Ministry of Civil Aviation
The Airport at Port Blair is
now fully operational. The Ministry of Civil Aviation (Indian Air Lines and Jet
Airways) have undertaken 125 flights including 24 flights for Cargo. They have
brought out 8471 passengers and 258 infants ex- Port Blair. They have airlifted
a cargo load of 402 MT to Port Blair.
The Ministry have issued instructions for transporting
the relief material to the Tsunami affected areas free of cost, if the
consignees are the Relief Commissioner/District Magistrate of the affected
States/UTs and the relief material is in the form of donation and is at no cost
to them. On this term, the facility
of free transport can also be availed by the NGOs, Trusts and other
Organisations including Corporate Sector to provide the relief material
including material for rehabilitation and reconstruction