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Port Blair, June 19: The PCC President Kuldeep Rai Sharma has written a letter to the Governor of Jharkhand to allot some seats in MBBS and Engineering courses in the University and colleges for the students of the Chotanagpur Community of A&N Islands.

In his letter to the Governor, Sharma wrote that due to non availability of Medical and Engineering Colleges in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, highly talented and meritorious students are depending on the quotas of MBBS and Engineering seats in different Universities and Colleges in mainland considered by the Central and State Government to the A&N Administration. Out of that quota the A&N Administration allots seats to the deserving students of these islands. Sharma said that consideration of the Jharkhand Government will go a long way for the development of the Chotanagpur Community settled in the islands.

The PCC President has also brought to the kind notice of the Governor that various State Governments like Kerala, Tamil Nadu etc. are considering such quotas for the students of the origins of their respective States, settled in Andaman and Nicobar groups of islands. Sharma has also informed him that in these islands, a large number of Chotanapur origins are settled in these islands but due to various reasons, students of this Community are not capable enough to compete with the students of other categories and their utmost desire to serve the Islands as Doctors and Engineers goes in vain.

Batting for the bright future of the students belonging to Chotanagpuri Origin, settled in these islands, Sharma requested the Governor to consider yearly quota of few seats in MBBS and Engineering to the Andaman and Nicobar Administration for this particular community.

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Port Blair, June 19: The Railway Recruitment Board, Ministry of Railways, GoI has agreed for setting up an Examination Centre at Port Blair for recruitment examinations being conducted by the Railway Recruitment Board. The Lt Governor, Lt Gen (Retd) Bhopinder Singh, PVSM, AVSM has taken up the matter for setting up the Examination Centre at Port Blair to facilitate all the aspiring candidates who are willing to appear in various Railway recruitment examinations being conducted from time to time. Setting up of an Examination centre at Port Blair for the Railway Recruitment Board will benefit the educated youth of these islands to appear in all the examinations conducted by Railway Recruitment Board without going to mainland to appear in such examinations.

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Port Blair, June 19: The Lt Governor, Lt Gen (Retd) Bhopinder Singh, PVSM, AVSM today felicitated the first five toppers of Class XII in the Science, Commerce, Arts and Vocational streams for the academic year 2012-2013. At a function organized under the aegis of Directorate of Education at Raj Niwas here today, the Lt. Governor gave away medals and certificates of merit to the Class XII toppers in the presence of the First Lady of the Islands, Smt Bhawanee Singh. He also presented Late Ajay Mathew Gold Medal to Kumar S. Ahmed Meeran, 1st topper of AISSCE (2012-13), who scored 96.60% marks. The Lt Governor on the occasion also released a book on imaginative and awareness creative poems by Kumar Prasanjit Das, a class Xth student of St. Mary’s School, Port Blair.  

Speaking on the occasion, the Lt Governor congratulated all the meritorious students for their hard work and excellent result in academics and lauded the efforts of the teachers for the outstanding results achieved by the students. The excellent performance by these students will motivate and inspire other students to do well in their academic subjects, he stated. He further stated that many initiatives are being taken by the Education department to provide right ambience to the students by providing proper school infrastructure facilities in all the three Districts of the Islands. The Lt Governor advised the student to set goals by deciding in advance about their career options and then pursue hard to achieve their aims.

Earlier, welcoming the chief guest and others, the Chief Secretary (i/c) and Principal Secretary (Education), Smt Rina Ray stated that the students of the islands have done well by scoring high percentage matching the toppers in mainland. She further stated that the Education department will organize separate coaching classes for senior students in order to support them for preparing UPSC examinations. The function concluded with the vote of thanks proposed by the Director of Education, Dr. R. N. Prasad.

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Self Employment Could Be the Best To Provide Sustainable Employment Opportunities: Onit Panyang

Port Blair, June 19: To create a wider awareness among the rural populace about the self employment programme, two more awareness campaign-cum-people’s education programmes on PMEGP and other Govt. sponsored self employment schemes were organized by the A&N Islands Khadi & Village Industries Board at the Gram Panchayat, Long Island on 18^th June 2013 at 1000 hrs and at the Zilla Parishad auditorium, Rangat on the same day at 1600 hrs. Both the programmes were organized in association with the Directorate of Industries, Banks, PRIs and other likeminded agencies with a view to cater the demand of the unemployed / under employed youths towards establishment of micro enterprises for their future livelihood support.

Altogether 52 beneficiaries at Long Island and 47 beneficiaries at Rangat attended the programme. Shri Onit Panyang, IAS, Secretary (Ind.) & Chairman, A&NI KVIB was the chief guest on both the occasions whereas Shri B. Kamaraju, Pradhan, Gram Panchayat, Long Island, Shri P. Prasad, Zilla Parishad Member and Adhir Mattubar, Pradhan, Gram Panchayat, Rangat were the special guests at their respective places.

In his key note address, Shri Onit Panyang, IAS, Secretary (Ind.) & Chairman, A&NI KVIB viewed that the self employment could be the best option for providing sustainable employment opportunities to the unemployed youths subject to the conditions that they should opt for such activities which have good scope and market potentiality for development at the concerned area. He also appealed the banking institutions to help the programme implementing agencies in identification of suitable entrepreneurs apart from their core duties of financing viable projects.  The Chief Guest also emphasized the need for frequent collaborative efforts from the programme implementing agencies, PRIs and Banks to bring more number of unemployed / under employed youths under the fold of self employment venture.

The people of Long Island and Rangat also pointed certain concern / hindrances which they are facing regularly under different sectors for running their venture successfully. To this the Secretary (Ind.) assured that he would bring these issues to the notice of the senior officers of all concerned departments for an amicable solution in the matter.

During their address, Shri B.Kamaraju, Pradhan, Gram Panchayat, Long Island, Shri P.Prasad, Zilla Parishad Member and Adhir Mattubar, Pradhan, Gram Panchayat, Rangat appreciated the efforts taken by the A&NI KVIB for arranging such programmes at their respective places and advised the participants to make best use of the same.    

Earlier, Shri A. Sinha Roy, Executive Officer, A&NI KVIB explained the reason behind organization of such programme at different islands and the role of various developmental agencies towards minimization of the prevailing unemployment problem through establishment of economic activities by individual entrepreneurs / Self Help Groups.

The representatives of Agriculture, fisheries and AH&VS also explained their schemes during the programme held at Long Island and Rangat. During the programme, loan application forms were also issued to the 05 interested beneficiaries at Long Island and 10 beneficiaries at Rangat.

Both the programmes were started with a welcome address by Smti Sunita Kumari, Industries Promotion Officer, ITC, Bakultala and ended with the vote of thanks proposed by Smti Meera Singh, Supervisor, KVIB.