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Workshop on disability
prevention ends Chandigarh, December 12 Speaking on the “Role of Community-based Rehabilitation in Mental Retardation”, Prof B.S. Chavan, Head of the Psychiatry Department, said the number of specialists in the country was below the number required for managing the 30 million-mentally retarded persons in the country. Thus, it was imperative that the specialists should transfer their knowledge and skill to non-professionals, who volunteered themselves to serve the community. Elaborating, the WHO definition of community-based rehabilitation, Prof Chavan said the rehabilitation efforts made by the community with resources from the community constituted the community based rehabilitation. Dr Preeti Arun talked about the impact of mentally-retarded child on society and also dwelt upon various guidelines for assessing the mental disabilities. Prof S.B.S. Mann, Director-Principal of the Medical College and Hospital, presided over the valedictory function and distributed certificates to the delegates. Speaking on the occasion, he appreciated the efforts put in by Prof Raj Bahadur and his team in organising such workshops for the peripheral doctors who were directly in link with the target population. Prof Raj Bahadur, nodal officer of the workshop, highlighted the objective of the workshop. He said it was meant to sensitise the delegates about the disability prevention and rehabilitation. The success of the workshop did not lie in the successful completion of the scientific sessions, Instead, the workshop would only be successful if the delegates started doing the work of disability prevention and rehabilitation in their
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Surfactant therapy
to infant’s aid SAS Nagar, December 12 Dr V.J. Singh of the Cheema Medical Complex, while addressing a press conference at the hospital, said Parveen 34 year-old mother of the girl child, had been referred to the clinic from Nabha for delivery of her pre-term baby. The woman gave birth to the child after undergoing six abortions previously. Dr Singh said premature babies had a deficient lung protein due to immaturity and this usually succumbed to ‘respiratory distress syndrome’. A drug costing around Rs 22,000 was administered to the baby and she was thereafter put on a neonatal ventilator, an artificial breathing system for three days. The 1.8 kg neonate withstood the therapy but developed severe sepsis. The whole blood of the new born was changed. Now the baby is accepting mother’s feed. A lot of expertise, equipment and resources are required to administer the surfactant therapy, said Dr Singh adding that the centre provided tertiary level neonatal care facilities like ventilation, blood exchange transfusion, peritoneal dialysis and treatment for all medical and surgical emergencies for children. |
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Atul, Rana declared best players Chandigarh, December 12 KS Shanbag and Gopal Krishan of West Zone and Rama and Revathi of South Zone claimed the men and women doubles titles, respectively. BB Gani and Rama of South Zone bagged the mixed doubles title. Atul Walia and Rama were also declared the best players of the meet in men and women
sections, respectively. Mr A.K. Dass, president, Oriental Insurance Sports and Recreation Club, Regional Office, Chandigarh, was the chief guest. A colourful cultural programme was also held. Results — men: Atul Walia (NZ) b Buchi Babu (SZ), 7-1, 7-3, 7-2; women: Rama (SZ) b Sulbha (WZ), 7-2,7-0,7-1; doubles: men — KS Shanbag and Gopal Krishan (WZ) b B Gani and Santosh Raj (SZ), 4-7, 8-6, 7-4, 4-7, 7-4. women: Rama and Revathi (SZ) b Sulbha and Shalini (WZ), 7-2, 7-1,7-1.
