Port Blair, Mar 31: The Congress Party today steamrolled to a massive victory in the Zilla Parishad elections at North & Middle Andaman by winning Adhyaksha & Up-Adhyaksh seats declared by the State Election Commission (SEC).
In the election, Mrs. Elizabeth Martin was elected as Adhyaksha and Mr. Mahadev Gain was elected as Up-Adhyaksh. After the victory of Congress, ANTCC President Mr. Rangalal Halder and ANTCC Campaign Committee Chairman Mr. TSG Bhasker congratulated all Congress leaders and party workers for their efforts.
Mr. Rangalal Halder also extended wishes to the winning candidates for a “historic victory” and asserted that it was an outcome of the hard work carried out by Congress workers at ground level.
He also congratulated DCC President South Andaman Mr. V.K Abdul Aziz who was appointed as the In-charge for overseeing Zilla Parishad elections.

Rabindranath Biswas

Diglipur, March 16: An accident of a private bus was reported on Andaman Trunk Road today near Pailoon area under PS Kalighat/ GP Kishorinagar.

As per reports, the private bus ‘Anand’ was on its way to Diglipur from Port Blair and the cause of the accident was stated to be the loose soil at the brim of the road and the bus driver couldn’t rightly judge the loose earth.

As a result, the driver lost control and consequently the bus slid and ran aground tilted in the loose soil. Moreover, there was a fleet of trucks standing on the NH and the incident happened while maneuvering and passing by the bus to these vehicles, another source said.

The accident took place at about 03.30PM and no casualties have been reported in the accident. The passengers were evacuated/ shifted to an STS bus, a source said.

Rabindranath Biswas
Diglipur, March 06: The Panchayat Election-2022 in Diglipur was held on Sunday (06/03/2022) under excellent security arrangement and COVID-19 protocols. The voting began at 07.00AM and continued till 05.00PM. The voting remained peaceful with the turnout ranging from 60% to 79% when report last came in, Election Officials said. Voters having health complaints were also seen turning up at the polling stations for exercising their franchise. No reports of trouble or violence any kind filtered in from any polling station, the Election Officials claimed.
The respective Presiding Officers of nearby polling booths have returned with ballot boxes from their polling stations in the evening and submitted to the concerned Officials while concerned polling officials from distant and remote places are yet to reach the Control and Stong Room with ballot boxes. After due verifications, these ballot boxes will be kept in the Strong Room made in the Govt. Sr. Sec. School, Diglipur, the source said. The counting of votes will take place on 8th March 2022, the source also said.

John Wilbert & Savita Kumari
Port Blair, Feb 21: Lack of trained doctors to operate the Ultrasound equipment in CHC Diglipur has left dozens of patients in deep distress. Expecting mothers of Diglipur region, who need ultrasound checkup atleast thrice during pregnancy period are suffering the most.
It is learnt that earlier an Ultrasound Operator used to reach Diglipur from Mayabunder once in a month to conduct various Ultrasound tests/checkups but since last two months no one came to CHC Diglipur from Mayabunder District Hospital to operate the Ultrasound machine for unknown reasons.
“We have been asked to travel to Mayabunder to get Ultrasound checkup done. How is it even possible for a pregnant mother to travel to Mayabunder with such a pathetic condition of NH4,” said a villager of Diglipur, who does not want his name to be quoted.
People of Diglipur area are demanding to post a permanent Ultrasound operator/Doctor to CHC Diglipur, considering the huge population of the region.
When Andaman Sheekha correspondent contacted the Chief Medical Officer of CHC Diglipur, Dr. Siddha Raju on this issue, he said that the problem is that the ultrasound machine needs to be operated only by trained Doctors.
“We need a trained Doctor to operate the ultrasound machine. This is the reason why earlier a trained Doctor used to come to Diglipur from Mayabunder every month,” he added.
He assured Andaman Sheekha that he has got information that tomorrow for two days, a Doctor from Mayabunder will be reaching Diglipur to carry out Ultrasound tests/check ups.
Insiders told Andaman Sheekha that due to short notice of arrival of Ultrasound operators in Diglipur, CHC Diglipur officials find it very difficult to inform all patients, who are waiting for Ultrasound Tests/Checkups about the dates.
Hence the general public of the region are demanding that the Director of Health Service must direct the District Hospital Mayabunder to send doctors to Diglipur for Ultrasound tests/check ups only on a specific date atleast twice in a month.

Rabindranath Biswas
Diglipur, Feb. 15: The polling materials for the ensuing Panchayat Election-2022 have been carefully received at Diglipur today. Before keeping this polling material in the Strong Room, in the Administrative Building, Diglipur, representatives from political parties of Diglipur were invited to be present; and accordingly one Smti Alpana Mondal and Sreeti Biswas from BJP and one Shri Ashit Bain from INC and Shri A.V.A Samad from CPIM were present at the time of this activity. Shri Ankit Yadav (IAS), Assistant Commissioner, Diglipur was seen very vigilant and watchful on every activity while Shri R.K Sharma, DySP Diglipur, Shri N S Stalin along with police personnel and heads of various depts. were seen to monitor and observe the entire activity of polling materials during the entire period manoeuvring and unloading of the polling materials from a STS bus. After arranging/stacking the polling materials in the Strong Room in order, the electric connection of the Strong Room was snapped/disconnected, carefully locked with heavy duty locks, locks stitched with cloth and sealed with sealing wax. The sealed locks were then signed by political representatives present there. Entire activity was carried out amidst tight security of police officials and IRBN jawans. The Strong Room is now under strict watch of this security force, an official source said.
Earlier, Shri Mahen Roy, Tehsildar, Diglipur along with a Patwari went to Port Blair on 14/02/2022 to collect this polling material and who reached Diglipur today with polling material on the STS bus, the source also said.
As per further report, First Round training of Presiding and First Polling Officer was imparted by Shri Som Naidu, State Master Trainer in VKV Zilla Parishad School Auditorium, Diglipur today. Total number of participants in the said training was 302, the source said.