NEIGHBOURHOOD

No qualified gynaecologist at civil hospital
Attar Singh
Tribune News Service

Staff Crunch

The hospital has a sanctioned strength of 11 doctors, but at present there are only six doctors available. Of these, two doctors are about to proceed on leave

Poor Infrastructure

The 65-bedded hospital is devoid of even basic healthcare equipment. Patients have to go to private clinics for ultrasound and other radiological tests since there is no radiologist in the hospital

Patiala, May 7
Two Patiala candidates, Dr Saransh and Manjot Kaur, have cleared the Union Public Service Commission exam and are ranked 172 and 492, respectively.

Dr Saransh, who did his MBBS from Government Medical College, Amritsar, is overwhelmed with the results. “I always wanted to join civil services, but my parents, being doctors, wanted me to become a doctor too. So I decided to fulfil their dream first and continue to work towards my goal as well. So here I am — a doctor and soon to be a civil services officer,” he said with a smile.

He has cleared this exam in his second attempt. In his previous attempt he had cleared the mains, but could not manage to clear the interview round.

The other successful candidate, Manjot Kaur, has two younger brothers and her father has retired from the excise department. Having done her graduation from Government Dental College, Manjot gives the credit of her accomplishment to her family.

Dera Bassi, May 7
Lalru residents have been complaining about eye related ailments allegedly due to the ash from Nahar spinning factory here.

“The dangerous ash is affecting the eyes and residents living in nearby villages have been complaining about their clothes being spoiled because of the ash,” said Jasbir Singh of Lehli village.

According to sources, nahar spinning factory had set-up steam and power boiler units to produce electricity in which coal and rice husk was being used to produce power for industry.

The chimneys of these steam and power boiler units are causing the harmful ash.

Manager of Nahar fabrics Rainder Rohila, denied the charges of flowing of ash from factory chimneys. He said they had set-up ash controlling devices in the steam and power boilers units. Dr Babu Ram, member secretary Punjab Pollution Control Board said inspection would be conducted of the power units of the company and adequate steps would be taken to control the problem.

The village sarpanch said ash from nahar factory was affecting the eyes of people. The residents of the area have been regularly visiting various doctors.

Principal of Lala Sawan Ram Memorial School, Lalru, said even some schoolchildren also faced the problem. Randheer Singh, resident of Chaundheri village, rued the apathy of pollution control board that was not giving attention to control the situation.

A private doctor and owner of the hospital in Lalru admitted that cases of eye infection were on the rise due to harmful ash of Nahar factory.

State president of the Pollution Control Society Sarbjit Singh Bhatti, said the issue was discussed with authorities concerned, but no results so far.

Chandigarh, May 7
Acting on a petition filed in public interest for directions to the traffic police to regularly conduct checking against over-speeding and drunken driving,the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued a notice to the UT administration and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP).

The Bench, comprising Chief Justice Mukul Mudgal and Justice Jasbir Singh, issued the notice while hearing the PIL filed by local lawyer HC Arora.

The petitioner had alleged that despite fully knowing the fact that drunken driving was a major cause of accidents in Chandigarh, the UT traffic police had not been conducting a check regularly.

The police conducted a special drive against drunken driving on April 18 last year, in which 35 persons were challaned for drunken driving.

The petitioner said it showed the extent of drunken driving in the union territory. He also alleged that another major cause of accidents was reckless driving by youngsters.

As the city was inhabited by a large number of bureaucrats and powerful politicians, the UT traffic police apparently was wary of challaning youngsters for over-speeding. There was almost nil patrolling by the traffic police on internal roads of sectors, he added.

He also referred to the accident on April 30, when a car being driven by a young engineer rammed into a divider, leading to his instantaneous death. The case would come up for hearing on August 3.

Chandigarh, May 7
The police seized 24 cartons of liquor from a car after its occupants fled on seeing a police party in Sector 36 here in the wee hours today.

The SHO of the Sector 36 police station, inspector Anokh Singh, said head constable Gurmail Singh, deployed with the Police Control Room, signalled a Tata Indica car (DL4CU-2013) to stop. The search of the vehicle led to the recovery of the liquor.

The police, during patrolling later, recovered an abandoned Maruti Omni van (PB08R-0481) from Sector 31.

Chandigarh, May 7
A German national captured his maidservant red handed on camera while stealing money at his residence in Sector 16-D here and handed her over to the police today.The complainant, Egon Jose Goudard, told the police that he had installed the camera at his residence suspecting the maidservant’s hand behind frequent disappearance of money for the past five months.

