Port Blair, Dec. 20: The District Police of North & Middle Andaman have been conducting intensive jungle search and combing operations to crackdown on manufacturing of illicit Liquor. Adding to the spree of crackdown on illicit liquor manufacturing in the district, Police team headed by SI Deva Raju, ASI Sanjay Yadav, PC Anirudh Das, PC Mohd Safique and PC Sudash Lall conducted combing in Shyam Kund jungle under the jurisdiction of OP Bakultala. The team recovered a total of 60 tins in a total of 04 bhattis containing about 600 ltrs of fermented illicit liquor (lehan) and other bhatti materials at different location within the jungle and destroyed the same in the jungle. The team searched for the miscreants in the jungle who had fermented the illicit liquor in bhattis but in vain.

Port Blair, Dec. 20: The Chief Secretary, A & N Administration has ordered that all the Senior Officers i.e. PCCF, DGP, Commissioner-cum-Secretaries, Secretaries, Heads of Departments, all field officers (DCs/ SPs/ ACs/ SDPOs/ DFOs/ Tehsildars/ BDOs etc.) and all other Government Officers to fix the time between 3 pm & 4 pm on all working days for meeting with general public to redress their grievances.

Port Blair, Dec. 20: Firing practice by IN Dornier will be carried out on 2m Rock near Passage Island on Dec. 20 - 23, 2022 from 1500 -1700 hrs.  The safe flying height is above 300 mtr AMSL. Similarly, firing practice by IN Dornier will also be carried out on 2m Rock near Passage Island on Dec. 20-23, 2022 from 0700-1500 hrs. The safe flying height is 5000 feet AMSL.

Port Blair, Dec. 20: Notification of Revamped Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) in Andaman & Nicobar Islands for Rabi-2022-23 season was circulated in which, details of notified area, coverage of risk, indemnity level, sum insured, premium rate, seasonality discipline, subsidy on premium etc. in respect of this UT were mentioned in the Notification dated 3rd June, 2021 and was uploaded in Andaman & Nicobar Administration website: www.andaman.gov.in for Kharif 2021 & Rabi 2022-23.

The PMFBY scheme aims at supporting sustainable production in agriculture sector by way of:

Port Blair, Dec. 20: Due to technical reasons, the scheduled sailing programme of the vessel MV Campbell Bay for Little Andaman on Dec. 21 & 23, 2022 from Port Blair and her return voyage from Little Andaman has been postponed till further notice. However, fresh date of sailing of the vessel will be announced in due course, a press release from DSS said.