Port Blair, May 6: Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Member of Parliament, A&N Islands has requested Chief Secretary, A&N Administration to provide a cargo boat to Little Andaman to bring the produce of the farmers like coconut, copra, arecanut to Port Blair which is more than 70 containers. He said that if their produce is not sold on proper time, these poor farmers will have to bear heavy loss because their produce like copra cannot be stored for a longer period of time which will shrink and lose its weight and the profit margin of the farmers will be curtailed. And because of lockdown there is no other source of income for them.

Port Blair, May 6:   The vaccination drive is continuing in A&N Islands in an effective manner and health teams designated in various vaccination centres spread across the Islands are vaccinating all the beneficiaries above 45, who visit the centres spread over the A&N Islands on a daily basis. The vaccination sessions are continuing in more than 88 designated vaccination centres set up in different parts of the Islands towards the fight against Corona virus. 1112 doses of COVISHIELD vaccines were administered to the eligible beneficiaries by the health teams today (May 6), taking the total number of doses of vaccines administered so far to 1,12,931 .

Port Blair, May 5: The Member of Parliament, Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma in a letter addressed to Chief Secretary, A&N Administration has requested to provide transportation facilities to the office going staff of essential service departments. Due to lock down, transportation facilities are not available after 1 PM and many people don’t have their own mode of transportation especially ladies to go home after attending their duties upto 5 PM. 

Port Blair, May 4: There is sufficient buffer stock of PDS items and non-PDS commodities in A&N Islands and the Administration is constantly monitoring the supply of essential commodities in all the three Districts of A&N Islands. This was stated by the Secretary, IP&T, Shri Sunil Kumar Singh while addressing media persons on COVID-19 in the conference hall of IP&T today. He said, the Administration is also monitoring the supply of LPG and Petroleum products in the Islands.  It is in constant touch with the Shipping companies also, to transport the essential items from Chennai & Kolkata which is being monitored constantly so that the supply of essential commodities  reaches the Islands on regular basis during this pandemic situation. 

Port Blair, May 5: The Deputy Commissioner (SA) Shri Suneel Anchipaka along with SDM(SA), AC(HQ), AC(S), and AC(U/T) visited the Forest Training School hostel, which has been converted into a Covid Care Center at Wimberley Gunj. The Center has been provided with Doctor and paramedical staff and shall start functioning from tomorrow under the supervision of CMO Wimberlygunj. This step is towards reaching out to the far-flung areas of South Andaman District and decentralised COVID-19 management.