Andaman and Nicobar Administration

Directorate of IP&T

Information & Publicity Division

 

 

 

Port Blair 29 August, 2015.

 

 

 

Press Release

 

 

 

 

 

         A large number of visitors called on the Hon’ble Lt Governor, Lt Gen A K Singh (Retd), today at Raj Niwas, on the occasion of Rakshabandhan and tied rakhis.

The Lt Governor greeted them and conveyed his best wishes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        

 

 

The First Lady of the Islands, Smt Suneeti Singh, interacting with the children

and trainees at Anganwadi Training Centre, Dollygunj on 28th August 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Students from Govt Secondary School, Junglighat accompanied by their

teachers visited Raj Niwas on 29.08.2015

to see the gardens and other attractions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stringent action taken against traffic violators

 

 

         A meeting was held at PS Aberdeen by the Traffic Police on 27/8/2015 with the representatives of Pvt. Bus Owners Association and Pvt. Bus Drivers & Conductors Union on traffic discipline.

 

         During the meeting, the union representatives were apprised about the violations committed by the Pvt. Bus drivers on the road thereby causing congestions and undue inconvenience to the general public. The main focus of the meeting was on discouraging the usage of pressure horn, overtaking, haphazard parking, over speeding, dangerous driving, etc.

 

         All the union representatives were instructed to create a mechanism to maintain a regular check on the activities of drivers and take strict action against them. On this Shri Thyagarajan, President, A&N Pvt. Bus Owners Association stated that they have already convened a meeting with all owners and drivers to work out the strategy to bring improvement and uniformity in the operation of private buses for providing better services to the public for which they have unanimously decided to provide training, good salary and ID Card to the drivers and conductors in order to inculcate a sense of discipline in them.

 

         On the same day the Traffic Police also conducted special drive against using pressure horns and total 32 private buses were checked and out of which, 3 buses have been challaned under M.V Act for using pressure horn.

 

         Traffic Police will also be conducting special drives against drunken driving, over speeding, triple riding and rash driving etc. in the near future. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Panchayat & Municipal Elections – 2015

 

PRESS RELEASE

After the completion of scrutiny & withdrawal, list of contesting candidates for councillor PBMC are as under:-

 

The final tally for Zilla Parishad and Panchayats is being compiled.

The training of Presiding Officers/Polling Officers was conducted in North & Middle Andaman on 27^th August 2015.

It is informed for the convenience of the candidates that they are required to submit their request for mike permission to the concerned authorities with details so that it could be allotted in an equitable manner.

It is once again directed to all the Bar licensee and ANIIDCO Ltd to submit the daily report of their sale of liquor in the prescribed format in the license section of the Deputy Commissioner’s office, South Andaman without fail. The teams constituted for enforcement of modal code of conduct are also directed to monitor and keep vigil on bars/liquor shops. Stringent penal action shall be taken against the violators.

The teams constituted for preventing the violation of Modal Code of Conduct have been keeping constant vigil. The 17 (Seventeen) number of defacements have been removed in North & Middle Andaman District & 44 on 28^th August & 29^th August 2015 in South Andaman District. The general public and others are appealed to report any case of violation of Modal Code of Conduct to Election Cell on 03192-238881 and 03192-240127.

 

 

CORRUPT PRACTICES AND ELECTORAL OFFENCES

 

(Excerpts from A & N Island (Panchayats) (Preparation of Electoral Rolls & Conduct of Election) Rules, 1995

 

 

137.     Corrupt Practices: The corrupt practices specified in section 123 of the Representation of the People Act. 1951 (4 of 1951) shall be deemed to be corrupt practices for the purposes of elections to any Gram Panchayat Samiti and the Zilla Parishad, with such modifications, as the administrator may by one orders to be published in the Official Gazzete, specify, from time to time.

 

138.     Promotion enmity between classes in connection with election: No person shall, in connection with an election under the Regulation and these rules, promote or attempt to promote on grounds of religion, caste, race, community or language. Feelings of enmity or hatred between different classes of the citizens of India.

 

139.     Prohibition of public meetings on the day proceeding the election day and on the election day: no person shall convene, hold or attend any public meeting in any Panchayat area during the period of forty eight hours ending with the hour fixed for the conclusion of the poll for any election in that area.

 

140.     Disturbances at election meeting: (1) No person shall, at a public meeting act or incite others to act in a disorderly manner for the purpose of preventing the transaction of the business for which the meeting was called together. (2) This rule applies to any public meeting of a political character held in any constituency between the date of the issue of a notification under the Regulation or these rules calling upon the constituency to elect a member and the date on which such election held.

 

141.     Restriction o the printing of pamphlets, poster, etc.:

 

(1)       No person shall print or publish, or cause to be printed or published, any election pamphlet or poster which does not bear on its face the names and address of the printer and the publisher thereof.

 

           2)       No person shall print or cause to be printed any election pamphlet or poster-

 

(a) unless a declaration as to the identity of the publisher thereof signed by him  and attested by two persons to who he is personally known, is delivered by him to the printer in duplicate; and

           

(b) unless, within a reasonable time after the printing of the document, one copy of the declaration is sent by the printer, together with one copy of the document, to the director of Panchayats Elections.

