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Port Blair tehsil
Region of India

Port Blair tehsil

Port Blair tehsil, officially Sri Vijaya Puram tehsil, is one of 5 local administrative divisions of the Indian district of South Andaman, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Plan a trip to Port Blair tehsil→From Bhubaneswar
How locals move

Getting around Port Blair tehsil the local way

  • Get inTaxis and autorickshaws wait outside the terminal at flight times.
  • Get inHelicopters used to run from inter-island helicopter service 1 km from the airport terminal.
  • Get inPawan Hans Helicopter Ltd is operating its fleet of 03 Dauphin Helicopters from Port Blair under the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Administration.
  • Get inRajiv Gandhi Water Sports Complex to take smaller ferries to Ross Island, North Bay and Viper Island.
  • Get aroundAuto-rickshaws are abundant, and within town should cost ₹20-40.
  • Get aroundThe auto-rickshaws will overcharge you if they can see you don't know where you are going or what you are doing.
  • Get aroundOne way of avoiding being fleeced by them is to just climb in the back of the auto-rickshaws and say "Aberdeen Bazaar" for example.
  • Get aroundIt takes approximately 15 minutes by ferry from Rajiv Gandhi Water Sports Complex jetty.

From Wikivoyage: Port Blair, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Biswajit Majumdar (CC BY-SA 3.0), Wikimedia Commons.