Port Blair, Feb 27: A three days training programme for Master Trainers in Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE) in two phases from Feb.20 to 22 and from Feb. 23 to 25 was organized by the State Institute of Education in collaboration with Samagra Shiksha at GSS Junglighat, Port Blair as part of ‘Nipun Bharat Mission’. Inaugurating the training programme, Shri R.K Singh, Principal State Institute of Education (SIE) and State Project Officer, Samagra Shiksha highlighted the importance of literary and numeracy at the foundational years and stressed on developing play based, toy based pedagogies to achieve the desired learning outcomes. He called upon the Master trainers to develop the necessary skills and capacities, to accompany the teachers teaching kids at the foundational stage and develop the competencies essential for achieving the desired learning outcomes.

Port Blair, Feb 27: The thirteenth installment under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) Scheme was released today by the Government of India for the farmers. As many as 12963 farmers of A&N Islands were eligible to receive the thirteenth installment @ Rs. 2000/- per trimester per farmer. The total amount of thirteenth installment that is released by DBT mechanism is to the tune of Rs.2.60 Crores.

Port Blair, Feb 27: The 36th Convocation of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has been scheduled on 3rd April 2023 at Regional Centre Port Blair. The online portal for registration for 36th convocation is open to students who have completed their programme in the Term End Examination December- 2021 and June- 2022. For registration the learners are advised to visit link: https:// onlineservices.ignou.ac.in/convocation/ or IGNOU website: www. ignou.ac.in.

Port Blair, Feb 27: The Bye Election for the following Gram Panchayat Members under Little Andaman, Mayabunder and Diglipur Tehsil respectively was held on 27/02/2023 (Monday) from 8 AM to 4 PM. The Polled materials have been kept in the identified strong rooms in the respective Police Stations and the entire election process was held in a free, fair and transparent manner.

Port Blair, Feb 24: The Hon’ble Lt. Governor, A&N Islands and Vice-Chairman, Islands Development Agency, Admiral D K Joshi, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, NM, VSM (Retd.) reviewed the status of vacancies and action plan for filling up these vacancies in this UT, at Raj Niwas today.

The Chief Secretary, A&N Administration, Shri Keshav Chandra, IAS, briefed about the sanctioned strength, number of vacancies which remain to be filled up and efforts made by the Administration for filling these vacancies in Mission Mode so as to ensure that most of the vacancies get filled up by October, 2023.