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Port Blair, June 3: The 47th Annual General Body of A & N State Coop. Bank was held on 2nd June, 2013 at Hotel Megapode Nest, Port Blair under the chairmanship of Shri. Bhagat Singh. Shri. N K Sharma, IAS, Secretary (Coop.)-cum-RCS was the Chief Guest on the occasion of the meet.
The programme was attended by Shri. Bhagat Singh, Chairman, A & N SCB, Shri. Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Vice Chairman, A & N SCB, all the Directors of the Bank, representatives of Service Coop. societies, NABARD, RCS, officials and staff of the Bank.
Welcoming the gathering, the Chief Guest Shri. N K Sharma, IAS, Secretary (Coop.)-cum-RCS appreciated the efforts of the bank in rendering services to the people of A&N Islands. He also stressed upon the various initiatives undertaken by the Bank to reach the grass root level of Islands and thanked the management for reaching to the masses, especially the weaker section and rural counterparts of these Islands.
Shri. Ravinder Rao, Managing Director of the Bank read and confirmed the proceedings of the last Annual General Body Meeting held on 22nd April, 2012, who also presented the Annual Report 2013 and briefed the gathering regarding the financial parameters and strategic developments of the Bank with respect to the position as on 31st March, 2013.
An interactive session was also held among the dignitaries and the Management of the Bank to decide on the various upcoming programmes of the bank.
The Annual General Body Meet ended with vote of thanks proposed by Shri. Thomas Daniel, General Manager (Dev.) of the Bank.
All India Radio Port Blair Celebrates it Golden Jubilee, Retired Employees Recount Their Experiences
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Port Blair, June 2: The All India Radio, Port Blair today completed its 50th Year in the islands. Established in the year 1963, the AIR Port Blair started as a small team and later spread its wings by covering even the remotest parts of the islands, which hasn’t been achieved by any media yet.
To mark the jubilee celebration, a grand function was organised at the AIR Station, wherein Shri R. Mohan, Director (E), Doordarshan Kendra, Port Blair was the chief guest. Addressing the occasion, the chief guest congratulated the AIR team for their achievement. He said A&N Islands has its own beauty and the AIR Port Blair has created its own unique identity by continuing with Medium Wave and Short Wave. While in the mainland, it is a notion that FM has taken over Medium and Short Wave, in Andamans people still enjoy programmes broadcasted through Medium Wave.
Fifty years is a milestone for AIR Port Blair and the credit goes to the seniors who worked hard to establish the station, said Mohan.
Speaking on the occasion, Shri Madan Mohan Singh, (Retd) Senior Announcer, AIR Port Blair recounted his memories of the day when AIR Port Blair was established. It was a rainy day like today he said, which made things uncertain. After all the trouble with the bad weather condition prevailing, finally the foundation of AIR Port Blair was laid.
Madan Mohan Singh proudly announced that AIR Port Blair is the only media which could achieve a reach that no other media in the islands could. During the tsunami, AIR played a crucial role to inform the latest to the islanders stuck in various remote corners of the islands. He congratulated the entire team for the achievement and said that after tsunami the AIR team visited different parts of the islands and reported events.
Singh recollecting the fame of AIR Port Blair explained that there was a situation when a prisoner from Cellular Jail had escaped and reached AIR Station. He climbed up the mast, not willing to come down until his dream of seeing Announcer Saira Bano was fulfilled. Police and Fire Brigade arrived to bring him down but it was only after Saira came out that he surrendered himself. He wanted that his name should be announced in AIR by Saira, referring him as a prisoner of Cellular Jail. Such was the fame of AIR, Madan Mohan said.
Later during the programme, the retired employees of AIR Port Blair who had served the station for decades were felicitated by the Chief Guest and the Director (E), AIR Shri C Mookan. A jubilee cake was also cut to mark the occasion.
Among the others who spoke on the occasion were Ms. Mumtaz Bano, Programme Head, AIR Port Blair, Shri C Mookan, Director (E), AIR Port Blair, Shri Semai Raju, Retd. Engineer, Shri G Thimothy, Retd. Engineer, Smti Anis Begum, Retd. Announcer, Shri Ramchander, Retd. Driver, AIR Port Blair.
The programme was coordinated by Shri Shibu George of AIR Port Blair.
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Police in southern Brazil yesterday killed a Terena Indian and wounded several others while violently evicting them from their land. Members of the tribe had returned to live on part of their ancestral territory currently occupied by a rancher who is also a local politician.
Elsewhere in Brazil, an eviction order was served on Kayapo, Arara, Munduruku and Xipaia Indians occupying the controversial Belo Monte dam site. Armed police have surrounded the protesters and tensions are rising amid fears that there will be similar violence.
Munduruku Indians are also protesting construction of a dam on the Tapajós river. One Munduruku was shot dead when police invaded a community last November.
Paygomuyatpu Munduruku said, ‘The government is preparing a tragedy. We will not leave here. The government has ignored us, offended us, humiliated us and assassinated us… They are killing us because we are against the dams.’
The Brazilian constitution and international law enshrine the right of tribal peoples to be consulted about projects on their land. Yet a raft of bills and constitutional amendments proposed by a powerful agricultural and mining lobby threaten to undermine these land rights. Indians are angry that, despite being in office for two and half years, President Dilma Rousseff has yet to meet any Indians.
Survival International is calling on President Rousseff to halt the eviction of indigenous protesters, to consult with the Indians, and to recognize the territories of Terena tribespeople immediately.