Port Blair, Sept. 3: Shri R. Mohan, State President in a letter addressed to the Lt. Governor has requested him to take necessary immediate steps to re-open the quarries, as the construction works of government and private has come to a standstill.

Mohan said that it is presumed that the matter has been raised in the last IDA meeting but the result is yet to be known and this has brought many dependents of the quarry & contact labours to the road. So to ease out the problem of the labours and as well to boost the construction works he has requested to the Hon’ble Lt Governor to take appropriate steps to re-open the quarries.