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Goemkarponn desk ST ANDRE: “We have to fulfil the basic needs of the public like health, education, and shelter and reach out to the last person to make our freedom meaningful,” said the Governor while interacting with the local representatives of village Panchayats of St. Andre Constituency at Batim Pillar Village Panchayat today. The Governor visited Batim Village Panchayat under Goa Sampurna Yatra Programme. The Governor said village people are good at heart and hard working. “The representatives need to work hard to keep up their word of assurance and fulfil people’s demands on time,” he said. The Governor urged…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Minister for Archives SubhashPhaldesai announced that the Department of Archives will convert all the historical documents available with them into electronic form to prevent the old land’s fraudulent editing documents that resulted in illegal land grabbing in the State. He was speaking after inaugurating the Special Exhibition of Modi-Marathi documents organized by the Department of Archives at SanskrutiBhavan, PattoPanaji. Director of Archives Deepak Bandekar, Director of Archeology Dr Nilesh Phaldesai were present at the occasion. Addressing the gathering Phaldesai stated that people have fraudulently used land documents from the Archives Department and claimed ownership of the land…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The High Court of Bombay at Goa has set up a committee to submit an inquiry report on illegal sand mining from the Ragada river. The HC has ordered the report submission within the next four weeks. “High Court has set up Committee to submit an inquiry report on illegal sand mining from Ragada river. HC has ordered to submit a report within four weeks,” said Advocate General David Pangam informs. He further said that the recovery of funds is on from the one who had done illegal sand mining. Some of his properties have been attached…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Minister for Transport Mauvin Godinho today has directed his department to become “ruthless” in bringing discipline on Goan roads while stating that targets will be set for the traffic policemen across the State.Mauvin also questioned whether Goans or other tourists do not follow the rules in other countries? “I have directed the department to become “ruthless” in bringing discipline on Goan roads. targets will be set for the traffic policemen across the State,” said Godinho while speaking on the inaugural of the 11th Goa Safety Week. He further said that People in Goa break the rules because…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant appreciated the physiotherapist saying, “Doctors save a life, but physiotherapists make it living worthy “. Addressing the second day of the National Physiotherapy Conclave at Ponda, he said that in recent times, physiotherapy has become a major part of modern scientific medical treatment, and even people are availing the benefit of it, however despite this branch of medicine struggling to get recognition and that he knows their pain. He urged them to form National Physiotherapists Council at the earliest so that Goa Government would extend all support to recognize registered physiotherapists. On occasion,…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Minister for Labour, Revenue and Waste Management today visited Ponda Ponda Municipal Council (PMC) waste disposal site at Kerya Ponda along with Local MLA and Agriculture Minister Ravi Naik, PMC Chairperson Ritesh Naik and officials of various departments. After inspecting the PMC waste disposal site, he said that the present waste disposal plant can treat 1.5-tonne wet garbage while, on average, around 6.5-tonne wet garbage is generated daily, with around 5 tonnes sent to Saligao Treatment Plant. He said the government will extend the PMC wet waste plant capacity from the existing 1.5 per tone day to…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Observing that several villagers from Mayem illegally constructed new houses on the evacuee property post legislation in 2014, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has warned to demolish all such houses sans legal documents. Sawant said that several people have encroached on government land, which otherwise would have been used for establishing educational institutions or other government projects. “On request of MLA and villagers of Mayem, we have agreed to accept only one document to transfer the land ownership to the villagers, who have had their houses on evacuee property for several years. But now, we have seen that…