Port Blair, Jan. 25: As part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, the trainees of Fashion & Apparel Design course under Skill Development Program of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Port Blair have made more than 25,000 re-usable cloth bags. These cloth bags will be distributed among general public, free of cost tomorrow (Jan.26) from 13 different venues/ places throughout A&N Islands through the respective PRI members/ Govt. Officials as mentioned below:
Port Blair: Bathubasti Near Cloud 7 building - 10:00 am – 2500 bags
FCI Godown, Dollygunj - 10:00 am- 2900 bags
Mayabunder: Pokkadera Panchayat - 07:30 am – 300 bags
Rampur Panchayat: 07:30 am – 200 bags
Mayabunder Panchayat: 08:00 am – 550 bags
Netaji Ground: 09:30 am – 945 bags
Rangat: BJP Chowk - 09:00 am – 3500 bags
Rangat Market: 09:00 am – 3500 bags
Baratang: Sundergarh Panchayat Bhawan - 09:00 am – 1500 bags
Ferrargunj: Auto Stand - 09:00 am – 2500 bags
Hutbay: RRO Ground - 09:30 am – 3985 bags
Katchal: Mildera Ground - 09:30 am – 495 bags
E-Wall: 09:30 am – 520 bags
M.R.N: 02:30 pm – 530 bags
Campbell Bay: Mini Stadium - 09:30 am – 1525 bags
In the year 2019 also, DBRAIT distributed more than 30,000 cloth bags free of cost to general public. The objective of distributing these bags is to encourage the use of cloth bags and discard the use of polythene/ plastic bags by the general public to make Andaman & Nicobar Islands free from polythene bags.