Port Blair, Feb 8: Road safety gained more importance due to the ever increasing numbers of road accidents and other damages. Many proactive efforts are taken by the Govt. to reduce road accidents and have therefore decided to observe Road Safety Month for creating awareness among the road users.

Port Blair, Feb 8: The Police Training School Prothrapur organized online short Courses on “Duties and Responsibilities of Beat Officer” and “Arrest & Bail- Condition Nuance and Concepts” on 05/02/2021 & 06/02/2021 respectively. The objectives of the course were to enhance knowledge among the Police Personnel and to make aware about the enforcement/implementation of better beat policing, concepts of Arrest and Bail etc. The session was inaugurated by Shri Michael Raj, DANIPS, Vice Principal PTS. Inspr. S K Sarkar and SI Abdul Manaf of PTS Prothrapur and SI Ellangowan, SHO PS Bambooflat, SI Pankaj Pandey PS Pahargaon delivered lectures during the courses.

Port Blair, Feb 5: A Seminar-cum-Awareness Program on provisions related to GST Acts & Rules with primary focus on GST practitioners was organised by the UTGST Department of Andaman & Nicobar Administration jointly with Post Graduate Department of Commerce, JNRM, Port Blair in the Seminar Hall of JNRM in the presence of Mr. Rajeev Kumar, Assistant Commissioner, UTGST and Dr. N. Rajavel, HOD, PG Department of Commerce, JNRM.

Port Blair, Feb 8: The Directorate of Public Institutions, Govt. of Kerala has selected a Malayalam book entitled “Andaman Nicobarile Naadodikkathakal” (Folk tales of Andaman Nicobar) to distribute among the schools through an educational programme for the benefit of the students. The book is penned by Shri. Vijayan. C. K. Madappally, a former employee of the Fisheries Department.

Port Blair, Feb 5: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands Rural Livelihood Mission (ANIRLM) attached to the Directorate of RD, PRIs & ULBs, A&N Administration organized a month long capacity building programme with the support of National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRD&PR), Hyderabad for Community Resource Persons (CRPs) and SHG leaders. This capacity building programme focuses to build up and strengthen the federations of SHGs such as Village Organizations and Cluster/Block Level Federation in the Islands.