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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Looking at good response from previous vaccination drives, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today announced that Tika Utsav 3.2 will begin from September 16. “Looking at previous Vaccination drives in Goa which have garnered a lot of people, we are today announcing Tika Utsav 3.2, which will begin tomorrow,” said CM Sawant He further said that Goa has achieved 100 per cent in terms of the first dose of vaccine and that the state has now kept October 31 as a target to complete the second dose. “Goa has an eligible population of around 11,66,000 of which 11,88,891…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today siad that his government will be writing to the Home Ministry, Director General of Shipping and Ministry of Environment demanding strict action on those responsible for creating pollution in deep sea. CM today held a meeting with Tourism Minister Babu Ajgoankar, Environment Minister Nilesh Cabral and Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) over the re-surfacing of tar balls across Goa’ shore. “Today I held meeting with Tourism, Environment Minister and GSPCB over the tar balls issue. Government will write to Home Ministry, Director General of Shipping and Ministry of Environment demanding strict…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: The Forest review Committee disposed of a total 1306 survey numbers out of 3195 survey numbers which were provisionally identified as Private Forest by Thomas and Araujo Committee. The Forest officials said interim report of the committee has been uploaded on the forest departmental website http://forest.goa.gov.in as per direction the of the NGT. The review of balance survey numbers is underway, said the forest officials. Following this, the long-pending issue of survey and demarcation of private forest areas provisionally identified by Thomas and Araujo Committee has been resolved by the Government of Goa to a large extent…

Goemkarponn desk QUEPEM: Quepem Block Congress President Avadoot Amonkar said that Congress Party is gearing up to defeat the BJP and all those who facilitated the corrupt, communal and insensitive BJP Government come to power. “We have no place for “Moles” in Congress Party,” he said. In a press statement issued today, Quepem Block Congress President dismissed all reports of the so-called induction of Arjun Velip, a close aide of Chandrakant alias Babu Kavlekar into the Congress Party. “Quepem Block Congress is working tirelessly to win over the confidence and trust of the people. BJP and its partners are completely…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The High Court of Bombay at Goa has adjourned the Congress MLA disqualification matter for next Wednesday. The hearing was adjourned as the counsel for the petitioner Girish Chodankar’s Advocate Kapil Sibal was unavailable today. The hearing was to be held through video conferencing. High Court Chief Justice Dipankar Datta had already constituted a two-member Bench comprising Justice K K Tated and Justice Prithiviraj Chavan to hear the appeal. On April 20, Goa Assembly Speaker Rajesh Patnekar had dismissed two disqualification petitions filed by Congress president Girish Chodankar and MGP MLA Sudin Dhavalikar against their party MLAs…

Goemkarponn desk CALANGUTE: As a keen advocate of the farm-to-table concept, Roshan Mathias, the people’s candidate of Goencho Avaaz Party for Calangute constituency, is spearheading the green mission in his constituency to promote a self-reliant and self-sustaining community. Held under the theme ‘Green Mission for a Healthy and Wealthy Vision’, the mission will kick off with a webinar to educate people on the widespread benefits of growing organic vegetables in their gardens and will offer tips on cultivating a home kitchen garden. The webinar will be held on Sunday 19th September at 4.30 pm and will be conducted by Mr.…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: The state government has admitted that the Covid 19 protocol is not being strictly followed at the Patradevi border check post. With lapse being noted, the collectorate North Goa has directed compulsory checking of all vehicles specially bus passengers as per the prevailing order. “Details of buses and number of passengers will be recorded in the register every day from today,” the order states Further, overall monitoring of the checkpost has been tightened. A video about bus passengers coming from Maharashtra being allowed to enter Goa via Patradevi check post without checking Covid certificate went viral.