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Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 13
Riding high on half centuries by opener Anupam Gambhir (53) and Simrat Bawa (50 n.o.) helped Sri Guru Gobind Singh College (SGGS), Sector 26, to reach into the final. They thrashed Government College for Men (GCM), Sector 11, by eight wickets in the semi-final (group B) of the Inter-College Limited Overs Cricket Tournament for the Administrator's Cup at the Sector 16 Cricket Stadium here today.

Batting first after winning the toss, GCM-11 put on a meagre 141 all out in 38 overs.

SGGS’ bowlers Surinder and Mayank tore apart the batting line-up of the rivals with their clinical bowling attack. Only Gurwinder Singh played well and finished as the highest scorer with his 50 runs. He slammed three boundaries and two sixes. Vinod and Bhagwant contributed 19 and 15 runs respectively.

Surinder chipped in with four for 30 whereas Mayank took 3 for 36.

Set to score 142 for victory, SGGS College lost its opener Amit Prashar (18) at 26. After that Simrat Bawa and Anupam Gambhir steered the total to 121 before Bikramjit took Anupam’s wicket.

Then Simrat Bawa and Mandeep achieved the target as SGGS scored 143 for 2 in 24.2 overs.

Brief score: GCM-11: 142 all out in 38 overs (Gurwinder 50, Bhagwant 15, Vinod 19, Surinder 4 for 30, Mayank 3 for 36, Satnam 1 for 9, Gourav Gambhir 1 for 33). SGGS College-26: 143 for 2 in 24.2 overs (Anupam Ghambir 53, Simrat Bawa 50 n.o., Amit Prashar 18, Gurwinder 1 for 27, Bikramjit 1 for 17).

Tomorrow's fixture (QFs): DAV College, Sector 10 vs College of Engineering, Sector 26 at Sector 16 Cricket Stadium at 9.30 am. 

Chandigarh, January 13
A fine knock of 76 off 47 balls (unbeaten) by Rohin enabled HFCL Connect team to beat SIGMA team by seven wickets in the first semi-final match of the 8th CRY Cadence Corporate Cricket Challenge. The match was played at DAV Senior Secondary School grounds, Sector 8-C, here today.

The HFCL team won the toss and put SIGMA to bat first. They set a target of 142 runs. Sanjay Jani scored 63 runs in 38 balls. In reply, the HFCL team achieved the target in 23.4 overs and won the match by a convincing seven wickets.

Brief Scores: SIGMA: 141 runs in 23.3 overs. Sanjay Jain 63 runs in 38 balls, Jaswinder 19 runs in 27 balls. Gurpreet 4.3-0-30-4, Rakesh 1-0-4-2. HFCL: 147 runs in 23.4 overs. Rohin 76 runs in 47 balls (n.o.), Sanjay 20 runs in 20 balls. Ranjit 4-0-15-1, Rakesh 4-0-34-1.

Man of the Match: Rohin of HFCL Connect for his match-winning performance.

Chandigarh, January 13
Sidhant Chopra of St. Xavier’s School stole the limelight by clinching all the seven gold medals in the Sub-Junior Boys (under-15 category) in the Chandigarh Cycling Championships held on the Punjab Engineering College campus, Sector 12, here today.

Others, who bagged the top honours in their respective categories, were Kulbir Kaur of GGS Khalsa College (three gold in women’s section) and Jashandeep Singh (three gold in the Junior section).

Chandigarh, January 13
Personal attention being given to players who are here from around the world for the ITF Tennis Tournament being played at the Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association grounds, Sector 10, is being admired by one and all.

Players and coaches are extremely happy with the arrangements made by the organisers.

Yan Chung, a young player from Hong Kong, who not only had a good outing but also considers this as one of the best tournaments said, “Every single problem has been taken care of by the organisers so far.

The arrangements here are far better than anywhere else.”

Chandigarh, January 13
A slow-moving union government is virtually “sleeping over” crucial issues and that is hampering health services in the city. While officials of the Chandigarh administration claim to pursue the matters, officials in the union ministry of health continue to sit on these.

In 2003, a request was made to allow the creation of 35 posts for super-specialists to appoint neurologists, neurosurgeons and cardiologists. Since these were specialised branches, the administration was keen on having such doctors on priority. However, even after a series of reminders, an approval was still awaited.

Also, the administration sought the recruitment of 174 persons for the mental health hospital in 2006. The outcome is still awaited.

An official said not just the health sector, the city and its infrastructure was at the mercy of officials sitting in Delhi, who have little or no time to deal with such issues, as they are busy with national policy matters.

Since Chandigarh is a Union Territory, it is directly controlled by the union ministry of home affairs and all matters are referred to the MHA for further approval of the ministry concerned.

The Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), with all its infrastructure, services and facilities, qualifies for being given the status of a deemed university. However, officials at the centre are yet to grant an approval. Correspondence is being exchanged between the administration and the ministry since November, 2005 but to no avail.

With no political lobby - which is otherwise available with states having several MPs - to back its case, Chandigarh ends up a loser.

Though nobody in the administration is ready to speak out openly, a review meeting to make a list of pending issue last week showed the true picture.

A scrutiny of documents tabled at the meeting revealed the extent of rot that had set in in the system of getting approval from the central government.

In some cases, the entire file had to be re-constructed, while in other cases inspections had to be carried out by ministry of finance officials while the health ministry gave its approval.

Since February, 2004, the administration has being wanting sanction of posts to run its drug-de-addiction centre. Here also an approval is awaited, while the GMCH awaits permission to appoint consultants on contract. Letters and reminders continue back and forth but to no avail.

On the administrative front, the publication of a notification for recruitment rules in departments of psychiatry and radiodiagnosis is pending since December, 2003.

And the framing of recruitment rules for radiotherapy has also been awaiting a nod from the Government of India for the past fours years.

Chandigarh, January 13
A total of 110 patients were examined at a free bone density camp held at Life Line Care and Diagnostics, Sector 32, here today.

Dr Sarvinder Gandhok, a consultant physician and child specialist, who conducted the camp, said more than 30 per cent of people, who visited the camp, were found suffering from osteoporosis.

Dr Gandhok said the osteoporosis was a disease of the bone where calcium levels in bone is decreased and could be easily fractured. The disease prevailed in the females primarily while the males in old-age also found to be suffering from the disease, said Dr Singh.

This was not the first time that Dr Gandhok organised a camp to help the needy and poor.

In fact he has been holding the medical camps for diagnosis of Hepatitis B, HIV, and diabetics also.

Panchkula, January 13
Amartex Industries held a free medical camp at the company’s showroom at 315, Industrial Area, here today.

The camp was inaugurated by DC Rajinder Katatria. Dr Vikas Sharma, Dr Rahul Garg, Dr Sumeet Chander, Dr Jitinder Singh and Dr Kamaldeep Singh, examined, diagnosed and provided medicines free of cost to 353 needy persons.

The DC met the doctors and was all praise for the company’s initiative to hold such activities to help the poor and down-trodden.

Amartex, under the company’s concept Amar Paryas, provides free meals to 300 personnel daily, organises blood donation camps and a number of competitions for school students.