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December 15, 2001, Chandigarh, India
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Conference on diabetes
begins Chandigarh, December 14 Inaugurating the conference, Dr Suraj Bhan, Governor, Himachal Pradesh, stated that diabetes was a disease of the inactive and the lethargic. ‘‘Those who work hard will never have the problems associated with the disease, be it the heart, or the kidneys,’’he said. Recalling the days of his father who was a hakim, Dr Suraj Bhan explained that in those days there was a simple test to know if a person had diabetes. ‘‘In India, the biggest problem is that everyone who is ill also considers himself or herself the doctor,’’ he commented in a lighter vein. Dr Suraj Bhan said every citizen should be now prepared to take up the challenge which the terrorist attack on the Parliament House had posed to the country’s security. Three books, “ABC of living with Diabetes”, “New Vistas in type 2 diabetes” and “Diabetes update” and a souvenir were also released on the occasion. Earlier, Dr S.K. Sharma, Director, PGI, introduced the chief guest and welcomed other guests. Prof R.J. Dash, Chairman, Organising Committee and Head, Department of Endocrinology, PGI, talked about the books released on the occasion while Dr R. Murlidharan, Secretary, Organising Committee, proposed a vote of thanks. There was a classical and fusion music recital by Subhash Ghosh. Around 400 delegates, including 60 renowned faculty members from India and abroad are attending the conference. Earlier, continuing medical education (CME) started in the morning. Prof R.J. Dash spoke on the value of oral glucose tolerance test in identifying subjects at high risk for diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Prof O.P. Gupta from Ahmedabad deliberated on dietary factors in diabetes. |
PU campus lift
basketball title Chandigarh, December 14 In the league matches played here today, PU Campus overwhelmed GGDSD College, Sector 32, 54-46, with half-time score of 28-25. Scorers for winners were Amanpreet 23, Harkanwar Singh 9, Dinesh 8, Manoj 6 and Sushil Hooda 4. Scorers for losers were Singh 18, Narender 9, Sunil8, Narinder 5 and Yogeshwar Singh 4. DAV College, Chandigarh, outplayed Government College, Ludhiana, 71-70, with halftime score of 34-29. Scorers for winners were Harjot Singh 23, Neeraj Kumar 23, Amrish Kumar 10, Sandeep 7, Harveer Singh 6. Scorers for losers were Amit Prashar 34, Ajay Kumar 16, Snehpal Singh 11 and Arjinder Singh 8. In the PU inter-college zonal ‘A’ Division women’s kho-kho tournament played at PU grounds, Dev Samaj College for Women, Chandigarh, beat GGD SD College, Hariana, Hoshiarpur, by 17 points. Government College, Hoshiarpur, defeated DSC for Women, Chandigarh, by an innings and five points while GNN College, Doraha, defeated MG Khalsa College for Girls, Kottan, by an innings and four points.
AG Punjab win AG Punjab clinched the North Zone IA and AD cricket trophy when they easily overpowered their Haryana rivals by 89 runs in the final at the grounds of DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8. The Haryana batsmen fell to the deadly bowling of Parveen Sharma. RP Singh was adjudged the man of the match. Mr M.P. Singh, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, gave away the prizes. Brief scores: AG, Punjab: 177 for 8 in 33 overs (ArunTuli 51, RP Singh 19, Tejinder 16 n.o., Parveen Sharma 5 for 45, Satnam Singh 2 for 43); AG, Haryana: 88 all out in 26.1 overs (Rishal Singh 32, Gulab Rabbani 18, Yogesh Sharma 3 for 28, RP Singh 3 for 19).
