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LG interacts withstudents of Mayo Girls College, Ajmer

Port Blair, Mar 22: A largegroup of students and teach-ers of well known Mayo GirlsCollege, Ajmer visited RajNiwas and interacted with theLt Governor, Lt Gen A K Singh(Retd). The students from theMayo Girls College, Ajmerwho are on a visit to the Is-lands were elated to see thegardens and other attractionsof Raj Niwas. Intera ct ingwith them, the Lt Governor

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South Andaman toget Jaw ahar Navodaya

Vidyalaya SoonPort Blair, Mar 22: The Dreamof establishment of JawaharNavodaya Vidyalaya inSouth Andaman will becomea reality soon. The Andaman& Nicobar Administrationhas identified a land at PortMout Village, FerrargunjTehsil under SouthAndaman District and re-quested the Deputy Commis-sioner (Admn.), NavodayaVidyalaya Samiti,Hyderabad Region to depute

their representatives of theNavodaya Vidyalaya Samiti,Hyderabad Region for inspec-tion of identified site for con-formity and suitability of es-tablishing the proposedNavodaya Vidyalaya.

The Secretary (Edn.)in her letter addressed to theMember of Parliament con-firmed this.

After formation ofnew District o f North &

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Public demands action against responsible officers

Death of Child in JawaharSarovar indicates serious security

lapse around water reservoirs

DJ Venkatesh

Sheekha News Service

Port Blair, Mar 22: Death of achild after drowning atJawahar Sarovar located at

Lamba Line has exposed se-rious security flaws aroundwater reservoirs in the city.A local boy was swimmingwith four of his friends at thewater body when the unfor-

tunate incident occurred onMonday.

He was rushed to GBPant Hospital where doctorsdeclared him brought dead.

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Non-residential camp foradolescent students underway

at Oralkatcha

Port Blair, Mar 22: The NehruYuva Kendra, Rangat is or-ganizing seven days Life SkillEducation Camp (Non- Resi-dential) at Govt. Senior Sec-ondary School, Oralkatchafrom March 22 to 28, 2016 inwhich 40 adolescent studentsfrom Baratang are participat-ing. Mr Roy George,Pradhan, Gram Panchayat,Nilambur inaugurated thecamp on Tuesday in the pres-ence of Smti MV Jolly, VicePrincipal, Govt. Sr. Sec.School, Oralkatcha, Mr S

Shivraj, Senior Coordinator ofVidhya Yuvakendra Founda-tion and Smt Shanta Raj, GTT,Govt. Sr. Sec. School,Oralkatcha. The chief guestappealed to the participants todisseminate the informationgathered among others andevery participants should haveinterest in learning the impor-tant things from the camp.Smt MV Jolly, Vice Principalshe highlighted the importanceof Life Skill Education and itsbenefit and opined that oneshould learn from the other’s

experience and be able to takeinstant decision to cope withany problem/situation.

During the sevendays’ camp the topics introduc-tion to life skills, understand-ing life skills, vulnerability ofadolescents, adolescentssexual and reproductive health,adolescents and RTI/HIV, un-derstanding high risk behavior,communication’ career guid-ance and counseling and flag-ship programme of Govt. ofIndia will be covered by theresource person Mr S Shivraj,Senior Coordinator fromVidhyaYuvakendra Founda-tion, Port Blair, resource per-son from banks and schools.Besides these the activitiesyoga, sports and games, expo-sure visit will be also con-ducted.

Mr Alphonce Toppo,District Youth Coordinator,NYK, Rangat proposed thevote of thanks.

57 Laparoscopicsurgeries conducted at

Hut Bay RCH CampPort Blair, Mar 22: A majorReproductive Child Health(RCH) Camp was con-ducted at PHC, Hut Bay re-cently in which 57Laparoscopic sterilizationoperations were conductedand mothers were treated forvarious ailments.

Dr. M.K. Saha, Con-sultant Gynecologist and Dr.A.L. Janardhan, SeniorAnesthetist conducted the

camp alongwith Dr. Ranjithand other supporting nursingstaff. The beneficiaries andthe service providers weredisbursed incentives on thespot as per their entitlement.Dr RK Halder, MD (Skin,STDs/AIDS and Leprosy),the State Family Welfare Of-ficer, Directorate of HealthServices, camped at Hut Bayfor two days to supervise andcoordinate the camp.

