HEALTH

Blood donation camp
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, October 23
About 70 units of blood were collected at the blood donation camp organised by the Mahavir Jain Yuvak Mandal in collaboration with the Lions Club Central at Jain Sthanak in Sector 18 here today.

About 20 women from the Chandan Wala Jain Yuvati Sang also donated blood. The general secretary, the mandal, Mr Sanjeev Jain , said, ‘’ The camp was organised to commemorate 2,600 birth anniversary of Lord Mahavir Swami, fourteenth Samriti Divas of Santhara Sadhak Tapasvi Shree Badri Prasad and Tapasaya Divas as ‘Tapasvi Raman Muni’ undertook Ayamal Varat .’’

The camp was inaugurated by the Senior Superintendent of Police, UT, Mr Parag Jain. A team of three doctors from the PGI were also present at the camp. Donors were given refreshments after blood donation. 

SPORTS

GMSSS-16, Manav Mangal spikers win
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, October 23
Manav Mangal High School, Sector 21, in girls section and Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 16, in boys section surged ahead on the opening day of the Chandigarh State Volleyball Championship which began here today at the Sports Complex, Sector 7. MM-21 beat St Stephens’-45 at 25-19, 25-19 while GMSSS-16 defeated Government High school-41 at 25-19, 25-19.

Results: (boys sub-junior) St Stephen’s-45 b SGGGS-35 2-1; GMSSS-16 b GHS-41 2-0; Sports Complex, Sector 7 b GHS-41 2-0; GMSSS-16 b GHS-32 2-0; CC-46 b GHS- 7 2-0; SGGSS-35 b MMH-21 2-0; DAVSSS-8 b GMSSS-16 2-0; CC-46 b St Stephens’-45 2-0; GHS-7 b SGGSSS-35 2-0; MM-21 b St Stephens’-45 2-0; and CC-7 b GMSSS-16 2-0; girls — MMHS-21 b St Stephens’-45 2-0; GGSSS-8 b MMHS-21 2-0; and GHS-32 b GSSS-27 2-0.

Eves placed second

City ball badminton eves secured second place in the 47th Junior National Ball Badminton Championships, concluded at Varanasi on October 20. In the final, Chandigarh girls lost to Kerala at 16-29,16-29.

According to a statement given by the Chandigarh Ball Badminton Association, city eves outplayed Hyderabad at 24-29, 29-18, 29-20 in the semi final while in the quarterfinals, they outplayed Tamil Nadu at 28-14, 29-14. In the pool matches, Chandigarh defeated Rajasthan at 29-2, 29-4; Manipur at 29-1, 29-13; and Andhra Pradesh at 27-29, 29-16, 29-10.

The team was: Sonika (captain), Anisha Bhatti, Jagdeep Kaur, K Smiti, Monu Dhiman, Swati Kapoor, Amrita Rana, Santosh Verma, and Amit Chaudhary.

Cricket tourney

St John’s High School, Sector 26, and Shivalik Public School, Sector 41, reached the under-14 final of the fourth Edmund Rice Cricket Tournament played here today at St John’s School-26. In the semi-final played today, St John’s-26 defeated St Kabir-26 by 119 runs while Shivalik school overpowered St Anne’s Convent School-32 by a narrow margin of three runs. In other under-14 matches, St Jospeh’s-44 were declared winners on the basis of better run/wicket average when both scored total equal runs. In another tie, Baptist School, Sector 45, outscored Hansarj Public school, Panchkula, by 25 runs.

Volleyball meet

Government Model High School, Sector 26, retained the under-14 and under-17 boys sections UT inter-school volleyball title for the second consecutive year. In both the finals, GMHS-26 defeated GSSSS-27 at 3-1.

Selection trials

The Chandigarh Women’s Hockey Association will select the UT women hockey team for the 31st National Games-2001 on October 26 at 3 pm at Hockey Stadium, Sector 18. This was stated by Mr J.P.S. Sidhu, Secretary of the association.

