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Port Blair, July 22: Heavy Rain (07-12cm) may occur at isolated places over A&N Islands during next 24hours. Under the influence of strong Southwest Monsoon current, strong Southwesterly wind speed between 45 to 55 kmph and rough to very rough seas likely along and off A & N coast. Fishermen are advised not to venture into the sea.
Port Warning:- Local cautionary signal No.-III kept hoisted at Port Blair Port .The general public is advised to take precautionary measures and in case of any emergency contact in the following phone numbers of State Control Room, District Control Room and Emergency Operation Centres.
State Control Room: 03192- 238880 (Tele-Fax), 1077(Helpline).
District Control Room: 03192-238881
EOC (Campbell Bay): 03193-264020
EOC (Kamorta): 03193-263222
EOC (N&M): 03192-262960
EOC (Hut Bay): 03192-284014
EOC (Car Nicobar): 03193-265241
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Port Blair, July 22: The Secretary-cum-Director, Education, Shri D.N. Singh visited the GSSS Haddo (Telugu Medium) and all the feeder schools attached to GSSS Haddo (Telugu Medium) viz. GSS Haddo (Tamil and English medium), GSS Haddo (Hindi medium), Middle and Primary Section (Telugu medium) Laltha Singh’s Ground, Haddo and GPS Haddo (English medium) (Wooden Structure Building) yesterday.
The Secretary instructed the Principal, GSSS Haddo (Telugu) to take up the encroachment problem of Laltha Singh ground school matter with concerned authorities and ensure to take to its logical conclusion. He visited GSSS Haddo (Hindi medium) and found that students’ strength is only approximately 60 from class I to VIII and therefore, there is large spare capacity in the school in terms of space and manpower. He asked the Principal of GSS Haddo (Tamil) to explore the possibility of shifting the Primary School (English) which is being run in a very old wooden structure nearby and has approximately 300 students on its roll. He instructed the Headmaster/Incharge of all the feeder schools, that they should strictly monitor the implementation of mid-day meal scheme in terms of hygienic and quality.
The Secretary-cum-Director (Education) expressed his concern over the poor maintenance and unhygienic condition in GSS (Tamil & Hindi). The computer lab being run by a private company was not found to be working properly. The Headmaster, Shri V.T. Reddy has been directed to do the needful and maintain the school in a proper way.
Further, the Principal, GSS Haddo (Telugu Medium) has been directed to visit the feeder schools from time to time and ensure maintenance and other operational issues are attended properly.
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Port Blair, July 22: The Transport Department has cautioned all the autorickshaw drivers against not operating the fare meter and charging higher fare from the commuters.
The Secretary (STA) has stated that it has been observed that mostly the fare meters are kept switch on just to show the Police personnel. The department has, on many occasions, directed the autorickshaw drivers to charge the notified fare from the commuters on the basis of the fare recorded in the fare meter but in many cases no tangible result has been found.
In view of this, all the autorickshaw drivers have been directed to strictly put on the fare meter in the beginning of a particular journey and charge the fare as per the fare recorded in the fare meter. Violation of not following the meter fare will be viewed seriously and stringent action as per the provision of rules would be initiated.
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Supplier to be registered under the Food Safety and Standard Act
Port Blair, July 22: Under the supplementary nutrition programme of ICDS, supplementary nutrition is being provided to the eligible beneficiaries in the anganwadi centres. As per the revised guidelines issued by the A&N Administration for purchase of items on the price fixed by the price fixation committee constituted, has to be made from any self help group (SHGs)/ village community (VCs)/mahila mandals (MMs)/Panchayat Raj Institution (PRIs) as per the interim order of the Supreme Court and the direction issued by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, GoI. Willing supplier of supplementary nutrition should be registered under the Food Safety and Standard Act.
In view of this, all existing SHGs/MMs/VCs and PRIs in the jurisdiction of ICDS Urban Project have been requested to submit their consent in writing for supply of SNP items on the prices fixed by the price fixation committee to the anganwadi centres during the current year (2013-14) by August 20, 2013 to the Child Dev. Project Officer (UP), Directorate of Social Welfare.
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Port Blair, July 22: Due to administrative reasons, the date of counseling for admission to various UG courses in JNRM for the academic session 2013-2014 fixed for July 22, 2013 onwards has been deferred till further notice.
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Port Blair, July 22: The Directorate of Education, A & N Administration has clarified that there is no substance in the news item appearing in certain section of the press regarding closure of schools during the first fortnight of August. The schools will continue to function as usual following published school calendar, a communication from the Asst. Director of Education (Admn.) said.
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Port Blair, July 21: A work shop on ‘Mind Mapping’ was organized by the Mahatma Gandhi International School as part of Teacher Development Programme for the benefit of the staff and the students. Shri. Jeyaram Seenivasagam, Principal Trainer, Success Edge on the occasion taught the techniques of mind mapping to the staff.
Mind mapping is one of the most useful techniques which help students and teachers to learn how to prepare their lessons in a more systematic fashion. Mind mapping is possible for any topic that needs preparation. The Principal of the school, Shri. Sivakumar was thanked for the efforts he had taken to organize the workshop in the campus.
Meanwhile the MGIS also organised a story telling competition as part of the CCA club. As many as 20 students took part in the competition narrating the same number of stories with moral values. It was pleasure listen to the narration of the tiny tots with the little lisp in their spoken styles. The excitement came to a conclusion when the results were announced by the Principal of the school who was one among the audience for the two hour long programme.