Chandigarh, June 3
An unbeaten opening wicket partnership of 191 runs between Gurinder (84) and Mandeep (90) paved the way for Enron Cricket Club to record an effortless 10-wicket victory over Copper Cricket Club in the Hot Weather Cricket Tournament. The tournament is being organised by the Chandigarh sports department at Sector 16 Cricket Stadium here.

After winning the toss, Copper CC scored 190 for 5 in the allotted 25 overs. Openers Damanpreet (52) and Varun Khanna (27) realised 100 runs before Damanpreet was out, leg before wicket to Amit (2 for 32).

Simranjit made an unbeaten 36 with the help of six fours in 19 minutes and faced 22 balls. Amit and Mandeep (2 for 34) were the main wicket-takers for Enron CC.

Required to score 191 runs for victory, Enron made it in 20.5 overs. Gurinder and Mandeep remained not out with 84 and 90 runs, respectively.

In another match, Dainik Bhaskar defeated Cricket Academy of Sector 37 by 32 runs. Dainik Bhaskar won the toss and elected to bat. They scored 181 before being bowled out in 24.4 overs. Opener Rajinder (46), Ajay Kumar (n.o 51) and Pawan (26) propped up their innings with good knocks. Deepak (3 for 28), Lovenish (2 for 38) and Davinder (2 for 6) were among the wicket-takers.

In reply, the Sector 37 Cricket Academy were dismissed for 149 in 23.5 overs. Gurdeep (10), Maninder (23), Piyush 28 and Ankur (23) were their main scorers. Ankur, Loveneesh (6) and Varun (6) were run out. Pawan (2 for 20), Rajesh (2 for 34), Sanjeev (2 for 34) and Ajay (1 for 31) restricted Sector 37 Academy's total.

In the third match of the day, Link Cricket Club beat Himachal Cricket Club by 29 runs. Link Club made 168 all out in 23.4 overs. Himachal CC replied with 139 for 8 in 23 overs. Rahul Panta (64) and Narinder Kwatra (21) were associated in a 63-run partnership for the third wicket. Rajpreet was the most economical bowler for Link CC as he bagged two wickets for 8 runs.

Brief scores:

Copper CC: 190 for 5 in 25 overs (Damanpreet 52, Varun Khanna 27, Mohan 14, Naveen 18, Simranjit 36, Amit 2 for 32, Mandeep 2 for 34);

Enron CC: 191 without any loss in 20.5 overs (Gurinder 84 n.o, Mandeep 90 n.o).

Dainik Bhaskar XI: 181 all out in 24.4 overs (Rajinder 46, Pawan Singh 26, Ajay Kumar 51 n.o, Aman Mehta 10, Deepak 3 for 28, Lovwenish 2 for 38, Davinder 2 for 6, Piyush 1 for 38, Gurpreet 1 for 36).

Cricket Academy, Sector 37: 149 all out in 23.5 overs (Gurdeep 10, Maninder 23, Piyush 28, Ankur 23, Rahul 21, Paan 2 for 20, Rajesh 2 for 34, Sanjeev 2 for 33, Ajay 1 for 31).

Link Cricket Club: 168 all out in 23.4 overs (Narinder Verma 41, Ramandeep 22, Amarjeet 57, Narinder Kwatra 3 for 16, Samandeep 3 for 21, Karan Walia 1 for 23, Abhisekh Verma 1 for 35);

Himachal CC: 139 for 8 in 23 overs (Himmat Singh 15, Rahul Panta 64, Narinder Kwatra 21, Rajpreet 3 for 8, Varinder 1 for 14, Akahsy Kochhar 1 for 18, Rai Bahadur 1 for 25, Ramandeep 1 for 24).

Chandigarh, June 3
The SJOBA Super 7's Night Cricket Tournament’s semifinal matches, held at St. John's High School, Sector 26, concluded, here, last night.

The semifinalist teams were Green, Light Blue, Black and Mustard.

The match played between the Green and Orange teams was won by the former by five wickets. Batting first, Orange scored 79 for 3 wickets in 8 overs. In reply, the Green batsmen put up a spirited performance and achieved the target in just 5.2 overs for the loss of just 1 wicket.

