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Doctors’ protest
hits work Chandigarh, December 4 The doctors are protesting against the decision of the UT Administration to repatriate Dr Prashar, a doctor in the Department of Surgery to his parent state of Haryana. The doctors allege that Dr Prashar has been repatriated unfairly specially when his total service during this deputation is less than one year. Sources state that Dr Prashar was involved in an inquiry conducted by the hospital regarding a case in which a patient with burns was referred by him to the PGI. The inquiry, however, found nothing against Dr Prashar. Dr Prashar received his repatriation orders yesterday and sources stated that he has already given a representation for reconsideration to the UT Administration. The hospital Medical Superintendent confirmed that Dr Prashar has been repatriated but he stated that he was not sure of the exact reasons why the Administration has taken such a decision. The doctors have decided to protest again tomorrow from 9 am to 12 noon wearing black badges against what they feel is an unfair decision of the Administration and demanded that the Administration should reconsider the decision. |
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Meeting on HIV
surveillance Panchkula, December 4 Speaking on the occasion, Mr Khullar informed that there are seven “sentinel sites” in Haryana, where sentinel surveillance was conducted this year. Of these sites, four are STD Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD sites )at PGIMS Rohtak, Ambala, Sirsa and Gurgaon and three antenatal sites (ANC) sites at Hisar, Karnal and Palwal. This workshop is based on HIV Sentinel Surveillance which is conducted from August to October all over the country each year. On the basis of reports collected during this period, the National AIDS Control Organisation, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, National Care Team on Sentinel Surveillance estimate the rate of HIV prevalence and number of HIV patients in the country. Dr Shauqat, Deputy Director, National AIDS Control Organisation, said that according to last year’s estimates, as many as 3.86 million people in the country are HIV positive and those infected in the age group of 15- 49 were 3.22 million. The Additional Project Directors, Joint/Deputy Directors from Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkand, Punjab, Bihar, Chandigarh and Haryana were also present. |
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CME on paediatric rheumatology Chandigarh, December 4 The meeting, being held under the auspices of the Indian Rheumatology Association and the Paediatric Rheumatology Immunology group of Indian Academy of Paediatrics, is aimed at increasing awareness about the diagnosis and management of
heumatological disorders in children. Three of the world’s leading paediatric rheumatologists — Prof James Cassidy, Prof Balu Athreya and Prof Tauny Southwood — will be participating at the meeting. |
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Blood shortage at PGI Chandigarh, December 4 |
J.R. Sharma memorial cricket from Dec 6 Chandigarh, December 4 According to Mr S.S. Sharma, Chairman, organising committee, six teams were taking part in this league-cum-knockout cricket tournament. The teams have been divided into two pools, with one comprising Orient Shipping, Mumbai; Indian Airlines and HPCA while Punjab Cricket Club, ONGC and Godrej Cricket Club in the other pool. The matches will be of 50 overs each and to be played with SG test balls approved by the BCCI. The umpires will be Jasbir Singh, H.S. Sekhon and other qualified umpires on panel with the PCA. Rajesh Arora, the BCCI panel scorer, will be the official scorer for the meet. The tournament carries a cash award of Rs 51,000 for the winners while Rs 31,000 for the runners-up. Mr Desh Prem Azad will inaugurate the meet.
Title for YPS-Mohali Yadavindra Public School, SAS Nagar, outplayed St Stephen’s School, Sector 45, by 11 runs to win the title in the ICSE Schools Chandigarh region cricket tournament played here today on the YPS premises. Brief scores: YPS, SAS Nagar: 158 runs in 25overs (Amanpreet 72, Anshul 21, Aman 2 for 34); St Stephen’s-45:148 runs ( Suvreet 37, Tarlok 26 n.o.).
