Staff Correspondent
Rangat, July 30: Roads in Rangat area are giving a tough competition to the moon surface, in terms of roughness and craters. While other road stretches in A & N Islands only have potholes, the road surface of Rangat area has craters.
The road leading to the Community Health Center at Rampur area of Rangat is believed to be the worst. The said road has several hundred potholes, making it difficult for patients, including expecting mothers to reach the Community Health Centre. Even the staircase infront of the Health Centre is in bad shape and has become a death trap for patients. Villagers of Rangat now request the Lt. Governor to pay a surprise visit to the area to see the ground realities himself.
N & M District Administration continues encroachment eviction drive
Diglipur, Aug 05: An encroachment eviction drive was conducted at Radhanagar area by Tehsildar Diglipur, with other revenue field staff and police personnel. During the drive, 9 encroachments were removed at Radhanagar & Shyamnagar.
Meanwhile, all concerned have been informed that encroachment over Govt. land will hamper development of the area. No leniency shall be shown and this type of anti encroachment drive will be conducted frequently and necessary action under the provision of law will be taken against the encroachers in future.
Rumours of sighting Juvenile Home murder accused keep Diglipur Tensed
D J Venkatesh
Port Blair, Aug 03: Rumours of sighting the one of the murder accused of Juvenile Murder Case near Diglipur area has triggered panic among residents of Diglipur region. According to reports, one of the accused Anand (Name changed) who was arrested twice from Diglipur region, in August 2011, and December 2011 for attempting to murder a minor girl, was sighted near Kalara Junction of Diglipur a few days back. This news has spread like jungle fire in Diglipur region, triggered panic.
Police is now on high alert at Diglipur. As a precautionary measure the girl, whom the boy had tried harm previously, has been shifted to safe place with her family. However, officers in police department refused to comment anything in this regard. ‘Wanted’ Posters of the boy could also be seen in different places of Diglipur.
Here two other accused have already been arrested by Police. One of the accused is Myanmarese while the other one is Indian. The Indian accused was reportedly caught from Model school area, when he was going somewhere in an auto. The arrest was possible only because of some alert citizen had tipped off police regarding the boy.
The accused from Diglipur and also the fourth accused from Myanmar are still missing and police department is leaving no stone unturned to arrest them.
CROC KILLS ANOTHER ISLANDER AT BAKULTALA
N & M Correspondent
Port Blair, Aug 01: In yet another man and wildlife conflict, a villager of Bakultala has been reportedly killed by a crocodile this morning.
According to information received here, Mr. Ajay Kulla, a 22 year old youth of Bakultala had gone for fishing with his friend Manoj Barla at 9.00 am in a nearby nallah, when suddenly a croc attacked Ajay Kulla. Manoj Barla, on the spot seeing the croc attack, later when villagers reached the spot, they found Ajay missing from the spot.
Even after best effort the Forest and Police officials could not trace out the body of Ajay Kulla, by 9.00 pm.
According to villager, a few days a back the crock had taken a cow from the nearby area.
Meanwhile, the Member of Parliament of A & N Islands, Mr. B P Ray today visited the area and met the family members of croc victims.
Bishnu agitates infront of Diglipur AC’s office
DJ Venkatesh
Port Blair, July 30: The Member of Parliament of A & N Islands today organized a Dharna infront of the AC’s office of Diglipur in protest of recent encroachment drives, conducted by N & M District Administration. The MP met AC, Diglipur with State General Secretary BJP Mr. Ajay Bairagi and other leaders. During the meeting the AC reportedly asked Mr, Rebati Biswas to go out of his room, when Mr. Rebati Biswas urged him to give a week notice to the makeshift tea stall owners, on the road side before encroachment removal drive. Fuming over this the MP came out of the AC’s office and continued his dharna for few more hours.
Remote Islanders being exploited; Administration clueless
DJ Venkatesh & Sarthak Kanjilal
Port Blair, July 25: The Directorate of Civil Supplies plays an important role in Prevention of Black marketing in supplies of essential commodities. One of the main roles played by the department is monitoring the market prices. Let it be pulses, cereals, oils, etc., the department issue a press release every month to put in the knowledge of the general public the retail selling prices (RSP) of essential commodities prevailing in the market, so that they are not cheated by greedy people.
But to the dismay of Islanders, in North and Middle Andaman this rate chart brings no solace for Islanders. In port Blair the prices are more or less are controlled by the Department but in remote Islands the controlling authorities virtually has no control over the soaring prices of commodities.
Prices of commodities like Onion, Potato and Tomato are controlled by a private businessmen sitting at Port Blair.
According to the release issued by the Department of Civil Supplies and Consumers Affairs on 5th June 2012 the maximum retain price of Onion was Rs. 18 /- Potato Rs. 22/- Tomato Rs. 32/- and on 9 July release the rate mentioned for Onion was Rs. 20/- potato Rs. 22/- and Tomato Rs. 36/- but in Diglipur, the private businessman sold Onion at Rs. 18.50/- Potato Rs. 20/- and Tomato Rs. 50/- in whole sale market.
As rates are high in whole sale market, the vegetable venders are now selling Onion in Rs. 30/- Potato Rs. 30/- Tomato as Rs. 70/- with almost keeping a 50% of margin.
On asking vegetable venders about the difference in rates they said that as a bag of onion in whole sale market should weight 50kg, Potato 50 kg Tomato 20 Kg but they are not allowed to check the weight of those bags while purchasing as the whole sale dealer never allows them to check the weight of the bag and it is always 4 to 5 kg lesser than it should be.
“If anybody complaints about this they are deprived of the items as the supply is always less than the demand, we are buying it without complaining and that’s why to earn profit we are supposed to charge extra,” A vegetable vendor told Andaman Sheekha in case of anonymity.
