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100 bedded free accommodation atMP House, New Delhi for Islanders

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Port Blair, Sept 05: In a verygenerous gesture, the Memberof Parliament of Andamanand Nicobar Islands, Mr.Bishnu Pada Ray today saidthat the Government has al-lotted him an official accom-modation at 5, FirozshahRoad, New Delhi, in whichhe is creating a space for 100bedded AC accommodationfor Islanders, which will beprovided free of cost. “Worksare under progress. I can

guarantee accommodationbut there is no guarantee forfood,” the MP said while talk-ing to a group of journaliststoday.

ATR’s Night Bus Serviceto start from 8 September

Diglipur, Sept 05: The muchawaited night bus service onAndaman Trunk Road will

be start from Diglipur to PortBlair. Inauguration of this ser-vice will be done by Asst Com-missioner, Diglipur Dr. VivekKumar on 8th Sep 2014 at

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Fire Guts Kitchen and Restaurantof Dive India at Havelock Island

Havelock, Sept 05: Just whenthe Union Minister of State forHome Affairs, Mr Kiren Rijijuwas at Havelock Island, aMajor Fire Broke out at DiveIndia’s Kitchen and Restau-rant.

The Fire was re-ported at 2.30 am that too viaVHF from Port Blair. The net-work at Havelock was downand hence the communica-tion could not be passed to Fire

Service unit of Havelock viaphone directly.

In no time the FireTenders reached the spot un-der the command of Sub In-spector Devender Singh of FireService. Police team from PSHavelock also reached underthe leadership of SHO VikasSingh and SI Sameer.

The entire operationwas carried out under theoverall supervision of Dy.S.PB Saigal.

According to reports,the fire completely gutted the

Kitchen and Restaurant ofDive India but Fire Serviceand Police Jawans were ableto save Gold India’s resort,

which is situated just next toDive India. The fire serviceand police jawans displayedexceptional professionalism

to control the fire from spread-ing further. 3 LGP cylindersbusted during the operation,it is reported.

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ACHEY DIN, UNDER MODI’S RULEDamaged Roofs force Students

to use Umbrella duringModi’s Speech on Teachers’ Day

Mayabunder, Sept 05: Duringthe celebration of Teachers’

Day today at Govt. Model Se-nior Secondary School,Mayabunder, some students ofthe school were found stand-ing with umbrella that too in-

side the main function Hall ofM.S.S.School, Mayabunder,eagerly waiting to listen to thePrime Minister of India’s

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Andaman Administration toget more Administrative Powers

Port Blair, Sept 05: TheUnion Minister of State forHome Affairs, Mr KirenRijiju today said that Gov-ernment will consider del-egating more administrativepowers to Andaman andNicobar Administration forbetter administration.

“We will try to em-power. Except strategic andother major issues, wewould look forward to del-

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egate whatever Administra-tive powers devolution ispossible,” the Minister saidwhile addressing a pressconference at Port Blair todaybefore winding up his three-

day official tour to the Is-lands.

He said that illegalimmigration into the strate-gic islands of Andaman &

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The Lt. Governor, Lt. Gen A K Singh (Retd), interact-ing with eminent freedom fighters from mainland, whoare on a visit to the Islands to attend the meeting ofthe Committee of Welfare of Freedom Fighters atRaj Niwas on 05.09.2014.

LG, Islanders & Doctors cometogether to give new life to Gobindo Seal

Port Blair, Sept 05: A patientnamed Gobindo Seal, who hadfinancial problems, undergonesuccessful Angioplasty withtriple drug coated stents, hereat Chakraborty Multi Spe-cialty Hospital. The operationwas performed by cardiolo-gist Dr. Uttam Saha, DM,FACC and was ably assistedby Dr. Sudip ChakrabortyMD (Medicine). It wouldn’thave been possible withoutthe help of Lt. Governor whocontributed Rs. 1 lakh fromLG Relief Fund to the patientalong with the perseveranceof the M.P. Shri. B.P. Ray.

The whole staff &students of DBRAIT too

helped by contributing moneyfor the operation.Chakraborty Multi SpecialtyHospital on its part discountedmuch of its fees to bringdown the total expenditure ofthe patient as low as possible.

This is another example ofour togetherness especially intimes of need and the grow-ing medical infrastructure ofthese Islands, which made acomplex heart surgery doneeasily in these Islands.

