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Port Blair, Feb 15: The Chief Electoral Officer, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Shri B S Jaglan, IAS, today, held a meeting with the Returning Officer (ANIPC), Ms Veditha Reddy, IAS, Joint Chief Electoral Officer, Shri Dilkhush Meena, IAS, Asst. Commissioner (UT), Shri Suvigya S Chandra, IAS, Asst. Commissioner (Sett), Shri Anand Vardhan Mishra, Nodal Officer (Social Media)/Director (IP&T), Shri Jatinder Sohal, officials from Doordarshan & All India Radio in his chamber at Secretariat, A&N Administration.
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Port Blair, Feb 15: The Department of Social Welfare, A &N Administration has launched a new programme namely ‘Poshan Mitra’, a vital initiative aimed at combating severe malnutrition among children with the support of general public.
The Poshan Mitra program is an additional effort to address the pressing issue of malnutrition through community participation especially through volunteers, who can assist the severely malnourished children by donating nutritional items like dalia, date syrup, ghee, protein powder, green gram, ground nut worth Rs 1000/- per month to a severe malnutrition among children in the following manner.
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Port Blair, Feb 15: A three day’s exposure visit cum training programme on “Quality Seed and Planting Material in Agri-horticultural Crops for Nicobarese Tribal Farmers” was organized at ICAR-CIARI, Port Blair during February 7th to 9th, 2024. The programme was inaugurated by Dr. Eaknath B. Chakurkar, Director, ICAR-CIARI, Port Blair in the presence of Course Director Dr. P. K. Singh, Principal Scientist and Head (-I/c), Division of Horticulture and Crop Improvement and Course Coordinators Dr. Pooja Bohra and Dr. Ajit Waman.
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Port Blair, Feb 15: In support of the nation-wide industrial strike and Gramin Bandh by workers and farmers and also to demand regularization of services of Daily Rated Mazdoors working under the Administration, the CITU will organise mass processions and public meetings across the Andaman & Nicobar Islands on 16th February, 2024.
At Port Blair, the mass procession will begin from the Tiranga Park and after making a round of the important points of the town will conclude at Tiranga Park which will be followed by a public meeting. The procession will begin exactly at 4 p.m from Tiranga Park.
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Port Blair, Feb 15: On 14/02/2024, acting on a specific intelligence input from reliable source, a team of PS Central Crime Station comprising of SI Parvash, Head Constable Sanjit Madhu & Sanjay Kujur and constable Chandran & K. Rajendran apprehended one person namely Shiv Mondal S/o Late Gourango Mondal (54) yrs R/o School Line, Port Blair with 18 pieces measuring 0.722 Cbm of illegal sawn padauk timber of different sizes from his premises. Padauk timbers were seized and accused person was detained after following due procedure.
Read more: Illegal Sawn Padauk Timbers Seized, One Apprehended by PS CCS