HEALTH

NGOs urged to participate in health sector
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 19
Mr D.S Guru, Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Punjab, emphasised on the need for enhancing the role of NGOs in the health sector. He was addressing a state-level workshop of NGOs and senior health administrators for the forthcoming Intensified Pulse Polio Campaign on January 4, 2004.

In a statement issued here today, Mr Guru while lauding the contribution of voluntary organisations in the pulse polio campaigns during the past nine years, urged everyone to participate in the exercise to reach each and every child below 5 years of age.

Elaborating upon the arrangements, Dr G.L. Goyal, Director, Health Services, Family Welfare, Punjab, said the state would need more than 60,000 volunteers for manning almost 16,000 camps to be organised in all villages, towns and urban slum areas of the state. He appealed to the NGOs to help in social mobilisation so that parents bring their children to the booths for polio drops.

Although Punjab had reported only one case of polio during 2003 but the need to remain vigilant is important considering the influx of large number of migrants from the states of high incidence like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The second round of the pulse polio immunisation would be held on February 22. 

SPORTS

St Stephen’s, St John’s academies win
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, December 19
St Stephen’s Academy, Sector 45, and St John’s Academy outplayed DAV Club by 3-0 and Government High School, Sector 26, by 9-0, respectively on the second day of the Ist Kanwar Harbans Lal Memorial Football Tournament played here today at the Sector 17 Football Stadium.

In the first tie, Chivinder Singh of St Stephen’s was adjudged the man-of-the-match. Mr Harold Carver, Principal of St Stephen’s School, was also present on the occasion. Amit Kumar scored first goal in eighth minute followed by Aita Ram in15th minute and Jashanpreet in 48th Minute.

In the second tie, Gaurang Sharma of St John’s scored three goals. Mrinal Sharma was adjudged the man-of-the-match.

Cricket tourney

CRY Cadence Corporate Cricket Challenge in Chandigarh will begin from tomorrow at the Sector 16 Cricket Stadium. Giving this information, Mr Saugat Sen, Group Director, Cadence, said they were proud to be associated with this event and excited to include Chandigarh this time. The teams have been divided into two pools. Group A will have Quark, Infosys, Airtel and SMPL and group B to have ICICI, IDS, Spice and HFCL.

The matches will be held every weekend and the final to be played on February 7, 2004. Tomorrow Quark will play its first tie with SMPL at 10.30 am. Mr D.P. Azad will inaugurate the meet.

Taekwondo meet begins

The National Taekwondo Championship began here today at the Sector 10 Skating Rink. The meet was inaugurated by Mr Jimmy R. Jagtiani, secretary of the Taekwondo Federation of India.

In the men events, B.K. Jha of UP won the heavy weight event while Manoj of Orissa came second. In fin weight category, Praveen of Delhi was first while in bantam weight, Gourav of Delhi secured first place.

In coloured belt for men, Narinder of Punjab won while Ravinder of J&K got second place. In women section, K. Ansari of UP won first place while R. Sood of Delhi bagged second place.

In bantam weight, P. Bhootia of Sikkim won first place. In heavy weight for women, Prabjeet Kaur of Punjab got the first place.

Yuvraj launches website
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, December 19
“I have no regrets for not being in the Indian Cricket team that gave splendid performance by beating Australia in the second Test,” said Yuvraj Singh at the occasion of the launch of the website at the Bharat Petroleum, Sector 17. Yuvraj said he was happy that his team has put up a magnificent performance by beating formidable Aussies. He wished to be in the One-day team for playing against Aussies.

The website, www.chandigarhcricket.com, was developed by local cricketer Ashish Tuli after six months of labour.

Yuvraj Singh, son of former test cricketer Yograj Singh, also formally announced the launching of a cricket academy with international standards being set up at DAV College, Sector 10. Yograj Singh, who was also present at the occasion, said the academy would start functioning from March 25 next year.

The usefulness of the website could be gauged from the fact that entire data relating to cricket, including the information on the forthcoming tournaments, results, records. The website will have indepth information on the eminent cricketers which city had produced like Kapil Dev, Yograj, Ashok Malhotra, Chetan Sharma, Bhupinder Singh, Yuvraj Singh and Dinesh Mongia.