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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Former GPCC President Girish Chodankar today has dared the Health Minister Vishwajit Rane to call CAG illiterate over the issue of GMC making purchases from Wellness for a whopping 162 cr. Chodankar has also called Vishwajit Rane for a debate. “Will the Health Minister Vishwajit Rane dare to call CAG illiterate & ask for a debate?” said Chodankar. He further said that when Goa Congress had exposed the scam with documents on 13/2/2020 & had demanded a judicial probe, Rane had ridiculed us, called me illiterate & called me for a debate,” he added. Chodankar said that…
Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today said that his government would bring a special law, an ordinance to regularise services to contract jobs. “Govt will bring a law, an ordinance to regular services to regularise contract jobs. The state Govt will also sign the agreement of Rs. 30 crores with Tata technology for skilling,” said CM Sawant. He further said that the construction board has Rs. 480 crores, but the Government can only spend Rs 3 crores on upskilling because of objections. “Youth look for LDC (lower divisional clerk) posts, though they are graduate and postgraduate. If LDC…
Goemkapronn desk CANACONA: Though harvesting of paddy crops is as late as and as good as late sowing in Canacona, unseasonal rains passed a few days have created more hurdles for farmers in Canacona. It may be recalled that sudden heavy downpours of rains for two nights after scorching days have battered several paddy fields, especially the low-lying cultivations in Canacona Taluka. Interestingly, in Canacona, the cultivation/sowing of paddy fields gets completed as late as August, and reopening begins only in late October or early November. However, as the cloudy atmosphere was threatening safe harvesting procedures, a number of farmers…
Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: All is not Well in GMC & Health Department. CAG Report has exposed that it is the Wellness of Health Minister Vishwajit Rane & not the Patients, which is costing the State Treasury ₹162 crores. Will the Chief Minister, Dr Pramod Sawant, sack Health Minister & order an investigation questioned Congress President Amit Patkar. “The purchases made by Goa Medical College from 2018 from M/s Wellness Forever Medicare to the tune of Rs.162 crores are now termed by the Comptroller and Auditor General as gross violations of government guidelines. This is nothing but corruption,” said Amit Patkar.…
Goemkarponn desk] PANAJI: “It appears that Tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte is completely lost after joining BJP. He is clueless on the operational scope of his own department. He needs some coaching,” stated Congress Media Cell Chairman Amarnath Panjikar. Reacting to the recent statement made by Tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte claiming that most of the objections filed against Jetty Policy are “Cut-Paste” work and that shows the intent of the people objecting, Amarnath Panjikar posted a video of former Aldona BJP MLA Glen Ticlo who had charged that “Tourism Policy & Master Plan” was “Copy Paste” work of the consultant. He…
Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF & CC) has signed and approved the Coastal Zone Management Plan(CZMP) based on the 2011 CRZ notification. Director Environment (Goa) Dashrath Redkar said that government will receive a physical copy today or tomorrow, and the same will be scanned and uploaded on the Environment Department as well as GCZMA websites. The Center had notified the plan in September this year, and the same had been sent to MoEF&CC. In the approved CZMP, Port limits and other structures have been removed. Heritage sites and archaeological sites have been…