Cricket tournament The three-day North Zone (IA & AE) Cricket Tournament began here today at DAV Senior Secondary school, Sector 8. Ms Mahua Chatterjee, Principal Accountant General (A&E) Punjab, Haryana and UT, the chief guest, was welcomed by Ms Kusum Nayar, Ms Saroj , Ms Bhawna and Ms Kusum Sharma. Mr T.R. Arora, welfare officer, and Mr A.P. Malik, secretary, S&R Club, introduced the chief guest to the participants. Later, the matches
were played at DAVSSS-8 and at DAV College, Sector 10. In the first match, hosts AG Haryana, outplayed AG, Himachal Pradesh, by five wickets and in the second match, AG, Punjab, defeated AG, J&K, by 17 runs. Brief scores: First match — AG, HP: 172 for eight in 32 overs (Ramesh Bittu 41, Shambu 30, Aman 3 for 31, Raman 2 for 22, Gulab Rubbani 2 for 26). AG, Haryana: 173 for five in 29.3 overs (Aman 67, Jitender 56 n.o., Surinder Singh 14, Parveen Sen 3 for 33). Second match: AG, Punjab: 309 for three in 40 overs (Navdeep Singh 138 n.o., Arun Tuli 71, MP Singh 41). J&K: 132 all out in 27 overs (Ranjit Bali 59, Ashwani Gupta 28, R.P. Singh 4 for 29, Arun Tuli 2 for 29).
Gold medal Roopmeet Mann, a Class IV student of the local St Stephen’s School, Sector 45, has returned home with a gold medal in the XIth All-India GV Mavlankar Shooting Championships held at Asansol (West Bengal) from December 2 to 8. Roopmeet (9) won the medal in air rifle open sight sub-junior section. As many as 1,200 competitors took part in this meet. She is being trained by Col Jagir Singh Dhillon, a renowned Air Rifle coach. Early this year Roopmeet had also won the title in the All-India Kumar Surender Singh Memorial Inter-school Shooting Meet held at Badal (Muktsar).
PCC win cricket meet As expected, the Punjab Cricket Club XI dominated by test stars and other noted batsmen, today won the inaugural JR Sharma Memorial Cricket Tournament by overpowering Orient Shipping Agency (OSA), Mumbai, by 10 wickets in the final played at Barwala, near here today. Ms Inder Devi Sharma, wife of late Mr JR Sharma, gave away the prizes. Reetinder Sodhi was declared the best all-rounder, Lakhbir Singh and Ankur Kakkar were declared best bowler and best batsman, respectively. Reetinder was also got the man of the match award. Vishal and Parveen Tambe were given special prizes for their outstanding performance in the meet. Brief scores: OSA, Mumbai — 151 for nine in 40 overs (Abhey Kuruville 34 n.o., Mandhar Gawde 27, Vineet Sharma 2 for 12, Lakhbir Singh 2 for 18). PCC — 153 for no loss in 26.1 overs (Ankur Kakkar 65 n.o., Reetinder Sodhi 63 n.o.).
Equestrian show The Old Nabhaites Association, consisting of ex-students of the, Punjab Public School, Nabha, will organise PPS Equestrian Show at Sector 26 Police Lines, Chandigarh, on December 14. The show aims encouraging the sport of horse riding among schoolchildren. The function will have show jumping and tent pegging events by young boys and girls of the school team. Col Pinka Virk and Major Ahlawat of 61 Cavalry, both old Nabhaites will be present at the show. Besides, the school band, which has remained a regular feature at the Republic Day Parade in Delhi will be held by young Samrinder Singh in attendance. The bagpipe, drum and bugle band teams have been trained by band instructor Harbans Singh. Another attraction will be the school aerobics team led by Parneet Sandhu. This was stated by Major DPS Waraich organising secretary of the show.
Boxing championship GGD SD College, Sector 32, bagged the Panjab University Boxing Championship by securing 29.5 points. Government College, Hoshiarpur, SGGS College, Sector 26, and DAV College, Sector 26, got the second, third and fourth place, respectively, with 26, 14.5 and 13.5 points, respectively. Winners were: light fly weight:Ashwani Sharma (GGDSSD-32); fly weight: Hans Raj (Arya College, Ludhiana); bantam weight: Anand Kumar (GGDSD-32); feather weight: Sandeep Yadav (SGGS, Chandigarh); Light weight: Gautam Bhargav (GC Hoshiarpur); Light welter weight: Aman (GC-Hoshiarpur); Welter weight: Parveen Kumar (GGDSDC-32); light middle weight: Rajiv Kumar (GGDSD-32); middle weight: Vishal Gaurav (GC Hoshiarpur); light heavy weight: Vivek Kumar (SGGS,Chd); heavy weight: Ajitpal Singh (GGDSD-32); super heavy weight: Gurpreet Singh (GC-Hoshiarpur).
