As we celebrate the harvest festival of Baisakhi, I wish everyone happiness and Good Health. Baisakhi is also significant as it marks the founding of the Khalsa Panth community three hundred years ago by the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh.  Across the country, people celebrate the Baisakhi festival with a lot of fun, merriment and enthusiasm.  I extend my best wishes to everyone on this auspicious occasion.

Kuldeep Rai Sharma

Member of Parliament

A&N Islands

I extend my warm greetings to everyone on the auspicious occasion of Ugadi of Telugu New Year.  I pray to the almighty that this year should be filled with peace, cheer and laughter. Let’s welcome Ugadi with great hope, eagerness and anticipation. Let us look forward to a plentiful of joy satisfaction, peace and prosperous New Year.

Kuldeep Rai Sharma

Member of Parliament

A&N Islands

Port Blair, April 12: The District Administration in coordination with the NGOs and other Civil Society Organisations is taking proactive steps to intensify the vaccination drive in South Andamans.

A meeting was convened under the chairmanship of Shri Suneel Anchipaka, Deputy Commissioner (SA) along with representatives of all major NGOs wherein he urged them to mobilise resources to intensify the vaccination drive to get maximum number of people during the TIKA Utsav.

Port Blair, April 12: An Online Foundation level course for the newly inducted personnel of State Panchayat Resource Centre (SPRC)- Andaman & Nicobar Islands was organized in collaboration with NIRD & PR (Hyderabad) which was participated in by the SPRC (Head) and Domain Experts.

The State Panchayat Resource Centre (SPRC) has been recently set up under Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyaan (RGSA) at Directorate of RD, PRIs & ULBs. The SPRC team became functional from December 2020 with the hope of bringing a new era in information dissemination for the training and Capacity Building needs of the Elected Representatives and Functionaries of Panchayati Raj Institutions. 

Port Blair, April 11: The four-day 'Tika Utsav'' or vaccination festival, aiming to inoculate maximum number of eligible people against coronavirus which started in A&N Islands today witnessed positive response from people. The vaccine drive which began on the Birth anniversary of social reformer Jyotiba Phule will culminate on 14th April on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.

To facilitate beneficiaries with hassle free vaccination, today, the Directorate of Health Services established 30 session sites in almost all the Health Care Institutions, few field sites and 75 vaccination points across these Islands which will be increased in the coming days. It is noteworthy to mention that on the first day of the ‘Tika Utsav’ itself, about 2933 beneficiaries have been vaccinated in A&N Islands, setting a record of administration of vaccine on a single day.