 

            (3) For the purpose of this rule:

(a)  any process for multiplying copies of a document other than copying it by hand, shall be deemed to printed and the expression “printer” shall be constructed accordingly; and

(b) “election pamphlet or poster” means any printed pamphlet, handbill, or other document distributed for the purpose of promoting or prejudicing the election of a candidate or a group of candidates or any placard or poster having reference to an election, but does not include any handbill, placard or poster merely announcing the date, time, place and other particulars of an election meeting or routine instructions to election agents or workers.

 

142.     Officers, etc. at elections no to act for candidates or to influence voting: (1) No person who is Returning Officer or an Assistant Returning Officer, or a Presiding Officer or Polling Officer at an election, or an officer or clerk appointed by the Returning Officer or the Presiding Officer to perform any duty in connection with an election shall in conduct of the management of the election do any act (other that the giving of vote) for the furtherance of the prospect of the election of candidate.

 

(2) No such person as aforesaid, and no member of a police force shall endeavour –

      (a) to pursuance any person to give his vote at an election, or

      (b) to dissuade any person from giving his vote at an election, or

      (c) to influence the voting of any person at an election in any manner.

 

143.     Prohibition of canvassing in or near the Polling Station: (1) no person shall, on the date or dates on which a poll is taken at any polling station, commit any of the following acts within the polling stations or in nay public or private place within a distance of one hundred meters of the polling station, namely:

            (a)  canvassing for votes; or

            (b) soliciting the vote of any elector; or

            (c) persuading any elector not to be vote for any particular candidate; or

(d) persuading any elector no to vote at the election; or

(e) exhibiting any notice or sign (other than and official notice) relating to the election.

 

144.     Prohibition of disorderly conduct in or near polling station: (1) No person shall, on the date or dates on which polis taken at any polling station -

 

(a)   use or operate within or at the entrance of the polling station, or in any public or private place in the neighborhood thereof, any apparatus for amplifying or reproducing the human voice, such as megaphone or loudspeaker; or

 

(b)  shout, or otherwise act in a disorderly manner within or at the entrance of the polling station, or in any public or private place in the neighborhood thereof so as to cause annoyance to any person visiting the polling station for the poll, or so as to interfere within the work of the officers and other persons on duty at the polling station.

 

(2) If the Presiding Officer of a polling station has reason to believe that any person is not complying with the provision of sub-rule (1), he may direct any police officer to take such steps as may be reasonably necessary for preventing any such contravention and the police officer may seize any apparatus used for such contravention.

 

145.     Misconduct at the polling station: (1) Any person who during the hours fixed the poll at any polling station misconducts himself or fails to obey the lawful directions of the Presiding Officer may be removed from the Polling Station by the Presiding Officer or by any Polling officer on duty or by any person authorized in this behalf by any such Presiding Officer.

           

            (2) The powers conferred by sub-rule (1) shall not be exercised so as to prevent any elector who is otherwise entitled to vote at a polling station for having an opportunity of voting at that station.

 

146.     Failure to observe procedure for voting: if any elector to whom a ballot paper has been issued, refuses to observe the procedure prescribed for voting, the ballot paper issued to him shall be liable for cancellation.

 

147.     Government servants not to act as election agent, polling agent or counting agent: No government servant shall act s an election agent or a polling agent or a counting agent of a candidate at a election.

 

148.     Ballot papers from polling station are not to be removed; (1) No person any election shall fraudulently take or attempt to take a ballot paper out of a polling station or willfully aid or abet doing of any such act.

           

1)     If a Presiding Officer of a polling station has reason to believe that any person is contravening the provisions of sub rule (1), such officer may before such person leaves the polling station, direct a police officer to search such person;

 

2)     Provided that when it is necessary to cause a woman to search, the search shall be made by other women with strict regard to decency.

 

3)     Any ballot paper found upon such persons shall be made over for safe custody to a police officer by the Presiding Officer.

 

149.       Other acts: No person shall at an election –

 

a)     fraudulently deface, fraudulently destroy any nomination paper: or

b)     fraudulently deface, or destroy or removal any list, notice or other document affixed by or under the authority of a Returning Officer; or

c)     (c) fraudulently deface or fraudulently destroy any ballot paper or the official mark on any ballot   paper or any declaration or identity; or

d)     without due authority supply any ballot paper to any person or receive any ballot paper from any person or posses any ballot paper; or

e)     fraudulently put into any ballot box anything other than the allot peper which he is authorized by law to put in; or

f)      without due authority destroy , take, open, or otherwise interfere with any ballot box or ballot paper then in use for the purpose of the election; or

g)     fraudulently or without due authority, s the case may be attempt to do any of the foregoing acts or willfully aid or abet the doing of any such acts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Local weather forecast for Port Blair & its neighbourhood

Valid till 1730 hours of 30.08.2015

Issue time: 1730 hours IST   Date: 29.08.2015

 

          Partly cloudy sky with possibility of rain at isolated places.

                     Maximum & minimum temperatures will be around 30 ^o C and 24 ^o C respectively on 30.08.2015.

 

Port Blair

                                                                             Source: IMD Meteorological Office, Shadipur, Port Blair