The Tribune, Chandigarh, India

Tuesday, February 6, 2001,
Chandigarh, India

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C H A N D I G A R H

Power connections to be costlier from Feb 22
CHANDIGARH, Feb 5 — Getting a new power connection and paying for new meters will be costlier in the city as the Chandigarh Administration has revised the rates of advance consumption deposits to be made by various categories of consumers of power. A notification in this regard has been issued and new tariffs come into force on February 22.

Bookies still doing well
CHANDIGARH, Feb 5 — The arrest of six bookies from the city on February 1 has failed to deter bookies here, allegedly because of the “callous attitude” of the city police.

Tents to house schools at Bhachau
CHANDIGARH, Feb 5 — The Gujarat Government has decided to run classes of primary schools in different villages of Bhachau taluka in 60 pre-fabricated structures that were airlifted to Bhuj today.

Quake survivor battles trauma
CHANDIGARH, Feb 5 — Narrowly escaping the catastrophe that hit Gujarat on Republic Day, Ms Anju Sharma, wife of R. K. Sharma, is back home with her two-year-old toddler Neeraj, but she is yet to recover from her traumatic experiences. Sitting amidst members of her in-laws’ family in Geeta Nagri near Dhulkot railway station of Ambala, Anju still looks shaken and horrified.
File photo of Anju Sharma with her two-year-old son Neeraj.

REGIONAL BRIEFS

EARLIER STORIES

	Sant Waryam Singh flags off 16 relief trucks for Gujarat February 5, 2001
	Ten trucks to carry relief material today February 4, 2001
	On exam eve, students wait for roll numbers February 3, 2001
	Cops catch out cricket bookies February 2, 2001
	Bomb hoax disrupts court work February 1, 2001
	MC to take over water supply, sewerage January 31, 2001
	MC bodies dissolved amid unruly scenes January 30, 2001
	Relief consignment from city reaches Bhuj January 29, 2001
	Power seekers teargassed, lathicharged January 28, 2001
	Police raids hostels, guest houses, pubs, hotels; 16 arrested January 26, 2001
	Red alert sounded in city January 25, 2001
	Local call up to 200 km from Jan 26 January 24, 2001

Rush for insurance cover
CHANDIGARH, Feb 5 — Following the massive earthquake in Gujarat, residents in the region have been rushing to get their houses and vehicles insured against damage due to earthquakes. Since January 26, when buildings in Gujarat swayed and collapsed the flow of people into various offices of insurance companies has gone up manifold.

COMMUNITY

Wires hang like sword of Damocles
NAYA GAON (Kharar), Feb 5 — Over head power cables hang loosely and in an unorganised manner in and around Naya Gaon. At places the cables are just one to two feet over the roof of houses. Some of the electricity transformers have too become ‘‘dangerous’’ as people have built houses close by.

Authorities close eyes to open manholes
CHANDIGARH, Feb 5 — With the authorities concerned looking the other way, the number of open manholes in the city has increased putting the lives of residents in danger.

READERS WRITE

Accidents on Madhya Marg
CHANDIGARH’s Madhya Marg which was once an open arterial driveway has become overcrowded with traffic and a number of accidents have taken place on it. The stretchfrom the Transport Area crossing to the railway station has become extremely hazardous.

Misplaced speed breakers
Postal services

CRIME

Duplicate jeans seized
CHANDIGARH, Feb 5 — Acting on complaint of Mr Pankaj Walia of Para Mount Fashions, Sector 44-D, the local police arrested Rahul Jindal, a resident of Sirsa, yesterday. The police also claimed to have recovered 605 pairs of jeans with duplicate label marks of a famous brand from his possession.

Writer of obscene letters to girls held
SAS NAGAR, Feb 5 — The mystery behind the obscene letters and literature being received by residents at their homes in the past few days was solved today with the local police arresting a 25-year-old youth from Phase 7 here.

Man consumes poison, dies
KHARAR, Feb 5 — The story of a newly-wed couple of Badali village, which was allegedly forced to consume some poisonous substance last month, ended today when the husband also died in Command Hospital. The postmortem was performed in the Civil Hospital here today.

HEALTH

CMO inaugurates workshop
PANCHKULA, Feb 5 — A five-day training workshop on “Integrated management of childhood illness” was inaugurated here on Monday. It was organised by the Survival for Women and Children Foundation. According to a spokesman, the main aim of the workshop was to equip health workers with technical skills.

198 persons vaccinated

SPORT

Spice, HDFC in semis
CHANDIGARH, Feb 5 — Connect, Spice and HDFC bank yesterday made it to the semi-final of the inter-corporate cricket tournament. Batting first, HDFC Bank put up a total of 145 for the loss of six wickets. Sanjeev took two wickets for the Spice team, who achieved the target by losing just five wickets. Amit scored 50 unbeaten runs, Sanjeev 39 runs and Samit made 27 runs.

ADMINISTRATION

Grant for colonies enhanced
CHANDIGARH, Feb 5 — The UT Administration has enhanced the grant-in- aid for providing services to rehabilitated colonies from Rs 1.2 crore to Rs 2.2 crore. An intimation in this regard has been received by the Municipal Corporation only last week.

Community centre to be opened on Feb 9
CHANDIGARH, Feb 5 — The Adviser to the UT Administrator, Mrs Neeru Nanda, will inaugurate the newly-built community centre in Sector 46 on February 9, following which it will be thrown open to the public for bookings.

Plan to recarpet village roads
CHANDIGARH, Feb 5 — The Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, is now planning to strengthen and recarpet internal roads of the four villages namely — Butrela, Ottawa, Badheri and Burail. The condition of these roads had deteriorated during the past few years and residents had been persistently demanding the repair.