In the second match, between Light Blue and Red, Light Blue put on 93 runs in 8 overs. Vishal and Ramandeep scored 39 and 30 runs, respectively.

Chandigarh, June 3
"Use your shoulders. Swing is just a work of the shoulders. Your arms do nothing but the follow-up."

The words are clear and simple. Yes, Class A golf teaching professional Jesse Grewal is teaching the swing to 25 little golfers (aged 4 to 15) who have gathered on the greens of the CGA Golf Range for a month-long summer coaching camp here on Friday.

Jesse is one of just nine Grade A golf teaching professionals in the country. He has honed the skills of golf icons like Amandeep Johl, Gurbaaz Mann, Irina Brar, Parnita Garewal, Sandy Lehal, Rahul Bakshi, and the list goes on.

Most of the little golfers are below 10. Jesse keeps an eagle's eye on the young trainees. A wrong stance, an incorrect grip, an awry body movement and the coach is there to set it right.

Jesse calls it training with a fun punch. He does not want to impose classroom discipline on the trainees, who have just come out of their classrooms “and are in a summer vacation mood”.

The young golfers are taught the basics on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Those showing results are put through advanced training on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Each camp is for a month. Sundays are devoted to pitch and putt and at the end of the training, competitions are held. But there are no prizes.

Ritu Randhawa has come with her 11-year-old son Bikram from Delhi. A nephew of India's golf icon Jyoti Randhawa, Bikram is a student of St Columbus School.

Six-year-old Malika, a student of the local Sacred Heart School, has come with her mother Seema Sahni.

Anchit and Anuksha are here after a coaching stint at the Delhi Golf Club. Their mother Meenakshi is happy about the individual attention Jesse gives to trainees.

Ahit and Vidita have come all the way from Nagpur.

Jesse Grewal is assisted by former Chandigarh Golf Club caddy Mahesh Kumar who is today a Grade B golf teaching professional.

Chandigarh, June 3
Local player Shilpa Naruka moved into the main round thrashing Abhilasha Mehra from Delhi 4-1 (girls u-16) in the final qualifying round of the AITA Super Series Tennis Tournament held at the Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association (CLTA) courts, here today.

In the boys’ u-14 section, Pankaj Kumar and Nischay Rawal from Chandigarh won their respective matches in the final qualifying rounds. The other results are as follows:

Final round: Girls u-14

Ridhi Hegde (WB) bt Saumya Chaudhary (Chd) 4-1, 4-0, Ravnoor Kaur (Chd) bt Vibhuti Khullar (Chd) 4-0, 4-0, Parkriti Malhotra (Dli) bt Sonali Bansal (Chd) 4-0, 4-0, Ankita Bhatia (Har) bt Nonie Sidhu (Pb) 4-0, 4-0, Neher Sahni (Dli) bt Indu Punia (Har) 4-1, 1-4, 4-1, Amreen Chaudhary (UP) bt Sarana Shivani Verma (WB) 4-2, 4-0, Megha Sherawat (Dli) bt Kirandeep Kotade (Guj) 4-1, 4-2, Tarrnium Handa (Dli) bt Rajendra Madhushani (Srl) 4-1, 4-2.

Boys u-14

Maninder Singh (Har) bt Ayush Mintri (Dli) 4-0, 4-2, Arnab Kishore (Dli) bt S.K.Mukund (AP) 4-1, 4-1, Sahil Kahlon (Har) bt Resham Singh (Har) 4-0, 4-2, Pankaj Kumar (Chd) bt Aviraj Kamboj (Chd) 4-0, 4-1, Nischay Rawal (Chd) bt Rohit Tanwar (Dli) 5-3, 5-3, Archit Sood (Pb) bt Manoj Kumar (Chd) 5-4 (2), 4-0, Prashanta Priyadarshi (UP) bt Anupam Chhetri (Chd) 5-4 (3) 5-3, Suraj Beniwal (Har) bt Harry Jindal () 4-2, 4-0.

Girls u-16

Anushka Bhargava (AP) bt Megha Sherawat (Dli) 4-2, 4-2, Shilpa Naruka (Chd) bt Abhilasha Mehra (Dli) 4-1, 4-0, Ridhi Hegde (WB) bt Indu Punia (Har) 4-0, 4-2.