Goudard, in his complaint to the police, alleged that his maidservant Rajni, a resident of Colony No 5, had stolen approximately Rs 2 lakh from the time she was employed in December.

Additional SHO of the Sector 17 police station, Inspector Gurjit Kaur, said a police team raided Rajni’s house and recovered three mobile phones, a TV, Rs 1,090, some euros and a scooter. They would verify the ownership and date of purchase from the scooter bearing Punjab registration number.

Rajni, a mother of a year-and-half-old child, along with her husband, Jasbir Singh, a driver by profession, were arrested in the case.

Goudard, a weld shop manager in Class India Private Limited, Morinda, a Germany-based company, which makes harvester combines, said he was living with his wife and three children in Sector 16. Of late, they had been noticing that cash was missing at frequent intervals from their house. After Rs 8,000 had gone missing recently, they suspected Rajni, but she flatly denied.

“We decided to catch her in action and deliberately left her behind in the house yesterday after installing a camera. She noticed the laptop blinking and did not make any attempt. Realising this, we changed the location of the camera and went away. It was then that she was captured stealing Rs 1,100 from my wife’s purse,” Goudard said while showing the video to investigators at the Sector 17 police station.

Goudard brought Rajni to the police station, where she admitted to having committed the theft. She told the police that she had several times stolen cash and handed it over to her husband Jasbir Singh, who bought a TV, a scooter, mobile phones and other things. Though, she initially claimed that she had stolen Rs 600 yesterday, she later admitted that she had stolen Rs 1,100 from the house and said the amount was at her home. 

Panchkula, May 7
Chandigarh’s 16-year-old Tarundeep Chadha and 12-year-old Piyush Sangwan from Gurgaon notched up their second straight win on the Toyota Etios Junior Golf Tour when they clinched the Northern India Golf titles in the A and C Categories at the Panchkula Golf Club here today.

Others to win in their respective categories were Abhshek Kuhar, Kshitij Naveed Kaul and Aastha Madan. These juniors battled it out in the sweltering heat and emerged winners after four days and 72 holes.

Tarundeep, who clinched the title at the Golden Greens in Gurgaonlast week, was third overnight at Panchkula. He returned a card of five over par 77 to finish on top at 307. This was four strokes better than Bangalore’s Rahul Ravi who finished second at 311. Tarundeep who sank birdies on the third and 15th, said: “The week has been tough with intense heat. However, my round has been decent today. My mindset this week was to just have fun and not think about winning. But its great to win in my hometown. I guess I had an advantage.”

Piyush, who fired a grand five under 67 in Gurgaon for the first title, clinched the Panchkula title again carding an 83 on the final day. Talking about his win Piyush said: “It feels great to win in Panchkula. It’s a tough course and puts one’s skills to some serious test. This victory has given me plenty of confidence for the Tour ahead.”

Abhishek Kuhar and Kshitij Naveed Kaul emerged winners in B (14-16 years) and D (10-12) Categories, respectively. Aastha Madan from Delhi won the girls' title in the combined A and B Categories.

The next IGU ranked golf tournament, Toyota Etios-Tamil Nadu will be held from May 18 to 21 at Ootacumund Golf Club followed by the Toyota Tour-Southern India in Coimbatore.

Final scores: Boys: Category A (16-18 years): Tarundeep Chadha 307, Rahul Ravi and Saeed Saqeeb Ahmad 311, Aman Raj and Yashas Chandra 313 and Ankur Chadha 315.

Category B (14-16): Abhishek Kuhar 321, Arush Ahuja 327 and Kelly Rao 328.

Category C (12-14): Piyush Sangwan 305, Viraj Madappa 311 and Prakhar Asawa 316.

Category D (10-12): Kshitij Naveed Kaul 253, Adilbeer Singh 259. Amrit Lal 261 and Adil Bedi 267.

Girls: Category A and B: Aastha Madan 247, Aditi Ashok 252 and Millie Saroha 257.

Gursimar Badwal and Nikita Arjun 258.

Category C: Ridhima Dilawari 261, Seher Atwal 264 and Gurjot Badwal 267.

Category D: Riya Ahuja 305, Vrinda Aggarwal 314 and Tanirika Singh 318.

Chandigarh, May 7
Rashid Khan from Delhi made the most of the wet conditions to fire a three under 69 today to clinch the Samarvir Sahi Punjab Open Amateur Golf title with a six under score of 282.

This is the lowest record score in the Samarvir Sahi tournament and it came on a day when intermittent showers held up play for almost two hours.

