Port Blair, Jan 19: The villagers of Bambooflat Panchayat 02 poured out their problems and issues before the District Congress Committee President, Mr. V.K Abdul Aziz during an interaction programme organised on Wednesday night.

Port Blair, Jan 19: State President, Bharatiya Janata Party, A&N Islands, Shri Ajoy Bairagi has raised concerns of Anganwadi workers before the Chief Secretary, A&N Administration. He highlighted the issue of Non Payment of Honorarium on time resulting in non-proper supply of nutrition supplements to children. He also highlighted a very important issue that due to non-payment of rent of Anganwadi Centre leading to many Centers being on the verge to close down. Bairagi emphasized the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for POSHAN to avoid children suffer with malnutrition and called for immediate attention of the concerned authorities to resolve the issue on time.

Port Blair, Jan. 19: During the RT-PCR test conducted on 124 passengers who arrived here yesterday, 43 positive cases have been detected. Today, 8 flights with 538 passengers arrived, out of which, 431passengers were vaccinated with both doses while RT-PCR test was conducted on 102 passengers (1 foreign traveler) and the reports are awaited. 

Port Blair, Jan 19: The vaccination drive is continuing smoothly in A&N Islands. As per data available, a total of 6,02,225 beneficiaries in the age group of 18 and above have been vaccinated so far in A&N Islands. Similarly, 18,691 beneficiaries have been vaccinated in the age group of 15 to 18 years against the target beneficiaries of 23,000. The number of beneficiaries administered precautionary dose of vaccine so far stood at 3517.

Port Blair, Jan 19: Continuing to ensure that the people are secured and have necessary tools like mask and sanitizers to fight the corona virus, team Port Blair Guru Ki Rasoi when approached by the local residents of Round Basti and briefed about the families who are not in state to buy mask and Sanitizers, the team reached out to around 100 families with masks and sanitizer in the area.