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Port Blair, Nov. 17: A meeting was convened under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary, A & N Administration, Shri Keshav Chandra, IAS in the presence of Secretary (Power), Director (Power), and Superintending Engineer (Electricity) along with senior officials of Electricity Department today. During the meeting, the power scenario and power disruption issues of Port Blair were discussed.   After detailed discussion and deliberation, various long term and short term solutions emerged along with ongoing exercise/ practice being already carried out by the Department on day to day basis to stabilize power system for maintaining uninterrupted power supply at Port Blair and adjoining areas of South Andaman. The decisions taken in the meeting are as mentioned below:

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Port Blair, Nov. 17: The Member of Parliament, Shri. Kuldeep Rai Sharma has requested the Hon’ble Lt. Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands to examine the issue of reservation of B.V.Sc course seats for A&N Islands’ students by scrutinising the proposal of Pondicherry Veterinary College, already pending with A&N Administration and issue necessary instructions so that students can get the admission from the current session itself.

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Diglipur, Nov. 17: A young student artist Indrajit Das from the rural area of Madhupur village has made his family and school feel proud of his achievement at the State Level Painting competition on ‘Energy Conservation’, conducted by the ‘bureau of energy efficiency’ under the Ministry of power, held recently at Port Blair.

Taking part in the competition, Indrajit, student of class X of Government Secondary School Madhupur stood third at the state level and was awarded a cash prize of Rs. 20,000. After qualifying the zonal and district level, he became the first of the six, winners at state level, who hails from the rural area. All the rest of the five artists are from the schools of Port Blair. Indrajit along with the other five winners will now take part at the National Level Competition to be held on 14th December in New Delhi.

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Port Blair, Nov. 17: N. Damodaran, an entrepreneur from our Andaman Islands has qualified for the Iron Man 70.3 World Championship. Damodaran registered his qualifications for the Iron Man by successfully completing the Iron 70.3 organised in Goa last week.

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Port Blair, Nov. 17: As part of celebration of Janjati Gaurav Diwas, 2022 which marks the birth anniversary of Tribal Freedom Fighter ‘Birsa Munda’, the Andaman & Nicobar Tribal Research & Training Institute (ANTRI) in collaboration with Directorate of Tribal Welfare, A&N Administration organized a one-day seminar on the theme ‘Contribution of Tribal Freedom Fighters’.

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