Create awareness on non-scalpel vasectomy, says health minister
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Panchkula, July 21
Haryana Health Minister Kartar Devi today urged the local bodies and non-government organisations to take the national family welfare programmes to the masses and create awareness about non-scalpel vasectomy among them.

She was speaking at the state-level seminar on NSV, organised by the Haryana Health Department at Indradhanush auditorium in Sector 5, here today. The minister said even though it was illegal to marry off minor girls, this was a practice in today’s society. Devi said the NSV technique should be popularised to ensure that the onus of birth control does not lie only on the women. She added that of the 34,000 operations done under the national family welfare programme, 29,000 were for NSV alone.

Stating that the Haryana government was committed to raising the standards of education and health in the state, she said as many as 200 dental surgeons and 200 other specialists had been recruited.

Parliamentary secretary Krishna Pandit said to encourage men to go in for an NSV, the Haryana government gives a sum of Rs 1000. She said there was the need to hike this amount work appealing to the representatives of the government to work in this direction.

The OSD to the Chief Minister, Dr KV Singh, said although the NSV technique was a major achievement in the field of medical science, it still needed to be publicised in rural areas.

He said in the last three years, finances to the health sector had been hiked by over two times and the government had sanctioned Rs 50 crore for women empowerment sadans in 500 villages across the state.

NSV expert Dr Kaza emphasised on the need to involve men in the exercise. Addressing the gathering, he said when men could be in the forefront in every field there was no reason why they should stay behind in adopting this method of population control especially as it was a painless procedure and required very little time.

Kanvardeep, Tanishka emerge winners
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Chandigarh, July 21
Kanvardeep Singh and Tanishka Gupta emerged winners under the u-4 boys’ and girls’ categories, respectively, in the Rink Race II held at Sector 10 skating rink, here, today. This is the 17th City Skating Carnival 2007 organised by the Roller Bones Skating Club.

In the sub-junior boys’ roller hockey meet, Ryan International team outclassed KB DAV, Sector 7, Chandigarh, 8-2 whereas in an another tie under the same category, Bhavan Vidyalaya, Panchkula, gave a crushing defeat to Bhavan Vidyalaya, Chandigarh, 5-0.

However, there was a glut of goals in the senior men category. Jammu and Kashmir-based Rollar Athlete Club gave a clean sweep to St Paul’s, Ambala. The Jammu team scored 12 goals without conceding a single goal.

Results: u-4 boys: 1 Kanvardeep Singh, 2 Sanyam; u-4 girls: Tanishka Gupta; 4-6 yrs boys: 1 Kartik Maan, 2 Rohil Gupta, 3 Gurman; 4-6 yrs girls: 1 Kamalpreet Kaur; 6-8 yrs boys inline: 1 Bikramjeet, 2 Harshdeep; 6-8 yrs girls inline: 1 Urvashi, 2 Shivangi Bansal, 3 Shamreen; 8-10 yrs boys in line: Vaibhav Gupta, 8-10 yrs girls in line: Tarunpreet Kaur; 10-12 yrs boys in line: Randeep; 12-14 yrs boys in line: Mayank Gupta; 12-14 yrs girls: 1 Aditi Singla, 2 Vrinda Anil Agarwal, Mehak Kaur Garg; above 14 yrs girls: Ustat Sandhu

Hockey results: Sub-junior boys: Ryan International beat KB DAV, Sector 7, Chandigarh 8-2; Bhavan Vidyalaya, Panchkula, beat Bhavan Vidyalaya, Chandigarh, 5-0; junior boys: Ajit Karam Singh International School beat Ferozepur 8-1; senior men: Roller Athlete Club beat St Paul’s, Ambala, 2-0.

Cricket Tourney
Harman scripts St Stephen’s win
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Captain Manan Vohra contributed 50 runs and Ankush Dhariwal made 60 runs for the opening wicket. Gaurav Singh and Gaurav Tandan also made valuable additions to the total. Harpreet Singh of Satluj Public School displayed a superb spell of spin bowling, taking five wickets conceding only 18 runs.

Brief scores

Satluj Public School: 175 for 6 in 20 overs (Ankush Dhariwal 60, Manan Vohra 50, Gaurav Singh 24, Gaurav Tandan 20, Rigzin 2 for 25, Gaurav 2 for 38, Manjit 2 for 18).

Alpine Public School: 112 all out in 19.3 overs (Nikhil Wadhwa 40, Saurabh 30, Harpreet Singh 5 for 18, Sajit Nagrath 2 for 13).

Tomorrow’s matches

Alpine Public School, Pinjore, vs Little Flower Convent School, Sector 14, Panchkula, 9 am.

Hansraj Public School, Sector 6, Panchkula vs Delhi Public School, Pinjore, 1 pm.

Karatekas get black belts
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Pataudi Trophy
Umesh to lead Panchkula
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Swimming
Triple delight for Gauri

Panchkula, July 21
Gauri Thukral of Little Flower Convent School, Sector 14, Panchkula, has won gold medals in three different events of the District Inter-School Swimming Championship held at the Gymkhana Club, Sector 6, here, recently.

As many as 70 participants from 12 schools took part in the championship, which was organised by the district education officer in the u-14 and u-19 categories. — TNS

Yoga championship from Aug 4
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Panchkula, July 21
The Haryana State Yoga Association will organise the 23rd Haryana State Yoga Championship from August 4 to 6 at Yamunanagar.

The entries should reach Ashok Kumar Aggarwal, secretary, Haryana State Yoga Association, HNo. 239, Sector 14, Panchkula, latest by July 25.

Separate competitions will be held for males and females in the age groups of 8-11, 11-14, 14-17, 17-21, 21-25, 25-35, 35-45 and above 45 years. The competitors’ age will be checked as on April 4, 2007. A maximum of four competitors of either sex from each age group can participate.