Port Blair, Aug 25: The Member of Parliament, Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma has requested the Chief Secretary, A&N Administration to ensure availability of COVID-19 testing kits at PHC Kadamtala and also in other Health Care Centers in the Inter Islands for testing of symptomatic persons.  

Port Blair, Aug 25: The State President, BJP, Shri. Ajoy Bairagi has requested the Lt. Governor and Chief Secretary to provide adequate supply of diesel to Diglipur, North and Middle Andaman. Bairagi in his letter mentioned that at present only one tanker of diesel is supplied to Diglipur, North and Middle Andaman in a week, whereas the actual requirement of diesel in the region is four tankers a week during normal times.

Port Blair, Aug 25: Shri Ayyub Hassan of Chukchucha Village, Car Nicobar has been promoted to the rank of IFS (Indian Forest Services). He is the first tribal from these islands to be promoted to the rank of IFS. Upon his becoming the first tribal IFS, the Chairperson, Shri Rasheed Yusuf & the Managing Committee of Tribal Development Council has expressed their heartiest congratulations.

Port Blair, Aug 25: The Central Crime Station police in its continuous efforts to crackdown on bootlegging, illegal and spurious liquors striking hard against bootleggers, conducted a Jungle search operation at Bamba Nallah Sippighat area.

Authorities Shift Responsibilities When it Comes to Rectifying Mistakes

Port Blair, Aug 24: The re-shuffle of officers in the A&N Administration has come as a great relief to the general public of A&N Islands. It has also come as a re-assurance that the Administration is trying to rectify the mistakes done in the part and is willing to serve the society better.

While the re-shuffling comes as an assurance, things seem not to be getting solved in the only referral hospital of A&N Islands, the GB Pant. Sources confirm that the corona positive patients are mixed up with the regular patients who are getting treated for other ailments.