Teachers Day Celebrated atSt.Xavier School, Mayabunder 

Mayabunder, Sept 05:Teachers day was cel-ebrated at St. Xavier School,Mayabunder in a befitted

manner. Even in the rain alsoall the students includingsome of the parents attendedthe function and verysincerely heard the speechof the Prime Minister ofIndia. 

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HEARTY CONGRATULATION

SHRI.D.SOLAIMALAI,GTT,GSSS,SUBHASHGRAM, DIGLIPUR, N.ANDAMAN

On being awarded

NATIONAL AWARDBy

Department OfHuman ResourceDevelopment, Department of Secondary

& Higher Education-New Delhi.Inserted by: S.Krishnan, K.Panchavanam, K.Dhanaraj, D.Meenakshi,K.Venkadeshwaran, V.NithyaMeena, R.Deivendran,D.Muthulaxmi&SSKEnterprises,Subhashbazar, Diglipur

LOSTBiswanath Dutta S/o Haripada Dutta, R/o Harinagarlost his Family Identity Card No. 2007018119 on12/08/2014 at Billyground Bazar. Finder may kindlycontact at 9474281607.

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A & N State Cooperative Bank organises Loandisbursement Mela For Self Help Groups (SHGs)

Port Blair, Sept 05: TheAndaman Nicobar Teachers’Association organized Blooddonation camp today on theoccasion of Teachers’ Day.The camp was conducted atthe G. B. Pant hospital inwhich total 21 teachers fromdifferent schools donatedblood. The President of theassociation Shri Y. Sajeevantold that the teachers cameforward for this noble causeto motivate people to donateblood to save lives. It wouldbe a real tribute to the Great

Port Blair, Sept. 05: The A& N State Cooperative BankLtd. has orgainsed a loan dis-bursement mela for the SelfHelp Groups (SHGs) of PortBlair and its surrounding areain a simple functionorganised at the ConferenceHall of the bank. Shri.Ravinder Rao, ManagingDirector of the bank dis-bursed loans to a total of 7SHGs aggregating to the loanamount of ‘ Rs. 25.25 lakhs.The programme was alsoattended by Shri. TSubramanian, General Man-ager (Dev.). At the begin-ning, Smt. Elizabeth Mary,

Women Development Of-ficer of the bank graced thegathering and appraised the

details of SHGs and the vari-ous activities undertaken bythe Self help groups.

 Blood Donation byTeachers on Teachers’ Day

Philosopher and teacher Dr.S. Radha Krishnan if theteachers succeed to propa-gate such messages of primeimportance in society, he said.

Appreciating thenoble gesture shown by theteachers the DeputyDirector(Education) ShriDharmendra Kumar said thatthe decision of the teachersto donate blood is a welcomestep and definitely positivemessage would go to the so-ciety, and would motivate thepeople.

Students inspiredwatching the Live telecast of thePM’s Interaction with students

Port Bair, Sept 05: The Stu-dents of the Govt. Model Se-nior Secondary Port Blair, gotinspired, watching the livetelecast of the Prime MinsterShri Narendra Modi’s inter-action with the School stu-dents. PM‘s replies to thequestions raised by the stu-dents was very inspiring andstudents watching from thisvery remote school of thecountry, were listening to hiswords attentively.

When asked , HemaMaurya a student of classXII, told that it was a rareopportunity for the students tolisten the philosophy of lifefrom a leader who has be-come so popular in the world.“The way he explained aboutthe topics related to differentaspects of life, was amazingand the entire session of thetelecast was a learning ex-

perience for all of us”, shesaid. Murali a student of classXI told that Shri NarendraModi is really a visionary andit’s really exciting to listen tohim, talking about his child-hood experiences in theschool. “The emphasis hegives to cleanliness, should befollowed by every Indian”,Murali said.

The School manage-

ment had made elaborate ar-rangements to watch the livetelecast.  The Principal of theSchool Dr. Dheeraj Kumarinformed that though it was achallenging task, making ar-rangement for 2800 students,but with the cooperation ofthe staff and resources it hadbeen made possible. TheGirls were accommodated in

A & N State Cooperative Bank organisesAccount Opening Campaign under PMJDY at

Tagore Govt. College of Education (TGCE)

Port Blair, Sept 05: The A &N State Cooperative BankLtd. has orgainsed a MegaAccount opening campaignunder Pradhan Mantri Jan

Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) onthe occasion of Teacher’sDay at Tagore College,Middle Point, Port Blair. At

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EDITORIAL.....

