Hoteliers Assn. Urges Special Package & Faster Revival of Tourism Activities
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Project1_Layout 1 30/05/2020 8:54 PM Page 1 The Phoenix Post News You Can Use English Daily Published from Port Blair E-mail: [email protected] :: website: www.thephoenixpostindia.com :: Vol. - IV :: Issue - 71 :: Rs. 3.00 :: Regn: ANDENG/2017/73090 :: PORT BLAIR SUNDAY :: 31 MAY, 2020 :: PAGES - 04 Devastating impact of COVID -19 on Tourism Industry in Andaman: Lt.Gen. Podali Shankar Rajeshwar CINCAN calls it a day PORT BLAIR, MAY 30: Lieu- tarian assistance and Hoteliers Assn. urges special package & faster tenant General Podali Covid-19 medical help to Shankar Rajeshwar PVSM, IOR nations Maldives, AVSM, VSM, ADC, the 14th Mauritius, Madagascar and revival of Tourism activities in Islands Commander-in-Chief of the Seychelles as a goodwill Port Blair, May 30: The the pandemic, the Hoteliers measures to prevent mass Andaman & Nicobar Com- gesture from the Govern- Andaman and Nicobar Ho- Association chief said that bankruptcy and layoffs by mand (CINCAN) retired ment and people of India. teliers Association has the year 2020 could be a the thousands, he said. On from service on 31st May For his distinguished ser- urged the UT administra- complete washout for the the ground of assessment 2020, leaving a glorious vice, Lieutenant General tion to withdraw the suspen- Travel and Tourism indus- of the situation points to- legacy and many mile- Rajeshwar had been sion imposed on all the tour- try in India, including in the wards the fact that the tour- stones in his distinguished awarded the Param ism activities in the islands A&N Islands, if immediate ism Industry would need career spanning four de- Vishisht Seva Medal and allow it to open Hotels, steps are not taken – not more liquidity support and cades. He had taken over his Command. The Lieu- Rajeshwar’sdirections, the (PVSM) on 26th January Resorts, Bars and boat ser- just to contain virus but also therefore, the current mora- the appointment on 01 Dec tenant General oversaw personnel and assets of the 2020 and appointed as an vices as soon as the nor- its impact on livelihoods. torium period of three 19. there-induction into ANC Command actively coordi- Honorary Aide-de-Camp mal flight and ship services For an industry like Tour- months need to be ex- During his tenure as ofFDN-1,the first Floating nated and worked together (ADC) to the President of resume its services in the account of the difficulties ism which contributes tended for a further period CINCAN, Lieutenant Gen- Dock of the Indian Navy, with the Andaman and India in November 2019. Islands. In a letter ad- being experienced by the nearly 10 per cent to India’s of one year, Bhasker added. eral Rajeshwar focused on which has augmented refit Nicobar Administration in Lieutenant General dressed to the Islands Lt stakeholders in view of GDP- immediate interven- This apart, Bhasher enhancing the operational and docking capability. dealing with the Corona Rajeshwar is married to Governor, copies of which lockdown due to corona vi- tion of the Government of said that the Government of preparedness of ANC. The The commissioning of the pandemic and providing Mrs. Harshita Rajeshwar, were sent to the Ministers rus pandemic and the im- India, Ministry of Tourism, India and the Administra- 29th edition of the Indo- Landing Craft Utility Mk-IV succour to the populace who supported him to look of Finance, Home Affairs, perative need for revival of Ministry of Home Affairs, tion also need to consider Thai Coordinated Patrol Class ship LCU-57 on 15 across the length and after the welfare of the fami- Tourism besides the Chief these activities in the Is- Ministry of Civil Aviation and deferment of statutory li- (CORPAT) was success- May 2020 enhanced the breadth of the islands. INS lies of personnel of ANC in Secretary of this UT, the lands. the Andaman and Nicobar abilities, including GST fully conducted from 13th to Amphibious Operational Kesari, a LST (L) of the ANC her role as the President, Association President G. Expressing serious Administration is of utmost and advance Tax payment 21st February 2020 during capability of India’s only Flotilla was successfully Defence Wives’ Welfare Bhasker gave a detailed concern over the fall-out of necessity for its survival (Contd. on Page 2.) Joint Forces Command. deployed for Operation Association (DWWA) (Re- Amid objections over air passengers not being quarantined Petroleum retail outlet to come Under Lieutenant General Sagar to provide humani- gional). Sampling of incoming passengers begins at VSI up at Uttara Nation will win battle against COVID-19, PM Modi PORT BLAIR, MAY 30: The lands has approved the for tests in ICMR lab Andaman & Nicobar Is- proposal for setting up of a exudes confidence on first anniversary of his