Chandigarh, June 3
Pranjal, Jaskaran, Himal and Pallak emerge champions during the Chandigarh Chess Championship 2007 for which concluded at St. Xavier’s Senior Secondary School, Sector 44 C, here, today.

Meanwhile, the following players have been selected to represent Chandigarh at the National Chess Championship: u-9 boys: Pranjal Kaura and Anubhav Tuknayat; u-9 girls: Gauri Cuttani and Tarini Goyal; u-17 boys: Jaskaran and Shirish, u-17 girls: Pallak and Rishu Rathi and u-25 boys: Himal Gusain and Mandeep Singh.

A.P. Saksena, president of the association, gave away the trophies and certificates.

Chandigarh, June 3
The extension fee policy being followed in Punjab and Haryana is going to dictate the future extension policy of Chandigarh. The extension fee is charged for a grace period to enable a property owner to raise his structure.

Officials of the Chandigarh administration are studying the schedule of extension fee being charged by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) and the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA).

Once in place, the property owners whose properties are being resumed for their failure to raise their structures by March 31, 2007, will benefit. There are around 150 such properties wherein the owners have either started construction but have not obtain the completion certificate or have not started construction at all.

In some cases, different appellate authorities had restored properties, however there was no policy to charge extension fee after March 31 2007.

So far, the estate office had been allowing yearly extension after the stipulated period of five years for free-hold and three years for lease-hold property.

The last one-year extension with an extension fee of Rs 375 per sq yard ended on March 31, 2007.

Now, the estate office proposes to extend the stipulated period to five years or beyond with an yearly extension fee structure increasing each year on the pattern followed by PUDA and HUDA.

While in case of PUDA, a five-year period is allowed after the stipulated period of three years, HUDA gives a 12-year period after the stipulated period of two years.

Panchkula, June 3
Expressing dissatisfaction with the sanitation in the city, members of the Haryana Punjabi Maha Sabha said safai karamcharis were not reporting for duty and those coming to work were not performing their duty satisfactorily.

President of the sabha Hemant Kinger said from July 2006 to July 2007, a monthly contract of Rs 1,332,000 was awarded and 297 safai karamcharis were employed by the contractor. According to the agreement, they were supposed to perform eight hours of duty i.e. from 6 am to 11 am and 2 pm to 5 pm.

“We have summed the entire expenses of the contractor and found that after disbursing salaries and adding Rs 10,000 as miscellaneous expenses, his total expenditure comes to Rs 8 lakh a month. This means he is earning a profit of Rs 5 lakh per month. When contracts have been awarded for much less in the past, why the Municipal Council is paying so much this year,” Kinger said while addressing a press conference.

Stating that he had conducted surprise checks during duty hours of the safai karamcharis, Kinger added that while 30 per cent did not report on duty during the morning shift, 50 per cent of the staff was missing from duty in the afternoon. “I have even spoken to various residents and found that 16 karamcharis each, assigned various sectors, do not report for duty. The sanitary conditions of the sectors, colonies and villages are not up to the mark,” he claimed.

Maintaining that no bleaching powder was being used around dumping ground, he stated that most of the safai karamcharis were without uniform. “The MC has so far not fined the contractor Rs 200 a day for not employing enough staff as is mentioned in the contract. The MC can also terminate the contract in case of repeated complaints and forfeit the security amount of Rs 25 lakh of the contractor. Given the performance of the contractors, the MC should now take action for their non-performance,” he emphasised.

Zirakpur, June 3
Be prepared for bumpy rides if you are planning to visit Wadhawa Nagar locality on the Zirakpur-Kalka road. With the approach road to the colony in a state of neglect, getting to the colony is quite a task.

However, the internal roads in the colony had recently been recarpeted, much to the delight of the residents. And it was after repeated representations that the roads were relaid.

In fact, bad approach road is not the only problem plaguing the colony. Electricity wires are dangling dangerously near the ground, giving an open invitation to a tragedy. Besides, most of the streetlights are non-functional putting residents and the visitors to inconvenience, says Awan Nayar, a resident.

The residents say low water pressure is the other big problem.