12) thanking & thankfuL and.nic.in SIOji NICpb - DT & DS thanking... Todays Date : 08/03/2014 Akbar arriving today Port Blair, Mar 7 MV Akbar is expected to arrive here from Kolkata at 1200 hrs on Mar 8, 2014. On arrival, the ship will be berthed at Haddo Wharf, a communication said. Timing for meeting higher officers changed Port Blair, Mar 7 The Lt. Governor has directed that the Principal Secretaries/Commissioner-cum-Secretaries/Secretaries/all the Heads of Department of the A&N Administration must meet the general public for redressal of their grievances between 3 pm and 4 pm on all working days instead of earlier timing from 12 noon to 1 pm. The officers have been advised to avoid scheduling meeting, inspections during this time and be available to meet people visiting them for redressal of their grievance. This may be implemented with immediate effect, a communication received here said. Farewell accorded Port Blair, Mar 7 A farewell was organized by the staff of Diglipur Education zone in the conference hall of DEO’s office Diglipur in connection with superannuation of Shri P.C. Tikait, Deputy Education Officer, Diglipur on Jan 31, a communication said. NOTA to be introduced for first time Port Blair, Mar 7 For the first time, the option of NOTA (None Of The Above) on the ballot paper will be introduced in the ensuing General Election 2014. Photo voters slips will be given at the door step of all electors one week prior to the date of poll. This will serve as a reminder to the voters and an invitation to vote. It will contain details such as EPIC no, location of the Polling Station, etc. Valedictory function of annual camp of TGCE held Port Blair, Mar 7 The valedictory function of the annual camp 2013-14 of TGCE was held in Seminar Gallery of the College on Mar 1. The Secretary (Education), Shri D.N. Singh was the chief guest on the occasion. Addressing the gathering, the Secretary Education expressed his happiness over the programme presented by the campers. He also suggested to conduct the camp in two spells of short durations one in each semester. Prizes were awarded to the best campers. The trainees presented a colourful cultural programme on the occasion with social messages. They also shared their experiences. Earlier, Dr. J.D. Singh, Principal, TGCE welcoming the gathering gave a brief sketch about the five day camp. Shri Sharda Ram, a noted Scout Expert of the Islands sponsored the annual award for the best scout and best guide among the trainees, a communication received here said. New Commodore Superintendent for NSRY (PBR) Port Blair, Mar 7 Commodore Debesh Lahiri has taken over as new Commodore Superintendent of Naval Ship Repair Yard (NSRY), Port Blair on Mar 5. He took over the charge from Commodore R Sreenivas, VSM, who is proceeding on transfer to Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam after successful completion of almost two and half year stint as Commodore Superintendent, NSRY (PBR). With Commodore Sreenivas at the helm of affairs of NSRY, a number of ship repair and refit milestones were achieved and new Yardsticks, benchmarks were set for the Ship Repair Yard activities. Commodore Debesh Lahiri, the new Commodore Superintendent was commissioned into the Indian Navy in Nov 1988, and has held a number of important appointments afloat and ashore. NSRY, Port Blair, the largest industrial establishment of A&N Command is the hub of all refit and repair activities of naval ships and yardcraft based at Port Blair as well as for visiting Indian and foreign naval ships. It has also in the recent past provided facility in the unique Floating Dock for A&N Administration Ship MV Dering, a communication received here said. Efforts to improve traffic & transportation; suggestions invited Port Blair, Mar 7 The vehicle population in and around Port Blair is increasing day by day. This leads to congestion on roads, longer journey time, inconvenience to all road users and as a result road accidents are also increasing. To overcome this problem, it is necessary to devise a mechanism for better traffic and transportation management. The general public have been requested to suggest means and methods by which the traffic conditions can be improved in and around Port Blair. The suggestions should be addressed to ‘The Secretary-cum-Director of Transport, A&N Administration, Port Blair’ and can also be sent to e-mail id ‘[email protected]’ and ‘[email protected]’, a communication from the Secretary (STA) said here today. Life of British national saved Another feather on the cap of Naval Diving Unit Port Blair, Mar 7 The Indian Navy carried out a humanitarian rescue mission yesterday. Mr. David Foord, a 62 year old British national who was diving off Havelock at 28 mtrs depth developed some signs of decompression sickness, a condition arising from dissolved gases coming out of blood into bubbles inside the body on sudden depressurization resulting numbness in his legs. He was diagnosed as Acute Type-II Decompression Sickness or Caisson Disease. Mr. David was immediately evacuated in his yacht from Havelock Island to Port Blair at 1410 hours on Mar 6. Acting promptly on a request received from the local administration for hyperbaric oxygen therapy, Clearance Diving Unit (Port Blair) under the Naval Component of the ANC was pressed into immediate action Mr. David was transferred forthwith to the CDU (PBR) for urgent Oxygen Recompression Therapy, where he was treated for about 3 hours in the recompression chamber. This kind of specialized facility required for the treatment of diving related accidents is