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Port Blair, March 29: Under the aegis of Andaman and Nicobar Command, Coast Guard District Headquarters at Diglipur conducted special ‘Community Interaction Programme (CIP)’ for fishing community of Durgapur, on 27 Mar 2022. The CIP was conducted in co-ordination with Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, along with reps of department of Revenue, Forest, Fisheries, PMF and Gram Panchayat (Durgapur). During the community interaction program, the fishermen were appraised on, the safety aspects while operating at sea, importance of adhering to weather warnings and contribution towards coastal security by passing timely inputs to ICG / PMF, on poaching / suspicious activities noticed at sea. Use of toll free number ‘1554 for seeking Coast Guard assistance for ‘Search and Rescue’ at sea, was also reiterated.
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Port Blair, March 29: The Oath administering ceremony of all 6 Panchayats coming under Port Blair tehsil under South Andaman district have been completed today. In a special meeting convened today on 29/03/2022 at Neil Kendra Panchayat, Shaheed Dweep, the oath of office was administered by Shri Dilkhush Meena, IAS, Assistant Commissioner, South Andaman to the newly elected Pradhan, members and elected Up-Pradhan in respect of Neil Kendra Panchayat.
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Port Blair, March 29: During the RT-PCR test conducted on 250 passengers who arrived here yesterday, no positive case has been detected. Today, 5 flights with 565 passengers arrived, out of which, 509 passengers were vaccinated with both doses while RT-PCR test was conducted on 43 passengers and the reports are awaited.
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Port Blair, Mar. 29: The vaccination drive is continuing smoothly in A&N Islands. As per data available, a total of 6,10,000 beneficiaries in the age group of 18 and above have been vaccinated so far in A&N Islands. Similarly, 23,329 beneficiaries have been vaccinated in the age group of 15 to 18yrs and 8680 beneficiaries have been vaccinated in the age group of 12 to 14 yrs. The number of beneficiaries administered precautionary dose of vaccine so far stood at 10142.
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Beginning the preface with an African proverb … “Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter”, Neha Bansal the author of ‘Herstory’, which is a compilation of poems on voices of women, makes an attempt to clear that until the women dare to speak out, they will remain an object to be judged by the male dominated society of ours.