RSC SA meet nominatesmembers for mgmt. committee

Port Blair, Mar 22: A meetingof Regional Sports Council,South Andaman was held onMonday in the Chamber of theAdhyaksha/Chairperson RSC,Zilla Parishad, South AndamanSmti Minati Biswas. The mainagenda of the meeting wasnomination of Members forthe Management Committee ofRSC(SA). The Council unani-mously agreed upon the namesof Mr Bharat Kumar Sharmain place of Mr Sanjay Meshackunder the category of non-of-ficial member representing

Clubs/Sports and Ms DeeptiDas as an additional memberunder the category of EminentSports Person.

Discussion was alsoheld on several major issuesfor the development of sportsactivities in the South Andamanregion. Major among themwere enhancement of fund al-located to the Council to aminimum of Rs 15 lakhs as itcovers the largest jurisdictionof 33 Panchayats with fourPanchayat Samitis namely PortBlair Panchayat Sarniti,

Ferrargunj Panchayat Samiti,Little Andaman PanchayatSamiti and Campbell BayPanchayat Samiti, impartingtraining to the Registered YouthClubs for conducting SportsEvents by the Department ofSports, promotion of sportsactivities with special attentionto swimming, establishment offull -fledged swimming pool atBambooflat, revenue genera-tion, promotion of active YouthClubs and Supply of SportsMaterials to conduct sports ac-tivities.

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Drug Peddling: Oneheld w ith 1.6 kilo ganja

at MohanpuraPort Blair, Mar 22: Ensuringzero tolerance against seriousoffences, the South AndamanDistrict Special Team, actingon credible information, ap-prehended Robin Dhali (37)yrs, Pvt. Mason, R/oBadmash Pahar atMohanpura Pvt. Bus Stand onMonday and seized 1.630 ki-los of illicit ganja from his pos-session.

A case vide crime

No. 189/16 dated 21/3/2016 u/s 20(b)(ii)(B) NDPS Act 1985has been registered at PS Ab-erdeen. Further investigationof the case is in progress.General public have been re-quested to pass on any cred-ible information on any illegalactivity on the telephone num-bers: 233077, 232405, 232400& 100. The informant will besuitably rewarded and his/heridentity will be kept secret.

South Koreadetects first Zika virus case

SEOUL: South Korean au-thorities have detected thefirst Zika virus case in thecountry, the Korea Centresfor Disease Control and Pre-vention (CDC) announced onTuesday.

A 43-year-old man,who had made business tripsto Brazil between February17 and March 11, was testedpositive for the mosquito-borne virus, Xinhua newsagency quoted the agency assaying.The patient began developingfever and muscle ache fromMarch 16.

Zika is known as avirus that spreads throughbites from a specific mos-

quito. It is particularly riskyfor pregnant women as thevirus is thought to be linkedto a rare birth defect, micro-

cephaly.Microcephaly causes new-born babies to have an unusu-ally small, damaged brain.

Magnitude-6.4quake strikes China, damaging

dozens of homes

BEJING: A magnitude-6.4earthquake has struck a re-mote region of northwestChina, damaging a few dozenhomes but causing no casu-alties.

The official XinhuaNews Agency says the epi-center of the 1:13 am quakewas in an unpopulated area

about 33 kilometers (20 miles)from the county seat ofMenyuan in Qinghai province.

The agency quotedlocal officials as saying thequake caused cracks in about20 homes and other damagein more than 30 others. Au-thorities sent 700 tents to thearea.

Death MournedPort Blair, Mar 22: The PCCPresident Shri Kuldeep RaiSharma and all senior lead-ers of Congress party havedeeply mourned the saddemise of Mr. Kuttan Pillai,78 years, R/o Betapur No.2,

Middle Andaman andprayed to the Almighty forthe eternal peace of the de-parted soul and to givestrength to their family mem-bers to bear the irreparableloss.

Naresh Chander Lalto receive Prestigious Padma

Award on 28th March

Proud Moment for Islands

Port Blair, Mar 22: Mr.Naresh Chander Lal, re-nowned film Director andProducer of Andaman andNicobar Islands, is proceed-ing to attend the investitureceremony for Padma Awards2016 to be held at Darbar Hallof Rashtrapati Bhawan on28th March 2016 at 11.30am.

Mr. Lal has mean-while, expressed his sinceregratitude to the Governor,Andaman & Nicobar Islandsand has dedicated this awardto all the people of my thisbeautiful Islands, LocalBorn(Pre-1942) Communityand all the Artistes of The-atre and Cinema of A & N

Islands.“In near future, I as-

sure for work sincerely, hon-estly and dedicatedly for theCreative development of my

native place in relation to thefield of Theatre and Cinemain which I have been awarded“Padmashree”,” Mr. Lal saidin a press release today.

