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In 1789 the Government of Bengal established a penal colony on Chatham Island in the southeast bay of Great Andaman, named Port Blair in the honour of Archibald Blair of the East India Company. After two years, the colony moved to the northeast part of Great Andaman and was named Port Cornwallis after Admiral William Cornwallis. However, there ...
The district government is headed by a Deputy Commissioner, who in turn reports into the Lt. Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The capital of the district is the township of Port Blair , which is also the main town and capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT.
Following Indian independence, the Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands was the nominal head of the territory, appointed by the President of India. Inamul Majid, February 1946 – 1949, subordinate to the Governor to 15 August 1947; Ajoy Kumar Ghosh, 1949–1953; Sankar Nath Maitra, 1953–1956; C. Ramachandran, 1956
The Ross Island Prison Headquarters, 1872. Ross Island Penal Colony was a convict settlement that was established in 1858 in the remote Andaman Islands by the British colonial government in India, primarily to jail a large number of prisoners from the Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Indian Mutiny.
Commander-in-Chief, Andaman and Nicobar Command (CINCAN) is the head of the Andaman and Nicobar Command, the first and only Tri-service theater command of the Indian Armed Forces, based at Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a Union Territory of India.
Great Nicobar Island Development Project [1] [2] is a planned mega-infrastructure project for the southern tip of Great Nicobar Island in Andaman Sea of India. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The island comes under the Nicobar district administriation in the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands .
It is situated at Atlanta Point, next to the National Memorial Cellular Jail Complex, Port Blair, South Andaman District, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The permanent location of the college, where new infrastructure is being constructed is Corbyns Cove, South Point, Port Blair, South Andaman District. [4]
The Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) is a integrated tri-services command of the Indian Armed Forces, based at Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a Union Territory of India. [1] It was created in 2001 to safeguard India's strategic interests in Southeast Asia and the Strait of Malacca by increasing rapid deployment of military ...