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Port Blair, July 21: The 31st Installation Ceremony of Rotary Club of Port Blair was held on 20th July 2013 at Hotel Fortune Bay Resort, Port Blair wherein the new President Rtn. Kaushik Banerjee and Secretary Rtn. Pankaj Rungta took over the charge for the year 2013-14. The Chief Secretary, A&N Administration, Shri Anand Prakash was the chief guest.
Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Secretary, Shri Anand Prakash appreciated the activities of the club and assured all support from the Administration for the welfare activities taken up from time to time.
On the occasion, Rtn. Girish Arora, outgoing President of the Club while thanking the Chief Guest and other dignitaries present explained how the club was able to serve the needy during the year 2012-13 with the active support of the Administration and the members of the club. Through a multi-media presentation, Arora tried to showcase the activities of the club, which was well received by the dignitaries and the members present.
The incoming President, Rtn. Kaushik Banerjee introduced the new office bearers of the club and also assured that the Club will be taking up activities as done in the past for the welfare of the needy and downtrodden.
On the occasion Rtn. Anil Goel of the club was declared as the first major donor of the club, who has donated 10,000 USD to Rotary International for the welfare activities done by the club worldwide.
Earlier a two-minute silence was observed in memory of Late Rtn. Sharma and Late Rtn. Goel who left for heavenly abode during the year 2012-13.
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Port Blair, July 21: The PCC President, Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma has requested the Lt Governor to consider establishing a Central University in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Sharma feels that establishment of a Central University for these islands is justified as it is the last eastern outpost of India with a population of nearly 4 lakhs, 3 districts and 501 villages and a high literacy level of about 86% while being isolated. The pass outs from all Sr Secondary Schools of these islands cannot afford to go to the mainland colleges for further studies. Therefore establishing of a university can effectively check the frustration of people and develop the region.
Accordingly, Sharma requesting for establishment of a Central University in these islands wrote that the A&N Administration has been quite positive on the issues raised by him from time to time and hoped that the present proposal for establishing a central university may also be granted by the Administrator.
Mentioning that the Prime Minister of India has stated that every State should have at least one Central University, he said that the Vice Chancellor of Pondicherry University to which all the colleges of these islands are affiliated has already recommended to the Ministry of Human Resources Development of such establishment of an exclusive University for these islands.
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Port Blair, July 21: The Central Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair will be organizing the “Agribusiness Camp” at its Garacharma Complex on 27th July 2013 from 10.30 A.M onwards in collaboration with Zonal Technology Management Unit, NIRJAFT, Kolkata.
Shri Anand Prakash, I.A.S., Chief Secretary, A & N Administration will be the Chief Guest and inaugurate the function. Dr. S. Dam Roy, Director, CARI, will preside over the function and address the gatherings. Dr. A.N. Roy, CPI, ZTM-BPD Unit, Kolkata, will provide an overview of the Agribusiness camp and functions of Business Planning and Development Unit (East Zone).
The Agribusiness Camp will act as a platform wherein the technology provides/innovators, bankers and entrepreneurs will join together and discuss the possibilities for commercializing the agricultural technologies which will be beneficial to the needy farmers, entrepreneurs and the institutes. All the interested progressive farmers, entrepreneurs, bankers and others are requested to attend the camp and get the benefits. About 15 ICAR institutes of Eastern India will be participating and displaying their technologies in this event.
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Port Blair, July 19: The Lt Governor, Lt Gen (Retd) A K Singh, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, visited Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Institute of Technology (BRAIT), Dollygunj and inspected the facilities there. He took a round of the College and met the Principal and staff of the institution.
The Principal apprised him about the activities of the College through a multi-media presentation. He also visited the College library and interacted with the students and witnessed their scientific exhibits. He observed that the College should focus on imparting those skills to the students which are in demand so that after completion of their education, these students can find suitable jobs or start their own ventures.
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Delegation of NGGO’s Assn. Meet LG
Port Blair, July 19: A delegation of the Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers’ Association, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, today met Lt. Gen (Retd) AK Singh, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM and conveyed its best wishes to him on assuming the office of the Lt. Governor. The Association presented an overview of the contribution of government employees to the development of these islands and the role played by the Association, which is the largest and only recognised Service Association in the islands.
The Association presented before him some of the demands of the employees like (i) setting up a grievance redressal mechanism in the islands to settle the demands of government employees on the lines of JCM (ii) construction of more residential accommodation on the same site where old residential quarters exist (iii) grant of Grade Pay of Rs. 4200 on Non-Functional Selection Grade basis to HGCs and Stenographers with 5 years service in the post (iv) to extend Part B upgraded Pay to Headmasters, PETs, Librarian, etc. as done in other UTs, (v) grant of ISDA to teachers during summer vacation which is arbitrarily denied to them, etc. He assured the delegation that he will try to settle all those issues of government employees which are coming under his purview.
The Lt. Governor informed the delegation that he will not tolerate corruption at any level in the Administration and sought the cooperation of the Association, which the delegation of the Association readily agreed to. The Lt. Governor also informed the delegation that he is committed to the overall development of these islands. Lt. Governor sought the cooperation of the government employees for properly and effectively implementing various schemes for the welfare of the islanders.
The delegation of the Association comprised (1) Shri Sadanand Rai, President (2) Shri D. Ayyappan, General Secretary (3) Shri TS Sreekumar, Asst. General Secretary (4) Shri Jairaj, Vice President, Clerical Cadre Branch and (5) Shri Suresh Singh, Organising Secretary of South Andaman Teachers’ Branch.
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Port Blair, July 19: On the direction of the Lt Governor, Lt Gen (Retd) A K Singh, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, the Chief Secretary has initiated an inquiry by a high level Committee to inquire into the complaint of sexual harassment of an employee of APWD. The Committee consists of Smt Rina Ray, Principal Secretary (Fin) as the Chairperson with Smt Ratna Kannan, Chairperson, A&N State Social Welfare Board and Smt Rasheeda Iqbal of Art & Culture Department as members.
The Committee will also see and report as to whether there has been any violation of various statuary obligations at any level of the Administration and submit its report within 7 days. On receipt of the report from the Committee, appropriate follow up action will be taken.
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Port Blair, July 19: The PCC President, Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma has requested the Lt Governor to consider a branch of Jawahar Naodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) at Hutbay, Little Andaman.
In his letter he has stated that the branches of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya at Panchawati and Nicobar have proved to be very worthy for the students of these islands and these branches have shown excellent results in the examinations of CBSE. More over the people of all over these islands wish to get their wards admitted the the said schools, which also boarding facilities.
Praising the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Sharma has written that Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya are schools for talented children and form a part of the system of gifted education. Its significance lies in the selection of talented rural children as the target group and the attempt to provide them with quality education without regard to their family's socio-economic condition.
Sharma stated that while he was on tour to Hutbay, Little Andaman, many parents approached him to place their demand before the Lt. Governor to consider a branch of the school at Hutbay. The PCC President has therefore requested the Administrator to consider their genuine demand and allow a branch of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya at Hutbay as a welfare measure.