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BLAIR, Aug 29:A group of youths has raised
Rs. 52,700/ in just three days for Kerala Flood relief. They collected the money from local
shopkeepers and the general public with the intention of donating all the
collected money to the Chief Minister's Distress Relief Fund. They handed the money on August 27, 2018 to
Dhiraj Jha, Chief Manager, SBI, Port Blair who lauded the noble work done by
the youths headed by Ehtesham Ahmed Khan, Shubhankar Halder, Anshika Mandal,
Pallavi Mandal, Salman Khan and Vicky Wao who also have their own Youtube channel
i.e. VickyWao.
TMI Bureau Port Blair, Oct 02: As part of National Campaign against the single-use plastic and on the occasion of 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Over 25000 cloth bags (made by Skill Development Centre, DBRAIT) were distributed to general public for free by DBRAIT in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Oct 02, 2019. At different distribution points, people at large numbers collected the cloth bags in exchange of a polythene bag. Background: Less than 50 years ago plastic bags were a rarity in the world. In Andaman it's just a decade ago Polyethylene were came into use, but badly affected a lot. Before plastic bags, there was paper or cloth. Paper bags worked but they were not easy to carry and they weren't nearly as strong as plastic. The most important part is paper was more expensive to produce than plastic. The cost of disposal and clean up of plastic bags comes back to the tax payer, hazardously. However, polyethylene (the most common type of plast...
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