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Union Home Minister Amit Shah connected Saturday (January 3, 2026) asserted that Andaman & Nicobar Islands volition go a large contributor to the country’s treasury successful 10 years.
Mr. Shah was speaking astatine the inauguration and instauration stone-laying of assorted projects worthy ₹373 crore successful Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which helium described arsenic a “pilgrimage site” erstwhile it comes to India’s independency struggle.
Hinting astatine the planetary transhipment project, lipid exploration proceedings and different developmental projects successful the archipelago, the Union Home Minister said this radical of islands was erstwhile considered a drain of the country’s treasury.
“But today, nether (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi ji’s vision, I americium assured that aft the adjacent 10 years, this land radical volition beryllium a large contributor to the country’s treasury. Not the least, India has present go the fourth-largest economy, and I americium assured that successful 2 years, it volition beryllium the third-largest system successful the world,” helium said.
Parliamentary committee meeting
Earlier connected the day, Mr. Shah chaired a Parliamentary Consultative Committee gathering of the Ministry of Home Affairs, and aboriginal inaugurated an accumulation connected ‘Naveen Nyaya Sanhita’ (new transgression laws) astatine the ITF Ground successful Sri Vijaya Puram, formerly Port Blair.
The Parliamentary sheet meeting, which started astatine 11 a.m. and ended astatine astir 2.40 p.m., focused connected issues of nationalist security, catastrophe management, cyber information and determination infrastructure, sources said.
The gathering besides emphasised connected usage of latest technologies to combat transgression and establishing much state-of-the-art centres specified arsenic the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) and the National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) astatine the determination level, the sources said.
A abstracted league connected the strategical value of Andaman and Nicobar Islands was besides held, they said.
Union Ministers of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai and Bandi Sanjay Kumar, members of the committee, Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, and different officials attended the meeting.
The three-day accumulation inaugurated by Mr. Shah is aimed astatine making radical alert of the caller justness codes, reforms and its cardinal points.
There are 10 kiosks and stalls adorned with posters highlighting the reforms nether the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA).
An interactive league connected the 3 laws was besides organised by the Andaman and Nicobar Police.
Renaming of islands
Speaking astatine the inauguration of projects, Mr. Shah said Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose unfurled the nationalist emblem and liberated Andaman connected December 30, 1943, and successful his honour, the Prime Minister had named the 2 islands Andaman and Nicobar arsenic ‘Shaheed’ and ‘Swaraj’ respectively aft his wish.
“This onshore is simply a pilgrimage tract for each Indian surviving successful autarkic India. During the state struggle, the fighters’ oppression and their voices could not scope the world,” helium said.
Now, Veer Savarkar’s memorial and the torch successful the Cellular Jail are telling the satellite that galore martyrs had laid down their lives here, the Union Home Minister said astatine the programme held astatine Netaji Stadium here.
“Modi Ji has undertaken the task of naming the islands aft brave warriors,” helium said, referring to the Prime Minister successful 2023 christening 21 islands successful the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago aft Param Vir Chakra awardees.
Referring to the accumulation connected caller transgression laws, which helium inaugurated during the day, Mr. Shah said radical indispensable spot the accumulation connected the caller justness codes introduced to abolish the laws of the British to recognize the changes taking spot successful the transgression justness system.
“Modi ji has launched a run to escaped the state from the symbols of slavery. In this direction, Port Blair has been renamed Sri Vijaya Puram. Andaman and Nicobar Islands person go the focal constituent of our freedom, sovereignty, maritime power, and economical activities successful today’s times,” helium said.
Tourism and bluish economy
Due to their important strategical determination successful the Indo-Pacific region, the islands had immense possibilities for the bluish system and immense imaginable for tourism, helium said, adding that the Centre was committed to processing the full archipelago, portion preserving its heritage.
“In 2047, during the centenary solemnisation of India’s independence, erstwhile our state volition beryllium fig 1 successful each field, the insistence connected self-reliant India and Swadeshi is precise important,” Mr. Shah said astir the ‘Viksit Bharat’ campaign.
Mr. Shah inaugurated a roadworthy task from Zero Point to East West Road astatine Great Nicobar Block, a Consumer Commission building, signifier 1 of a 155-bedded hospital, a 50-bedded intensive attraction unit, the Integrated Control and Command Centre, and a DNA & Cyber Forensic Laboratory.
Union Ministers of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai and Bandi Sanjay Kumar, members of the committee, Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, and different officials attended the meeting.
Mr. Shah arrived successful the Andaman and Nicobar Islands connected Friday nighttime connected a three-day visit. His level landed astatine INS Utkrosh, adjacent to Veer Savarkar International Airport, successful Sri Vijaya Puram astatine astir 10.45 p.m.. He was received by Lieutenant Governor D.K. Joshi among others.
This is Mr. Shah’s 2nd sojourn to the islands successful little than a month. He visited the archipelago connected December 12 to commemorate the 116th day of V.D. Savarkar's iconic poem 'Sagara Pran Talamala'.
Security has been tightened crossed the Union territory successful presumption of Mr. Shah's visit, officials said.
Mr. Shah volition instrumentality disconnected from the archipelago connected January 4.
