Port Blair, Oct 08: The Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers’ Association, Andaman and Nicobar Islands has demanded rushing of immediate assistance to the students and teachers stranded in the Govt. Sr. Secondary School, Swadesh Nagar, Middle Andaman. In a letter sent to the Chief Secretary, Andaman and Nicobar Administration, Shri D. Ayyappan, General Secretary of the Association said that he has received telephonic information from Middle Andaman that about 200 students and all the teachers of Govt. Sr. Secondary School, Swadesh Nagar, Middle Andaman are stranded in the school building today as they are unable to go out due to heavy rain and flood in the Billiground area. He has also informed the Cheif Secretary that the entire ATR from Billiground to CFO Nallah are heavily flooded and vehicular traffic came to a halt.
The Association informed the Chief Secretary that the students and teachers who are in the school building from 8 a.m. today remain without food and water. Shri Ayyappan informed the Chief Secretary that he has spoken to the teachers in the said school over telephone and they asked him to request the Administration to extend necessary assistance to the students and teachers in the said school. The Association has requested the Chief Secretary to direct the District Administration of North and Middle Andaman to rush necessary assistance to the said school and to ensure that all the students returned to their homes today itself. He further requested the Chief Secretary to direct the North and Middle Andaman District Administration to provide all other assistance including food and water to the stranded students and teachers.