World T20: Dhoni urges India to lift run rate against BangladeshBANGALORE: India skip-per Mahendra Singh Dhoniurged his big-hitters to im-prove their run rate dramati-cally against Bangladesh onWednesday or face the pros-pect of a humiliating earlyexit from the World Twenty20on home soil.

The hosts are pre-cariously placed in fourth spotof Group Two after one de-feat and one win. They des-perately need a big victory tostrengthen their bid for asemi-finals berth.

India's six-wicketvictory over arch-rivals Paki-stan on Saturday will haveboosted their confidence af-ter a shock 47-run defeat toNew Zealand in their open-ing group match.

But Dhoni said India,who were firm favourites atthe start of the tournament tolift a second World T20 title,needed to improve to qualifyfrom a tough group that alsoincludes Australia.

"I still feel there is stillscope for improvement and in

the coming two games thatwill be our priority," said thecaptain.

New Zealand top thegroup on four points after twowins while Pakistan, Australiaand India all have two points.However India's run rate, whichcould determine who qualifies,is considerably worse than theirrivals.

"In the first game ourrun rate went down. So it's notonly about winning but you haveto take care of the run-rate atsome point," added Dhoni.

The hosts are seekingto become the first country towin the World T20 title twice,after clinching the crown in2007, and also the first to win athome.

Bangladesh, by com-parison, will be desperate for awin after two straight losses, thelatest to Australia by three wick-ets on Monday.

Sitting at the bottom ofGroup Two after also losing toPakistan, the Tigers have almostno chance of advancing to thesemi-finals, but skipper

Mashrafe Mortaza vowed tobattle on.

"We will keep fighting.We still have two matches tofight hard," he said.

The Tigers were leftreeling after the ICC's decisionat the weekend to suspend theirtop bowlers Arafat Sunny andTaskin Ahmed for illegal actions,forcing them to rush in replace-ments from Bangladesh.There are also question marksover star batsman Tamim Iqbalwho is unwell and did not playagainst Australia.

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EDITORIAL.....

2 children run over byGatimaan express during trial run

Agra: India's fastest semi-highspeed train Gatimaan express,during its final trial run on Tues-day, ran over two children killingthem on the spot. The train latergot delayed for over an hour onaccount of a major technical snag.After a successful run of 110 min-utes from New Delhi- covering adistance of 194.8 km, the train de-parted from Agra cantt station ataround 10am. While passingRunkuta station, the express ranover two children.

One of the vict im hasbeen identified as one 14-year-oldHardesh of Nagla Jaupura village,while the other 9-year-old child'sidentity is still unknown.

According to senior subinspector J P Ashok of Sikandrapolice station, "The bodies of chil-dren were immediately removedfrom tracks by villagers and takento their relatives' home."

"The high speed train didnot stop after the incident, and con-tinued its journey to New Delhi,"he added.

On the way to New Delhi,Gatimaan's panto, an iron framelike structure on the locomotive

engine, which receives electric en-ergy from overhead line to powerthe train, broke down three kilo-meters ahead of Mathura station.

Speaking to TOI, public re-lation officer of Agra divisionalrailway manager office, BhupinderDhillon said, "During the trial run,panto of the Gatimaan's enginebroke down near Mathura. Thetrain was delayed for nearly anhour, but engineers repaired thepart later and train was allowed tocontinue i ts journey for NewDelhi."Confirming the death oftwo children during trial run ofGatimaan, Dhillon claimed that, "Aprobe into both the matters hasbeen ordered by senior officials."

On anonymity, a seniorrailway official said, "Lack ofproper fencing at the 200 km longstretch between New Delhi andAgra was the reason that the rail-ways did not give NOC (No ob-jection certificate) for the highspeed operation."

"Though there are barbedwire and walls along the track, butit is missing at several patches.Such gaps could be deadly forGatimaan," he added.

