Eye donation camp
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 3
The Lion’s Mid Town today organised a camp to create awareness about eye donation at the Government Model High School, Sector 26. Dr Rajiv Jain, Department of Ophthalmology, Government Medical College and Hospital, while highlighting the importance of eye donation, urged the students to pledge their eyes so that visually handicapped people could benefit.

SPORTS

Shikha, Dhruva bag carrom titles
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, September 3
Shikha Nanda of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 37, in the junior girls’ section, while Dhruva Chakorborty in the boys’ section won the titles in the XII Chandigarh State Carrom Championship played at St Stephen’s School, Sector 45, here today. In the girls’ final, Shikha beat Suguna Dewan 25-0, 20-24, 19-6 while Dhruva beat Taranpreet Pahwa 25-10,16-25, 25-24. The other winners in the men’s singles include: Vijay Ananda, Rahul, D.S. Aaithani, Pankaj Nath, Tejinder Harry, Anu Papneja, Devinderjit and KS Patwal. The winner in the women’s singles include: Shikha, Sushila Prasad, Inderkanta and Saroj Chandel.

PU win

Panjab University defeated Government College, Sector 11, by 31-03 in the Panjab University Inter-College Handball Men Zonal matches played here on Tuesday. In other matches of the day, GGD SD College, Sector 32, overpowered Guru Nanak College, Killlianwali, 38-18; and SGGS College, Sector 26, beat Arya College, Ludhiana, 25-0.

Snooker meet

Ankur Nanda and Aman Bhasin outplayed Gagan Gosain and Adil Khattar, respectively, in the junior snooker event of the Chandigarh Snooker and Pool Championship organised by the Triple A Syndicate at a pool parlour in Sector 26 on Tuesday. Mr Alok Kumar, a national snooker champion, was also present.

In other matches of the seniors’ section, Sandeep Sharma defeated Amit Gulati; Ashu Duggal beat Sameer Bhalla; Jaswinder Singh outplayed Pradeep Kinger; and Bimal Khurana defeated Ashish Gupta. In the juniors’ pool event, Charanjeet Singh got the better of Pramod Kumar.

Football championship

Sanjay Public School, Sector 44, entered the last four of the Chandigarh Junior Football Championship played at the football grounds, Sector 17. They blanked Government Model Senior Secondary school, Sector 35, by 11 goals to nil. In the other quarterfinal match, DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, defeated Government Model Senior Secondary school, Sector 21, by six goals to nil.

Selected

Rudra Mukherjee, a student of Class VII of Manav Mangal School, Sector 11, Panchkula, was selected by the Yoga Federation of India to take part in the World cup of Olympic Yoga Sports to be held in Brazil on September 28 and 29. The meet will have artistic, rhythmic and Mallakhamb.

Earlier, Rudra had clinched gold in the 26th National Yoga Championship and gold in the Xth Olympic Yoga Sports World Cup held in Argentina.

ADMINISTRATION

Advisory panel to be re-constituted after 7 yrs
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 3
The Home Ministers’ Advisory council is all set to be reconstituted. A list having as many as 10 names of prominent citizens is in circulation, sources confirmed.

The council is being re-constituted after a gap of about seven years. The last one was in place when Mr S.B. Chavan was the Union Home Minister during the tenure of Mr P.V. Narsimha Rao. The practice was discontinued when the Municipal Corporation came into being. Before the MC came into being this body more or less was the eyes and ears of the Home Minister.

The local MP used to be on it automatically. Besides this senior political leaders also found place. But all this was during the Congress Government. Now things are different as the local MP, Mr Pawan Bansal, is a Congressman while the Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is at the Centre.

Sources said this body usually meets to advice the Home Minister on various issues. In the past the Home Minister himself used to listen to the ideas and opinions of council members.

With the Home Minister, Mr L.K. Advani, also being the Deputy Prime Minister, it is likely that the council will have Mr Advani as its Chairman, however, all matters will be handled by the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Mr I.D. Swami.

Employees found absent
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, September 3
A number of employees in schools, dispensaries, primary health centres and the veterinary hospital were found absent during a special checking by the district administration today.

As many as four officers — the DTO, Mr J.S. Sandhu, the DDPO, Mr Rajesh Jogpal, the SDM, Mr M.S. Yadav, and the Estate Officer, Ms Geeta Bharti were deputed to check the schools, government dispensaries and the veterinary hospital.