only available with Clearance Diving Unit (CDU), Port Blair in the Islands. The patient’s medical checkup was done by Dr Avijit Roy, Port Health Officer at Port Blair. The patient is reported to have been fully recovered from illness, a communication received here said. Special camps in all Polling Stations on Mar 9 Port Blair, Mar 7 As per directions of Election Commission of India, Special Camps will be held in all the Polling Stations on Mar 9, 2014 from 8 am till 5 pm throughout the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Appeal is made to all the general public who have not enrolled as voters to come forward and get their names included in Electoral Roll by filling Form No.6. A toll free number 1950 has also been setup in the Election Control Room for convenience of general public. All eligible electorates of the A & N Islands have been requested to avail this last opportunity to get themselves enrolled for voting, a communication from the Returning Officer, Shri P. Jawahar said here today. Giving or accepting gratification in cash or kind a punishable offence Port Blair, Mar 7 As per section 171 B of Indian Penal Code, any person giving or accepting any gratification in cash or kind during election process with a view to inducing the person to exercise his electoral right is punishable with imprisonment upto one year with fine or with both. Further, as per section 171 C of Indian Penal Code, any person who threatens any candidate or elector, or any other person, with injury of any kind is punishable with imprisonment upto one year or with fine or both. Flying Squads have been formed to register cases against both the giver and the taker of bribe and for taking action against those who are engaged in threat and intimidation of electors. All the citizens are hereby requested to refrain from taking any bribe and in case anybody offers any bribe or is having knowledge about the bribe or cases of threat/ intimidation of electors, then he would inform on the toll free number 1950 (Toll free)/ 238581 or 231945 (Fax) of the 24x7 complaint monitoring cell of the District, set up for receiving the complaints, a communication from the Returning Officer, Andaman & Nicobar Parliamentary Constituency said. ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA MODEL CODE OF CONDUCT FOR THE GUIDANCE OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND CANDIDATES III. Procession (1) A Party or candidate organizing a procession shall decide before hand the time and place of the starting of the procession, the route to be followed and the time and place at which the procession will terminate. There shall ordinary be on deviation from the programme. (2) The organisers shall give advance intimation to the local police authorities of the programme so as to enable the letter to make necessary arrangement. (3) The organisers shall ascertain if any restrictive orders are in force in the 4 localities through which the procession has to pass, and shall comply with the restrictions unless exempted specially by the competent authority. Any traffic regulations or restrictions shall also be carefully adhered to. (4) The organisers shall take steps in advance to arrange for passage of the procession so that there is no block or hindrance to traffic. If the procession is very long, it shall be organised in segments of suitable lengths, so that at convenient intervals, especially at points where the procession has to pass road junctions, the passage of held up traffic could be allowed by stages thus avoiding heavy traffic congestion. (5) Processions shall be so regulated as to keep as much to the right of the road as possible and the direction and advice of the police on duty shall be strictly complied with. 6) If two or more political parties or candidates propose to take processions over the same route or parts thereof at about the same time, the organisers shall establish contact well in advance and decide upon the measures to be taken to see that the processions do not clash or cause hindrance to traffic. The assistance of the local police shall be availed of for arriving at a satisfactory arrangement. For this purpose the parties shall contact the police at the earliest opportunity. (7) The political parties or candidates shall exercise control to the maximum extent possible in the matter of processionists carrying articles which may be put to misuse by undesirable elements especially in moments of excitement. (8) The carrying of effigies purporting to represent member of other political parties or their leaders, burning such effigies in public and such other forms demonstration shall not be countenanced by any political party or candidate. IV. Polling Day All Political parties and candidates shall – (i) co-operate with the officers on election duty to ensure peaceful and orderly polling and complete freedom to the voters to exercise their franchise without being subjected to any annoyance or obstruction. (ii) supply to their authorized workers suitable badges or identity cards. (iii) agree that the identity slip supplied by them to voters hall be on plain 5 (white) paper and shall not contain any symbol, name of the candidate or the name of the party; (iv) refrain from serving or distributing liquor on polling day and during the fourty eight hours preceding it. (v) not allow unnecessary crowd to be collected near the camps set up by the political parties and candidates near the polling booths so as to avoid Confrontation and tension among workers and sympathizers of the parties and the candidate. (vi) ensure that the candidate’s