Chandigarh, August 11
Thousands of sportsmen and women studying in more than 680 schools under the DAV Management Committee throughout India will stand to benefit from the recent decision of the School Games Federation of India (SGFI) to grant them affiliation for the year 2004-2005. Earlier students of various DAV schools had to represent their respective state units affiliated to the SGFI for participation in the National School Games. Now the latest approval of the SGFI headed by Padamshree Satpal president, and Mr P.S. Chhabra, Secretary-General, to grant affiliation to DAV schools will help them in getting good exposure in the National School Games.

Mr Ravinder Talwar, Principal, DAV Senior Secondary school, Sector 8 Chandigarh and senior vice-president of the SGFI is the man behind this initiative. According to Mr Talwar this was a long pending demand of the DAV management as already Kendriya Vidyalya Sangathan and Navodya Vidyalya Sangathan were an affiliated unit of the SGFI.

When asked, about the selection of the final DAV team at the national level, Mr Talwar said, at the state, zonal and national level, they had the Mahatma Hansraj Sports tournament. In these tournaments, probables are chosen in each discipline. He said the Mahatma Hansraj tournament would also gain in importance.

He said DAV institutions were providing a lot of thrust to sports activities. He said like in the case of Chandigarh, most of the DAV players were representing the UT team in the National School Games.

Results: 400 M free style:girls;Kanika 1,Chahat Arora 2,Nutan 3.400 M free style boys: Amandeep Singh 1, Mamnika Singh 2, Sahib Rana 3. 800 M Free Style: Boys: Kunal Bhardwaj 1, Vivek Yadav 2, Parminder Singh 3.

Cricket tourney

Chandigarh Club will take on International Testing Centre in the opening tie of the second United India Insurance Cup league Cricket Tournament to be held at Sector 3 cricket stadium, Panchkula from August 14. In all 16 teams will be participating.

Chandigarh, August 11
A team of the Chandigarh Administration will conduct surprise checks to monitor the attendance of employees working in various departments of the administration under the Deputy Commissioner. The checks will be carried out once a week.

The Administration said that in order to curb absenteeism and to streamline and regulate the functioning of various offices under the charge of the Deputy Commissioner, a checking team under the chairmanship of Mr N.S Brar, Assistant Estate Officer, with Mr S.K. Setia and Mr R.K. Prashar as members had been formed.

This team shall carry out the checking of attendance in different offices under the charge of the Deputy Commissioner at least once a week. The offices include the DC Office, Estate Office, Agriculture, Agriculture Census, Agricultural Marketing Board, Excise and Taxation, Food and Supplies, Registration and Licensing Office, Labour Department, Coop Societies Department, SDM(S) and SDM(E) offices, market committee and the UT Red Cross.