Basketball meet Panjab University Campus, Chandigarh, and GGD SD College, Sector 32, Chandigarh, won their respective matches on the second day of the PU Inter-college Zonal Basketball ‘A’ Division Men Tournament. Results: PU Campus, Chandigarh b SGGS College, 79-57, (half time score 46-23). Scorers for winners-Amanpreet 22, Harkanwar Singh 20, Dinesh 18, Sarharpreet Singh 10, Sushil Hooda 8. Score for losers — Arun Rana 20, Raman 15, Bikramjit 8, Aman, Inderpreet and Dalwinder (four each). In the second match of the day, GGD SD College, Chandigarh, beat Government College, Sector 11, 42-27, (half time score of 23-17). Scorers for winners — Jaspreet Singh 9, Yogeshwar 8, Paramveer 7, Ankur Sharma 7, Narender 6. Scorers for losers — Vikram 16, Virender Singh and Rakesh (four each).
Kharar Football tourney The Kharar Football Association, will organise the 7th Maharaja Ranjit Singh Memorial Football Tournament near Government Polytechnic College, Khunimajra, from December 15 to 17. The tournament will be inaugurated by Mr Rajinder Singh Bhullar and Mr Amarjit Singh Virk will be the chief guest at the prize distribution function. According to a press note, the winning team will be given Rs 10,000 and the runners-up will be given Rs 7000. A cultural programme by the Punjab Kala Manch group and a rural show will also be held. |
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CTU workshops to be revamped Chandigarh, December 12 Major-General S.S. Chahal, MG, EME, Western Command, and Col Rajesh Dua, Commanding Officer, gave a presentation of study conducted by them on the working of the CTU workshops. Colonel Rajesh Dua informed the Administrator that there were three depots of CTU, which were catering to the fleet of 417. The depot no. 1 and 2 were located adjacent to each other in Industrial Area, Phase I, whereas the other depot was located in Sector 25. Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the CTU, Colonel Dua said the mechanics who were the backbone of the workshop were not well educated with no formal training in the discipline. They had risen from washermen automatically to the level of works manager with the length of service without any corresponding improvements in education or technical skills. No structured training was carried out for the tradesman. He said there was lack of promotional incentives. Colonel Dua also said promotion of CTU staff was slow and opportunities few. There was also lack of incentives and awards in CTU. Equipment, tools, workshop facilities were all primitive and workers had wrong tools in an unscientific manner scattered all over the floor. Inventory control was loose and there was lack of accountability except for works manager. He said CTU had a good system of spare part management. Accepting the recommendation in toto, General Jacob asked the Home Secretary to workout the modalities to merge Depot no. 1 and Depot no. 2 and come out with a single well-equipped modernised workshop that could deal with all major repairs. General Jacob said the state-of-the-art workshop should be equipped with all modern equipment. Day-to-day running maintenance of the buses could be carried out in the depot located in Sector 25. Only major jobs should be entrusted to this modern workshop. Stressing the need for immediate computerisation of the workshop, General Jacob said the inventory system, which was lax in the workshop, needed to be computerised at the earliest and EME would provide the software package for inventory. Compulsory training and education for every worker going to next grade or promotion was also on the cards. Emphasising the need for paying attention on improvement of canteen facilities for the staff, and other amenities for the staff, including proper washing and bathing space, hygienic toilets, the Governor said welfare of the staff should be the first priority of CTU. It was also decided to recruit one senior retired EME officer from the Army as OSD to monitor and implement these recommendations and help the CTU in this exercise. It was also decided to come out with comprehensive logbook containing the extent of coverage, repair, consumption of fuels, nature recurrence of defects. |
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