TMI Correspondent Port Blair, July 10: On the first day of the protest, on 07/07/2024, about 200 people gathered in front of the office of the Directorate of Health Services (DHS), led by Mr. Hemaraju, General Secretary of the Fishermen Welfare Association, Mr. Maheshwar Rao from BJP Yuva Morcha, PBMC Councillors Mr. Someshwar Rao, Mr. Padmanabam, Mr. Joga Rao, Mr. Sahul Hameed, and others, including Dr. Arun Mallick, Mr. Satyanarayana, Mrs. Mohini, and others. They put forth some demands before the Director (Health) and Director (ANIIMS), such as details of inoculation given to the deceased V. Vimala, a post-mortem to be done by specialist doctors of Health Services, Defence/Dhanwantri Doctors under video surveillance with full transparency, and compensation on security grounds for the one-and-a-half-year-old child of the late V. Vimala. The management agreed and looked forward to constituting a committee accordingly. On the second day of the protest, on 08/07/2024, in the morning
PBMC Ward Councillors demand CBI probe after alleged threats and corruption by PBMC Superintending Engineer
TMI Correspondent Port Blair, July 03: Due to the non-lifting of garbage for the past month from various municipal wards in Port Blair City, despite readily available segregated waste, several councillors, dissatisfied with responses from the junior engineers of their localities, visited the Brookshabad garbage dumping yard to investigate the issue. On 29/06/2024 Sr. Vice Chairperson, Ravichandran, Ward Councillor Someshwar Rao, and others inspected the site and observed a large number of plastic bottles covering approximately 150 square meters, with a thickness of one to two meters. This situation violates the National Green Tribunal (NGT) guidelines. During the inspection, they received a call from the Superintending Engineer of PBMC, Avinash Kumar Singh, who allegedly threatened them, questioning their permission to enter the site and accusing them of seeking a commission. He is also reported to have used abusive and vulgar language towards all councillors of the 24 wards. War