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Goemkarponn Desk PONDA: With lack of no maintenance , the grass is grown up like paddy crop , damaged walking treck the Bahusaheb Bandodkar ground at Kashimutt Bandora had lost its Charm. Thelocals are demanding with PWD to handover the Bahusaheb Bandodkar Football ground to local Bandora Panchayat or the Sports Department. The hundreds of users going for walking on treck said they don’t understand whether it is football ground or a paddy crop . The Bahusaheb Bandodkar Football ground constructed in 2015 is in neglected state. The walking treck is seen damaged at many places , while the football…

CANACONA: The accidents continue to hamper trafic flow in Canacona sections NH-66, as Car plumets down the ravines at Polem while a Container Truck crashed into Crash-barriers at Karmalghat Friday morning. According to sources, a 2 months old MG Hector car with 5 occupants (From Andhra Pradesh) who has come as tourist to Goa and were staying in North Goa were traveling to go to Murudeshwar in Karnataka. At about 3.30 am just minutes before reaching the Polem checkpost, the Cars front left tyre bursted and the Car went off the road and fell down the ravines at Polem. Luckily,…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Former Minister and NCP State President Jose Philip D’Souza warned the State government against framing Jetty policy 2022 without taking stakeholders into confidence. D’Souza, who is also the All Goa Fishing boat owners association president, speaking to reporters on Jetty Policy 2022, demanded the draft be printed innGoa Gazette. “Government must also use social media to publicise the Policy. The authorities have to translate the Policy into the Official Language of Goa and upload it on the concerned official website or the Government website,” he said. He stated that the186 newly elected Village Panchayats and Gram Sabhas…

Goemkarponn Desk PONDA: In a initiative by Green Army Foundation in response to Central Government appeal it has been decided to clean up 55 beaches in Goa on Saturday 17 September for two hours between 7 am to 9 am with participation of around 4500 members of various NGOs on occasion of International Cleanup Day. Addressing to media members of Green Army Foundation at Ponda Charan Desai President of Green Army Manohar Gaonkar and others addressing to media said that at a time Central Government has decided to create 7500 km long coastal cleanup awareness in India and awareness was…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: MGP Supremo Sudin Dhavalikar today said that the Congress party in Goa is paying for their past deeds of dethroning the MGP government in the past on many occasions. Sudin was reacting to the recent political developments in the state wherein 2/3rd Congress MLAs split to merge into BJP. “The Congress is facing the same thing what they did to the MGP on many occasions. Congress is facing the curse. Everyone who has done any wrong will face it again,” said Dhavalikar When asked him about how safe his alliance is after joining of the 8 Congress…

Goemkarponn Desk PONDA: Goa Dairy Farmer Shivanand Pednekar has filed a petition in High Court of Bombay at Goa challenging appointment of MD by the state government in Goa Dairy. “The act of the State, for the reasons best known to the State, clearly frustrates the object of the act when an elected body was to take over the charge. The State Government, without giving any opportunity to such an elected body, appointed one officer to manage the affairs of the Society,” the Court said THE bench of Justices Prasanna B Varale and Bharat Deshpande also ruled that there is…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: The Goa State Wetland Authority (GSWA) has granted its nod to nominate Carambolim Lake and Dr Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary for international recognition. Environment Minister Nilesh Cabral decided to complete all the required formalities to nominate Carambolim Lake and Dr Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary to be designated as the Ramsar site. The Ramsar Convention is the intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources. Previously, 5 new sites were added: Three wetlands (Karikili Bird Sanctuary, Pallikaranai Marsh Reserve Forest & Pichavaram Mangrove) in Tamil Nadu, one (Pala wetland) in…