Sri Vijaya Puram, Dec. 1: The Andaman & Nicobar Administration, in consultation with the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, has initiated the process of assigning names to previously unnamed Islands & rocks and standardizing similar names of existing Islands & rocks. This exercise covers 596 out of the 836 Islands and rocks that constitute the Andaman & Nicobar archipelago.
The general public, members of tribal communities, ex-servicemen, students, teachers, historians, environmentalists have been invited to send their valuable suggestions for naming of these Islands/rocks. Names may reflect local tribal heritage, freedom fighters, eminent personalities, martyrs, unique flora & fauna, geographical features, historical events of national importance or any other theme considered appropriate.
Suggestions, along with a brief justification (not exceeding 200 words), has been invited within 15 days from the date of publication of this notice by hand / through mail at artand.culture@and.nic.in or through registered post addressed to ‘The Director, Department of Art & Culture, A&N Administration, Cellular Jail Complex, Atlanta Point- 744101’, issued in public interest by the Department of Art & Culture, A&N Administration.
samudra islands ,as we have fully covered with samudra so it is best
TEAK WOOD ISLANDS in our island we have teak plantation so better we can keep this name
MANGROOVE ISLAND as we have mangrove trees in this islands so we can keep this name
Bharat islands as we are detatched from indias land mass ,so as remembrance of our India we can refer it as Bharat island
Mathruboomi isalnds we can name this becasuse it refers to our motherland