Bharat Nirman Campaign in remote Middle Andaman village this year

Port Blair, Sep 6 (UNI) The next Bharat Nirman Public Information Campaign will be held at Rangat in the first week of November.

''Central government Information and Broadcasting Secretary Asha Swarup has written to the Chief Secretary of Andaman and Nicobar Administration seeking continued cooperation of the UT Administration in the endeavors of the Press Information Bureau to organise the campaign,'' O N Jaiswal, Assistant Information Officer of PIB at Port Blair told UNI today.

Mr Jaiswal said that the campaign offers opportunity to the central and state government departments, PSUs, banks and insurance companies, NGOs, SHGs etc to showcase their products and services through an exhibition.

''This outreach strategy combines information dissemination with demonstration of the delivery of services or benefits at the doorsteps of the beneficiaries, media sensitisation about development issues and motivation and participation of people in the development process,'' he added.

Meanwhile, a meeting of the media heads was held here at Doordarshan Kendra yesterday to decide the course of action to be initiated as part of preliminary works for the five-day Bharat Nirman Public Information Campaign proposed to be held at Rangat.

The meeting chaired by DDK Gangtok Director P K Subhash, decided that a team of media heads will undertake a two-day visit to Rangat from September 5 to decide the exact location where the Bharat Nirman Exhibition can be put up as also discuss with the concerned people in Rangat besides the Deputy Commissioner, Middle and North Andaman District at Mayabunder.

The first Bharat Nirman Public Information Campaign was held here at Wimberlygunj last year, which drew overwhelming response in which about 50 departments and organisations had put up their stalls and thousands of people from far and near participated in the programmes during the five-day event.

UNI