Port Blair, March 17: The Lt. Governor, Lt Gen (Retd) Bhopinder Singh, today visited Kamorta, Katchal and Teressa, the three remote Islands in the southern group of Islands.  The Lt. Governor took stock of various developmental works and interacted with tribal leaders and local population to have firsthand knowledge of the difficulties being faced by the people living in these remote islands. 

The LG has directed the Heads of Departments of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Rural Development, Electricity, Shipping, Police, Revenue, APWD and Health to regularly visit these islands to interact with local population and to address their day to day needs in a time bound manner on fast track.  He has also directed the departments to position their vehicles along with drivers for these three islands to improve the delivery of services in these islands. 

He also commended the different wings of the administration for creating storage facilities of petrol and diesel up to the requirement of three to seven months and commissioning of petrol pumps at Katchal, Kamorta and Teressa, which will go a long way in mitigating the long pending demand of availability of petrol/diesel at uniform rates in these remotely located islands.

Directions have been issued by the LG to the departments concerned on the specific island related issues.