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Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: The Budget session of the Goa Assembly is kept short as per tradition and a discussion on the Budget has been postponed to the monsoon session as the Opposition wanted time to study the financial plan, Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar said on Monday, the first day of the sitting. He said the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) has resolved that the monsoon session of the House would be a lengthy one with a duration of 20 days. The Budget session will be held for four days till March 31 excluding the March 30 holiday for Ram Navami. The Budget…

Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today said that the number of vacancies expected to be filled across various state government departments till March 2024 is 2572. “The number of vacancies expected to be filled till March 2024 is 2572 Nos. Government has started the process of recruitment to replace retiring staff,” said CM Sawant. He further said that the total number of Government servants employed permanently is 20546 Nos. “A total number of Government servants employed on a Temporary basis are 1995 Nos,” he added. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said that the government has decided to make a…

Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: In an apparent jibe at Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao on Monday said that the state’s BJP government is on ‘Svalpa Svalpa’ (‘little’ in Kannada) mode, and he has no expectations with it. In the second week of March, Sawant, while campaigning for the Assembly elections in Karnataka, had spoken a few lines in Kannada. He had said, “Svalpa Svalpa Kannada Mathadene” (I can speak little in Kannada). Subsequent to his speech, opposition parties in Goa slammed Sawant for campaigning in Karnataka, stating that the neighbouring state had allegedly diverted water from…

Goemkarponn desk Panaji: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Sunday joined the Congress ‘Satyagraha’ to protest INC leader Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha. Slamming the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Goa unit NCP president Jose Philip D’Souza said: “We used to criticise the Portuguese regime… but see what is happening today! It is wrong to suppress the voice in democracy.” He said this while speaking at the ‘Satyagraha’ staged by Congress near the Mahatma Gandhi Statue in Old Goa to protest the action against Rahul Gandhi following his conviction in a defamation case by a Gujarat court. D’Souza…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: In the last meeting of the Ponda Municipal Council (PMC), it took people friendly decision where the PMC deferred its decision on the proposal for commercial and house tax hike, which means the taxes will be charged at old rates of the previous year. The PMC’s five-year tenure ends on 20 May, elections could be declared any time for a fresh Council, and today was the last special meeting. There will be one more meeting, but it will not take any decision but only confirm the minutes. It may be recalled that a few months ago, the…

Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: Power Minister Sudin Dhavalikar has confirmed that the State has proposed a 6 per cent hike in power tariff across all categories. The Electricity Department has filed its petition for Annual Revenue Requirement (ARR) and Tariff proposal for FY 2023-24 before Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission 9JERC) on 30th November 2022. “To meet the revenue gap of Rs. 483.65 cr, the partial revenue gap to the extent of Rs.134.96 Crore is proposed to be recovered through the Tariff hike of overall 6% across all the categories for FY 2023-24,” Dhavalikar said in a written reply to a question…

Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: Tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte today said there is a need to regulate water sports activities in the state to weed out the presence of illegal touts involved in water sports activities across the state. “There is a need for regulating water sports activities in the state to weed out the presence of illegal touts involved in water sports activities across the state. If steps are not taken now, Goa will lose on the water sports business,” said Khaunte. He further said that Goa is already facing tough competition from Malvan in Maharashtra in water sports. Khaunte said…