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HEALTH

Polio case detected in Rajiv Colony
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, December 11
The district health authorities have detected a case of polio in Rajiv Colony here. The victim, one-and-a-half-year-old Sohail, was detected to be suffering from polio after his stool tests showed the presence of polio virus. His father, Mr Inshaad Maqsood Ahmed, is a migrant from Uttar Pradesh. He had shifted here a couple of months back.

Giving details, Dr B.S. Chaudhary, Civil Surgeon, said following the suspicion of polio in the area in November, they had swung into action and had administered polio drops to 2660 children in Rajiv Colony.

He also said during the first phase of the pulse polio campaign on December 2, focus was on Rajiv Colony, though the confirmation of the child suffering from polio came later.

He said the migrant population living in insanitary conditions in almost all parts of Panchkula — Indira Colony, Rajiv Colony, Devi Nagar Colony, Azad Nagar Colony, the slum colony in Sector 19 and the one in Mansa Devi Complex were the main danger zones for spread of polio virus.

These areas will be given emphasis during the second phase of the pulse polio campaign on January 20. He said that the WHO Surveillance Officer, Dr (Ms) Bhasin, had been apprised of the matter.

SPORTS

Reetinder stars in PCC win
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, December 11
Punjab Cricket Club (PCC) will take on Orient Shipping Agency (OSA), Mumbai in the final of the inaugural J.R. Sharma Memorial Cricket Tournament. In the first semi-final, Reetinder Sodhi played an unbeaten knock of 92 runs for PCC which helped the team in overpowering Indian Airlines (IA) by eight wickets at the PCA stadium, SAS Nagar.

Opting to bat first, IA opened with Ravneet Ricky and Munish Sharma. It the later played a brilliant knock of 82 runs. Yuvraj Singh, the skipper, could not do much. Pardeep Chawla, however, gave good stand to Munish and scored 48 runs. The team scored 198 runs for the loss of seven wickets in 40 overs.

Reetinder and Ankur Kakkar built a partnership of 146 runs for PCC. They were ably assisted by another player from Patiala, Pankaj Dharmani, whose unbeaten 31 runs also helped PCC to achieve its target of 199 runs in 37.2 overs.

In the second semi-final tie played at the JR Institute grounds,Barwala, near here, it was Mandar Apte and Milind Tamhane who enabled the OSA, Mumbai, in outclassing Subhania Cricket Club, Delhi, by nine wickets.

Brief scores: First match — IA: 198 for seven in 40 overs (Munish Sharma 82, Pardeep Chawla 48, Ishan Ganda 23, Shanker Saini 16 n.o., Vineet Sharma 2 for 31, Amit Uniyal 2 for 40); PCC XI: 200 for two in 37.2 overs (Reetinder Sodhi 92 n.o., Ankur Kakkar 70, Pankaj Dharmani 31 n.o., Shanker Saini 2 for 35).

Second match: Subhania CC: 133 all out in 36.1 overs (Pankaj Joshi 34, Lalit Anand 24, Sunny Sharma 21, Naveen Verma 18, Vishal Tawde 3 for 43, Parveen Tambe 3 for 23); OSA, Mumbai: 134 for one in 31.3 overs (Mandar Apte 68 n.o., Milind Tamhane 38 n.o., Ashok Kadam 23).

Badminton tourney

South Zone bagged both men and women titles on the second day of the 5th All India Oriental Insurance Badminton Tournament played here today at the Sector 42 Indoor Badminton Hall. In the women team championship, It outplayed West Zone, 2-0; while in the men’s section, their team defeated the team of West Zone, 3-1.

In the individual section, those who made it to the last four in the women section were, Sulbha (WZ), Vanita (NZ), Shalini (WZ) and Rama (SZ). In the men section, the semi-finalists were, Atul Walia (NZ), Gondhelkar (WZ), K.S. Shanbag (WZ) and Buchi Babu (SZ). The semi-finalist of men doubles were, KS Shanbag and Gopal Krishan (WZ), BB Gani and Santosh Raj (SZ), B.Babu and Pandian (SZ) and Atul Walia and RK Hari (NZ).

The final matches will be played tomorrow. Prize distribution function will be held at 5.30 pm.

Basketball meet

SGGS College, Sector 26, and Government College, Sector 11, surged ahead by winning their respective matches in the Panjab University Inter-College Basketball Meet here today at the PU grounds.

In the matches played here today, SGGS overpowered Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, 37-31, with half time score of 12-11 in favour of SGGS. The scorers for winners: Arun Rana 13, Raman 6, Inderpreet 6, Gabinder Singh 4, Ravinder 3, Aman 3 and Dalwinder 2. Scorers for losers: Sangram Singh 17, Rupinder Malik 4, Anurag Mehra, Rahul, Shivreet, Vivek and Chakshu (two each).

In the second match, GC-11 defeated GC-46, 37-3, with half time score of 29-3. The scorers for winners were, Vikram 12, Rakesh Kumar 9, Gurjay Pal 6, Virender and Surender five each. while scores for closers were Saurav 2, Shagun 1.

ADMINISTRATION

Punjab, Haryana told to pay wages to UT staff
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 11
The Chandigarh Administration has officially asked the Punjab and Haryana Governments to pay the wages of about 70 employees of the Chandigarh Administration working with the two states.

These employees have been drawing wages from the Administration while working with the two states.

This was highlighted in these columns on November 13. If the states did not pay their wages, the employees would be called back, a source said, adding that the issue would be discussed at the forthcoming co-ordination meeting between the two states and the UT.

These employees cost the Administration about Rs 1 crore annually, but their services are being used by Punjab and Haryana. None of the UT officials have bothered to call back these employees, working as sweepers and lift operators and in the horticulture wing.

These employees are working in the Civil Secretariate for the past 35 years.

The UT Administration has never had any of its offices inside the Secretariat building and so there is no justification for its employees to be working in the building.

Senior official were not aware that the Administration had maintained a strength of about 70 employees in the Secretariat and no one had bothered to check what work they were doing or to withdraw their services.

Not even the audit people had got a wind of this or they would have written a stinker, said a source.