Raids to check unqualified doctors
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 12
The Health Department authorities today raided the Dadu Majra area and Kumhar Colony in the city to check doctors who are practising without proper medical degrees.

A team of the UT Health Department seized documents possessed by three doctors in the Dadu Majra area and two in Kumhar Colony.” We have given these doctors a week’s time to produce valid degrees and papers which permit them to practise,” said a member of the raiding team. He said that seeing the Health Department team, two doctors pulled down their shutters and ran away, while one of them left the shop open and disappeared.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court had directed the civil surgeons in Punjab and Haryana as well as the Union Territory of Chandigarh to conduct periodical raids and surveys on shops and clinics of unqualified medical practitioners for curbing the menace.

The judges had also directed the civil surgeons to take action within a reasonable period of time on genuine complaints brought to their notice. The court had observed that no unqualified quack be allowed to practise in the region.

115 donate blood
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 12
Over 115 persons donated blood for thalassemic children at the eighth blood donation camp organised at Hotel Heritage, here today.

The camp is organised every year on the birth anniversary of Vipul Dua, son of the Managing Director of the hotel. Employees from Ess Ess Bath Fittings and Accessories Group and Chandigarh Yoga Sabha contributed towards the donation.

SPORTS

Table tennis meet

Chandigarh
Navdeep and Chetan Singla bagged the girls and boys’ final of the Prof RS Mehta Memorial Table Tennis tournament played at the Sector 23 TT hall, on Friday. Sadhika Kaushal and Dev Saini claimed the cadet girls and boys section titles respectively.

Results : final: kids — boys: Meghna (DAV Public school-8) b Naina (DAV Public school-8) 14-12, 11-7, 6-11, 9-11, 11-7. boys: Chetan Singla (DAVP-8) b Navdeep (DAVP-8) 11-4,11-5,11-6. Cadet boys: finals: Sadhika Kaushal (GMSSS-35) b Alamjit (Bhavan Vidyalaya school-27) 11-7,11-7,11-6.

Handball championship

DAV School Club, Sector 8, ‘A’ team bagged the sub-junior title by defeating Coaching Centre-42 (38-27) with half time score 19-11 in the 17th Chandigarh Sub-Junior Handball Championships played at the DAV Senior Secondary school grounds, here on Friday. Mr RP Garg, president, Chandigarh Handball Association, gave away cash prizes to winners.

Panel finds irregularities in firemen’s recruitment
Matter should be referred to CBI, says member
Sanjay Sharma
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 12
The committee going into the alleged bungling in the recruitment of firemen has come across ‘’material’’ indicating ‘’violation of propriety’’ and at least one member of the panel is in favour of referring the matter to the Central Bureau of Investigation.

‘’A number of loose ends are there in the version of the officials and suspicion of bungling has been strengthened after repeated denial of documents,’’ an inquiry committee member told the Chandigarh Tribune here today.

At least a couple of incidents are similar to those in the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) cash-for-job scam requiring a criminal investigation by the CBI, the source said. There are cuttings on marks sheets, a person rejected was later on passed, two Scheduled Caste category candidates with their residential addresses in Mohali have been selected despite a condition that a bonafide resident of the city only could qualify, the member said. The source said it was on the record of the committee that the officials had showed inability to give individual mark sheets of members of the selection committee as these were reportedly torn away after the selection committee had selected the candidates.

The member said this amounted to a criminal attempt at the destruction of official record and evidence requiring an inquiry from professional sleuths.

He said one of the members of the selection committee had not even signed the list.

The member said the there were two criteria fixed for physical test and two grades were decided to grade the candidates but the selectors later did away with the superior criterion requiring a candidate to climb 10 feet of rope.

The list of the successful candidates had surprisingly been signed by clerks instead of committee members. The member said it was surpirsing that the Chief Fire Officer was not a member in the second selection committee for finalising the candidates while he was there in the first committee formed just 13 days before the second one.

The inquiry committee headed by the Congress leader of the House, Mr Subhash Chawla, was scheduled to submit its report in July but its term was extended a second time till August 7. Mr Chawla when contacted, refused to comment.

The committee was set up after a unanimous decision in the House expressing suspicion on the fairness of recruitment of 40-odd firemen this year.