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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Office of the State Commissioner of Persons with Disabilities and Disability Alliance for Inclusive Goa celebrates International Women’s Day. Five women with disabilities, Raksha Dangui, Anupa Ashok Pilgaonkar, Fulrani Kinelkar, Fredricka Menezes and Suraiya Khan felicitated. Keynote speaker Preethi Srinivasan, founder of Soulfree, says to treat women and those with disability with respect. Office of the State Commissioner of Persons with Disabilities and Disability Alliance for Inclusive Goa, in association with Sanjay Centre for Special Education, celebrated Women’s Day on Saturday, March 11, at Sanjay Centre for Special Education in Porvorim. The annual programme ‘Spoorthi’ included a…

Goemkarponn Desk PONDA: The Shigmo at State Commenced from 8 March from Ponda and there after it is held at Calangute, later Sakhlim and Bicholim and now it will held in capital City. But the major problem faced by the general public including women particiapting in Shigmo Parade is ignored and causes tremendous hardship to participants especially women. Shailesh Naik at Shiroda said government should arrange mobile toilet as Shigmo Parade takes seven to eight hours including transportation time and so the artist joining parade need toilet. He said when parade moves from town the hoteliers are not ready…

Goemkarponn Desk CURCHOREM: Curchorem beat staff while patrolling apprehended three suspects along with two Activa scooters at old curchorem municipality. Upon enquiry with suspects they disclosed their names as Aftab s/o Tabrej Khan, age 21 yrs r/o 1818, Vasant nagar, near Verlekar nursing home, Sanquelim Goa n/o Ganeshpeth, Dharwad, Hubli, Santosh s/o Basavaraju Kumar age 20 yrs n/o 20 ward, behind mahatma gandhi college, Kunigal, Tumkur, Karnataka and Aslam s/o Ijaj Shaikh age 18 yrs r/o Pirenwadi, Hunjahatti, Belgavi, Karnataka. During interrogation they disclosed that they have stolen both scooters from Dharwad, Hubli Karnataka. Upon verifying it is revealed that…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: The Project Management Unit, Coding and Robotics Education in Schools (CARES) Scheme, Directorate of Technical Education, Goa has completed 9-weeks of successful implementation of Class VI Elective Curriculum for the students of Std. VI, VII and VIII commenced from 09th January 2023 through Lead Schools across the State of Goa. 63 schools had come forward to take up the role as Lead Schools. Lead Schools are schools which have well-equipped computer laboratories with hardware infrastructure to provide students with hands-on experience.h The ICT curriculum has two folds: Regular Curriculum and Elective Curriculum. Regular Curriculum is…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho today said that he had proposed the scheme to get private buses under KTCL two years ago but was rejected by finance department “I had proposed the scheme to get private buses under KTCL two years ago but was rejected by finance department” said Godinho He further said that we have acute shortage of buses where private players are not coming on roads and we dont have enough money to buy more buses. “We are bound to get 250 more electrucal buses but that is also not enough with such huge shortfall. We…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Minister for Forest Vishwajit Rane said that he has received an intimation from the PMO and Defence Ministry assuring full support from the union government. “Received an intimation from the Prime Minister’s office that the Defence Ministry would provide full support and the office of the Prime minister will monitor the situation closely,” said Rane He further said that the entire state of Goa is extremely grateful for the intervention of the Prime Minister in protecting our forests and providing us with full Defence support with helicopters for dousing the wildfires. “As the Goa state’s Minister of…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: The Ministry of Environment, Forest and climate Change (MoEFCC) today has ordered an inquiry to ascertain reasons for forest fires reported at various locations across the State. A 24 x7 Control room for Real-time Monitoring of fire is also set up to contain 48 Forest Fire spots in the state. In a statement issued, the government has also said that there are no major losses to floral and faunal diversity so far. Sporadic fires have been reported and detected in various areas of Goa including forests, private areas, communidade lands, plantations, revenue lands, etc. since 05th March,…