Port Blair, May 1: Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Member of Parliament, A&N Islands has thanked the Hon’ble Lt. Governor, A&N Islands for implementing the Ministry of Home Affairs Order vide No. 40-3/2020-DM-I(A) dated 29.04.2020 for transporting the stranded Islanders from Chennai to Port Blair and vice versa through ship. He further requested him to extend the same to the Islanders who are stranded at Kolkatta and Visakhapatnam who need to be brought back to the Islands. The MP requested to depute the 03 (three) ships of Administration namely MV Nicobar, MV Swaraj Dweep and MV Nancowry to different destinations i.e. Chennai, Kolkatta and Visakhapatnam so that all the Islanders, which includes students, patients, businessmen, Government servants presently stranded at 03 different locations are brought back to the Islands. 

The Member of Parliament also emphasised that many of the Islanders and Students who are stranded at Delhi, Rajasthan (Kota), UP, Bihar, Jharkhand also need to be shifted to Kolkatta by bus or train. Similarly those who are stranded at Telengana, Andhra Pradesh and Chatishghar may be shifted to Visakhapatnam so that they can avail the ship to Port Blair from Visakhapatnam and those Islanders who are stranded at Kerala, Karnataka and different part of the Tamil Nadu may also be brought to Chennai via train or bus to get the ship/plane to come to Port Blair at the earliest.