MGR completes 5 years, pledges to conduct clinics for underprivileged children

Tribune News Service

Mohali, April 10

The Mohali Golf Range, Sector 65, announced to organise special clinics for underprivileged children on the completion of its five years. The clinics will be organised after the lockdown period, informed the management.

Shalini Kahlon of Castle Sports running Mohali Golf Range, said “ Yesterday 01 April 2020 marked 5 years of Operations of Mohali Golf Range. We wish to thank for their support the President of Mohali Golf Range, General Secretary, Treasurer , General Committee Members , GMADA , Deptt of Housing and Urban Development, Government of Punjab , Players , Children , Sponsors , Coaches , Staff, Media and all others who have contributed and participated in the success of Mohali Golf Range in various capacities . Castle Sports continues its endeavour to improve and create a model facility and continues to stand steadfast through all challenges. We thank all for their loyalty and support and wish you and your families the very best of health and look forward to seeing you at Mohali Golf Range in the very near

“The range is one of India’s largest golf learning and practise facilities-driving range built as per international standards. The range is run by professionals and in order to celebrate the five years of successful operations, we will organise special clinics for underprivileged children for two consecutive years,” said Shalini Kahlon, Director Castel Sports running MGR.

“The range is currently having 1100 members and a floodlight golf driving range and academy which accommodates around 80 golfers at one time. The offers a two-tier 48 astroturf hitting bays along with 900 square yards of tee hitting area and a Mckinsey style putting green. It also has a designated chipping and pitching area. A nine-hole Par-2 golf course has also been designed within the range for the beginners,” added Shalini.

“We are already training underprivileged kids, but this clinic will help them to learn about golf’s technicalities, including, choosing the right equipment, improving swing force, body posture for putting, various forms of shot selection and also special classes will be organised for upbringing the mental fitness of these young underprivileged kids,” said former international golfer Harmeet Kahlon, Director Coaching MGR.

“In addition of organising summer and winter golf camps, we have already organised free camps for women and specially-abled children,” added Harmeet.

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Citizens demand delay in payment of phone bills

Deepankar Sharda

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 8

As the UT Administration approved postponement in dates for submitting school fees and water/electricity usage charges, the city residents now want a decision in favour of delay in submission of phone bills.

Citing the current lockdown circumstances, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic in India, phone users demand that the telecom companies should not force the users to submit bills even after due date gets over.

“We have been receiving repeated automated messages from the telecom companies to submit the bills. Those citizens who are not tech-savvy and cannot make online payments are facing a lot of problems. All the outlets and E-Sampark centres have been shut by the government,” said RK Garg. “Not one telecom company but all should join hands in finding a solution for this. The administration should also take a decision and direct all companies to cooperate with the citizens till the end of this lockdown period,” added Garg.

“Though the usage charges depends on different packages, the companies should atleast delay the payment for a month on humanitarian grounds. The companies should also not take late payment charges from the post-paid users,” said Parbhat Bansal, another user.

Meanwhile, telecom companies’ representatives claim that the users of pre-paid services have already given privileges, while those using post-paid connection have already got 15-day leverage for submitting the bills. “We have extended the pre-paid pack validity for over 80 million customers till April 17. All these customers will continue to get incoming calls on their mobile numbers even after the validity of their plan is exhausted. Also, there will credit an additional Rs 10 of talk time in the pre-paid accounts of all these 80 million customers to enable them to make calls or send SMS,” said a representative of Airtel. Identical privileges have been given to other users of Idea and Jio, claimed their representatives.

One of the company representatives added, “Majority of customers are pre-paid users. The ratio is somewhere around 90% to 95%. Considering figures, the companies have provided relief to majority of the users. When it comes of post-paid users, they already have 15-day leverage time after the due date and even given 30-day relaxation on the condition of late payment charges. The automated messages are policy matter of each company. Most of the post-paid users opt for online payment, but till date we have not received any approval from the higher authorities to extend the dates for submission of payments.”