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Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: Power Minister Sudin Dhavalikar today informed that government will hike the electricity tariff by 5 to 10 paisa per unit across all categories. “The state government will hike power tariff by 5 to 10 paisa per unit across all categories; The hike that was declared about six months ago would be implemented now to raise revenue so that pending power projects could be initiated,” said Dhavalikar. He further said that his department will not be able to continue the pending underground cabling work across the state if we do not implement the hike. Dhavalikar further said that…

AERIAL VIEW The question now arises if the government is facing losses, why not curtail unnecessary expenses? But while the common man will take the beating, the State government, on the other hand, is splurging money on conferring lifetime Cabinet status on former Chief Minister Pratapsing Rane. Rane will be entitled to all the benefits a Cabinet minister gets like security, staff, fuel, car, and perks, totalling about one crore a year. Isn’t this an unnecessary expense? Another question that arises is this the reason why Mr Rane agreed to not contest the Poriem seat on the Congress ticket? Well,…

Goemkarponn desk By 6.30 pm on Tuesday, Canacona electricity staff were right on their feet from the time gutsy winds forced a blackout in several parts of Canacona (post 9pm Monday night), successfully raised up the last bastion at Ourem, one of the major affected locality and restored Power Supply. “At many of the places, the restoration works were taken up early in the Tuesday morning itself, which helped restoration by the end of the day due to hard and appreciable works out forth by the people”, remarked a resident from Palolem. Besides other works, a total of 8…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Traffic Cell Vasco to crack a whip on the rent a cab, bikes, scooters parked in the parking space for the ordinary people to park. City Councillor assured to take up this issue in the Mormugao municipal council meeting. People from Port town are fed up with searching a parking place for their two-wheelers and four-wheelers when the rent bike operators choose to occupy the entire parking area stretch to park their business bikes, thereby depriving the common people of parking. Paras, a visitor desperately searching for space to park his bike in the scorching heat on…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Environment Minister Nilesh Cabral today informed that the National Coastal Zone Management Authority (NCZMA) has in principle, agreed to drop the port limit from the final coastal zone management plan (CZMP) 2011. Cabral also said that as requested by the State, only authorized structures of the government will be shown on the CZMP 2011. Speaking to reporters, Cabral said that NCZMA has granted in-principle approval dropping the port limit and all other structures, except authorized ones from the final CZMP 2011. The minister said that process to finalize the CZMP 2011 has commenced, and within the next…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Fearing the 23 July last year’s flood experience in Monsoon, the locals of Khandepar and Usgao urged WRD, government officials to take lessons from last year and adopt safety measures, including desiltation wherever required in the river basin to prevent flooding of Khandepar, Ganjem river in the forthcoming Monsoon which has caused huge loss of property including collapsed of houses in flood last year. It may be recalled that last year both the tributaries of Mhadei flowing from Sattari, Ponda Taluka created havoc at Ganjem Usgao and Khandepar, Murder, Savoiverem with several houses on Bank of river…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: In relaxation to casino industry towards their annual recurring fee, the State cabinet granted nod to allow casino operators to make payments in monthly instalments but with a 10 per cent additional charge. “We have given relaxation to the Casino industry towards their annual recurring fee, we granted nod to allow casino operators to make payment in monthly instalment but with 10 per cent additional charge,” said CM Sawant. Bearing the current financial situation in mind, Goa’s Home Department has issued a notification allowing the casinos to pay annual recurring fees for the financial year 2020-2021 on…