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Sri Vijaya Puram, Nov. 21: The Commanding Officer & Chairperson of Naval Kindergarten (NKG) School along with Headmistress and students, called on Admiral D K Joshi, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, NM, VSM (Retd.), Hon’ble Lt. Governor, A&N Islands and Vice-Chairman, Islands Development Agency today at Raj Niwas to invite the Hon’ble Lt. Governor as the Chief Guest for the upcoming celebrations marking 50 years of NKG Vijay Baugh & 25 years of NKG Minnie Bay, scheduled for next week. These schools with a 40% approx. enrolment of children of non-uniform fraternity benefit the civil society of A&N Islands & students significantly contribute to the development of a progressive citizenry.

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Sri Vijaya Puram, Nov. 21: The fourth edition of pan India Coastal Defence Exercise 'Sea Vigil-24' was conducted by Headquarters Andaman and Nicobar Command from 1321 Nov 24 for Andaman & Nicobar region. The aim of the exercise was to comprehensively validate the efficacy of the Coastal Defence response across the Andaman & Nicobar region against threats arising from the sea whilst catering for latest developments in technology and tactics in maritime warfare. In addition, the exercise aims to sustain a balanced focus between Coastal Defence and Coastal Security in the islets. The desired outcome of the exercise was to assess own readiness state and identify gaps (if any) in the existing defence mechanism. Interagency coordination was also assessed by activation of the complete Coastal Defence Mechanism.

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Sri Vijaya Puram, Nov. 21: The Department of Fisheries, A&N Administration celebrated World Fisheries Day today at Fisheries Training Centre, Marine Hill flagging the national theme ‘India’s Blue Transformation: Strengthening Small Scale and Sustainable Fisheries’. Shri Vishwendra, DANICS, Secretary (Fisheries) was the chief guest on this occasion.

Shri Vishwendra wished the gathering on this occasion and explained recent developments undertaken in Mariculture, Brackish Water Aquaculture and Cold Chain sectors of the Islands. He also emphasized the need of involvement of small scale fishermen and fish farmers in implementation of fisheries and aquaculture policy objectives for promotion of entrepreneurship and income generation in the sector. He informed the gathering about the proposal of creation of Modern Fish Market and Cold Chain infrastructure for the use of Dignabad fishermen community and the model adopted will be the best of its kind and will be replicated in other places also.

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Sri Vijaya Puram, Nov. 21: Zoological Survey of India, Andaman & Nicobar Regional Centre is conducting a Three-Day Training workshop on Coastal and Marine Biodiversity of Island Ecosystem under the Training of Other Stakeholders sponsored by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India to be held during 21st – 23rd November 2024.

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Swaraj Dweep, Nov. 21: As per the communication received from the Divisional Forest Officer, Swaraj Dweep, a team of Forest Officials comprising of Shri S. Satish, Deputy Ranger, Shri Dhanaroopan, Forester, Shri Eswar Hemraon, Forester, Shri Amitava Hawalader, Forest Guard, Shri Aneeth Anand Raj, Forest Guard, Shri Adom, Forest Guard and workers carried out patrolling in John Lawrence Islands attached to Rani Jhansi Marine National Park  on 14th November 2024 whereby the team detected 239 pieces of illegally hand sawn timber (Hardwood) measuring 4.012 Cu Mts. stacked in the interior jungle on the North Eastern side of the said Island.

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