Snooker meet Sameer Bhalla and Manan Nagpal trounced their respective opponents to enter the semi-finals of the open snooker event of the Haryana State Billiards and Snooker Tournament played here today at Sector 34. In junior snooker event, Rajeev outscored Gaurav in five set marathon to make it to the last four. B’ball tourney As many as 10 teams in men section while four teams in women section will vie for top honours in the Chandigarh Senior State Basketball Championship for men and women going to begin from tomorrow at 2.30 pm at Sports Complex, Sector 7. |
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Radio commentary still popular with diehard fans SAS Nagar, December 4 With the Indian squad on the batting line, the pitch of the commentator rose with each four hit by Sachin and Deep Dasgupta and equally exhilarated was the cricket fan, Parveen Paul. “Being in the stadium allows me to be part of the crowd and listening to the commentator makes the Test match a unique experience”. Today’s commentaries given by former cricketers give a minute bowl-to-bowl analysis. Truly described by a former star cricketer and a member of the BBC’s broadcasting team, Sunil Gavaskar, the radio brought cricket to India. For the diehard cricket fans addicted to listening commentary on radio, the BBC and AIR are at the PCA stadium with the best of their men and machine for the bowl-to-bowl coverage of the Test match. Andy Leslie, the man behind the machine, who has been with the BBC for the last 29 years, said a 10-member team had come to SAS Nagar with over 100 kg of latest equipment. The BSNL has given us two ISDN lines. Initially, there was a technical problem due to non-compatibility of the Euro ISDN, a digital transmission facility, with the Phase 4 main exchange. But it has been sorted out by BSNL engineers well in time , said Leslie. The broadcasting team of the BBC include Sunil Gavaskar, Jonathan Agnew, Simon Mann, Henry Blofeld, Christopher Martin Jenkins, Vic Marks, Angus Frazer and Pat Murphy. The BBC is broadcasting the match and sports bulletins on different stations like BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 1, Radio Wales and Five Live Sports Extra on digital radio. For a better view of the field the visitors have been given a box apposite the wicket, said an official of AIR. The broadcasting team of AIR has come from Jalandhar. The live coverage of the match was being done on the national network through stations at Delhi, Shimla and Jalandhar. |
Admn allowed to outsource
software development Panchkula, December 4 Sources inform that at a high-level meeting of officials held at Ambala last evening, the administration has been allowed to invite tenders for development of this software during this fortnight. The software will be helpful in automatically changing the ownership of a plot of land in the jamabandi records after it has been sold off. The indigenously developed software for maintaining revenue records presently gives information on land records, sale deeds, land inheritance records, mortgage deeds and power of attorney for land. After the new software has been developed, the entry in jamabandi can be made directly on the computer. Confirming this, the Deputy Commissioner, Ms Jyoti Arora, said the bids would be invited after the d-net service (networking of all district administration offices) under the New Disha scheme, has been inaugurated by the Chief Minister on December 8. While the entire computerisation process in the district has been done indigenously by experts from National Informatics Centre (NIC), they have been unable to develop this software because of too much work at hand. “Thus we have decided to outsource the new software,” said the DC. It is also been decided to allow private parties for setting up information kiosks in the district. Bids will be invited only after work from the already existing kiosks stabilises. Presently, these kiosks have been set up at five of the main tehsils and sub-tehsils — Panchkula, Morni, Raipur Rani, Barwala and Kalka . These places have been interlinked with the main server set up at the district administration headquarters here. Residents of these areas would be saved a lot of inconvenience through these information kiosks. For any complaints, they will now have to visit these kiosks, file their complaints, which will be sent directly to the district server and then land in the office of the concerned officer via Internet. Other than this, forms and procedures (forms for driving licence, birth and death registration, pension, Antyodaya Scheme etc.); collector rate(prices of land fixed in Panchkula) ; public holidays; district profile; yellow pages; train time-table; bus time table etc. will be available from these information kiosks. The Deputy Commissioner said the private parties can even set up these kiosks at the places where they already exist. “Economic consideration will be the key factor. A private party running a kiosk can also run a computer training institute side-by-side,” informed Ms
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Move to delink
NOC Chandigarh, December 4 An indication to this effect was given here today by the Finance Secretary, Mr Karan A. Singh, when a deputation of Samadhaan, a pressure group led by Mr R.P. Malhotra, met him. The Finance Secretary, according to a press release issued by the outfit, also said that the Administration was serious about fixing a time limit of 30 days for the issuance of the NOC with a provision of raising one-time objections within 15 days of putting up the application by the owner of the property. |
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