Maharashtra govt pays morefor animals' upkeep than children' s: MLAMumbai, Mar 22 () Maharashtragovernment grants more funds forthe upkeep of animals in foddercamps than for children living in or-phanages and state-run child homes,a BJP MLA has alleged.The state government pays Rs 70to a fodder camp for the keep of ananimal, while the orphanages andstate-run children homes are paid Rs30 for a child per day as grant, AnilBonde, who represents Morshi As-sembly constituency in Amravati dis-trict alleged."It is unfair for the gov-ernment to pay Rs 70 for an animalwhile a child gets Rs 30 for food.The government should increase thegrants for children homes to at leastRs 1,500 per month from the cur-rent Rs 900," Bonde told reportershere yesterday, while adding that thegrants should be provided on time.There are about 255 fodder campsoperating in drought affected Latur,Osmanabad and Beed districts sinceAugust last year and their upkeephas cost the state exchequer aroundRs 60 crore.There are a total of1,105 children homes in the state ofwhich 1,062 are run by various reg-istered NGOs.

The government pays themRs 900 for normal child per month(about Rs 30 per day) for their meals,whereas Rs 990 (Rs 33 per day) isgiven for a special child every month.

According to an official fromthe state Women and Child Devel-opment Department, the NGOshousing these children have not re-ceived grants from the last threeyears

Our department has askedfor Rs 156 crore, to pay the pendingdues of these children's homes, whichhas not been sanctioned by the Fi-nance department as yet," he said.An official from the Finance depart-ment, however, said that NGOs areexpected to raise their own funds asthey are registered with the CharityCommissioner.

"Since these NGOs are reg-istered with the Charity Commis-sioner, they can raise funds from so-ciety. The government aid is to sup-port them in this social cause, butthey should not depend on the gov-ernment grants. In fact, it is their re-sponsibility to raise the required fundsto provide facilities to children," hesaid. MM GK DV

By 2019, J&K to be hometo world's tallest railway bridge

Reasi (Jammu): The world's tallestrailway bridge being built above theChenab river on theUdhampurSrinangar-Baramulla RailLink (USBRL) will be ready only by2019.The bridge, which will rise 359metres over the Chenab and is beingbuilt in hostile and isolated terrain, willbe 35 metres taller than the EiffelTower.

Currently , the tallest bridgeis above the Tam River in France,with its tallest pillar rising 340m fromthe riverbed. The Chenab Bridge,which has an arch de sign, will con-nect the steep banks on the Bakkal(Katra) and Kauri (Srinagar) ends.Itwill have a central span of 457 metresand is designed to withstand windspeeds of 266kmph.

Construction of the Jammu toKatra section of the bridge was com-pleted and opened in 2014 and workis in progress on the Katra-Banihalsection.The Konkan Railway has takenup the construction of part of theUSBRL project from Katra to Dharamin December 2002. The bridge wasexpected to be ready by 2016 but thenew deadline is 2019.

Konkan Railway CorporationLimited (KRCL) ma naging director

Sanjay Gupta said, "The constructionof the bridge is the most challengingpart. It will be an engineering marveland will emerge as a tourist attraction.Many people have bought land adjoin-ing the bridge site in anticipation ofthis."KRCL's chief engineer GopalRaju said, "We had to construct 5kmof road to approach the foundation ofthe bridge as the site was inaccessible.The civil work will be completed byJanuary 2017 as we have alreadyachieved 75% progress."

Konkan Railway will installsensors on the bridge to check thewind velocity . As soon as the windvelocity exceeds 90kmph, the signalon the track will turn red, preventingtrain movement.Gupta added, "Wehave completed work on 60% of thestretch that is being constructed byKRCL."KRCL has spent around Rs2,900 crore for the project, which isestimated to cost Rs 6,100 crore."Funds are not a constraint and KRwill earn Rs 400-500 crore from it thisyear," said Gupta. Work on the projectwas suspended in 2008 for review ofalignment. The Railway Board orderedresumption of work after 14 monthson the same alignment, but actualwork on the ground began in 2012.

