Port Blair, July 17: The Government of India launched a Centre Sector Scheme known as Survey of Villages Abadi and Mapping with improvised Technology in Village Areas (SVAMITVA) to bring financial stability to the citizens in rural India by enabling them to use their property as a financial asset for taking loans and other financial benefits.

Port Blair, July 17: With reference to the recruitment notice vide No. DGP/RC/DR/2023/112/2181 dated 09/05/2023 published by A&N Police for filling up of the various Follower posts of A&N Police department of A&N Police department, the list of qualified candidates in the Physical Measurement & Endurance Test (PM&ET) for the recruitment to the post of Follower Waterman Mali (Exe), Follower Cook (Exe), Follower Dhobi (Exe), Follower Barber (Exe), Follower Carpenter (Exe), Safaikaramchari (Exe), Follower Cook (FS), and Safaikaramchari (FS)  in Andaman & Nicobar Police and Fire Service has been uploaded on the A&N Police website https://police.andaman.gov.in for information to candidates.

Port Blair, July 16: Due to poor rainfall during previous monsoon, severe drinking water shortages were felt in various places in A&N Islands, especially in South Andaman District. To mitigate the situation, an intensive exercise has been taken up by A&N Administration to identify the areas where water shortage was noticed during summer and augment water supply in those areas by developing local water sources in those areas itself.

Port Blair, July 17: After attending claims and objections, the category-wise list of candidates applied for admission to Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP) viz. B.Sc.B.Ed. Mathematics and Computer Science, B.A.B.Ed. English, Hindi and History for the academic session 2023-24 in Tagore Government College of Education, Port Blair has been published on 17th July 2023 and available at http://collegeadmission.andaman.gov.in/ under “Announcements”.

Port Blair, July 16: Chess Prodigy from A & N Islands, R Kashthuri Bhai created history by winning a bronze medal for India in the Rapid event of 17th Asian Schools Chess Championship 2023 being held at Tashkent, Uzbekistan.