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Port Blair, April 28: At the call of the Confederation of Central Govt. Employees and Workers, New Delhi, the Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers’ Association, A&N Islands will organize a mass demonstration in front of the Secretariat at Port Blair on 29th April, 2013 at 4.30 pm. The NGGOs Association among other things will be demanding (i) immediate setting up of 7th Central Pay Commission to revise the wages of Central government employees (ii) immediate merger of 50% DA with pay and (iii) withdrawal of PFRDA Bill and to ensure Pension for all. Govt. employees from various departments working at Port Blair will participate in the mass demonstration.
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Port Blair, April 28: The General Body meeting of the Staff Car Drivers’ Sub-Committee of the Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers’ Association was held on 27th April 2013 at Port Blair. The meeting was presided over by Shri Harbhajan Singh. Shri Abdul Manaf presented the report on the functioning of the Sub-Committee.
Addressing the meeting, Shri D. Ayyappan, General Secretary of the Association explained in detail the various issues relating to the government employees in general and those relating to the Staff Car Drivers in particular which are pending with the Govt. of India. He referred to the issue of not revising the overtime allowance rate which was fixed while implementing the Fourth Central Pay Commission recommendations during 1986. The meeting adopted resolutions on a number of demands/issues.
The General Body meeting elected Shri Abdul Manaf as Vice President, Shri C. Gunasekharan as Secretary and Shri T. Zubair as Treasurer besides Executive Committee Members. Shri TS Sreekumar, Asst. General Secretary and Shri Anand Raj, Secretary, Secretariat Sub-Committee of the Association also addressed the meeting.
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Port Blair, April 26: In an unprecedented first for India, GreenLife Society has claimed to have a video footage of two Dugongs mating on Neil Island in November 2012. The video footage came to light when Principle Investigator for Dugong dugon Hasmukh Jiwa was doing his routine yearly survey of the islands for Dugong activity.
“I was asking my local network in Neil, if they have recorded any incidents and one of the guys said we have something”. When looking at the footage Jiwa commented “This was by far the best footage we have in India of Dugongs mating. I have never seen this behaviour in real life but you can describe it like a male elephant in musth as the male was very aggressive to the female and was trying to mate with her right on the beach pushing her and guiding her with his tail and torso.”
The Dugong is a schedule one animal and on the brink of extinction in India the gestation period for a Dugong is 13-15 months. Jiwa further said “If this breeding was successful in November 2012 we can look forward to new baby in Dec-Jan-Feb 2014 which would be just wonderful”.
GreenLife Society has been working around India and internationally on the protection of Dugongs and Manatees (the cousin of the Dugong) for the last 12 years.