Port Blair, March 25: The Revenue Department of South Andaman District carried out eviction drive against encroachments committed over Government land at Marine Hill in Port Blair Tehsil in South Andaman District wherein an area of 566 Sq. Mtrs out of Revenue land bearing survey no. 209, 50 and 16 has been removed and an area of 0.0566 hects of government land has been restored to its original status. The said encroachments were in the shape of temporary structures and RCC retaining walls were removed during the eviction drive.

Port Blair, March 25: The State Level Technical Committee Meeting (SLTC) review meeting for fixation of scale of finance of various seasonal crops, vegetables, floriculture and fruits and fixation of scale of finance to KCC- Fishermen including finance to KCC- Animal Hubandry for the year 2022-23 was held on 24th March 2022 at 11:00 AM in the conference hall of A & N State Cooperative Bank Ltd. Port Blair (H.O) under Chairmanship of Shri. Radhe Shyam Meena, DANICS, Director of Agriculture, Port Blair, A & N Administration.

Port Blair, March 25: The District Administration in a special drive to administer oath of office to the newly elected Pradhans, members and elected Up-Pradhans in respect of Manarghat, Kanyapuram, Shoalbay, Wimberlygunj and Stewartgunj Gram Panchayats had convened a special meeting today on 25/03/2022 in their respective Panchayat Halls.

The oath of office was administered by Shri Dilkhush Meena, IAS, Assistant Commissioner, South Andaman and Miss Yashaswini.B , IAS, Assistant Commissioner (U/T).

Port Blair, March 25: The Andaman & Nicobar Islands Rural Livelihood Mission attached to the Directorate of RD, PRIs & ULBs, A&N Administration is implementing DAY-NRLM scheme since 2015-16 with the aim to enable the poor households to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities, resulting in appreciable improvement in their livelihoods on a sustainable basis, through building strong grassroots institutions of the poor such as Self Help Group, Primary Level Federation (also known as Village Organizations) and Cluster/Block Level Federations.

Port Blair, March 25: The vaccination drive is continuing smoothly in A&N Islands. As per data available, a total of 6,09,600 beneficiaries in the age group of 18 and above have been vaccinated so far in A&N Islands. Similarly, 23,280 beneficiaries have been vaccinated in the age group of 15 to 18yrs and 5753beneficiaries have been vaccinated in the age group of 12 to 14yrs. The number of beneficiaries administered precautionary dose of vaccine so far stood at 9779.