Raw at MustProve His Majority or GoThe Congress has only itself to blame for the Uttarakhand crisis. What-ever may be the provocation, nine party MLAs have revolted againstChief Minister Harish Rawat. The expulsion of rebel Congress leaderSaket Bahuguna and state party secretary Anil Gupta from the Congressfor six years is unlikely to settle the issue in favour of the party. Whetheror not the Chief Minister is able to bring back the dissidents to the partyfold, the fact remains that trouble has been brewing in the party for quitesome time. This is certainly a measure of the incompetence of Rawat whowas able to win the post only because the Congress high command was inhis favour. Far from consolidating his position by winning the confi-dence of a large section of the Congress MLAs, Rawat seems to havebeen busy antagonising more and more legislators, who just needed aspark to mount a rebellion.he Speaker’s showcause notice to the nineMLAs asking why action should not be taken against them under theanti-defection law does not seem to have any legal validity as the Oppo-sition has already given a notice expressing its lack of confidence in theSpeaker. The Governor has done the best thing in the given situation —he has asked the Chief Minister to prove his majority on the floor of theHouse. Yes, that is the right procedure. The right place to prove confi-dence or lack of confidence in a government is the floor of the House, notthe Raj Bhavan or any other place. That is what the Sarkaria Commis-sion had also laid down in its report.Rawat should have the satisfactionthat he got a breather with the Governor giving him time till March 28 toprove his majority. What has to be ensured is that whenever the Housemeets, the members should be able to transact the business of debatingthe no-confidence motion against the government in a time-tested demo-cratic manner. The voting, if carried out properly, will help the Governordecide whether the BJP should be invited to form a government with thesupport of the rebel Congressmen. The BJP should also consider whetherforming a government with the support of some political turncoats is inits long-term political interest. Both the Congress and the BJP would dowell to remember that the people are watching.

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RSC SA meet nominatesmembers for mgmt. committee

Port Blair, Mar 22: Ameet ing of RegionalSpor ts Council , SouthAndaman was held onMonday in the Chamber ofthe Adhyaksha/Chairper-son RSC, Zilla Parishad,South Andaman SmtiMinati Biswas. The mainagenda of the meeting wasnomination of Membersfor the Management Com-mittee of RSC(SA).

The Council unani-mously agreed upon thenames of Mr BharatKumar Sharma in place ofMr Sanjay Meshack under

the category of non-officialmember representingClubs/Spor ts and MsDeepti Das as an additionalmember under the categoryof Eminent Spor tsPerson.Discussion was alsoheld on several major is-sues for the development ofsports activities in the SouthAndaman region.

Major among themwere enhancement of fundallocated to the Council toa minimum of Rs 15 lakhsas it covers the largest ju-risdiction of 33 Panchayatswith four Panchayat

Samitis namely Port BlairPanchayat Sarnit i,Ferra rgunj PanchayatSamit i, L it t le AndamanPanchayat Samiti andCampbell Bay PanchayatSamiti, imparting training to theRegistered Youth Clubs forconducting Sports Events bythe Department of Sports, pro-motion of sports activities withspecial attention to swimming,establishment of full -fledgedswimming pool at Bambooflat,revenue generation, promotionof active Youth Clubs and Sup-ply of Sports Materials to con-duct sports activities.

Tamil Nadu election: No talksgoing on with Vijayakanth's

DMDK, Stalin says

CHENNAI: A day after DMKchief M Karunanidhi told re-porters that alliance talks withVijayakanth's DMDK were on,his son and party treasurer MK Stalin on Tuesday said nosuch talks were happening andthat media had "misunder-stood" his father's statement.

The DMK chief's re-mark only referred to the ear-

lier invitation extended toDMDK, Stalin said.

" K a l a i g n a r(Karunanidhi) had said itclearly. You have not under-stood that. He has already ex-tended invitation to DMDK.Whether to accept the invita-tion or not is Vijayakanth'sright. We have no right to in-terfere in that process. He saidthe invitation extended earliercontinues. There is no new in-vitation. The talks did not hap-pen then and the talks are nothappening now," Stalin toldreporters at the party head-quarters, Anna Arivalayam,here

No report of anyIndian casualty in Brussels

explosions: MEANEW DELHI: There hasbeen no report of any Indiancasualty in the twin explo-sions at the Brussels airport,the ministry of external af-fairs said on Monday.

"We have spoken toour ambassador. No reportsof any Indian casualties,"External affairs ministryspokesperson Vikas Swarupsaid.

The twin explosions

rocked the main hall of Brus-sels airport killing at least oneperson and wounding severalothers, officials said in Brus-sels.

Prime MinisterNarendra Modi is scheduledto visit Belgium on March 30for the India-EU Summit.From Belgium, he is scheduledto travel to Washington forNuclear Security Summitfrom March 31.

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Congress winstwo Rajya Sabha seats in Assam

GUWAHATI: Two candidatesof the ruling Congress inAssam — former ministersRipun Bora and Ranee Narah— on Monday won the elec-tions for two Rajya Sabhaseats.

A total of 86 legisla-tors cast their votes. Whileformer state education minis-ter Bora got 38 votes, formerUnion minister Narah got 47votes.

