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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Women and Child Development Minister Vishwajit Rane today said that his department is contemplating modernising anganwadis in the state over five years. Rane also informed that his department, in consultation with Chief Minister, is looking to enhance rates in terms of rent. “Already, GSIDC has been constructing 18 Anganwadi, and we will try to replicate the same across Goa in a period of five years. We have seen that some of the anganwadis are in bad shape, and we have already shifted some of them. We are not being able to find any place due to less…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: India lives in villages. Village people are innocent; they are good at heart, said Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai. “Tradition, history and peculiarity about our country can be seen in villages. Wonders are done in villages,” he added. He was speaking after visiting the farm of progressive farmer Pandurang Patil at Rivona Sanguem. Further speaking Pillai said a country’s growth depends on the efforts of agriculturists and farmers. 17 to 18 % of our country’s GDP is achieved from agriculture. “Agriculture is a field making our country self-reliant, he said. I am extremely happy and feel that…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The swearing-in ceremony of Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and eight of his Ministers held on March 28th cost the taxpayers a whopping Rs 5,59,25,805 (Rupees five crore fifty-nine laths twenty-five thousand eight hundred five). This has been revealed in the information obtained by Adv. Aires Rodrigues under the Right to Information Act from the General administration department at the Secretariat. The amount does not include the rental charges of Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium at Bambolim, where the function was held, and the expenditure incurred…

AERIAL VIEW Well, Mr Sawant, you must be talking only of the people who sit in the plush air-conditioned office and do not want to move out and want all the services to be online so that all the bills, EMIs and taxes are paid by the click of the mouse. Isn’t it? But what about the common man, the farmers, the daily wage workers, the taxi drivers, motorcycle pilots, the fisherman, the people in the rural areas who have no access to the internet? What about them, sir? Agreed, in this age of globalisation, digitisation of every service is…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: One person was arrested by Verna police, and FIR has been registered against the immediate supervisor from the contractor’s side who was supervising the operation, says Vasco DySP Nilesh Rane. The blast at Zuarinagar on Tuesday, which took the lives of three workers, shook the entire Goa. The local police took cognisance of the incident and arrested one supervisor from the contractor’s side. The offence has been registered against him by the Verna police, said Vasco DySP Nilesh Rane. He further informed that one person has been arrested in this case, and some more arrests are likely…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Labour and Employment Minister Babush Monserrate today said that minimum wages for skilled and unskilled workers increased. “The minimum wages for skilled and unskilled workers will be increased; The decision will be taken in the next week; the wages have not been increased for the past six years,” said Babush. He further said that in the other states like Kerala and Delhi, they are much higher. “We are not even at par with the central government wages,” he said. The Minister further said that all the workers in the state would be equipped with cards to help…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Minister for Transport Mauvin Godinho, in the presence of KTCL chairman Ulhas Tuyekar flagged off Air Condition Electric Kadamba buses from Vasco to Panaji route. Minister Godinho, after the flag-off function, told reporters that more than 500 electric Kadamba buses would be procured shortly. He also said that all Kadamba depots would have to charge stations to charge these electric Kadamba buses so that no bus should remain idle at the bus stand. He further said that recently he had not been given any new permits to rent a car and bikes in Goa due to the…