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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today handed over appointments to 12 beneficiaries on compassionate grounds as special cases. “The state government has been processing such cases through a routine process on a first-come, first basis, and accordingly, the appointments were handed. Now joint secretary informed that 499 such cases are pending,” said CM Sawant. He further informed that if the case was accidental, the process of handing over appointments to beneficiaries took almost 5-6 years. “When the incident of 3 lineman getting electrocuted happened, we wanted to give the appointments within 3 months, but it was not possible…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Adv. Aires Rodrigues has today filed a petition before the Goa State Information Commission (GSIC) challenging the order passed yesterday by the Secretary of Goa Legislature Secretariat Namrata Ulman, who is also the designated First Appellate Authority under the Right to Information Act (RTI), rejecting his appeal against the order of the Public Information Officer (PIO) at the Legislature Secretariat Mohan Gaonkar declining to furnish the information sought by him. Pointing out that Namrata Ulman’s order was illegal, perverse, bad and contrary to law, Adv Rodrigues, in his petition, has stated that the RTI Act was intended…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Directorate of Industries, Trade, and Commerce, Government of Goa, in its efforts to increase exports from Goa, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Navaties Solutions Pvt Ltd to promote Goan exports in the areas of both products/merchandise/goods or services and increase the export revenue for the State. The purpose of this MoU is to allow and support the industries from the State towards executing the activity of increasing their export revenue by identifying the sectors of importance and supporting Goan businesses via the company with necessary data analytics, market intelligence and helping them to…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today said that Goa Police has been doing a good job and that a DYSP level officer will now investigate the Sonali Phogat murder case. “The Goa Police have been carrying out a good investigation. From now on, a DySP level officer will handle the Sonali Phogat murder case investigation. Earlier, a PI was investigating the case,” said CM Sawant. He further said that a confidential report on the investigation has been sent to Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Haryana DGP. “We’ve sent the confidential report to Haryana CM. I am…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: In a veiled threat to the State government, the National Fishworkers Forum (NFF) General Secretary and Congress leader Olencio Simoes threatened law and order if the Fisheries department did not act against teh violators. In a strongly worded press note issued here, Simoes criticised the Fisheries department for its failure to protect Goan fisherman and their interests. “The fisheries department clearly stands exposed as the Goa is the only state where fisheries department does not act against any violators nor initiate actions against outside state illegal trawlers fishing within 12 nautical miles. Both state and the central…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The State government on Monday disbursed the amounts of ₹ 51.98 lakhs for Startups under various schemes. The Goa Startup Policy was introduced in the year 2017. The same policy was revamped and launched as the Goa Startup policy 2021. As per the policy, the Startup – IT Promotion Cell (SITPC) reports to the duly constituted Empowered Committee (EC) and oversees the implementation of both the Startup Policy 2021 and IT Policy 2018 besides approving grants for the disbursement of incentives to the Startups. Based on the above policy, 38 applications were scrutinised under Startup Policy 2021…

* Detailed investigation report would be sent to Haryana CM and DGP, and then later, if the need arises, the Goa government will look into the request made by Haryana and hand over the case to CBI: CM Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: A day after Haryana CM requested to hand over the Sonali Phogat case to CBI, Chief Minister Dr Pramod expressed confidence in the investigation done by Goa Police. Sawant also said a detailed investigation report would be submitted to Haryana CM and DGP this evening. “Goa police has so far arrested five accused, and no one will be spared…