About three months ago, I was asked totalk about the biography of the founder-chairman of the group of hospitals I workin. This was a day before its official re-lease. The biographer was a noted colum-nist of Newsweek and some importantwestern dailies. I believe, one of the rea-sons of my being there was, that the chair-man having related his story in so manyinterviews and queries, himself wanted toknow how he had been caricatured, andhow an ‘odd one out’ like me would inter-pret it. He is a man, as some of us call him,of multiple and tremendous instincts!

As I heard myself speak, beforethe hospital faculty, the chairman and thecelebrated biographer beside me on the dais,on an important biography read overnight,I realized I was speaking a truth I wasnever aware of. I said that this book wasnot a book on Dr Zhivago, not on DrKotnis, certainly not on the Mother Teresamission. I was quite clear that the frame-work of working in making this big a hos-pital chain was more like a biography ofDonald Trump, Richard Branson, HenryFord. Medicine, I realized, had to run some-where close to the principles of an enter-prise, Yes, the way the biographerchronicled it, it was all about getting a gov-ernment sanction, bidding on a piece ofland where luckily the tender opened fa-vorably on the amount, beyond whichthere was no money in the kitty. It wasabout allocation of cement and steel andexcise concessions on medical equipmentcoming for the first time in the country. Itwas about knocking the door of every jointsecretary concerned, and arranging for guar-antees for loans from banks.The concept of ‘corporatization’ of medi-cine was budding in what was euphemisti-cally termed a ‘developing’ country, a bitmore than three decades ago, when Indianpresidents would line up on the appoint-ment lists of the celebrated Prof DentonCooley! No need to mention lesser mor-tals. They were perceptibly mortal! Cer-tainly, controversies were taking rounds ifrunning medicine as an enterprise was away of making money out of others’ mis-eries! I would not be surprised if that in-deed was the major issue.

This chain of hospitals grew tobe the largest in Asia in three decades. Itwas a template for many others to follow.The message I heard myself reason andlisten to was that ‘corporatization’, (mean-ing public shareholding, listing on the stockexchange), was perhaps one viable method,among others, to make a hospital run in‘profits’. A textile mill may fall in debt, amajor studio may close down, but a hos-pital closing down due to losses is a socialcatastrophe. In today’s economics, thatmakes a lot of sense.I am writing this inthe backdrop of popular measures beingannounced in changing quite a few prac-tices that have ensnared the health sys-tems in the country — the resurgent, andrather appropriate urge to ‘clean up’ thesystem. Nothing could be more appropri-ate and timely. I have no doubt that thecommon man should never be cheated, andthe rich man never give up his wisdom andpatience. That’s how society, systems,and nations run. The Indian health struc-ture, pharma included, has largely growndespite the government, rather than apolicy-based governance. Beyond the laud-able ‘firsts’, as AIIMS, PGIs, the initialstate-run medical colleges, the system didnot catch up with the growing needs ofhealthcare, an unbridled populationgrowth, and the threshold changes in medi-cal science. In this circumstance, privateinitiatives had to set their camps. Somewere well-regulated, where there were wellstructured by well meaning industrial

houses, corporate hospital chains as I havehad some insight into, and nursing homesof repute run by senior faculty attached toteaching institutions.

Along with this came, much tothe respite of physicians and surgeons inmid and even small towns, not to mentionthe metros, near adequate private investi-gative infrastructures as CT scan machines,MRIs, nuclear scanning, and pathologicalwork-up labs that can deliver some intri-cate tests in some of the remotest cornersof this country in a span of a day or two.This was service as I would see it first,and to run it there came a business likestructure. Why the governments could notinstall and maintain such facilities, for atleast half of the population, is a questionthat probably has easy answers. One maysay the government did not have enoughfunds, or that private participation wasbelieved to be more competitive to the con-sumer, or for other reasons one may notlike to state.

I am aware all patients, all doc-tors have to resort to support from thiseasily accessible infrastructure, that isprompt, has competitive rates. The rea-sons are again rather obvious. To take ashot at oneself, there could be doctors’interest, perhaps these investigation cen-ters announce packages to the patients,and patients of their own declare their in-tentions to avail themselves of that. Quiteoften, there are third parties employed thatmay influence a patient, which could be afamily kin that has a holding, and becomea decision maker. Despite this, I am readyto agree that some methods have gonemuch beyond control. To sum up the sum,money transactions, whether it be currencyconversion, credit card usage, ticketing, allrun on mutual or even benefits across thechain. Call it the grease and oiling, call itmuck.

