John Wilbert
Kadamtala, Nov24: In yet another case of sighting of King Cobra from Kadamtala area, a ten feet long King Cobra Snake was rescued by Mr. Subrata Basu, a social worker, from Chicken center of Biswajit Bala, which is situated in Kadamtala Bazar, Kadamtala on 22nd November 2018 at around 6:00 PM. According to reports the King Cobra was then handed over to Forest Department for safe release in Forest area.
Nine Gamblers Arrested by Diglipur Police
Diglipur, Nov 23: On 07/11/18 Mahesh Yadav, SHO Diglipur received reliable information that some persons are indulged in gambling near Laxmipur Forest Nursery. Upon this a Police team headed by SI Roshan George, PC’s Akash Ch. Bepari, Bijoy Kr. Das, Manoj Bakhla, Sushil Sarkar, Uttam Kr. Sarkar, Manoranjan Das and HG Saraswati Sarkar was constituted and immediately rushed to the spot and raided the place and found few persons were playing cards and indulged in gambling. The police party surrounded the area and while nabbing them the gamblers tried to flee away from the spot but the attentive police personnel grabbed all the 09 gamblers namely 1) Ranjit Sarkar 2) BalaiDutta 3) Arun Mondal 4) AbhiramDhali 5) Laxman Mondal 6) Panchanan Sarkar 7) Bikash Mondal 8) BiswanathDakua all R/o Laxmipur and 9) Prem Kumar Bairagi R/o Milangram. They were searched and recovered the board money of Rs. 10,020/- from their possession. The entire operation was commanded by Insp. Mahesh Yadav, SHO PS Diglipur and the same was supervised by Mr. Sukant S. Ballab, SDPO Diglipur under the overall supervision of Mr. Ingit Pratap Singh, IPS, SP (D) N&MA.
It is requested to the general public that any information related to any crime or illegal activities may please be intimated to the following phone numbers PS Diglipur (03192-272223), SDPO (D/P) (9434285670) or in any nearest Police Station or to the Police Control Room (100).
Encroachments Cleared at Diglipur
DJ Venkatesh
Diglipur, Nov 20: During an encroachment removal drive by the revenue authorities, few encroachments of fixed and mobile encroachers were removed at Diglipur bazaar area this evening. The authorities have also cleared the footpaths occupied by the shopkeepers and vegetable vendors.
Warnings were also issued for not obstructing the pavement for users and also for not reoccupying the same.
The drive was conducted by the Tehsildar and revenue officials under the supervision of Asst Commissioner Diglipur Mr. Alok Kumar.
Private Buses reduce trips due to pathetic ATR; Passengers in limbo
DJ Venkatesh
Diglipur, Nov 19: About 500 daily passengers, who were travelling through ATR road by various private buses, are now in a pickle as majority of the private bus operators have withdrawn their buses from ATR in Port Blair-Diglipur –Port Blair sector.
Since last few days, out of eight daily buses only three buses are being operated in ATR, as all other buses are either damaged or have been grounded because of the pathetic condition of the ATR. All three Geetanjali buses, which used to start from Diglipur at 5 AM, 7 AM, 10 PM, SS Transport’s 10.30 PM bus, Anand’s 7 AM bus are off the road now withdrawn. Only SS Transport’s 7 AM bus and Anand’s 7 AM bus & 10 PM buses are presently operating in this sector that too without any guarantee.
Passengers of remote villages are badly hit by this as these buses not only provide crucial service for people of Diglipur Island but also Islanders of entire Middle and North Andaman.
Speaking to Andaman Sheekha, one of the bus operators said that due to bad roads majority of buses have suffered heavy damages and buses, which are on road, are always running late.
Often buses reach very late to their respective destinations and the next day theses bus need repairs due to this the bus routine is disturbed and ultimately bus owners and ticket sellers have to facing passengers’ ire. The Bus Operator added that the repairing costs are so high that the income from cargo fares are also not supplementing.
Meanwhile the STS started night bus thrice a week but as STS buses are too ordinary, people mostly avoid STS bus for long journey. Now STS has also reduced the number of trips of Night Bus from three to two days a week.
As present most of the tickets for next week are already sold out, due to weeklong holidays and because of this normal passengers and other emergency passengers are now in a limbo as to how to travel Port Blair and other Islands. Hope the administration will find some remedy for this situation and provide some of vessels for Diglipur for these busy weeks. The Administration must also pressurize the NHIDCL to repair ATR immediately in Middle Andaman region.
