The Tribune, Chandigarh, India

Emphatic victory for Greenland School
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, June 6
Greenland Senior Secondary School began their campaign on a rousing note as they demolished Kundan Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Civil Lines by five wickets in the inaugural match of the Sixth Chaman Lal Malhotra Cricket Cup Tournament for boys u-15 being organised by the Ludhiana District Cricket Association at the Arya College for Boys grounds here today.

Greenland School won the toss and invited KVM School to bat first. In their allotted 25 overs, KVM School scored 158 runs after losing 9 wickets with the main contribution being 59 extras conceded by Greenland School bowlers. Only four batsmen, Sandeep Prabhakar (26), Bharat Malhotra (21), Jatin (13) and Tarun Bawa (10) could cross the double-digit figure.

Greenland Senior Secondary School surpassed KVM’s total in 20.2 overs, losing five wickets. The notable scorers were Sumit (37 n.o) and Ashish, who contributed 29 runs.

Earlier, Mr Jeevan Ahuja, Principal, Arya College inaugurated the tournament, in which eight teams, Sargodha National Public School, Baba Ishar Singh Public Senior Secondary School, Kundan Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Greenland Senior Secondary School, SAN Jain Senior Secondary School, Des Raj Cricket Coaching Centre, LDCA XI (A) and LDCA XI (B) participated.

Brief scores: KVM Senior Secondary School-158 for 9 ( Arjun Puri 7, Bharat Malhotra 21, Sandeep Prabhakar 26, Tarun Bawa 10, Jatin 13, Shivram 8 not out, Himanshu 2 for 29, Ashish 1 for 26, Sumit 1 for 20 and Navjot 1 for 22)

Greenland Senior Secondary School- 162 for 5 (Chandan 12, Himanshu 18, Sumit 37 not out, Deep Saini 19, Ashish 29, Gurjinder 17 not out, Bharat Malhotra 2 for 29, Arvind 1 for 14, Ankit 1 for 24 and Shivam 1 for 21).

Gymnastics camp
Our Correspondent

Khanna, June 6
A summer gymnastics coaching camp was started at the Guru Gobind Singh Senior Secondary School here today. The camp is being organised by Ludhiana District Gymnastic Association. It will conclude on June 16.

The coaching at the camp will be given by the state government coach, Mr Bhupinder Singh in morning and evening shifts. The camp was inaugurated by Mr Varinder Guddu.

Police vacates CDPO office
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, June 6
On the directions of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, the Shimla Puri police has finally vacated the illegally occupied godown building of the Child and Development Office situated near the Gill Road canal bridge.

Employees of the Shimla Puri police station have removed all their belongings but for a wireless set and network equipment from the building. The CDPO staff have also got a portion of its boundary wall constructed again. This portion was demolished by the police to make an entrance gate.

The shifting of the police station has brought a sigh of relief for the CDPO employees, especially women, working from the ground floor of the illegally occupied building.

According to department sources, the much-needed action came when the CDPO staff contacted senior bureaucrats and ministers in the Congress Government. The CDPO staff contacted them after they failed to get any justice from the local administration. Hundreds of anganwadi workers were even lathi-charged in the Mini Secretariat premises when they were protesting against the administration’s inaction on their complaint against the illegal occupation.

The matter was brought to the notice of the Chief Minister by Ch Santokh Singh, Social Welfare Minister, under whose purview the department comes. The Chief Minister reportedly took a very serious view of the police action and ordered the district and the police administration to immediately vacate the building.

It may be mentioned here that the Shimla Puri police station’s second attempt to set up a permanent office in the building has been thwarted. While it was the role of politician which blocked its designs, a similar move four years ago was stopped by a senior police official whose wife was at that time heading the department.