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Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: Parents across Goa today hgave voiced strong opposition to the decision to start the new academic year in April 2025, citing concerns over student well-being, teacher workload and inconsistencies in the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. Cecille Rodrigues, parent , voiced strong concerns over the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) in Goa, stating, “Our objections are not being heard. “We are not against the NEP, but its implementation is threatening our students’ future.” Rodrigues emphasized that despite these concerns, the Education Department has not conducted any meetings to address the issues raised…

Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: Goa’s schools have officially started the 2025-26 academic session for students in Classes VI to X and XII today, April 7. This new academic year, following a revised schedule, will run from April to March, diverging from the traditional June to April timeline. Students in Classes I to V and Class XI will begin their academic term on June 4, 2025, and end in March 2026. Due to the ongoing heat wave conditions, which are expected to last until April 9, schools will operate only until 11:30 AM during April. A five-week summer vacation is scheduled to…

Team Goemkarponn Pernem: In the early hours of April 7, 2025, a decisive strike against illegal sand mining was made by the Tiracol Coastal Police. The operation, which took place around 4:50 am, targeted illicit extraction activities in the Tiracol River at Naibag, Pernem. Under the leadership of PSI Yogesh Shirodkar and PC Aditya Shetye, the police conducted the raid using a coastal boat, seizing a canoe involved in the illegal extraction of sand. The police have successfully seized equipment and sand worth approximately Rs 2,60,000, including five cubic meters of sand. A case has been registered under the relevant…

Team Goemkarponn Panaji: Rajya Sabha MP Sadanand Shet Tanavade has thanked the Central government for sanctioning ₹1,060.21 crore for the 4-lining of the 7 km stretch from Bhoma to Old Goa on NH-748. “I extend my heartfelt thanks to Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji, Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah ji, and Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari ji for sanctioning ₹1,060.21 crore for the 4-laning of the 7 km stretch from Bhoma to Old Goa on NH-748,” he said. This important highway, Tanavde says, previously known as NH-4A, connects NH-48 near Belgaum in…

Team Goemkarponn CANACONA: Canacona Deanery under the leadership of Fr. Patrick Luis, Dean of the Deanery, presented “Novsornni,” a poignant Konkani Lenten musical drama on Saturday at Ravindra Bhavan in Canacona, Chaudi ‘Novsornni’ is the powerful production, inspired by the life, sufferings, death, and resurrection of Jesus, with Fr. Octaviano Cunha wrote its Script and Lyrics. In the spirit of synodality, the Canacona Deanery for the first time has come out together to bring this musical extravaganza to life. The talented cast of 80 artists drawn from all over the Deanery, comprising actors, singers, musicians, and choreographers, united on one…

Team Goemkarponn CANACONA: 18 tourism structures were unsealed on Saturday at Agonda.Out of the total 63 sealed beachside establishments at Agonda last month, 18 tourism structures were Unsealed on Saturday in the presence of Canacona Dy. Collector Madhu Narvekar. Earlier, 5 establishments were unsealed following court orders, making a total of 23 tourism establishments now re-opened and keeping 40 establishments as still unoperatonal and closed for the 2024-25 tourism season now at its fag end. According to sources from the authorities, based on the submission of necessary licenses and permits to the court by some of the 63 sealed establishment,…

Team Goemkarponn CANACONA: The Comunidade of Loliem-Polem in Canacona has unanimously resolved to grant an aforamento of 1 lakh sqm of land on Lease to Mallikarjun MultiFruits Processing Producer Company Limited (MMPPCL). The lease will enable the company to utilize the part of property bearing survey number 358/1 in the Village of Loliem, Canacona Taluka, for various agricultural processing and farming activities. ‘The Key features of the Lease are Storage, Processing, Packing, and Marketing the farm produce and the company will focus on handling farm produce from local farmers in Canacona Taluka’, informed Loliem-Polem Communidade President Vishwajit Warik. The planned…