Port Blair, March 29: Inner Wheel Club and Mrs. Raj Mahajan, Social Worker and Charter President of Inner Wheel Club, organized a free dental and eye check-up camp in association with Dr. Poonam Arora’s, Arora Dental Clinic & Dr Aggarwal Eye Hospital, Port Blair for the students of Govt. Middle School, Brichgunj, Port Blair to mark the death anniversary of Mrs. Mahajan's husband, Late. Shri. Kundan Mahajan.

Port Blair, March 29: Shri Vishal Jolly National Executive Member BJP & Former State President BJP, A & N islands expressed his utmost gratitude to the Hon'ble Lt. Governor, ANI & the Chief Secretary, A & N Administration for their recent decision towards the consideration of long pending demands of Bharatiya Janata Party of enhancement of the payment and leave benefits of Part Time Pre-Primary teacher and other part time employees working under Education Department of A & N Administration.

Port Blair, March 29: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GoI has launched the world’s largest health assurance program named Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) in 2018. The scheme has successfully completed 4 years of its implementation on 23rd September, 2022. Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY aims to provide a cashless treatment worth Rs 5 lakh per family per year against secondary and tertiary hospitalization care. Presently, 12,991 families (40,636 members) have registered under the AB-PMJAY scheme in this UT and are entitled for cashless treatment at 28,000 empanelled public and private hospitals across the country. To create awareness among the general public and to identify the unregistered eligible AB – PMJAY beneficiary various IEC activities are conducted in this UT.

Port Blair, March 29: The Housing & Estate Department, Andaman and Nicobar Administration had developed Automated Allotment of Government Accommodation Application (AAGA Portal) through IT Department i.e. SOVTECH and the same was launched on 25/03/2021. It provides end to end solution with no manual intervention for allotment and an attempt has been made to make a paperless solution. It had built in feature of online verification by DDOs, Medical Department (for medical cases) and H&E Department for further verification.

Port Blair, March 29: The temple committee of Ram Mandir, Guptapara took out a “Bike Rally” on Wednesday evening to mark the Ram Navami celebrations with heightened fervour.

A large number of youths took part in the procession which began from Manjeri and passed through several panchayats such as Nayashahar, Dhanikhari and Wandoor before culminating at the Ram Mandir, Guptapara.