The BodolandPeoples' Front (BPF) —which runs the Bodoland Ter-ritorial Council (BTC) — hadbacked businessman MahavitJain, who filed his nominationas an independent candidate.

Although the currentstrength of the Congress in theassembly is 70 — includingtwo AIUDF legislators whorecently joined the Congress— two legislators did not vote.

Congress legislatorfrom Digboi RameswarDhanowar could not makeit due to ill health. PartyDuliajan legislator AmiyaGogoi also did not turn up.

Besides, 16AIUDF legislators, one in-dependent and one BJP leg-islator also voted.

"We voted for theCongress candidate as we

want to prevent the BJP frompassing some of the anti-people bills brought by theparty in the Rajya Sabha. Wedo not have any understand-ing with the Congress," saidAIUDF legislator AbdurRahim Khan.

The rest of the BJPand Asom Gana Parishad leg-islators abstained from voting.The BPF also abstained.

BJP starts war againstAIADMK on Twitter, mutes alliance talk

CHENNAI: Debunking theo-ries of a tacit alliance with theAIADMK, the BJP hasramped up its attacks on theAIADMK on social media.

A cartoon posted bythe state unit on its officialTwitter page on Sunday in-sinuates that Sasikala, associ-ate of chief minister JJayalalithaa, wields muchpower. Later in the evening,another tweet attacked theTamil Nadu government say-ing it had decreased the allo-cation on education.

On Monday, the offi-cial state BJP handle postedanother cartoon that criticisedthe chief minister for not be-ing in the public eye enough.

The BJP's attackmay only repeat the allegationsthat other opposition partieshave made, but sends out asignal that the party is earnestabout its opposition to both theDravidian parties. "This putsto rest any speculation that thetwo parties, which had posi-tive governmental relations,would strike up an alliance forthe upcoming assembly polls,"said M Kasinathan, Tamil

writer and political ob-server.

The BJP has apowerful presence in thesocial media. Its Twitterpage has 31,000 followers,while AIADMK has onlyaround 15,000 and DMK,some 10,000. Nationally ,the BJP had set an exampleof how to leverage socialmedia to further its pros-pects. Taking its attacks tothe social media only showshow serious the party isabout its political positioningas an anti-AIADMK op-eration.

BJP state treasurerS R Shekar confirmed thechange in strategy and saidthe party would needle thestate government on gover-nance issues. "Some peoplewere saying that we wereonly anti-DMK. Thesetweets are to show that wewould attack both andmaintain equidistance," hesaid.

Social media isonly a bellwether, however.The BJP on Monday di-rected its panelists on tele-

vision debates to go all out toattack the AIADMK govern-ment over its failures. It isunderstood that party generalsecretary in-charge of TamilNadu, Murlidhar Rao, at aninternal conclave attended byleaders including state presi-dent Tamilisai Soundararajan,asked its media cell activiststo "show no soft corner forthe AIADMK" on issues likemis-governance and corrup-tion.

"There is no point inone opposition party (BJP)attacking another oppositionparty like the DMK. The cam-paign should be against theruling AIADMK," Rao said inthe meeting, according tosources.

Kasinathan said thatthis was an indication ofAIADMK not forthcomingon any tie-up with the BJPwith whom the party hasfriendly relations in Parlia-ment. "The cadres of the twoparties see each other asnatural allies. Yet the BJP hasto start its campaign now ifthey have to contest alone,"he said.

Brussels attackcondemnable: Modi

NEW DELHI: Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Tuesdaytermed the attacks at Brusselsairport that left many dead andwounded as "condemnable",saying the news is "disturbing".

"News from Brusselsis disturbing. The attacks arecondemnable. Condolences tofamilies of the deceased. Maythose injured recover quickly,"Modi tweeted.

A string of explosions

rocked Brussels airport anda city metro station today,killing over 20 people.

Modi is scheduledto visit Belgium to attend theIndia-EU Summit on March30.News from Brussels is dis-turbing. The attacks are con-demnable. Condolences tofamilies of the deceased.May those injured recoverquickly.

Death of Child...The mishap, however, hassparked concerns about waterreservoirs which are believedto be possible potential targetsof militants and anti-social el-ements.

While Andaman Pub-lic Works Department is beingcriticized largely for securitylapses, non-involvement ofother agencies like Police,IRBn, CISF etc is being questionas these agencies are mainly re-sponsible for security of waterreservoirs like Dams in otherparts of the country.

