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Welcoming the Initiative, PRIs hopeful of achieving zero dropout rate in school

Diglipur, March 28: It was a dream come true for the small children of the remote Parangara secondary school of North Andaman when they saw the children’s park- ‘Muskaan’ being inaugurated today.

Inaugurating the Park, the Deputy Education officer Shri R.P Pandey said that its very pleasing to see the National Education Policy being implemented in true letter and spirit in remote rural areas like Parangara. Elaborating the objectives, he said that prior to age of 5, every child will move to a ‘Preparatory Class’ or ‘Balvatika’ before Grade-I with a focus on developing cognitive, affective, and psychomotor abilities and also early literacy and numeracy. The children would enjoy the play based school preparation module, he hoped. Shri Pandey appreciated the school management saying that it always strives to add new features to the school for making the teaching learning environment more joyful and interesting for the children. 

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Port Blair, March 28: The Food Safety Department, A&N Administration is organizing a walkathon event on 1st April 2023. This event is aimed to create awareness among the general public about the benefits of millets. The year 2023 is declared as the international year of millets by the United Nation General Assembly. Millets are small seeded grains cultivated worldwide and they are rich in protein, carbohydrates, dietary fibers, calcium and other minerals. 

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Port Blair, March 28: CITU Andaman and Nicobar State Committee welcomes the decision of the Andaman & Nicobar Administration to enhance the pay and leave benefits of Part-time employees working under the Education Department. Pay of Part-time Pre-Primary Teachers, Part-time Craft Instructors, Part-time Pre-primary Ayah/Safai karmachari and Part-time Attendants have been enhanced. 

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New Delhi, March 28: Admiral D K Joshi, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, NM, VSM (Retd.), Hon’ble Lt. Governor, A&N Islands and Vice-Chairman, Islands Development Agency attended the 2 day National Workshop (Chintan Shivir) on “Tourism in Mission Mode” chaired by Hon’ble Union Minister for Culture, Tourism and Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Government of India,  Shri G Kishan Reddy today at New Delhi and highlighted the multiple investment opportunities available through Public Private Partnership in various mega #Tourism #Hospitality projects being implemented in A&N Islands under the aegis of Islands Development Agency.

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Port Blair, March 28: Shri Vishal Jolly, National Executive Member BJP & Former State President BJP-ANI called upon the Chief Secretary, A&N Administration on 27th March 2023 and raised the following issues:

He vehemently raised the issue of granting of 1/30th pay to all existing DRMs, Muster Roll workers etc. working in all the Government Departments under the A&N Administration.

He pointed out that the issue regarding constitution of a high-level committee for regularization of all the DRMs of APWD be constituted at the earliest considering the long pendency of this genuine issue.

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