Tarun Karthick

Sri Vijaya Puram, 23 September 2025

Mr. Bishnu Pada Ray, Hon’ble Member of Parliament from the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, has strongly criticised the Administration for what he termed as “grave neglect” in the conduct of District Planning Committee (DPC) meetings across all three districts of the Union Territory.

The MP expressed deep anguish that the South Andaman DPC, scheduled between 22–24 September, was boycotted by members after draft plan books were provided only on 20th September — just a day before the meeting, instead of the mandated 10 days. The Action Taken Report of the previous DPC was also not supplied. Similar lapses, he said, occurred in North & Middle Andaman, where plan books were handed over a day before the meeting, and in Nicobar, where neither plan

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