But the golfer, who sizzled the most on a wet and cloudy day, was Noida’s Rahul Bajaj, who fired a five under 67 card, to finish just one stroke behind the champion at five under 283.

Gagan Verma shot a two under par 70 to tie with Khalin Joshi for the third slot at an even par 288 score. Khalin Joshi could muster a one over 73 card.

Another stroke behind at the fifth slot was Chandigarh's Abhijit Chadha, who carded a one over 73, to finish with a four-day tally of one over 289.

Commenting on the low scores, Capt GS Ghuman, chairman of the tournament committee, said: “Looks like Jeev Milkha Singh’s ceremonial tee off certainly gave some inspiration and motivation to these youngsters to shoot such low scores.”

Chandigarh Golf Club president BS Gill gave away the prizes.

Final scores: 282 Rashid Khan (72-65-76-69); 283 Rahul Bajaj (71-73-72-67); 288 Gagan Verma (73-71-74070) and Khalin Joshi (70-75-70-73); 289 Abhijit Chadha (73-73-70-73). 

Chandigarh, May 7
CLTA’s trainees Ranjeet Singh and Sumit Pal Singh clinched all medals in the final of four different events during the AITA Talent Series which concluded at the tennis courts in Sector 10 here today.

While Ranjeet Singh emerged champion in the boys’ U-16 singles and doubles events, Sumit claimed titles in the singles and doubles events in U-12 category.

Unseeded Ranjeet Singh beat top seeded Kamal Kishore Maderana in straight sets 6-1, 6-0 in singles, whereas in doubles, he, along with Maderana, beat Sean Yip and Pranay Suri 4-1, 4-0.

Top seed Sumit Pal Singh claimed his first title in singles after defeating fifth seeded Paramveer Bajwa 6-1, 7-5, while in doubles he partnered Param Pun to drub Rohit Kumar and Calvin Golmei 4-0, 4-0.

Sixth seed Shweta Sangwan claimed the U-16 singles title by thrashing seventh seeded Vanishka Sawhney 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.

Results final: Boys U-12: Sumit Pal Singh beat Paramveer Bajwa 6-1, 7-5.

Boys U-16: Ranjeet Singh beat Kamal Kishore Maderana 6-1, 6-0.

Girls U-12: Nimrat Walia beat Prinkle Singh 6-2, 6-4.

Girls U-16: Shweta Sangwan beat Vanshika Sawhney 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.

Boys U-12 doubles: Sumit Pal Singh and Param Pun beat Rohit Kumar and Calvin Golmei 4-0, 4-0.

Boys U-16 doubles: Ranjeet Singh and Kamal Kishore Maderana beat Sean Yip and Pranay Suri 4-1, 4-0

Chandigarh, May 7
Traditional rivals, St John’s School, Sector 26, and the hosts, St Soldier International School will cross swords in the final of Chandigarh U-16 State Football Tournament for St Soldier Trophy.

In semifinals, both the schools crushed their respective rivals with an identical 3-0 margin.

While St John's team ousted St Kabir School, Sector 26, the hosts thrashed St Joseph’s School, Sector 44.

Earlier, St Soldier thrashed St Joseph. Anuj Yadav drew the first blood for the winners in the 19th minute. The lead led St Soldier’s lads to mount pressure and in the 33rd minute, Yadav scored a goal. Five minutes later, St Soldier’s Sumit found the target with a sizzling shot.

St John’s rode high on the splendid performance by his forward Manraj, who struck twice in the 25th and 29th minutes and Parseej, who extended the lead in the 47th minute.

Chandigarh, May 7
Vineet Khosla with 150 points entered the quarterfinals of the ninth Saurabh Khattar Memorial Billiards and Snooker Championship at the Chandigarh Club here today.

The other results are as under:

Pre-quarterfinal: Billiards (150 point): KS Nalwa beat Prabhman Sachdev 150-136; Anshul Mittal beat Jaspal Singh 150-95.

Snooker: Vishal Gupta beat Chaitanya Verma 2-1 (35-40, 61-32, 63-38); Pradeep Kinger beat Lakshya Arora 2-1 (23-68, 59-30, 57-23), Jaskirat Singh beat Rishabh Arora 2-1 (40-55, 54-50, 60-21) and Aman Bhasin beat KS Nalwa 2-0 (64-41, 57-25).

First round: Snooker (best of three frames): Mukesh Chopra beat Akshay Goyal 2-0 (46-25, 42-32).