Cricket tourney Stadium XI, helped by 56 runs by Naresh Kumar, made it to the last four of the UT inter-school cricket tournament for Shivalik Trophy organised by the UT Cricket Association, at Cricket Stadium, Sector 16. They beat Guru Nanak Public School, Sector 36, by 137 runs. Brief scores: Stadium XI: 205 all out in 32.3 overs (Naresh Kumar 56, Amit Prashar 20, Ishan 18, Prabhdeep Singh 4 for 46, Simranjit 2 for 31, Amanpreet 2 for 36); GNPS-36: 68 all out in 18.5 overs (Simrat Bawa 20, Varun Khanna 3 for 8, Nivesh 3 for 18, Anupam Gambhir 2 for 23). |
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Impersonation
in the name of excellence Chandigarh, December 14 Sanjay Public School has been representing as the only school from UT on the basis of their winning the under-17 title. They had
virtually become a force to reckon with in football. At local level, this school had seen many rivals in the past which included schools such as Shivalik Public School, Sector 41, DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8 and SD Public School, Sector 32. In past, Shivalik Public School distanced itself from these rivalries, but the other two, DAVSSS-8 and SDP-32, always had close encounter in various matches with this school. Early this year on two instances, SD Public School was charged by Sanjay school players with putting different players than those mentioned in the list. A soccer critic, on the condition of anonymity said to remain in limelight by winning the inter-schools meets and other local championship titles, every year, these schools tried to woo the players by offering them better incentives than what previous school had offered. In the tournaments conducted directly by the Chandigarh Football Association, such instances had been rather less. Mainly such fraudulent cases occurred in the inter-school matches in different age groups. Only a fortnight back, on a complaint, Sanjay school was debarred from participating in semi-finals of the 41st Subroto Cup Football meet at Delhi. This local school was held guilty of fielding Manish Pathania impersonating as Jasvir Singh and for submitting forged date of birth certificate in respect of goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh. Sources said few sports officials from SDP-32 and DAVSSS-8 also were in Delhi when the above said fraud was being committed by Sanjay school and which finally helped the Air Force, host authorities at Delhi, to have fairly good idea of the bunglings involved. Sources said the District Education Officer, UT Education Department, was being asked not to allow the three players of the Sanjay school — Gurpreet, Manish Pathania and Steefan — to play in the UT inter-school under-19 meet to be held very soon. On one hand, the All-India Football Federation has got the millenium’s best sponsorship offer of Rs 22 crore to promote football at domestic level, but here in the city, just for the sake of winning inter-school titles, such dubious means were being devised. A former reputed football player said it would be prudent for the Chandigarh Football Association and the UT Education Department to at least countersign the players’ identity cards, so that whenever they played at local level or even in outstation meets, strict discipline could be enforced and image of Chandigarh could be maintained. |
Illegal structures
demolished Chandigarh, December 14 The staff which was accompanied by the police cordoned off the narrow lane of houses constructed and
allotted by the Chandigarh Housing Board. The staff led by the S.D.E. (Enforcement) Mr B.S. Brar dismantled fresh constructions” in a house. Children of the owner of the house who was not at home said more than 90 per cent people had raised two to three storeyed buildings. But the staff had not taken any action against anyone. The enforcement staff, on the other hand, asserted that the owner had raised unauthorised structures on government land. In such cases, long-period notices were not served on the owners. They were given only a three-day notice to remove all violations. If this was not done, they had to demolish the houses. Mr Baljit Singh, President of the Sector 40-C Social Reform Society, asserted that the Housing Board did not do anything when the allottees started the violations. On the contrary, they encouraged these with a view to getting “money from them”. He urged the Governor to probe why did the board encourage the violations and not take any action against the guilty officials. |
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Traffic
rules enforcement drive from Dec 21 Panchkula, December 14 The police is all set to launch a traffic rules enforcement drive here from December 21. Sources inform that this drive will focus mainly on underage driving, driving on the wrong side of road, driving without helmets and triple riding, all major reasons for accidents in the township. The police has also augmented its strength of traffic staff by recruiting 20 freshly trained constables from Police Training College, Madhuban. The strength of Panchkula traffic police was a mere 25 cops of the total strength of 750. The almost non-existent traffic staff was unable to deal with the burgeoning vehicular traffic and manifold violations. The Superintendent of Police, Mr Manoj Yadav, said he had arranged for a special training programme for 20 constables so as to ensure that they had adequate traffic police staff. “ The month-long training programme on traffic violations was specially organised for augmenting the already existing strength of traffic staff here,” he said. He said other than traffic constables and Head Constables, six non- gazetted officers would be deployed for checking traffic violations. Staff would also be deployed on the 7-8-17-18 rotary, one of the major traffic bottlenecks during the morning and evening rush hours. Mr Yadav assured that this traffic enforcement drive would be sustained in order to make the township a safer place to drive in. He hoped that this would also bring down the number of accidents. Panchkula has a population of around two lakhs and
approximately 80,000 vehicles ply on the roads here. Almost all rotaries on the road leading from Housing Board light point to the township, — 7-8-17-18, 8-9-16-17, 9,10,15,16 and 10,11,14,15 — are a scene of traffic jams during rush hours. The plying of heavy vehicles adds to the woes of commuters. With the closure of T- points on the road leading from Housing Board light point and the traffic being diverted on B- roads, the latter have become overcrowded. A lot of minor accidents take place here each day, besides two fatal accidents taking place on the B- road of Sector 15. The road engineering department of HUDA should take steps to avoid these accidents, said Mr S.K. Nayyar, president of the Sector 15 Mohalla Sudhar Committee. When contacted, the Administrator, Haryana Urban Development Authority, Mr Aroon Kumar Gupta, said adequate steps were being taken to ensure road safety. “Grills on central verges of all roads are being erected to ensure that drivers cannot take a cut from over the verges. In places where the traffic is more on B- roads, as in Sectors 6 and 7, the roads are being widened,” he said. |
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