Isha, Simmer in last eight
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, October 23
Isha Toor and Simmer of Chandigarh were able to sail into the last eight of the girls under-14 section in the AITA Ranking Tennis Tournament played here today at Tennis Stadium, Sector 10. Isha outplayed Sanjna Kapoor of Delhi at 6-0,6-1 while Simmer prevailed upon local girl Alipt Sandhu at 6-4, 6-4.

In under-16 girls section, Amanpreet Kaur of Chandigarh gave a tough fight to Astha Uppal of Delhi before losing in three sets.

Results: girls (under-14) — pre-quarterfinals Sandri Gangotri b Gungeet Bains (Chandigarh) 6-0, 6-1; Isha Toor (Chandigarh) b Sanjana Kapoor (Delhi) 6-0, 6-1; Neha Rana (Delhi) b Kanika Chaudhary (Delhi) 6-0, 6-0; Anukriti Prasad (Delhi) b Inayat Khosla (Chandigarh) 6-1,6-3; Shilpa Dalmiya (Delhi) b Devanshi Rajgaria (West Bengal) 6-2, 6-2; Sandhya Nagaraj (Tamil Nadu) b Kanimozi L (Tamil Nadu) 6-0, 6-2; and Simmer (Chandigarh) b Alipt Sandhu (Chandigarh) 7-6, 6-2; under16 Parul Goswami (Delhi) b Jaya vatwani 6-1, 6-0; Sanoya N b Priyanka Tohan 6-0, 6-1; Astha Uppal (Delhi) b Amanpreet kaur (Chandigarh) 6-1, 2-6, 6-2; Neha Rana (Delhi) b Shivika Burman (West Bengal) 3-6, 6-4, 6-2; and Kareena Ahuja (West Bengal) b Tanya Sharma (Rajasthan) 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.

Boys (under-14) — Sumit Gupta (Uttar Pradesh) b Kinshuk Sharma (Chandigarh) 6-0, 6-2; M Vinod (Tamil Nadu) b Parvesh Kumar (Punjab) 6-1,6-2; Janamali M b VS Shrihari (Andhra Pradesh) 6-0, 6-0; Rajiv Yadav (Delhi) b Rahul Belwal (Delhi) 6-2, 6-7(4), 7-6(1); Vijit (Delhi) b Jaishal Patel (Gujrat) 6-1,6-1; R Perivel (Tamil Nadu) b Hajari Javed (Punjab) 6-3,6-2; Rupesh Roy (West Bengal) b Honey Rana (Delhi) 6-1,6-0; Sidharth A (Andhra Pradesh) b Karan Patnayak (Chandigarh) 6-0, 6-0; Uday K Punia (Chandigarh) b Harkamal 6-4,5-7,6-3; Sanjog Kapoor (Chandigarh) b Karan Dhillon 6-3,7-6(5); Sanam Punia (Chandigarh) b Ashwin VR (Andhra Pradesh) 6-1,6-0; Vivek Showkeen (Delhi) b Akshay (West Bengal) 6-0,6-2; Tejesvi Rao (Maharashtra) b Arjun Chaudhary (Delhi) 6-0,6-0; Nitish Raj (Uttar Pradesh) brajiv (Delhi) 6-4,6-3; and Ashwani (Uttar Pradesh) b Vijayant (Chandigarh) 6-2, 7-6 (3). under-16 :— Vivek (Delhi) b Honey (Delhi) 7-6(3),7-6; Divij (Delhi) b jaishel (Gujrat) 6-1,6-1; Hajari (Punjab) b Shrihari (Andhra Pradesh) 4-6,6-3,6-2; S Gautam (Tamil Nadu) b Gajinder 6-1, 6-0; Raj Kanwar (Chandigarh) b Avnish (Uttar Pradesh) 6-1,6-0; Ajai S (Tamil Nadu) b Ashwini 6-1, 6-1; Izreek Singh (Chandigarh) b Arjun Chaudhary (Delhi) 6-0,6-0; Karan (Chandigarh) b A Prakash (Uttar Pradesh) 6-3,6-3; R Parivel (Tamil Nadu) b Akshay B 6-1,6-2; Niroze P (Andhra Pradesh) b Vikash (Chandigarh) 6-0,7-6(4); Tejesvi Rao (Tamil Nadu) b Simmer Singh (Chandigarh) 6-2, 6-1.

