Port Blair, Jan 12: The Chief Secretary, A&N Administration, Shri Keshav Chandra, IAS arrived on a two-day visit to Shaheed Dweep today. On arrival at the Shaheed Dweep Helipad, the Chief Secretary was accorded a warm welcome by the Gram Panchayat Pradhan, Shaheed Dweep, Ms. Pinkey Das, Zilla Parishad Member, Shaheed Dweep, Shri Dashrath Verma, Pramukh Panchayat Samiti, Port Blair, Ms. Champa Das, Officers of different Departments of Shaheed Dweep and others.

Port Blair, Jan 12: Admiral D K Joshi, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, NM, VSM (Retd.), Hon'ble Lt Governor, A&N Islands and Vice-Chairman, Islands Development Agency will be on a 4 days visit to Little Andaman and Kamorta via Car Nicobar from Jan.13. The Lt Governor will depart for Little Andaman on Jan.13 and will hold meeting with PRI members, Govt. Officials and general public at APWD Guest House on Jan.14 at 9.30 am. Thereafter, he will inspect tourism infrastructure and visit waterfall site, Kalapathar Beach and Butler Bay Beach. Later in the afternoon, Hon’ble Lt Governor will be on windshield tour of Hut Bay upto 22 km and visit Chattan Beach.

Port Blair, Jan 12: The Office Bearers of Andaman College Teachers Association (ACTA) Shri. N. Balakrishnan, President, Dr. K. Venkatesan, Secretary, Dr. Vivek Kumar Sahu, Treasurer and Ms. Jochibed Vincent, Executive Member called on by Shri Keshav Chandra, IAS Chief Secretary, A & N Administration. The following issues were discussed and sought his intervention.

Kolkata, Jan 12: A workshop on development of sustainable and responsible tourist destinations was organised by Ministry of Tourism at hotel Taj in Kolkata on 11th January 2023.

A delegation from A&N Islands comprising stakeholders Shri. M. Vinod, President AATO, Shri. Saikat Biswas, Andaman Adventure Water Sports Association and representatives of IP&T Smt. Kanak Radha Chatterjee and Shri. Anil participated in the seminar.

Port Blair, Jan 12: The Department of Sports and Youth Affairs, A&N Administration will be conducting the Selection Trial in respect of the A&N Contingent to participate in the forthcoming Khelo India Youth Games-2023 to be held at Madhya Pradesh and New Delhi from 26th January 2023 to 11th February 2023. Interested persons can participate in the selection trial as per the schedule given below: