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Rangat girdled by woes, one on top of anotherV SENTHIL KUMAR

RANGAT, DEC 12 /--/ The residentsof Rangat are facing manifold prob-lems these days. Firstly it is the mobilephone connectivity which is literallymaking them scamper from pillar topost. The big fat government-runBSNL works at its own whim and fan-cies, its tower display switching onand off frequently. Distraught, peopletried to add Airtel SIM cards to theirphones, but the problems persist.Vodafone and Reliance do have theirtowers, but are of absolutely no use.Rumour mongers, as always are ac-tive in Middle Andaman. Rumoursare floating, that illegal activity likesmuggling of contraband is the rea-son for such satellite blips, as they arecoordinated by criminals, so they cango on with their dark deeds withoutanybody able to call the cops. Peoplehave taken to the roads through dem-onstrations, demands and complains,but to no avail. Rangat residents de-mand a tower each at all PanchayatBhawans, but who is listening? Next is

the LPG cylinder conundrum. Al-though Rangat is one of the promi-nent regions in the North and MiddleAndaman region, the basic LPG cylin-der problem seems to have become asold as its history, with no systematic ortime bound supply of the householdnecessity. People here are so much injitters about the erratic supply ofLPG, that once news of cylinder sup-ply at places like Rampur, Bakultalaor Sabri is heard, they leave all workand rush by any means they can availto get hold of a cylinder for their nextmeal. Members of families can beseen waiting outside their homes be-side their empty cylinders, day in andday out hoping to hear the elusiverumble of the LPG truck. It seemsPrime Minister’s Clean Fuel initia-tive is not applicable here. People ofRangat are demanding timely distri-bution of cylinders to save them fromrunning to other areas for collection.This menace is also spreading to otherareas of North and Middle Andaman,even when the CCS assures of amplestock of the precious LPG cylinders

all the time. But why are they notreaching the poor Rangat residents?

“Lack of basic facilities like reli-able telecom services, timely supplyof LPG refills etc has been taking atoll on residents of Rangat and adjoin-ing areas for the past few months.Consumers have been long complain-ing about recurring shortage of LPGrefills as supply has never been con-sistent at various places here. Despitea dedicated vehicle for distributionof LPG refills launched by the CCS,consistency has remained far from en-sured here. Even BSNL services hastaken a hit. This region has a goodnumber of telecom subscriptions, butunlike other parts of this territorythat blessed with constant telecomconnectivity, residents here are leftbereft of the modern day facility. Con-sumers avail almost all the servicesof BSNL from Landlines toBroadband, Cellular connections etc.However the premier service pro-vider has not been living upto the ex-pectations of scores of consumers inthis region,” said residents of Rangat.

CBSE uploads recorded responses, answerkeys of UGC–NET 2017 applicants

USC lifts 1st TsunamiMemorial Football Trophy

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PORT BLAIR, DEC 12 /--/ The Cen-tral Board of Secondary Examination(CBSE) started uploading recordedresponses and answer keys of candi-dates who appeared in UGC–NET (No-vember), 2017 in its website,www.cbsenet.nic.in, on Tuesday. In anofficial release, the Secretary/ Direc-tor (UGC-NET), informed candidatesthat all the scanned images of OMRanswer sheets with their recorded re-sponses and answer keys will beuploaded in the portal from December12 to 18, 2017. The CBSE has also in-troduced a provision for the candi-dates to challenge the recorded re-sponses if they differ from the onesthey had marked on the OMR sheet.The challenge of scanned images ofOMR answer sheets and answer key

will be accepted online only, throughthe link available on the websitecbsenet.nic.in from 12/12/2017 to 18/12/2017 (11.59 PM). The challengessubmitted by post or in person will notbe accepted. The prescribed fee of Rs.1000 per recorded response chal-lenged will be required to be submit-ted through credit/debit card only upto 18/12/2017 (11.59 pm). Similarly,there is also provision for candidatesto challenge the answer keys throughthe link available on the websitecbsenet.nic.in from 12/12/2017 to 18/12/2017. A fee of Rs.1000 per questionwill be required to be submittedthrough credit/debit card up to 18/12/2017 (11.59 pm). The fee once paid isnon refundable, says the official re-lease.

“If the challenge is accepted by theBoard i.e. if the recorded response is

not the same as marked by the candi-date on OMR sheet, correction will bedone and the fee will be refunded. Incase, any registered candidate doesnot submit the challenge by the pre-scribed date and time, it will be pre-sumed that his/her recorded responseis the same as marked on OMR sheet.Similarly, if the challenge is acceptedby the Board i.e. if any mistake is no-ticed by the subject experts in the an-swer key, a policy decision will be no-tified on the website and the fee shallbe refunded.

The refund (if any) will be trans-ferred online to the concerned credit/debit card account. So, the candidatesare advised to pay from their owncredit/debit card. CBSE’s decision onthe challenges shall be final and nofurther communication will be enter-tained,” the release added.

PORT BLAIR, DEC 12/--/ United Sporting Club(USC) of Port Blair haslifted the 1st TsunamiMemorial KnockoutFootball TournamentTrophy at the historicNetaji Stadium here to-day by beating ModelVillage Football Club,Wimberleygunj by 3-0goals. The chief guestMr. Anindo Majumdar,Chief Secretary andMs. Tanvi Garg, theSecretary (Sports) gave

away the prizes to thewinners and the run-ners up of the tourna-ment besides individualprizes to best players inan after match cer-emony.

