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Translate the values learnt in the Play field into real life situations: CINCAN tells Soldiers
Port Blair, March 17: The Commander In Chief of the Andaman Nicobar Command Air Marshal P.K. Roy has called upon the officers and soldiers to translate the values they learn in the playfield into real life situations.
Addressing the gathering at the valedictory function of the ‘Carnic Premier League Cricket Tournament’ held at the Air Force Station ground Car Nicobar yesterday, he said that the players learn values like discipline, team work, commitment, hard work and perseverance in the play ground. He said that the soldier needs to work even harder when the goal appears to be near. Giving away the prizes to the players, Air Marshal asked them to keep themselves fit and to participate in the Sports Activities regularly.
Congratulating the Champion team, the Dazzling Dolphins, the Air Marshal appreciated the efforts of the Station Commander Rohit Mahajan, Group Captain P.E. Varghese and the entire unit for organizing the Night Cricket League in a most professional manner. He expressed happiness to see the fine coordination between the defence unit and the civil authorities.
Earlier in the exciting Final Match last night, the team of Dazzling Dolphins led by Wing Commander H. Pandit defeated Adm Avtaars by 4 wickets. Winning the toss the Adm opted for batting first and under the leadership of Group Captain P. E. Varghese and scored 50 runs in the allotted 10 overs by losing 9 wickets. Saurabh Sharma was the highest scorer for Adm.
For the Dolphins Vikas and Sirajuddin claimed 2 wickets each. In reply, the Dolphins reached the target in the last over with 4 wickets in hand. Jubilations started, the moment Raman scored the winning run. It was a disappointed day for the Adm Avtaars team yesterday, which had won all its matches in the league round.
Om Prakash of the Carnic Kamikaze team was declared the best All-rounder of the CPL, whereas the prize for the best batsman was given to Vikas of Dazzling Dolphins. The best bowler award went to Anant of Adm Avtaars. The Carnic Kamkaze team got the third place, defeating the Royal Engineers MES. Total 8 teams from the defence establishments participated in this Carnic Premier League. This is the first time when a night Cricket league was organized in this district.
“The organizers deserve appreciation for taking initiative and executing it so professionally”, commented the Guest of Honour Shri Samuel Edward Kuchart, son of the legendary Ex-Captain of Kakana Late Shri Edward Kuchart, who had donated vast area of land to the Government for the construction of Runway years ago. The Commentary team of Shri Anil Bhadula, RS. Manhas, Sreedhar, Ranjan and Swaminathan too did justice with their jobs, and the audience enjoyed the running commentary of the matches. The representative of the Kakana Youth Group, Great heart said that Air Force Unit keeps good rapport with his Group members to conduct their social endeavors for the welfare of the Villagers, which is a positive attitude on the part of the Unit.
The Deputy Commissioner of the Nicobar District Shri P. Jawahar, Superintendent of Police Dr. B. Sreekant and the President of Defence Wives Welfare Association Mrs. Ranjana Roy were also present in the function. The 15 days long Cricket Carnival concluded with the grand Community dinner.
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Port Blair, March 17: The INTUC President, Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma had met the Lt. Governor alongwith a delegation of daily wage/contract workers of Directorate of Transport and briefed him of the need to increase the number of posts in the Directorate.
Sharma said that at present the sanctioned strength of Bus drivers and Conductors are 224 with 191 workshop staffs to carry out the operation and maintenance of buses. He stated that though the number of buses and routes got substantially increased, the augmentation of man power in terms of operational and Technical staff did not happen to commensurate the infrastructural expansion. To cope up with the increased work load and providing efficient and effective transportation service, the Directorate has been engaging the manpower on daily wages or contract basis in absence of regular posts. Considering the requirement for augmentation of man power, the AN Administration has sent proposal to Govt of India for creation of 628 posts of various categories and it is understood that the proposal is under the consideration of Central Govt.
Accordingly Sharma requested the Administrator that these 628 posts may be filled in with the present 400 daily wage/contract workers engaged in the Directorate of transport, State Transport Authority and Regional transport office, as out of these workers, more than 300 have completed more than 7 years of continuous service and rest have completed 240 days of continuous engagement in a year.