The one essential message hereis that in a flight of righteous chauvinism,regulating agencies have to realize that thissystem still delivers, though in many waysis now becoming destructively unethical.There should be a well-thought policy howto replace the practices methodically bywhat are fair business practices that areviable and more importantly acceptable tothe common man that he is not beingcheated. It’s like refuelling a plane midair.One has to catch up to the speed andspace, and there should be no jolt whilethe process is on. The clean up may in-clude transparency, definition of what areacceptable practices, deterrence where itshould be used, and activating government-run centers, again by private participationif that be so. The wisdom of bringing aboutchanges in a system that grew on its ownto provide services, that thrived more be-cause of need and subsequently runs ongreed, will require mostly common sense,deciding what are reasonable charges forsuch services, and defining what may becalled as ‘crossing the limits’, knowing justthat slight difference of what makes thehorse run, and what are the advantages, ifany, of flogging a tired horse.

With further opening of markets,investments, particularly FDI in insurance,there is a need to improve systems by allmeans, even by providing more medicalbenefits and social security to the com-mon man, but so is the need to keep theIndian medical houses healthy enough tocompete with any foreign players. Thecorrective measures need not flog them intodormancy; on the contrary make themcleaner and more competitive. It is a subtlewisdom, how to keep your house intact,even while replacing what has become un-wanted. Because it is your house, and youlive in it.

Medicine for profits?

Google celebrates Teachers’Day with colourful doodle

NEW DELHI: Google paid tribute toteachers worldwide on Friday by dedi-cating a colourful doodle on Teach-ers’ Day.

The doodle shows colorfulletters spelling ‘Google’, each por-traying teachers for different subjectslike math, sports, science, music etc.,

and on clicking the doodle, it takesthe visitor to Google search resultpage for news on Teachers’ Day.

The day, which has been cel-ebrated since 1962, marks birthdayof former President Dr SarvepalliRadhakrishnan, who was born onSeptember 5.

the auditorium and Conference room,where the telecast was shown on bigscreens. The boys watched theprogramme in the open space. Apartfrom TV, the program was shownthrough Web casting in the classrooms. There was arrangement totransmit the radio broadcast also, byamplifying the reception.Earlier thePrincipal Shri Dheeraj Kumar gar-landed the statue of Dr. S. Radha

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Krishnan and extended his wishes tothe teachers on the occasion ofTeachers’ Day.

Appreciating the students forpresenting impressive culturalprogramme, he said that the studentscould excel in studies as well if theyconcentrate and devote their time onit. He called upon the students to im-bibe the values, taught by the teach-ers, to succeed in life.

the beginning, Dr. Sudhan Rao, Prin-cipal in-charge welcomed all the bankofficials, Faculties and students on theoccasion. The programme begins withan introductory note by Shri. RaghubirSingh, Assistant General Manager ofthe bank followed by power point pre-sentation by Shri. M K Rajan Kunju,Deputy General Manager. Shri.Abhinav Pal, Assistant General Man-ager (IT) explained the benefits of

RUPAY debit cards to the students.The benefits of Account opening un-der PMJDY i.e. Insurance cover-age, Life cover and issuance ofRupay cards was also elaboratedin detail. The Bank has set upthree teams in the College underthe supervision of Shri. SahinRashid, Manager which had as-sisted students to open their bankaccounts.

A & N State Cooperative Bank..... (From page 3)

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Heart Experiment aLesson For All: Docs

BANGALORE: A day after aheart from a brain-dead patientin Bangalore was successfullytransplanted to a patient inChennai, doctors in the city saidthe whole exercise demon-strated that proper coordinationbetween various agencies in-volved in emergency servicescan save lives.“The whole pro-cess -- right from the planningstage --- will be documented sothat we can create awarenessabout how a well-planned andcoordinated effort can help,”Dr N K Venkataramana, ViceChairman and Neuro Surgeon,BGS Global Hospitals, told Ex-press. The operation was con-ducted at BGS and police hadcreated green corridor to en-sure that the cadaver heartreached the airport without anydelay and flown to Chennai.

