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Goemkarponn desk PONDA: The General Secretary of United Balarath (Union UBU) Shivkumar Naik demanded a hike in salary. He hoped that the new government would solve their salary and service issue on humanitarian grounds. Considering the rising inflation and high cost of living, they said their salary should be hiked, and so also other demands should be considered by the government. Shivkumar said, “We have made our demands with government, and the three significant demands government should fulfill urgently is to increase their salary considering the high cost of inflation. Secondly, they should get 12 months salary as currently only…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said that the Congress in Goa has no faith in its candidates and that is the reason it was making baseless allegations of phone tapping. CM Sawant was reacting to the opposition over the phone tapping charges. “Allegations levelled by the Goa Congress unit are an effort to divert the attention of the people it is a “drama”. He further said that he Congress appears to have no faith in their candidates, which is compelling them to create drama to divert the attention of the people. “Rather than making frivolous allegations, the Goa…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Newly erected temporary fish market shed near Mormugao municipality has turned into a safe heaven for the beggars and homeless from Port town. The shed, which was built on shifting fish vendors from the old shed temporarily, has been filled with plastic and food residual waste littered by the beggars. The vagueness in the issue of shifting fish vendors has further delayed the utilization of the temporary shed, which was built by GSUDA some months ago by spending lakhs of rupees. Ironically, way money on some projects by the Mormugao municipality when there is uncertainty. After spending…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) has urged the CEO to take appropriate action for what they called incorrect and incomplete information in affidavits by two candidates in the recent assembly elections. The ADR has pointed out discrepancies in the affidavits of Bicholim MGP candidate Pravin Zantye and Priol MGP candidate Dipak Dhavalikar. According to the complaint, Zantye has submitted IT returns of only one year though rules demand IT returns of five years. “This candidate has given IT Returns of Financial Year 2020-2021 ( for himself and Spouse). However, he has not submitted IT Returns of the…

Goemkrponn desk PANAJI: The Congress leaders on Friday demanded action against police officials involved in sending Indian Reserve Battalion personnel to Uttar Pradesh, which is almost 2000 KM away, by Kadamba bus without the facilities of serving breakfast and arrangement of toilets. The President of Goa Pradesh Youth Congress Adv. Varad Mardolkar, GPCC General Secretary Janardhan Bhandari, Vivek D Silva, and Saish Aroskar addressed a press conference and said that injustice had been done on IRB personnel by sending them on election duty in UP. “This Postal Ballot saga has exposed inhuman treatment given to IRB staff by BJP govt.…

Goemkarponn Desk Aam Aadmi Party leaders took up the issue of Goan students returning from war-torn Ukraine, and demanded that the Goa Govt extend all the help required to help them deal with their traumatic experience. “It is not enough to merely have photo-ops with or tweets about our Goan students returning from Ukraine. They have gone through an extremely distressing situation in a foreign country, not knowing whether they would get out of it alive. They require professional counselling to help them deal with this traumatic experience”, Vice President Surel Tilve stated. Capt Viegas recalled that during the Covid…

AERIAL VIEW A fractured mandate means compromises, horse-trading, defections, and so on. We have all seen what happened since 2017. What Goa needs today is a mandate for a single party. Forget 2017; we saw the number of toppling attempts on the Digambar Kamat government from 2007 to 2012. Despite the toppling bids Digambar managed to complete his five-year term, but that term was full of compromises as Digambar allowed his alliance partners and Cabinet colleagues whatever they wanted to save his chair. SURAJ NANDREKAR Editor, Goemkrponn The Goa Congres, which is billed to be the single largest…