“If small children cansneak into water reservoir likeJawahar Sarovar, why can’tterrorists. Anti-social elementsare known to target water bod-ies to create havoc. For in-stance, contaminating waterreservoirs with poisonous sub-stance can wreak havoc in thecity killing thousands o fpeople. Terror groups likeTaliban and Al-Qaeda have inthe past threatened govern-ments to pollute water bodieslike Dams to execute mass kill-ings,” said some residents ofLamba Line.

“In almost every partof the country, water sourcesand reservoirs are providedwith a thick blanket of secu-rity so that any attempt to pol-lute the water supplied tothousands of households canbe foiled. But sadly, securityof water bodies and reservoirsin Port Blair City remains farfrom ensured. Officials re-sponsible for the drowning

accident of Monday shouldbe immediately placed un-d er suspensio n fo r thelapse,” say some others.

The responsibilityof ensuring safety of all largewater bodies lies with thePolice, APWD and overallthe Administration. There isa need to find out why therewas such security lapse re-gardless of the purpose thatwater from Jawahar Sarovaris used for drinking water ornot.

Efforts to contact thestaff of Jawahar Sarovar fora response proved futile. Itremains to be seen whetherthe administration takessome serious action againstthose responsible for the se-curity lapse or waits forsome more dro wningdeaths.

A few days backAndaman Sheekha had re-ported that how fearlesslypeople are indulging in opendefecation around KalpongDam of Dilgipur and nowthis incident of children en-tering openly for swimmingin Jawahar Sarovar showsthat how much we are pre-pared to face any future se-curity challenge.

A few days back in aprogramme on DDK the Lt.Governor had said on recordthat Administration has aSOP ready for any emergencysituation but it seems depart-ment under the Administra-tion are taking too lightly.

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Asleelatha Nivaran HolikaPort Blair, Mar 22: DIYA (Di-vine India Youth Association),the youth wing of GaytariChetna Kendra will organise“Asleelatha Nivaran Holika”on March 23, 2016 at BathuBasti from 5 pm to 7 pm to gen-erate awareness on womenempowerment.Messages likeelimination of dirty books andother materials from the soci-

ety, projecting women asmarketing product, boycott ofvulgar products and ill effectsof alcohol will be dissemi-nated on the occasion.Holika Dahan of materialssuch as immoral books,CDs, pictures and the prod-ucts which use vulgarity willbe performed on the occa-sion.

Seminar on strategies fordevelopment of food processing sector today

Port Blair, Mar 22: ICAR-Central Island AgriculturalResearch Institute (ICAR-CIARI), Port Blair will con-duct a National Seminar on“Strategies for the Develop-ment of Food ProcessingSector in the Islands” March23, 2016at its GaracharmaResearch Complex. MrAnindo Majumdar, Chief Sec-retary, A & N Administrationwill inaugurate the seminar at10.30 am in the conferencehall of CIARI. Dr. NawabAli, Former DDG (Eng.),

I.C.A.R., New Delhi, Smt.Rashmi Singh, Secretary, In-dustries, Mr Ajit Anand, Di-rector of Industries will bethe guests of honour. Dr. S.Dam Roy, Director, ICAR-CIARI will preside over thefunction.

The event aims tobring together distinguishedscientists, technocrats, entre-preneurs, progressive farm-ers in these Islands and ex-pert from mainland to sharethe knowledge and to iden-tify issues and evolving tech-

nologies related to the devel-opment of food processing sec-tors to render better servicesto the Islanders.

Progressive farmers,Departmental staff, Scientists,SHG’s groups, NGO’s andGram Pradhans will be partici-pating in the day long seminar.The seminar will be coordi-nated by Dr. S. Swain, Scien-tist & Organizing Secretaryunder the guidance of Dr. S.Dam Roy, Director and Dr. B.Gangaiah, HOD, NRM Divi-sion, CIARI.

World TB Day by PHC ManglutanPort Blair, Mar 22: Healthawareness programme on“World TB Day” wasorganised on 22.03.2016 atPrimary Health Centre,Manglutan in a befitting man-ner. Shri K. Thiyag Rajan,Health Educator welcomedthe gathering.

Dr. Varun Parekh,

Medical Officer In-chargeexplained in detail regardingthe theme and the cause, sign& symptoms of the disease.Smt Minati Biswas,Adhyaksha Zilla ParishadSouth Andaman was thechief guest.

Speaking on the oc-casion, the Adhyaksha Zilla

Parishad South Andaman saidthat smoking is a risk factor ofTB. Smt Sahaya Mary,Pradhan Gram PanchayatHumfrygunj was the guest ofhonour on the occasion. Theprogramme was attended byPRI members, Anganwadiworkers, Para-medical staff,and members of public.

