Port Blair, March 13: Keeping in mind the upcoming General Election 2024, stringent security measures have been implemented in South Andaman District. One Company of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) has been strategically deployed across various Police Stations in the district. Their primary objective is to uphold law and order by conducting essential activities such as flag marches, area patrolling and establishing checkpoints (Nakas) to ensure anti-social elements don’t influence or adversely affect the upcoming elections.

Port Blair, Mar. 13: The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi today launched the Pradhan Mantri Samajik Utthan evam Rozgar Adharit Jankalyan (PM-SURAJ) national portal and sanctioned credit support to one lakh entrepreneurs of disadvantaged sections of the country. The Prime Minister also addressed the program marking nationwide outreach for credit support to disadvantaged sections and interacted with beneficiaries of various Government schemes via video conferencing today.

Port Blair, Mar. 13: The Chief Electoral Officer, A&N Islands, Shri B S Jaglan, IAS visited Govt. Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Dollygunj today and interacted with Students and staff. He addressed all the students on importance of voting process and requested them to get their names included in voter list ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha Election. CEO further stated that, they can only vote if their name appears in the voter list and hence, requested to check and verify their names in the Voter list/Electoral Roll.

Port Blair, March 13: Br. MSME-DFO, Port Blair in association with Laghu Udyog Bharati, Port Blair & ACCI organized one Awareness programme on MSME competitive Lean scheme at Hotel Lemon Tree on 12.03.2024. Shri Devender Yadav, Director, Airport Authority of India, A & N Islands was the Chief Guest of the programme. Shri Surendra Prahladka, President, ACCI, Shri A.L. Verma, President, Laghu Udyog Bharati, A & N Islands Shri S R Sharma, Shri Rahul Agrawal & other members of Laghu Udyog Bharti were also present in the programme.

Port Blair, March 13: The first ever “Flash Mob Competition” by the students of different colleges of these Islands is scheduled to be held on 15th March 2024 at Marina Esplanade from 4:00 P.M. onwards as a part of ANCO FEST (Andaman Colleges Fest) “SPARDHA 2024”.