B Dayananda, Addi-tional Commissioner of Police,Traffic and Security, said,“The traffic department ishappy that the whole operationbecame a success due to itsefforts and coordination be-tween stakeholders.”“Effortsare on to adopt the technologywhere a signal will turn greenwhen an ambulance is ap-proaching a signal. The budgetallocated is ̀ 72 crore and by theend of this financial year, wewill be able to roll out theproject,” said Dayanand.

In all, 18 medical per-

sonnel were involved in thecadaver transplant procedure.K A Manju, Chief TransplantCoordinator, Zonal Coordina-tion Commitee of Karnataka,said, “The big challenge wasconvincing the family to donateorgans. Immediately after wegot information from the hos-pital about a brain dead case at4.40 pm on September 2, werushed to the hospital and man-aged to convince the parentsbut the ball was in thehusband’s court. We managedto get their written consent,”said Manju.The Procedure DrVenkataramana said the heartwas stopped through a preser-vative solution and kept in aclean box. This procedure wasdone last as the in-house teamof surgeons from BGS Globalfirst removed the liver and kid-neys. The heart was retrievedlast as it had to be transportedwithin six hours. “The heart inthis procedure has to be kept insub zero temperature and oncea recipient is found, the arteriesand veins are connected andslowly the temperature is in-creased to reactivate it,” said DrVenkataramana. L Sathish, Co-ordinator, Fortis Malar Hospital,Adyar, Chennai, said there wasno complication and the patientspoke to family members anddoctors after surgery. He is stillon ventilator and may be shiftedto the special ward soon.

Heartiest congratulations for winningg

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Your hard work and dedication has earned youthe well deserved award. All the best for your future and continue to bloom in your career.

Inserted by : Principal. Teachers & StudentsGSSS,Pahalgaon, Mayabunder

NATIONAL TEACHER AWARD 2013

Allocation of MBBS/BDS Seats fromCentral Pool Quota to Andaman & NicobarPort Blair, Sep 05 : For theacademic session 2014-15,thirteen MBBS seats in fourstates in the mainland havebeen allocated under the Cen-tral Pool Quota to the eligiblestudents of Andaman &Nicobar.

In a communicationissued by the Ministry ofHealth and Family Welfare inNew Delhi, it has been statedthat, for dental courses, two

BDS seats have been allo-cated under the quota.

Medical colleges atKottayam and Kozhikode inKerala, BRD Medical Col-lege in Gorakhpur and KGMedical College in Lucknow,UP and Lady HardingeMedical College, New Delhihave reserved one MBBSseat each while Medical Col-lege in Alapuzha in Kerala,North Bengal Medical Col-

lege in Darjeeling, BSMedical College in Bankuraand Burdwan Medical Col-lege, Burdwan in West Ben-gal would allot two seatseach.

For BDS, the Gov-ernment Dental College,Aurangabad, Maharashtraand KG Dental College,Lucknow have reservedone seat each for the stu-dents of the Islands. (PIB)

Island Teacher Gets National AwardPort Blair, Sept 05: Mr.Sadananda Halder,PST(Bangla), of Govt.SeniorSecondary School,Pahalgaon, Mayabunder hasbeen informed by the Govt.of India, Ministry of Humanresource Development , De-partment of School Education& Literacy, Shastri Bhavan,New Delhi 110115, vide let-ter No.D.O.No.F.i-57/2014-NAT that he has been se-lected for the NationalAward,2013 under theMHRD’s Scheme of NationalAward to teachers. Hon’blePresident of India shall give

away the awards at a func-tion scheduled to be held inVigyan Bhavan, New Delhion   today,  the  5th Septem-ber,2014.Each award carries a certifi-cate of merit, a cash awardof Rs.25000/- and a Silvermedal.

Today Mr.Sadananda Halder reached inDelhi to receive the award.His youngest brother Mr. Sashader Halder and his allfamily members expressedtheir gratitude to the Admin-istration as well as the Minis-try of HRD for giving

this National  award  to  ShirHalder. Principal, staffs andstudents of the school highlyexpressed best wishes to Mr.Halder for his grand achieve-ment.

Shri Kiren Rijiju,Hon’ble UnionMinister of Statefor Home Affairspaying homageat Tsunami Me-morial at RajivGandhi WaterSports Complex,Port Blair on05.09.2014.