Results of RSC T20 Cricket matchesPort Blair, Mar 22: In thematches played on Tuesdayin the ongoing RSC Open T-20 Cricket tournament atNetaji Stadium, SHAHI’s -XI defeated Bala -XI by 16

runs. Ronak Ali of SHAHI’S-XI scored 55 runs andbagged 3 wickets. In the sec-ond match, Milky Way beatMeshack Sporting Club by 8wickets. Shiva Bala

Murugan of Milky Way scoredan unbeaten 55.On Wednes-day, RJYC -XI will clash withPBMC –XI at 8 am and Ba-zaar Warriors will clash withAhmed Infotech at 12 noon.

Launching of charteredflight electronic ticketing through

Common Service CentresPort Blair, Mar 22: The char-tered flight electronic ticketingthrough Common ServiceCentres will be launched to-morrow the 23rd March 2016by the Secretary, Civil Avia-tion, Shri N.K. Sharma, IASat the CSC – eDweep Kendraat Lamba Line, Port Blair at1000 hrs.

The software for theelectronic ticketing throughCSC has been developedjointly by the Department ofCivil Aviation and Departmentof Information Technology(DIT), A&N Administration tofacilitate issue of charteredflight tickets for the conve-nience of the Islanders in avail-

ing chartered flight servicesin a hassle free manner.

Further, as per the di-rection of Hon’ble Lt. Gov-ernor, A & N Islands, Lt. Gen.A.K. Singh (Retd), the entireseats in chartered flight oper-ated on Chennai-Port Blair –Chennai and Kolkata – PortBlair – Kolkata sectors shallbe offered to the islandersonly during the summer va-cation period from 1st May2016 to 29th June, 2016 keep-ing in view the requirement ofislanders and students.

Accordingly, the ad-vance booking of charteredflight tickets for the month ofApril and May, 2016, initially

for two months for sectorChennai-Port Blair-Chennai willcommence from tomorrow the23rd March 2016 at 1000 hrs on-wards from any of the follow-ing offices as per the conve-nience of the passengers.

Any of the CommonService Centers (CSC)s – e-Dweep outlets. Counter at In-ter-Island Helicopter Terminal,Port Blair; Office of Dy. Com-missioner (Nicobar), CarNicobar; Office of Dy. Commis-sioner (North & MiddleAndaman), Mayabunder; Officeof Dy. Resident Commissioner,A & N Bhawan, Kolkata and Of-fice of Asst. Director, ShippingServices, Chennai.

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stated that the A & N Islandsis not just a place of tourismbut is also a place of pilgrim-age for the people of the coun-try as it has contributed greatlyin the freedom struggle. De-scribing the Islands as MiniIndia, the Lt Governor said thepeople of the Islands, despitehailing from different reli-gions, castes and speaking dif-ferent languages live in peaceand harmony.

It is a true represen-tation of our Constitution,which needs to be emulatedby other states of the coun-try. Referring to womenpower in the Islands, he saidgirls of the A&N Islands are

immensely talented. The Is-lands girls have excelled invarious National and Interna-tional sports events. Citing theexample of Miss Deborah,he said this girl from Nicobaris the best cyclist in India andis presently placed 4th in theworld rankings.

On being asked bythe Lt Governor as to whatthey liked the best in the Is-lands, most the girls repliedthat the enchanting naturalbeauty of the Islands has wontheir hearts. They also ex-pressed their gratitude to theHon’ble Lt Governor for pro-viding them the opportunity tovisit Raj Niwas.

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Middle Andaman, the SouthAndaman District is entitledfor opening of new JawaharNavodaya Vidyalaya underthe Common MinimumProgramme in special focusdistricts (identified as Educa-tionally Backward/ MinorityConcentrated / SC Female Lit-eracy less than 10%). In thisregard, the Member of Parlia-ment requested Deputy Com-missioner (Admn.), NavodayaVidyalaya Samiti, HyderabadRegion to depute their repre-

sentative for inspection ofidentified site at Port Moutunder South Andaman Dis-trict for conformity and its suit-ability. At the same time theMember of Parliament re-quested the Administration toexpedite the above issues. Itis pertinent to mention thatShri Bishnu Pada Ray,Hon’ble Member of Parlia-ment had been demanding forestablishing NavodayaVidyalaya in SouthAndaman District since long.

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