HEALTH

Effecting cure through naturo-food therapy
Our Correspondent

Mohali, January 13
Good food makes good blood and bad food makes bad blood which is the root cause of all diseases suffered by an ever-increasing number of human beings worldwide. This is the theory on which two naturopaths and founder trustees of the Goindis Sailkot Gandhi Naturopathy Trust, a charitable organisation, work and come out with a new range of health foods which they claim can cure many diseases.

Addressing a press conference here today, Dr S.S. Goindi and his wife, Dr Gurkirpal Kaur, said the basic principle of naturo-food therapy was to replace the bad blood with good by consuming natural health-giving foods.

Dr S.S. Goindi said their unique naturo-food therapy consisted of treatment with a natural vegetarian diet of fruits and vegetables and simple preparations from germinated cereals and grains which were not only nutritious and tasty but also had medicinal value. They presented to newspersons various foods prepared by them such as sweet or salted biscuits made from germinated wheat; pinnis made from germinated gram and sugar; vadas (germinated urd dal); rose and amla sherbets, jellies and jams in which no preservatives had been used. They also displayed bajra dosa, makki dosa and germinated wheat bhatura. All these items, he said, were oil and fat-free. Germinated cereals and grains themselves contained oil.

The Goindis claimed that over the past 35 years they had cured a large number of persons suffering from various diseases through their naturo-food therapy.

Mr Santokh Singh Parmar, chairman of the charitable trust, said among the future plans was the building of an ashram around Chandigarh where research and development of alternative health foods could be undertaken.

SPORTS

Medallists honoured
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, January 13
UT school sportspersons bagged a rich haul of medals in the 49th National School Games in lawn tennis (under-17), softball (under-14, under-17, under-19 boys and under-14, and under-19 girls) and throwball (under19 boys and girls) at Surat and Dewas.

The players were honoured by DPI Schools, Mr D.S. Mangat, here today. Mr Prem Puri, Assistant Education Officer UT and vice-president of the School Games Federation of India was also present.

The event-wise details are: softball: under-14: second place; under-17: second; under-14 girls: third; under-19; third; throwball: under-19 boys: third; lawn tennis: under-17: second place; Mehak — under-14: individual third place.

Tennis tourney

The Sports Department, UT Administration, will hold sub-junior, junior (under-12 and under-16) boys and girls lawn tennis meet from January 16 to 18 at the lawn tennis courts, Lake club. Those interested can contact Sandeep Singh, lawn tennis coach, on January 15 at Lake Club.

ADMINISTRATION

MC creates 4 zones for sanitation work
Our Correspondent

Mohali, January 13
The Municipal Council has divided the town into four zones for giving sanitation work on contract to different private parties. Tenders for the work will be called on January 19.

Earlier, the entire sanitation work of the town had been given to one party whose performance was found to be unsatisfactory by the council. The term of this contractor expires on January 18.

The council has now prepared separate financial estimates for the zones ranging from Rs 10.68 lakh and Rs 14.82 lakh.

One zone will include Phases I, II, III A, VI and Mohali village; another Phases III B1, III B2, VII, VIII and IX; the third one Phases X, XI, Sector 48C and Guru Nanak Colony; and the fourth zone Phases IV and V, Sectors 70 and 71 and Mataur village.

Opposition councillors had demanded at a general body meeting of the civic body on January 6 that the work should be allotted to different contractors after dividing the town into zones. At that time council officials had said that since one financial estimate had been prepared for the entire work, it would not be possible to engage more than one sanitation contractor. However, council president Kulwant Singh had given an assurance that, if possible, the town would be divided into four zones.

Earlier, the contract for the town’s sanitation work had been given to a private party on July 19 last year. The work order, which had been given for three months, expired on October 18 and was to be extended only if the work was found to be satisfactory. The council had been issuing notices to the sanitation contractor from time to time for unsatisfactory work and heavy deductions had been made from the bills presented by him to the council.

The council Executive Officer, Mr H.B. Garg, said if the response to the invitation for tenders was good, the council would allot the sanitation work to the parties concerned within two days.