Editors from Andaman discuss priorities and challenges
Protecting indigenous tribes, preserving the fragile ecology, providing basic amenities such as drinking water and preventing illegal migration and encroachments are some of the main challenges confronting Andaman & Nicobar Islands. In an interaction with journalists at The Hindu on Monday, editors of newspapers and magazines from Andaman & Nicobar listed out the priorities before the administration in the Union Territory comprising over 500 islets. The editors were alarmed by the statement of the Andaman & Nicobar Member of Parliament Bishnu Pada of a plan to evict the Jarawa tribes from their homeland and resettle them in an uninhabited island. While the activists have been demanding the closure of the trunk road to save the Jarawa tribe as per the Supreme Court directions, Asheem Poddar, chief editor, The Daily Telegrams, suggests improvement of waterways as an alternative route to connect middle and northern Andamans before closing down the 90-km stretch of the trunk road from Jirkatang to Middlestrait, crossing Jarawas territory.
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