Bhagwan Birsa Munda Jayanti celebrated at Diglipur
DJ Venkatesh
Diglipur, Nov 15: Freedom fighter Bhagwan Birsa Munda Jayanti was celebrated today at ZP community hall at Subhashgram Diglipur. Adhyaksh ZP N & M Andaman Mr. P.Srinivas Rao was Chief Guest on this occasion. By lightening the lamp Adhyaksh inaugurated the programme. Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram Organizing Secretary Diglipur Shri Rajender Badaik, Pradhan Diglipur, AE APWD Mr. Venkat and large number of public attended this function.
Offloaded mothers give birth at CHC Diglipur
DJ Venkatesh
Diglipur, Nov 12: The expecting mothers of Diglipur Island, who were offloaded from DSS Vessel yesterday, were taken back to CHC Diglipur. Out of three such cases, two deliveries were conducted successfully within 12 hours at CHC Diglipur.
Yesterday night one of the mothers, who was having a post dated delivery, gave birth to a baby with the assistance of doctors and medical team. Today morning another mother, who had a premature baby of 32 weeks with breech presentation, delivered a baby girl of 1.2kg. Due to lack of pediatrician at Diglipur, she was today referred to sick new Baby care unit (SNCU) at GB Pant hospital at Port Blair.
Sources said that in present weather condition taking such cases would have been a risky affair and because of cyclonic winds the sea was very rough.
NITI Aayog team visits Diglipur
DJ Venkatesh
Diglipur, Nov 12: NITI Aayog officials comprising Mr. Amitabh Kant, CEO- NITI Aayog, Mr. Jitendra Kumar, Advisor and Ms Hansa Sinha YP NITI Aayog made a Joint visit of Diglipur with District Administration N & M Andaman to review the tasks progressed in the Islands under the aegis of Islands Development Agency (IDA).
After reaching Diglipur by Pawanhans helicopter the team went to Ross & Smith Islands for field visit, which is the one of the Islands, identified for the holistic and ecologically sustainable development.
The CEO issued directions to the authorities to expatiate the development activities at Ross & Smith Islands. He asked the authorities to expand the Tree top huts and world class tented accommodation at the beach area of the Smith Island alongwith Sagar Dweep . Further the NITI Aayog directed the District Administration to organise a meet to discuss over the roadblocks on the way to sustainable and ecological development of Smith Island.
After that the team visited Shibpur Airport and held a meeting with the officials of Navy to discussed airport expansion issues and security. The CEO ensured the officials to take up the communication problem with the Telecom department. After meeting, the NITI Aayog team left to Havelock Island.
Expecting Mothers of Diglipur Suffer due to Inclement Weather
DJ Venkatesh
Diglipur, Nov 11: Due to lack of specialist services, remote hospitals usually refer serious medical cases to Port Blair. Today from CHC Diglipur nine such cases were referred to GB Pant Hospital, Port Blair along with one Ayah and one Nursing Officer.
Out of these nine cases, five cases were said to be pregnancy related. In every sailing about 15 tickets are blocked for referred patients by the DSS and only two sailings are available per week to Diglipur since many months.
Today the referred patients and attendants went to Aerial Bay jetty and bought tickets for M V Coral Queen, which was scheduled to sail for Port Blair at 2 PM.
During embarkation five expecting mothers, 8-9 months of pregnancy, were offloaded from the ship.
The Ship was having one Doctor onboard and well equipped hospital ward. The Ship’s captain and Doctor were ready to allow the patients but citing inclement weather they asked for an undertaking from the Nursing Officer, who denied. After this the pregnant ladies were offloaded and returned to CHC Diglipur again.
Speaking to Andaman Sheekha CMO CHC Diglipur Dr Nicolas said that due to inclement weather the ship personnel had decided not to take risk in such cases. He said that tomorrow, if weather becomes favourable, these patients will sent to Port Blair by helicopter.
Nine Gamblers arrested by PS Diglipur
Diglipur, Nov 8: On 7th November, a Police team of PS Diglipur arrested 9 persons at Laxmipur Gram Panchayat and recovered more than 10,000/- board money from them. All the accused were arrested, it is learnt. The arrested persons were booked under A&N Islands Gambling Reg. 1956.
Special Gram Sabha Meeting of Shivapuram
Saleem Javed
Rangat, Nov 06: A Special Gram Sabha of Shivapuram Panchayat, Middle Andaman will be held at Community Hall Shivapuram on 14 November 2018 Wednesday at 10:30am. The Pradhan of Shivapuram, Mr. Lorentus Bara has requested all villagers to attend the Special Gram Sabha meeting.
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