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09 June 2013

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Port Blair, June 9: Shri P. Kannan, President and other office bearers of Govt. Employees Federation, A&N Islands have condoled the sudden and untimely demise of Shri Pradeep Kumar, aged 53 years, working as Wharf Superintendent at Chatham Wharf, Port Management Board on 9^th June 2013 at about 2.30 pm at his residence at Nayagaon Village, Port Blair. He was an active member of our affiliated association “Port Cargo Wing Staff Association” PMB. The federation prays to the Almighty to rest his soul in peace and give enough strength and courage to his bereaved family to bear the irrecoverable loss.

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09 June 2013

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Port Blair, June 9: Eminent Kathak Exponent Smti. Debashree Bhattacharya is on a visit to these islands to conduct a Kathak Workshop. Smti. Debashree is a registered artist with the ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations, the Sangeet Natak Akademi and the Doordarshan. She has performed in various shows across the world and her heart lies in spreading the dance form to amateurs and professionals.

The Workshop is being conducted by Naach Academy of Performing Arts in association with INTACH Andaman Chapter with support from the Directorate of Art & Culture, A & N Administration. The workshop is a week long program. It would be conducted in four levels.  Level one being held between the 10^th 15^th of June while Levels II, III, and IV would be conducted in August, October and December 2013 respectively.

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09 June 2013

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Port Blair, June 9: Instances have come to notice that during recruitment by the various police forces in the country some criminally minded individuals who at time have not only been police officials but also political workers have tried to project that they can use their influence to ‘fix’ the recruitment. The Modus Operandi of such conmen is to accept money from some gullible candidates on the pretext that they shall be able to use their influence to get them selected. But, in reality they are in no position to exert any such influence.

Although, all the candidates get finally selected on their merit but out of the final list whosoever is selected these conmen keep the money taken from such gullible candidates. Thus, the candidates who have been rightfully selected but duped by the above process unfortunately spend their entire lives in the police service feeling that they did not deserve the job, since they had got it in an underhand way. And the rest who did not make the final list, their money is returned after retaining a portion of as ‘expenses already incurred’ and at time also excuses are made such as that they were late in joining the scheme, etc.

All members of the public and all candidates are warned not to be misled and cheated by such cheats.

“The A&N Police will always go strictly by merit and the undersigned is personally overseeing the entire on-going process of recruitment. Also legal action shall be initiated against any such cheats”, said the Director General of Police, Shri Sudhir Singh Yadav in a communication.

The public as well as the candidates have been advised that if they have any such information about such cheats they may give this information to SP (Anti-Corruption), Smti. Aslam Khan, IPS on 03192-240840 and 9531856296. The information shall be kept strictly confidential and the information shall be suitably rewarded.

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07 June 2013

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Port Blair, June 7:  In what can be said as ‘Ignorant attitude’ on the part of the concerned authorities, a naturally grown tree inside Aberdeen Village has been posing danger to the school going children and to the residents alike. The Peepal tree is located adjacent to the Kamraj English Medium School (Primary), with its branches falling on live electric wires jumbled up beneath it.

Upon being intimated about this ‘invited threat’ and ignorance of the concerned, Andaman Chronicle on inspecting the spot found portions of the tree branch fallen over the live electric wires, connecting the houses nearby.  

“The tree has become a nuisance for the residents posing threat, especially to the small children of Kamraj School who can be seen playing under the tree”, explained a resident.

“We have tried our level best to inform the authorities through letters and verbal communication about this invited trouble, but our voices seem to fall in deaf ears”, he said.

With the arrival of monsoons in the islands, heavy rains, high wind speed with thunder and lightning is being experienced all over. There are recorded incidents of trees falling on the road, live electric wires, houses and so on. In some cases even the Hon’ble Lt. Governor had to intervene by providing compensation to the family of the persons who died due to tree fall.

Such being the situation, it can be hoped that concerned authorities would treat this as urgent and make immediate arrangements atleast to chop down the branches posing serious threat to residents and small school going children.