PHOENIX CORRESPONDENT free to go anywhere, which sampling of the incoming lands Integrated Develop- B Site Petroleum Retail is bound to be a matter of passengers which now has ment Corporation Limited Outlet at Uttara village , second term Port Blair, May 30: Amid re- great risk for the rest of the begun at VSI airport for car- (ANIIDCO) is operating Kadamtala, North & Middle "In a crisis of this magni- sentment among the islanders. Quarantine, rying out the subsequent eleven Petroleum Outlets Andaman. tude, it can certainly not be people, the Health Depart- whether institutional or tests in laboratory so as to across A & N Islands includ- The ANIIDCO will set up claimed that no one suf- ment of Andaman & Nicobar home, for everyone coming detect the existence of vi- ing in remotest Islands of a Petroleum Retail Outlet at fered any inconvenience or Administration has now be- to the island is precisely rus among the new en- Kamorta, Katchal, Teressa Uttara village, Kadamtala in discomfort. Our labourers, gun to conduct Covid-19 what most of the people trants, if any. He denied of & Campbell Bay. Presently, coordination with Indian Oil migrant workers, artisans tests of the selective group here vouched for when any changes in the proto- there is no fuel outlet at Corporation Limited. The and craftsmen in small of incoming passengers on asked during an interaction scale industries, hawkers col made by the govt in re- Kadamtala, due to which construction and operation their arrival from mainland with The Phoenix Post to- and such fellow country- gard to procedure to fight the general public is facing of fuel outlet will be done India. People on the Islands day. men have undergone tre- the Covid-19 battle.difficulties in meeting their strictly in accordance to the have been raising objec- When contacted, the fuel requirements. conditions set forth by mendous suffering. We are Sample collection of the tions to the system of not Director of Health Services, Considering the prob- Tribal Welfare Department working in a united and de- taking such passengers for Dr Omkar Singh clarified people with symptoms con- New Delhi, May 30 (ANI): that India will win the battle termined way to alleviate lems faced by general pub- for the safety and security On the completion of one against COVID-19 pan- quarantine and letting them today that it is not test but (Contd. on Page 2.) lic, the Lt. Governor N Is- of Jarawa Tribe. their troubles," PM Modi year of the second term of demic while acknowledg- stated in an open letter. #Unlock1: Unrestricted movement of persons, Chennai-Andaman ship the Narendra Modi-led Na- ing the "tremendous suffer- "However, we have to take tional Democratic Alliance ing" of the migrant workers care to ensure that incon- goods allowed services resume after gap with (NDA) government, PM and labourers during veniences that we are fac- der which "all activities that Modi exuded confidence coronavirus crisis. (Contd. on Page 3.) were prohibited earlier, will stranded Islanders be opened up in areas out- Trump bans entry of certain groups of Chinese side Containment Zones in a phased manner, with the students to US Washington, May 30 : US stipulation of following Stan- President Donald Trump dard Operating Procedures has issued a proclamation (SOPs), to be prescribed by banning the entry of Chi- the Health Ministry." nese students and re- The guidelines will come searchers having ties with New Delhi [India], May 30 health and its assessment into effect from June 1, the People's Liberation (ANI): The Centre on Sat- of the situation, proposes to 2020, and will be effective Chennai/Port Blair, May 30: Port on Saturday. Army to dismantle China's urday issued new guide- regulate the movement of till June 30, 2020. The cur- The weekly passenger ship The ship services were efforts to use graduate stu- lines under which "there persons, it will give wide rent phase of re-opening -- service between Chennai suspended due to the dents to acquire intellectual shall be no restriction on publicity in advance re- Unlock 1 -- will have an and Andaman resumed on lockdown due to corona vi- property and technology inter-State and intra-State garding the restrictions to economic focus, said the Thursday after a gap of 53 rus pandemic. However, from America. movement of persons and be placed on such move- MHA. The country is under days. The passenger ship even as the services have Trump's announcement communist giant's aggres- sitive US technologies and goods." "No separate per- ment, and the related pro- the fourth phase of MV Nicobar left Chennai resumed, the officials are came amidst escalating sive military moves in the intellectual property to mission/approval/e-permit cedures to be followed," lockdown which will con- port to Andaman with 87 unsure of the frequency in confrontation between the disputed South China Sea.