Port Blair, Nov 8 2020
Shri. Ajoy Bairagi, State President, Bharatiya Janata Party, Andaman and Nicobar Islands recently visited Mohanpura Market Area after being approached by the members of the fishermen community of Mohanpura.
Earlier the members of the fishermen community had approached Shri. Ajoy Bairagi and asked for his intervention to solve their issues. The newly constructed modern fish market at Mohapura was handed over to the Port Blair Municipal Council in July 2020. After the handing over, Port Blair Municipal Council hastily allotted the 36 counters of the modern fishermen market by forming a Self Help Group. Time was not given to the fishermen community for objections. Which led to some of the old fishermen who were selling fish at Mohanpura since years, being left out without any place to sell fish in the modern fish market.
To solve the issue, place was allotted near the modern fish market for the left out fishermen, who had been selling fish in Mohanpura since years to conduct their business. Suddenly, the authorities of the Port Blair Municipal Council had disconnected the power and the water connections in the place allotted to the left out fishermen. Finding no help, the aggrieved fishermen approached Shri. Ajoy Bairagi, State President, BJP, A & N Islands.
Shri. Ajoy Bairagi visited the site and requested the Director, Fisheries to visit the Mohanpura Market and listen to the issues of the Fishermen. The Director, Fisheries apprised the State President, BJP, A & N Islands about the ground realities.
Shri. Ajoy Bairagi, State President, BJP, A & N Islands requested the authorities to help the fishermen by making some alternative arrangements for them to sell fish, further he also requested that till the time permanent alternate arrangements are made for the fishermen, they should be allowed to sell fish there at Mohanpura Market with proper power and water connections.
Shri. Ajoy Bairagi was accompanied by Shri. N.K Udhaya Kumar, Ex-Chairperson, PBMC and State President, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Mocha, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Shri. Selva Kumar, Political Secretary to State President, BJP.
(Website: nicobartimes.com, Join our Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/nicobartimes, Follow Us on Twitter: twitter.com/nicobartimes, Join Our WhatsApp Group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/DCXyBpmnWG084PZPKu9F1S Join Our Telegram Channel: https://t.me/nicobartimes)