Tarun Karthick
Sri Vijaya Puram, 11 November 2025
Mr. TSG Bhasker, Chairman of the Campaign Committee of the Andaman & Nicobar Territorial Congress Committee (ANTCC), has written to the Chief Secretary of the Andaman & Nicobar Administration reiterating his request to permit autorickshaws to ply over the Chatham Bridge to alleviate the rising difficulties confronted by the residents of South Andaman District.
In his letter, Mr. Bhasker drew consideration to the extreme inconvenience being confronted by residents of Bambooflat and adjoining Panchayats as a result of ongoing restrictions on the motion of autorickshaws, automobiles, and buses over the bridge. He famous that commuters are compelled to stroll almost one kilometre between the Chatham Jetty and the primary highway, typically beneath harsh daylight or heavy rain, which causes immense hardship to senior residents, ladies carrying infants, faculty kids, each day commuters, and vacationers.
While acknowledging the Administration’s effort to deploy a battery-operated rickshaw to ease the issue, Mr. Bhasker remarked {that a} single car is grossly insufficient to cater to the massive quantity of people that rely on this route each day.
He additional noticed that the closure of the bridge to sure autos was primarily based on a suggestion from a technical workforce assessing its structural situation. Mr. Bhasker urged the Administration to conduct a contemporary, detailed structural stability survey by means of one other competent company and to evaluate the prevailing restrictions primarily based on the brand new findings.
Mr. Bhasker appealed to the Administration to permit autorickshaws to function over the Chatham Bridge on the earliest, emphasizing that such a step would vastly ease the struggling of commuters.