When contacted the newly Posted Secretary cum Director of Civil Supplies Department, Mr. S. N. Mishra told Andaman Sheekha that its just his seventh day in the department. “I am just trying to understand the situation now and that’s why I don’t want to comment now,” he added.
Meanwhile the private businessman who sells Onions, Potatoes and Tomatoes in North and Middle Andaman was in Mainland and was unavailable for comment. Even his mangers were in accessible.
Under these circumstances one can very well understand how helpless a common man will feel if he plans to question authorities against the unjustified rates of commodities.
Why the Department of CS and CA is more or less defunct in remote Islands and why general public are forces to pay though their nose for everything? Is anyone listening?
FARM SCHOOL ON PADDY AT DIGLIPUR
Port Blair, July 23: As per the approved guidelines of National Food Security Mission a farm school on paddy was organized by the Department of Agriculture, Diglipur under ATMA at Keralapuram village on 23rd July, 2012. Addressing the farmers during the inaugural session, Mr. Ramesh Kumar, Deputy Project Director (ATMA) expressed the need of growing high yielding varieties of paddy by adopting improved package of practices so as to achieve higher productivity. He advised the farmers to avoid indiscriminate use of pesticides by planting Neem and Karanj trees as first step towards the adoption of organic farming.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Sailesh Kumar, Asst. Fisheries Development Officer, Diglipur highlighted about the importance of Integrated Farming System by inculcating pisciculture as one of its component. He advised the farmers to use improved breeds of fish for better income to enhance the livelihood and also urged the farmers to avail maximum benefits from different schemes of Fisheries Department.
Later on, Smt. Shakila Nawaz, A.O.(Agri.), explained in detail about the SRI method of paddy cultivation, its advantages and disadvantages. She also stressed the need to adopt seed treatment prior to sowing of paddy.
During the feedback session, the farmers raised various agriculture issues like stream bank erosion, timely supply of seeds, planting materials and PPC.
In the concluding session, Mr. Hari Ram, A.A. discussed about the various schemes of Agriculture Department. The programme ended with vote of thanks by the farmer friend, Mr. V. Rajendran, Keralapuram under ATMA. Altogether 30 farmers including farm women participated in the programme.
Mayabunder College hostel girl reportedly suffers paralysis
N & M Correspondent
Mayabunder, July 20: In a shocking incident a student of Mahatma Gandhi Government College, Mayabunder reportedly suffered paralysis yesterday night, all of a sudden. According to reports the girl, who actually belong to Hut Bay, had purchased some medicines for toothache from Mayabunder Bazaar on Wednesday and after having the medicines, she complained throat pain.
The girl, who was in her MGGC hostel room, was then taken to Mayabunder Hospital on Friday and given medication. But by Friday evening her condition worsened. According to reports, the girl was neither able to move any body part nor was able to talk. She was immediately rushed to Mayabunder Hospital from where she has been referred to G B Pant Hospital. It is expected that the girl will be brought to Port Blair tomorrow by ATR.
The matter has become talk of the town in Mayabunder and different theories and stories are coming up regarding this incident. Some believe that this happened due to some supernatural power while some others believe that this happened because of side affect of medicines.
However, talking to Andaman Sheekha the Medical Superintendent of Mayabunder Hospital, Dr. Shammi maintained that the girl did not suffer paralysis. “She is unable to speak. She was also having problem in urination but later we removed urine with tube. At present the condition of the patient is stable but she is having low fever,” Dr. Shammi added.
When asked about the actual reasons behind this incident, the Doctor refused to comment anything else. “You can report this incident but I won’t comment anything further. After publication of news I will give reply if required,” the MS added.
Inauguration of facilitating centre at Diglipur
Port Blair, July 20: As part of the mission mode project and to fulfil the demands of unemployed candidates of North & Middle Andaman District today the Facilitating centre was inaugurated at GPO building by Mr. P.Prasad , Adhyaksh, Zilla Parishad, North & Middle Andaman in presence of Asst. Commissioner Mr. Dr. Vivek Kumar, Pramukh Mr. Gouranga Dutta , Labour Commissioner & Director of employment & Training, Port Blair Mr. Madhu Sudan Baidhya and Mr. Santosh prakash , employment Officer, Port Blair
The Facilitating centre is set up for issuing photo based lamination Employment identity Card to the job seekers after inauguration. Mr. P.Prasad , Adhyaksh, Zilla Parishad, North & Middle Andaman lauded steps taken by the Director of Employment & Training , Port Blair. The Asst. Commissioner Mr. Dr. Vivek Kumar, spoke about importance of Employment Centre in this Remote Island and asked the unemployed youths to avail the opportunity of Registration and renewal of Laminated employment cards instantly.
The vote of thanks by Labour Commissioner & Director of employment & Training, Port Blair Mr. Madhu Sudan Baidhya.
Betapur youth murdered at Kolkata
N & M correspondent
Betapur, July 11: P. Thomas, S/o P C Philips a youth from Betapur has been allegedly murdered at Kolkata a few days back.
According to unconfirmed reports available here, Thomas, a 32 years old youth, wanted to go to UAE for which he had carried nearly Rs 3 lakhs with him for an unknown agents at Kolkata. Reports suggest that some of his relatives had asked Thomas to come to Kolkata to fix a deal with an agent for reaching UAE. Thomas had left for Mainland in June last via sea.
It is learnt that before reaching Kolkata Thomas has visited Kerala & Chennai. On his way to Kolkata he was reportedly kidnapped by unknown persons and murdered, his body was found in many pieces, it is said.
Meanwhile, some people say that Thomas had actually gone to Kerala to attend his divorce case but somehow he reached Kolkata, where his body was found in several pieces.
However official confirmation still awaited. Let the investigation unveil the truth behind P Thomas’s murder mystery.
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