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DATE - 05-09-2014ANDAMAN SHEEKHA WEATHER

Power suspensionPort Blair, Sept 05: Powersupply will remain suspendedin some of the areas on06.09.2014 from 0800hours to 1400 hours forreplacement of damagedisolator at Old Pahargaon

Junction.The areas tobe affected by power dis-ruption are Old Pahargaonvillage, part of Dollygunj,Minnie Bay, School Line,Lamba Line and Airportarea.

GRATITUDE TO ALMIGHTY FOR BLESSING OUR BELOVED FATHER

SHRI.D.SOLAIMALAI,GTT,GSSS,SUBHASHGRAM,

DIGLIPUR, N.ANDAMANOn being awarded

NATIONAL AWARDBy

Department Of Human ResourceDevelopment, Department of Secondary

& Higher Education-New Delhi.

Sons: S.Raja Sekar B.E,S.Rajkumar, DHMCTDaughter : S.Nithya B.E.

10.30PM. Adhyaksh ZillaParishad Mr. Srinivasan andPramukh, Panchayat SamitiMr. Gauranga Dutta will beGuest of honour on this Inau-gural ceremony. Apart fromthis PRI members and ZPmembers will also present onthis occasion.

In order to providegood and convenient publictransport facilities to thepeople residing around SS

Transport Exclusively en-gaged 3 Buses bearing regis-tration No. AN01B-9037,AN01D-4825 and AN 01B-0995 for the night service fromDiglipur to Port Blair & Viceversa. The buses shall ply asper the following schedule.

It is believed thatsuch night service will be veryuseful and helpful for Island-ers. The most important factis the new night service won’t

disturb the present convoytiming. Such night servicewill not only save a lot of ef-forts and money of Islandersbut also help passengers tofinish their work in day timeand travel in evening or nighthours.

The passenger canreturn from Port Blair orDiglipur without halting fornight, which will save a pre-cious time and money.

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Teachers’ day speech. It wasraining outside but it was pour-ing inside too. It is sad tonote that in spite of spendingcrores of rupees for the edu-cation of children of these Is-lands, one can find students insuch pathetic condition. It isreported that no repair workshave been carried out duringthe last nearly one year in theschool. The Cyclone Lehar

had caused some damages inthe school.Top officials of Edu-cation Department must atleast open their eyes and ini-tiate action to undertake suchrepair works, wherever essen-tial as negligence in repair ofschool building and roofs mayresult in major disaster andmay cause fatal accidents.The school has 1016 students.When contacted, some offi-

cials on the condition of ano-nymity said that the matterwas reported to NACD,APWD after the cyclone lastyear but till date the concernedauthorities have not initiatedany action to repair the schoolbuilding. This was the condi-tion, when there was only nor-mal rainfall today. One canimagine the plight of studentsin case of Heavy Rain.

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Nicobar would becurbed.He said that it hascome to the knowledge of theCentre that people fromBangladesh manage to se-cure bogus identities and in-filtrate into Andaman &Nicobar. “However, theCentre is committed to put acheck on such illegal activi-ties,” he said.

Cautioning againstovercrowding in the envi-ronmentally sensitive Is-lands of Andaman &Nicobar, Mr Rijiju said con-gestion would hamper itsecological protection andsustainable development.

He favoured effec-tive regulations in allowingpeople from outside the Is-lands in restricted areas.

However, he empha-sized that while protectingthe cultural identities andlivelihoods of the indig-enous population, promo-tional activities should alsogo hand in hand in such away that balanced growth isensured without compro-mising on the interests of thetribal people. He said theGovernment has proposed

to give 33 percent reserva-tion to women in policeforce, and it would come intoforce very soon.

He stressed the citi-zens to be gender-sensitiveand to respect the rights anddignity of women.

Under police mod-ernization programme, moreclosed circuit TVs and bet-ter street lighting and trafficsystems would be providedapart from augmenting thestrength of police personnel,Mr Rijiju said.

“Actions are beinginitiated at a fast pace toovercome the problem ofpoor telecom connectivity inthe Islands that suffer frompaucity of satellite transpon-ders.

Rs 150 crore has al-ready been released to theIslands Administration bythe Centre for improvingtelecom connectivity,” he in-formed.

The Chief Secretaryof the Andaman & NicobarAdministration, Mr AnandPrakash and the Member ofParliament, Mr Bishnu PadaRay were also present.

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