ADMINISTRATION

F&CC okays bylaws on polythene use
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 23
The Finance and Contract Committee (F&CC) of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh today approved bylaws on polythene banning its use in foodstuff, and set up a four-member committee to assess the performance of the MCC. The committee, empowered to clear projects up to Rs 20 lakh, also cleared two tubewells in Sector 12 and recarpeting of various roads in different sectors, apart from purchase of cement for further projects.

The committee, however, rejected giving Rs 1 lakh for a survey project to a company of Ahmedabad which was to assess the performances of 10 corporations of big cities, including Chandigarh.

The four-member committee announced by the F&CC comprises Mr R.K. Aggarwal, Mr Pushpinder Singh, Officer on Special Duty to the Chief Engineer of the MCC, Mr I.S. Sonkhey and Ms Surya Pandit. The committee rejected permission to dig up roads for cable laying by cable operators and asked the corporation to realise tax from cable operators and taxi operators.

A storm water project for Janata Colony and a road dividing Sectors 33 and 44 were also approved, among other things.

The draft polythene policy banned the use of it for foodstuff and below thickness of 20 microns but permitted milk companies to carry on with their packing believing that it would be safe for use. The bylaws have reduced the jail term in case one is found to be using polythene bags for banned purposes to one month and the penalty to mere Rs 5,000.

Sanitation drive sparks off row
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 23
The Union Territory Administrator, Lieut-Gen J. F. R. Jacob (retd), and the city Mayor, Ms Harjinder Kaur, today jointly launched a month-long sanitation drive from the Mayor’s ward in Sector 34, sparking off a controversy.

The Mayor managed her projection as an active first citizen of the city with General Jacob terming her a “hard-working” Mayor and even a section of the BJP opposed to her being present in the function to launch the drive. The other section was also present.

General Jacob also gave assurances on the demands of parking problems in Sector 34 and the Administration taking care for the cleanliness of its reserved land all over the city. He said that the area would soon be maintained by the Municipal Corporation.

The drive joined by the Engineering, Horticulture and Public Health Departments of the corporation began from Sector 44 on October 18 without any formal launch, prompting the Mayor’s opponents to term it as an election stunt and an effort to project her as a sincere Mayor.

A BJP councillor, seeking anonymity, said that the Mayor had launched her election campaign at the expense of the corporation and the Administration had become part of the campaign. However, Ms Kaur ensured the presence of councillors of both factions of the BJP with the leader of the party, Mr Des Raj Tandon, former Mayors, Ms Kamla Sharma and Mr Keval Krishan Adiwal, and the BJP’s adhoc committee convener, Mr Yashpal Mahajan, in the function. A Congress activist, Mr Kamaljit Singh Punchhi also expressed similar sentiments.

Ms Kaur’s own party man and the Deputy Mayor, Mr Mohinder Singh, said the Mayor was habitual of inaugurating the ongoing drives as she did in Sector 41’s Community Centre which had been functioning since June 24.

Respite for vehicle owners
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 23
The UT administration today announced an eight-month-long breather for thousands of owners of vehicles in the city for the installation of new high security registration plates.

Keeping in view the requests received from various state governments and after reviewing the current status of testing of the proposed new registration plates at various testing agencies in the country, the Central Government has decided to defer the date of introduction of these plates to June 30, 2002, says a communique from the administration.

All new vehicles to be registered on and after June 30, shall mandatorily be fitted with such plates. In case of already registered vehicles, time period of two years from June 6 would be given to change over to the new registration plates.