Pulmonary medicine update
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 13
The department of chest diseases and tuberculosis, Government Medical College and Hospital Sector 32 will be organising a two-day pulmonary medicine update and workshop on the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme(RNTCP) on March 16 and 17 in the city.

The Government of India with the help of WHO and World Bank had started the RNTCP in 1993 and 40 per cent of the total population has been covered under the programme so far. This workshop and update aims at involving college teachers, private medical practitioners, NGOs and the media in the programme's implementation.

SPORTS

Cricket meet from March 23
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, March 13
The sixth league UT cricket tournament for various divisions will begin from March 23. According to SS Bawa, secretary of the UT Cricket Association, the teams will be divided into three divisions A, B and C. The match balls will be provided to all the teams free of cost by the association.

The league matches and semi-finals of ‘A’ division will be of 40 overs, while the final will be of 50 overs. Similarly, the league matches of ‘B’ division to be of 30 overs, semi-finals of 35 overs, while the final match of 40 overs.

The ‘C’ division, the league matches to be of 25 overs, the semi-finals of 30 overs and the final of 35 overs.

Entries close on March 16 at the UT Cricket Association. The local teams from Chandigarh, Panchkula and SAS Nagar including the college and university cricket teams. The draws will be taken out on March 17.

Rural sports

The Sports Department, Chandigarh Administration, will hold a rural sports tournament at Dronacharya Stadium, Dadu Majra, Chandigarh, from tomorrow, in the field of athletics, kabaddi, tug-of-war, volleyball (boys and girls) and wrestling (boys). The five villages who have confirmed their entries in athletics, kabaddi, tug-of-war, volleyball and wrestling are: Kajheri, Dhanas, Mauli Jagran, Kaimbala and host Dadumajra.

The Sports Department in collaboration with the Youth Club, Dadu Majra, will also organise free langar for the participants during the meet. Dr P.C. Kashyap, Regional Director, Sports Authority of India, will inaugurate the tournament tomorrow at 3.30 pm.

Umpire clinic

Rishpal Singh, a prominent cricket player of AG, Haryana, has succesfully attended the second national umpire clinic held at Gorakhpur from February 28 to March 5. This clinic was organised by the Tennis Ball Cricket Federation of India.

Car rally

The Hyundai Motor India Limited will organise a customer car rally titled “Joy Drive-family fest-2002” from Chandigarh to Shilon on March 16. The rally will be flagged off from Lake Club, Chandigarh, at 8 am on Saturday.

ADMINISTRATION

Bahl to select MCC committee heads
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 13
The Mayor, Ms Lalit Joshi, and the Congress group in the municipal corporation have left the selection of MCC Committee, Chairman and vice-chairmen to Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee (CTCC) president B.B. Bahl.

The Congress councillors were informed at a meeting held here today that those selected by the party to head different committees would be informed by Mr Bahl through letters.

The councillors were, however, asked to be present at the election meetings to be held on March 20, 21 and 22.

The Mayor and Mr Subhash Chawla, leader of the Congress in the House, asked the councillors to tour their areas and bring problems of the people in the shape of agenda items before the Mayor by April 1.

The councillors also presented reports as to what they had been doing in their wards. The councillors expressed their dissatisfaction over sanitation condition in the city and said, whenever, they took up the matter, shortage of funds was cited as the main hindrance.

They were informed that those agenda items would be forwarded to different committees formed after the elections.

Auction yields Rs 3.31 lakh
Our Correspondent

Dera Bassi, March 13
The Municipal Council here today net a sum of Rs 3.31 lakh after auctioning eight shops in the local bus stand complex. Compared to last year, the auction fetched an extra sum of Rs 4000 this time.

The bid went in favour of Mr Satya Pal Baghi, who had got the contract last year also. The shops have further been rented out to shopkeepers by the contractor on an yearly basis.

Meanwhile, talking to Chandigarh Tribune, shopkeepers who have been running the shops for the past many years, complained that they were suffering losses because of high-handedness of the civic body.

They alleged that the major reason for losses was that very few local buses plying on the Chandigarh-Ambala local route stopped at the bus stand. Instead of entering the bus stand, drivers pay entry fee at temporary bus stop on the Chandigarh-Ambala highway and lift passengers from outside the stoppage. This not only causes congestion on the main road making it accident-prone but also affects business of shopkeepers.

Some shopkeepers said that they had made their representation to the transport authorities and the authorities of the civic body but their efforts had proved futile.

Search on for Chief Architect
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 13
The Chandigarh Administration has sought a panel of names from Punjab Government to replace the outgoing Chief Architect, Mr Sarbjeet Singh Sandhu. The tenure of Mr Sandhu, a Punjab cadre official, comes to an end next month.

Well-placed sources said the panel of names had not been yet submitted by Punjab Government. Mr Sandhu, on his repatriation to Punjab, is in running for the position of Chief Architect in Punjab. Meanwhile, sources said the name of new Joint Secretary Finance will be finalised within the next two days and sent to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for formal approval. The post of JSF had fallen vacant as Mr K.A.P. Sinha had been transferred as DC Gurdaspur.