camps shall be simple .The shall not display any posters, flags, symbols or any other propaganda material. No eatable shall be served or crowd allowed at the camps and (vii) co-operate with the authorities in complying with the restrictions to be imposed on the plying of vehicles on the polling day and obtain permits for them which should be displayed prominently on those vehicles. (To be continued in next issue) PIC OF THE DAY: Incredible Andaman: Eco-friendly amenities at Munda Pahad, Chidiyatapu with the concept Atithi Devo Bhava. PIC OF THE DAY: Photo Fazal Rehman Onset of spring : A friendly season to undertake such works. Death condoled Port Blair, Mar 7 The Member of Parliament, Shri Bishnu Pada has condoled the demise of Shri Rebati Biswas, ex-Panchayat Samity Up-Pramukh, who died at AIMS Kochi. He was 55, a communication said. My association with Balika Niketan an untold tale: Prerna Kasturi Sarkar Bagui Port Blair, Mar 7 She doesn’t like to confine herself in the folds of the routine bound life. We have been seeing her performing on stage – be it dancing or singing. An avid children lover, she also has a close association with the girls of Balika Niketan, a home exclusively meant for girls’ in the vicinity of G.B. Pant Hospital. An ardent wife, a mother of two and a very compassionate and down to earth lady, she is Mrs. Prerna Bali, whom our Reporter had a chance meeting at a vantage point in the town on the eve of Women’s Day. Searching for the note pad and pen I started asking few questions to know about her and her opinion about Women’s Day Celebration. The excerpts of the interview taken on the spot without any preparation…………. DT: Please share with us your opinion about these Islands? P.B.: Andaman is a beautiful and lovely place and we had some wonderful experience here ever since we came here. We love to experience Nature in all its manifestations here and have been blessed with the opportunity of meeting some kind hearted people. Port Blair has its own charm – no traffic congestion, no pollution. This is a wonderful place for creative people and for those who have a spiritual inclination. Q According to you which is the most attractive place in these Islands? I have been to the North ( Diglipur), to Little Andaman and also visited parts of Nicobar. But .... (thinking) from that angle I can’t designate one place to be the most beautiful. I love the entire group of Islands. Q How do you spend your time? I love music, it is meditation for me. I have been practising music for quite a long time. I try to maintain a balance between my house hold and my outside assignments. I maintain my little kitchen garden, love trying out new recipes sometime, practice some yoga in the morning and want to live a life of complete satisfaction. I like to break routine, except for my morning yoga regime. Q How did you get associated with Balika Niketan? Actually, the Social Welfare Dept., A & N Administration requested me to visit the Home and help the girls to better their communication skills. Since I conduct workshops on developing thinking skills in children, I got associated with them. And after that there was no looking back for me. I went there and I fell in love with the girls. I want to do lots for them – try to fill in the gaps wherever needed and try to give them a little more as I would do for my own children. Q Your message on Women’s Day. Women just need to be celebrating themselves on this day. A woman according to me is complete in herself – she is versatile, adaptable and better equipped for doing anything and everything. So they should believe in themselves and should show little bit of respect for other women (laughing….). Saga of hamlet born swimming champion “Winning is not the ultimate end, participation is what counts”, Naw Polisju Mary Pee Port Blair, March 7 Born on December 13, 1993 in a village called Karmatang 10, North Andaman, the 20 year old bubbly, jovial and outspoken personality, Naw Polisju is the proud daughter of Saw Biber and Naw Mathintay. Currently pursuing her B.A in Historical Studies form Mahatma Gandhi College, Mayabunder, her dream is to become a teacher someday. Naw Polisju came to limelight when she swam her way to victory in the RSC Open Sea Swimming Championship from the historic Ross to Aberdeen Jetty covering a distance of 1.4 km on March 5, 2014. An avid football fan, Naw Polisju also loves to play Throw ball, Volleyball, Badminton and Athletic events. She had no formal training in swimming but won the championship because of her determination and encouragements form her loved ones and close friends. Swimming was like a normal routine for her. Since childhood she used to play near the river stream which was close to her house. With a wide smile she declares, “All Karens are inborn swimmers and no formal training is required.” Narrating her experience on winning the swimming championship, Naw Polisju recalled the scary yet exhilarating experience while swimming from Ross to Aberdeen. Since this was her first ever experience of swimming in the open sea. “When the event was flagged off, I was a little doubtful of making it through, but I was determined to finish the race no matter I win or lose. All I wanted was to participate and see how difficult was the task. While swimming half way through I was exhausted and fears prelude my mind. But pictures of my parents and siblings cheering me on gave me the strength, although they were not physically present on that day. My faith in God and sincere prayers of my close friends and family members made me win this championship. I owe my