Port Blair, June 8: D. Ayyappan, Secretary, CPI (M) A & N State Organising Committee along with other party leaders and office bearers of Andaman Shopkeepers Association visited Mohanpura Municipal Shopping complex today (8th June, 2023) morning and met the shopkeepers who were affected by the flash flood on 7th June, 2023 following the incessant rain on 6th and 7th June, 2023. The shopkeepers in the Municipal Shopping Complex and Fruit Sellers opposite the STS Bus Terminus informed him that the rain water entered their shops and damaged goods and machineries. Many of them sustained loss of considerable amount.  They complained that one of the reasons for flooding the Mohanpura area was the failure of the PBMC to clean the drainages. 

Later on, D. Ayyappan, wrote a letter to the Deputy Commissioner, South Andaman District about the situation and requested to send a team of Revenue officials to assess the loss sustained by the shopkeepers at Mohanpura area. He also informed the Deputy Commissioner that a few low lying areas of Dollygunj also submerged in the rain water and caused considerable damage to the household articles of residents and demanded compensation for these affected residents also.    

SP Kalairajan, CPI (M) State Committee Member, NKP Nair, Area Committee Member, KG Samkutty, General Secretary, Andaman Shopkeepers Association and others accompanied D. Ayyappan during the visit.