Advocating for the workers, he also stated that appreciable number of vacancies has arisen in the directorate at the entry level posts due to retirement, promotion, death. He therefore requested that on the basis of seniority of these DRMs/contract workers, their services may be regularized against the appropriate category of vacant posts. Sharma has also requested for 1/30th of the pay at the minimum of relevant pay scale plus DA for work of 8 hours a day may be considered for the remaining Daily wage workers etc.
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Port Blair, March 15: A 15-day Canvas painting workshop for the school children/students upto class -XII is being conducted by the “KASHEESH”. The participants will be awarded certificate on successful completion of the workshop from 17th March, 2013 under the professional guidance of qualified and highly experienced resource persons. A jury will select best 3 paintings under various Age-groups and an exhibition of all the paintings by the students is likely to be held at a prominent venue within Port Blair along with the paintings of resource persons & eminent Artists of the Islands. Interested parents/ students may contact 9474252299 for more details, a communication said here.
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Port Blair, March 15: The Member of Parliament, Shri Bishnu Pada Ray had raised the matter regarding payment of wages to the workers of M/s Andaman Timber Industries, A&N Islands during the Zero Hour in the parliament on 14th December 2012.
Now vide his DO dated 1st March 2013, Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, Minister of Labour & Employment, GOI stated that, “Since M/s Andaman Timber Industries, A&N Islands falls within the jurisdiction of Andaman & Nicobar Administration, which is the ‘appropriate government’ and vested with legal powers under Industrial disputes Act, 1947 to intervene/settle the grievances of workers, we have sought Report in the matter from the A&N Administration”
The Minister further stated that as soon as the Report is received from A&N Administration the same will be communicated.
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Port Blair, March 14: The newly appointed Chairperson of the A & N Commission for OBC, Hon'ble Justice (Retd.) Mr. Amit Talukdar will be visiting these Islands from 18th March, 2013 to 20th March, 2013 for assuming the charge of Chairperson, A & N Commission for OBC. On completion of visit, the Chairperson will return to Kolkata on 21st March, 2013.
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Port Blair, March 15: The Zilla Parishad Member Shri Kurma Rao along with a delegation of various tour operators of Baratang and Port Blair met the PCC President Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma today at Gandhi Bhavan and recorded their gratitude for taking care of their problems when ATR was declared as closed.
Kurma Rao on the occasion explained the operators as how Sharma guided him to file the affidavit and what are the points to be included in it to convince the Hon’ble Court. Rao recorded his surprise that apart from the A&N Administration and this affidavit, no other affidavit was filed by any other party and or no other political leaders even thought of submitting such affidavit for the welfare of the tour operators.
He further said that the other prominent leaders had created a chaos and used intolerable words against the Administrator and Congress Party so that they also do not come forward to help the operators.
Few tour operators of Baratang also recorded their gratitude for Sharma, Congress Party and the Administration and accepted with guilt for being a part of the agitation.
In the above meeting this was also told that some rumours are being created that ATR has been made open only upto 2015, which is totally baseless. People may download the verdict of the Honourable Court and themselves find as to how innocent people are being misguided, said the Secretary to the PCC President, Shri Haridas Chattopadhyay in a communication to the press.
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Port Blair, March 14: Shri S. Shiv Raj Appa Proprietor Vijay Raj Tours & Travels on behalf of the tour operators has expressed his gratitude to Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma, President PCC for his selfless assistance provided to the tour operators of these islands in their time of extreme distress.
In his letter he said that a number of persons associated with the business were adversely affected and were on the brink of starvation. Thousands of people were engaged directly or indirectly in the business of tourism. They were in despair when the ATR was closed. However they did not lose hope as they had believed that the PCC President would help in overcoming the difficult time.
On behalf of the tour operators, Shiv Raj Appa submitted his apologies for getting misguided by some so called prominent leaders who had their own vested interest and instead of helping them had damaged their cause for political objective. It was reassured to the President that in future if any such problems arise, the tour operators would approach only Shri Sharma and not get misguided by any political leader or anti-social elements.
“We shall ever remain grateful to you in particular and Congress party in general. We are also grateful to the Hon’ble Lt. Governor who always sympathized with our problem and came forward to help us in our hour of need”, said Shiv Raj while concluding his letter of gratitude to the Congress President.