deepest gratitude to them for their fervent support and also to my other two friends Naw Baby and Naw Ansia who swam along with me. Winning this feat was a happy moment for me, but on the other hand my other two friends who are equally good swimmers couldn’t win the competition makes me sad. Had the three of us won the competition this would have been the best day of our life, but I am proud of their sportsmanship. Nevertheless, opportunities will knock our doors and we will participate again. Altogether it was a learning experience for me and this feat has given me more inspiration to give my extra best the next time I participate in swimming competition.” Says the elated swimmer. Naw Polisju also expressed her happiness on receiving the prize from the Lt. Governor, A&N Islands, Lt. Gen (Retd) A.K.Singh and declared this moment to be one of the most memorable experience of her life. Her message to budding swimmers is that “Swimming is not an easy task, but with practice and perseverance comes perfection. Winning is not the ultimate end, participation is what counts.” She also expressed her sincere thanks and gratitude to the organizers of this swimming competition, her friends and family members for giving her an opportunity to participate in this mega event. PRESS NOTE Control Room in the Office of the Returning Officer (DC, S/A) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Parliamentary Constituency and at all Tehsil/District Headquarters has been set up and made functional round the clock. Complaints on violation of Model Code of Conduct or issues related to Parliamentary Election can be reported telephonically to the Control Room. The details of Telephone/Fax Numbers of Control Rooms are as under. Sl. No. Control Rooms Phone Fax · RO’s Control Room - 238581 231945 · Election Control Room, Diglipur - 272241 274555 · Election Control Room, Mayabunder - 273138 262960 · Election Control Room, Rangat - 274003 274555 · Election Control Room, Little Andaman -284015/284016 284445 · Election Control Room, Campbell Bay - 264263 264020 · Election Control Room, Car Nicobar - 265567 265177 · Election Control Room, Nancowry - 263385 263212 A toll free number (1950) has also been set up for facilitation of all concerned regarding Electoral/ Election related matters. In case of emergencies or any complaint, Officer-in-Charge (Election) Shri M Sanjay can also be contacted whose number is 238583 & 9474263300 (mobile). Sd/- (P Jawahar) Returning Officer, A & N Islands Parliamentary Constituency International Women’s Day today Befitting programmes drawn up to mark the day ______________________________ SSWB to felicitate four eminent women _______________________________ Port Blair, Mar 7 Along with the rest of world, International Women’s Day will be celebrated in these islands too tomorrow. Every year around the world, International Womens Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8. The theme for this year’s observance of Women’s Day is ‘Inspiring Change’. Hundreds of events occur globally not just on this day but throughout March to mark the economic, political and social achievements of women. Various Govt. and other organisations in these islands have chalked out programmes to celebrate the day befittingly. The A&N State Social Welfare Board will be celebrating the day by organising a function on Mar 8, 2014 at 10.30 am in the auditorium of Govt. Tagore B.Ed. College, Middle Point. The Secretary (Social Welfare), Shri K.K. Jindal will be the chief guest on the occasion. Prominent speakers from institutions, college, police department, lawyers and social activists will speak on women’s empowerment. The Chairperson, A&N State Social Welfare Board, Smt. Ratna Kannan will preside over the function. Four eminent women will be felicitated for their dedicated services/meritorious performance to the Islands by the chief guest. Andaman & Nicobar State Cooperative Bank Ltd will be organizing International Women’s day on Mar 8, 2014 at Anarkali Municipal Ground, Port Blair at 10 am. Meanwhile, the Chairperson, A&N Social Welfare Board on the occasion of International Women’s Day has extended my felicitation and best wishes to the women of A&N Islands. She has also appealed to the womenfolk to come forward and fight against the crime of women in the society. Satsang programme Port Blair, Mar 7 The Sant Nirankari Mandal, Branch Port Blair will be organizing satsang programme in the presence of Rev. Rakesh Joshi, Central Gyan Pracharak, Sant Nirankari Mandal, Delhi at Sant Nirankari Satsang Bhavan, Chouldari on Mar 8 between 5 pm to 7 pm, a communication received here said. Training prog. for life saving technique for operators Port Blair, Mar 7 As per boat safety norms, it is mandatory for the power boat jet ski operators that they should possess power boat handling certificate and life saving technique certificate. Accordingly, the training for power boat handling certificate has been completed at Port Blair and is underway at Havelock. The training for life saving technique is being imparted by the Directorate of Health Services for power boat operators in various locations in the Islands. The training was conducted at Baratang on Mar 5 & 6. As per schedule issued by DHS, the two-day training will be held in the following location i.e. Govind Nagar, Havelock on Mar 25 & 26, Neil Island on Mar 27 & 28 and Diglipur on April 1 & 2. For Port Blair, the schedule of training will be intimated at a later date, informed the Director (Tourism), Shri Viswakannan here this evening.
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