is to be cleared by the committee) concerned as members. The estimates below Rs 5 crore will be approved technically by the Chief Engineer at his own level or by constituting a committee under his chairmanship. The administrative approval as well as expenditure sanction in respect of these estimates will, however, continue to be
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Cop suspended for misconduct with
cricketers
Chandigarh, October 10 A spokesman for the UT Police said constable Balwinder Singh had been suspended for his misconduct and negligent behaviour while on duty. Terming his behaviour as unbecoming of a policeman, who has been deputed for such an important job of providing security cover to VIPs, senior police officers said it was unprofessional. A departmental inquiry has been initiated against him. Constable Balwinder Singh had not only stopped Lankan cricketers from boarding the bus but also insisted on getting himself photographed with them. |
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