Port
Blair, July 17: Mr B.Ishwar Rao, Councillor, P.B.M.C and Mr Mangat Ram,
Secretary Seva Niketan Garlanded the statue and paid tributes to Shaheed
M.Dilli Rao Gunner of 51 Field Regiment ( Artillery ) who laid down his life,
fighting insurgents in Assam on 13th July 2002. At a function held on Saturday
13th July 2019 at Dairy Farm Junction, which was attended by Mr A.
Chakraborthy, Warden and Inmates of Seva Niketan, Parents of the braved son,
relatives, youths and the general public paid floral tributes to M. Dilli Rao.
Inmates of Seva Niketan presented a patriotic song on this occasion. Gunner M.
Dilli Rao was a student of Govt. Sec. School, Dairy Farm. Mrm. Mangat Ram
briefed about the life of shaheed M. Dilli Rao to the Inmates and present
gathering.
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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