The first two goals ofthe match came in thefirst half, when Octaviascored for United at the25 minutes of thematch. Then at 30 min-utes, Nickelion of thesame Club sent the ballinto the net to make it 2-

0. The third goal came inthe second half of thematch, when Ajayscored for the winners.

Best goal of the tour-nament award wasbagged by Ronit of Is-land Infotec team, whileNaveen of United Sport-ing Club won the High-est Score award. FutureBoys team got the Prom-ising Team award andIsland Infotec baggedthe Best Energetic Teamaward.

Jolly chairs all-party meetPORT BLAIR, DEC 12/--/An all-party meeting washeld on Tuesday atDiviyum Manor under thechairmanship of Mr. VishalJolly, state president BJP, A&N Islands. Mr. L. Moorthy,state core committee mem-ber BJP welcomed all, fol-lowed by the chairman’sexplanation in detail abouttoday’s agenda regardingreconstitution of thePradesh Council of A&N Is-lands. He suggested to un-derline the opinion of thefunctionaries of politicalparties present in the meet-ing. After deliberationsand discussion of the day’sagenda, the meetingadopted resolutions includ-ing reconstitution ofPradesh Council A&N Is-lands, Joint Action Councilto be constituted to addressthe agenda of reconstitu-tion of Pradesh Counciland action council shallstudy and review the en-actment of parliament to

Ray meets CSfor DRMs

APWDPORT BLAIR, DEC 12 /--/Mr. Bishnu Pada Ray,Member of Parliamentbesides raising the issuein the Parliament, Minis-try and Administration,has brought it up at theHMAC meeting and dueto his efforts the A & N Ad-ministration has issuedorder for granting 1/30pay + D.A to the DRMswith effect from01.09.2017 against thevacant post vide orderNo. 289 dated 22.09.2017.In compliance to afore-said order, the Depart-ment of APWD has circu-lated a Proformaamongst the DRMs seek-ing the Bio-data but in-sisted an additional con-dition (Quote) ‘I under-take that I will abide allthe terms and conditionof O.M No.289 dated22.09.2017 and I will notclaim either for regulari-sation of service or finan-cial benefit of service ren-dered prior01.09.2017(Un-quote)’.Since the condition im-posed by the departmentis not found to the truespirit of the order, Mr.Ray has met with theChief Secretary on12.12.2017 to discuss theissue. While discussingthe matter, the Commis-sioner (PWD) and theChief Engineer, APWDwere also present. Afterdetailed discussion, ithas been decided to with-draw the condition stipu-lated in the proforma andwill issue a revised circu-lar/proforma for theDRMs of APWD. In viewof the above, no DRMs ofAPWD are needed to sub-mit such undertakingfurther.

PORT BLAIR, DEC 12 /--/ Hawkers and vendors, oneither side of the road, out-side the Veer Savarkar Inter-national Airport, fromLamba Line gate to MinnieBay Junction attracts birdsand stray animals whichmay cause danger to flightoperations in that area andhence it is a serious safetyand security concern. De-spite repeated attempts toclear the area, hawkers andvendors re-start their activi-ties. Such activities leads tocrowding and uneven park-ing of vehicles on either sideof the road, resulting in traf-fic congestion and increasedbird and stray animal activi-

constitute the PradeshCouncil and shall submitthe proposal for savingsand repeal if required inthe provisions of the enact-ment as far as the executivepowers of the PradeshCouncil according to thegenuine requirement ofthe island and islander asthe case may be. The JointAction Council has be

elected with the membersnamely, Mr. K. Ganeshnan(INC), Mr. Sanjay Meshak(AAP), Mr. K. P. Aboobacker(TMC), Mr. N. Manik Rao(TDP), Mr. K. Venkat (JanKranti), Mr. A. K.Maruthavanan (DMK), Mr.E. Erulandi (AIDMK), Mr.Harish Anselm (BSP), Mr.Vishal Jolly (BJP) and Mr. L.Moorthy (BJP).

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PBMC warns hawkers,vendors on airport road

ties concerning to flightsafety. The Sub DivisionalMagistrate (SA) through or-der dated 19/04/2017 inCase No.45/2017, under Sec-tion 133 CrPc, had alreadydeclared that the publicroad outside of the VSI Air-port, from Lamba Line gateto Minnie Bay Junction isunfit for hawkers and streetvendors. PBMC issued apublic notice 17th August2017 to immediately stophawking and vending activi-ties and to remove all sortsencroachments failingwhich same would be sum-marily removed by the Mu-nicipal Council under Sec-tion 150 and 151 of the

Andaman and Nicobar Is-lands (Municipal) Regula-tions 1994, at the risk andcost of the concerned per-sons. Mr. Yashpal Garg, Sec-retary PBMC informed thatthough the PBMC carriedout certain drives to removesuch hawkers, but they re-turn again in the sameevening. On 12.12.2017, thePBMC conducted a majordrive and removed about adozen hawkers and seizedsome goods. Mr. Garg saidthat considering safety offlights operation, the hawk-ing will not be tolerated andmore strict actions will betaken if they return to vendon that stretch of the road.

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