HEALTH

Health awareness quiz
Our Correspondent

The winners of today’s quiz were: category A— Gurkaran, Hargurnand and Gaurav Jindal: category B — Gurvinder Manish and Deepinder.

SPORTS

Keen contests at chess meet
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, December 26
Top seed Kanwarjeet of Jalandhar was held by Chetan Bansal of Moga the on the second day of the Punjab State Open Chess Tournament being played at R.S. Model Senior Secondary School, Shastri Nagar here today. The third round match between these two players was a well-fought encounter as both the players were well versed with the classic Guicco-Pino opening and tried hard to get past an upper hand in the game. After the middle game, Chetan had an extra pawn but could not convert the advantage into a win as time ran out and they had to settle for a draw.

However, the most keen tussle was witnessed in the match played between Neeraj Khera of Jalandhar and Moti Ram of Patiala. Moti Ram opened the game with an unorthodox Stone-Wall opening with whilte pieces but Neeraj defended very well for about two hours and in a tactical playout was able to retain one extra Bishop which won the game for him.

The following were the results at the end of four rounds: Chetan Bansal drew with Kanwarjeet Singh (3.5); Jatinder Kapoor beat Harminder Kochhar (3); Arvinderpreet Singh beat Sangat Rai (3); Mukesh Kuamr beat Varindaer Kumar (2.5); Raminderbir singh beat Ajitpal (2.5); Harminder Singh beat Dr Pankaj Kumar (2.5); Intkhab Alam beat Varun Sharma (2); Ashdeep Singh beat Amit Manera (2); Vaneet Bansal beat Nitin Khera (2); Neeraj Khera beat Moti Ram (3); Vivek Astir beat Randeep Singh (3); Pardeep Arora beat Harmeet Singh (3); Harinder jit Singh beat Diljeet Singh (2.5); Shival Tethi beat Surinder Soodan (2); Rattan Raj beat Gurcharan Singh (2); Anirudh Garg beat Hemant Kumar (2); Rajeev Verma beat Jaideep Singh (2); Dr M D Umaraiya beat Amarjeet Verma (2).

Annual sports meet at BVM School begins
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, December 26
Mandeep Singh and Rupali came out triumphant in the 100m race in the boys and girls sections (u-19), respectively, to emerge as the fastest runners in the 8th annual sports meet of the Bharatiya Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Udham Singh Nagar, which started at the Kitchlu Nagar branch ground here today. Mr S.L. Lotey, District Sports Officer, Ludhiana, declared the meet open. He urged the students to take part in the games in order to keep themselves healthy and fit.

First day’s results: boys (u-19) — 800m- Maneet 1, Parmod 2, Deepak 3; 1500 m — Deepak Gautam 1, Rishab Sharma 2, Sukhjeet Singh 3; 100m - Mandeep Singh 1, Deepak Sohi 2, Atul Goyal 3; shot put - Deepak Oberai 1, Ankit 2, Sonal 3; and sack race - Sukhjit 1, Deepak 2, Varun 3.

Boys (u-14) — 100 m - Rajdeep 1, Rajat Nayyar 2, Simranpreet Singh 3; 600m - Amandeep 1, Nitin Arora 2, Rajat Nagpal 3; three-legged race- Gautam 1, Aditya 2, Kushal and Ankit 3; sack race- Nitin Arora 1, Kumar 2, Mohit 3; long jump- Harsimran 1, Rajdeep 2, Rohit Sehajpal 3; and shot put- Amandeep1, Mandeep 2, Sachin 3.

Boys (u-11) — 100m- Deepak 1, Gaurav 2, Sahil 3; 200m- Saurav 1, Deepak 2, Kishanjeet 3; sack race- Gaurav 1, Sahil Bawa 2, Pratik Ghumber 3; shot put- Daman Kumar 1, Yogesh 2, Jasleen 3; and three-legged race- Saurav and Jasleen 1, Piyush and Narved 2, Rahul and Piyush 3.

Girls (u-19) — 100m- Rupali 1, Manish 2, Isha 3; chatti race- Megha 1, Sona 2, Rajni 3; long jump- Manisha 1, Isha 2, Ruchika 3; skipping- Sakshi Talwar 1, Divya 2, Meenakshi 3; and discus throw- Rupali 1, Shikha 2, Meenakshi 3.

Girls (u-14) — 200m- Kirti Sharma 1, Gunjan Chopra 2, Sakshi and Taran 3; 400m- Jaspreet Kaur 1, Mishu 2, Chandni 3; 100m - Kirti 1, Gunjan 2, Sakshi 3; 600m- Chandni 1, Mishu 2, Kamaldeep 3; long jump- Kirti Sharma 1, Kanika 2, Divya 3; and chatti race- Kanika 1, Parul Nagpal 2, Tanvi 3.

Girls (u-11) — 200m - Ganga 1, Deepika 2, Diksha 3; 100m- Ganga 1, Diksha 2, Neha 3; sack race- Deepika 1, Charu 2, Garima 3; and three-legged race- Namisha and Deepika 1, Diksha and Surbhi 2, Bhawna and Garima 3.

Khanna school win inaugural match
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, December 26
A.S. Senior Secondary School, Khanna, registered 2-0 victory over Government Senior Secondary School, Kamalpura, in the inaugural match of the first Punjab Schools Football Tournament being organised by the Sutlej Football Club at Government Model Senior Secondary School of Punjab Agricultural University here today.

In the second match, Government Senior Secondary School, Khasi Kalan, prevailed over Spring Dale School, Ludhiana, 4-2. The issue was resolved through a tie-breaker. Government High School, Phalla, drubbed Government Senior Secondary School, Phagwara, 2-0 while Chabbewal Academy recorded 2-0 win over Government Senior Secondary School, Jandiali, to begin their campaign on a strong note.

Earlier Mr Sohan Lal Lotey, District Sports Officer, inaugurated the three-day tournament in which 16 teams were taking part.

ADMINISTRATION

DC asked to fix criteria for school admission
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, December 26
With admission time for Nursery, LKG and UKG classes close at hand, the anxious parents are worried as no one knows what criteria is employed by the various schools for admission. Is it money, influence or whims of the school authorities? The president of the Ludhiana Action Committee, Mr Rakesh Verma and the secretary general, Mr Kimti Rawal, have sent a telegram to Mr Anurag Verma, Deputy Commissioner, requesting him to fix a criteria for admission.

They alleged that money was the main criteria for admission to most of the top schools in the city. Deserving and intelligent students fail to get admission in these schools as their parents fail to pay hefty donations. They said every year as many as 4,000 students apply for new admissions but each school selects around 250 students. It is a well known fact that on average donation of Rs 1.5 to 2 lakh per student is charged by certain schools. By the end of admission seasons, the schools are richer by crores. Undeserving students get admission while the deserving ones are left out.

Members of the Ludhiana Action Group say,” Our main demand is that a criteria must be fixed for the admissions like a open lottery system or a legislation should be there like, some other states and all admissions should be banned till further order.”