Port Blair, Aug 04: A Conference of Pradesh Congress Party was staged in Dr BR Ambedkar Auditorium today at 9 AM under the leadership of PCC President Kuldeep Rai Sharma. In his speech Sharma praised the peace loving islanders who, irrespective of caste, creed, culture, language and religion, stay here with the motto brother hood and set an example before the people of India. In these islands people of all States of India stay together in Peace and harmony and that is why it is called as Mini India.
Addressing the conference, which was mainly organized for Islanders of Tamil Origin, Mr. Sharma briefed about the various flagship programmes of the UPA Government viz RTI, MNEREGA, Bharat Nirman, Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, NRHM, Right to Education and Right to Food etc which have been helpful to the people of all walks of society and discussed over the burning issues prevailing in these islands and stated that Congress Party always takes care for solving these issues with the AN Administration and at various levels in the Central Ministry.
He also informed the gathering that very recently he had a met the Home Minister, Mr. Sushil Kumar Shinde and requested for regularization of cases of encroachment upto 2002 and allotting 200 sq mtr of land to all islanders for construction of house, besides he also requested for creation of Andaman & Nicobar Public Service Commission for recruitment to the posts of Andaman & Nicobar Administration, subsidy in Air India and other airliner flight fare and to start new sectors, creation of sufficient Posts of staff nurses, teachers and other posts and also asked 3000 crore rupees as special package for Employment Generation.
He also stated that, under the limitation of the constitution, he will move the matter of OBC status to various categories of Islanders. On the issue of employment generation, Sharma stated that this is the era of information technology and maximum employment can be generated through this sector and also it can be enhanced with Fisheries and tourism sectors and hence he will definitely draw the attention of the AN Administration to give more focus on these fields so that unemployment problems can be solved at the maximum level.
Others who spoke on the occasion were AR Manickam, PB Murugan, Selvam, Raja Ram, Singaram, Rajeev Chander, Jay Raman, Manimurugan, Smti Tamilarasi, A Manickam, Tamil Selvam, Smti Bhanumathi, Muthuraman, Arokiaswamy, Smti Panchvarnam. All of them have recorded their faith on the Congress Party and the dynamic leadership of Smti Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Kuldeep Rai Sharma. The Conference was attended by a huge number of populace of all walks of society and both the blocks of the auditorium was full.
