Port Blair, Mar 18: A special meeting of the State Board of Wildlife, Andaman & Nicobar Islands was held at Megapode Nest on Friday. The meeting was chaired by the Lt Governor Lt Gen AK Singh (retd) and attended by the Chief Secretary-cum-Vice-Chairperson, Chief of Staff, HQ ANC, PCCF and Pr. Secretary (E&F), PCCF (WL) & CWLW-cum-Member Secretary, Director General of Police, Adhyaksha, ZP, South Andaman and other members of the Board.
The agenda for the meeting was to introduce the newly constituted board members and to discuss the proposal for augmentation of surveillance/security measures in the North West Andaman Islands initiated by HQ Andaman and Nicobar Command.
Addressing the board members after discussion on the agenda points, the Lt Governor highlighted the huge surveillance/security void along the West Coast of ANI which was being frequently exploited by the poachers and persons involved in other illegal activities. He complimented the HQ ANC for the excellent initiative which would be able to plug this void. The Lt Governor was sanguine that the sharing of the surveillance inputs and the cooperation, with the local administration would result in prevention of illegal poaching thereby protecting the wildlife resources in the ANI.
The proposals now will be forwarded to GOI by Andaman administration for final clearance, a release from ANC says.
