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Goemkarponn desk Valpoi : National Students’ Union of India, Goa celebrated Independence Day of India by distributing free stationery to school going students in the remote village Satre in Sattari Taluka. Present for the function were NSUI Goa President, Naushad Chowdhari, Valpoi Block President Dashrath Mandrekar, and other NSUI leaders. Speaking on the occasion Naushad said, “It is saddening to see that on one hand CM Pramod Sawant proudly says that Goa is no. 1 in terms of educational infrastructure while on th eother hand he cant even provide basic connectivity facilities to students like mobile network” “The students of…

Forget free water, an average Goan using 1000 litres of water a day will have to pay double his bill as per the new tariffs announced The new free water scheme is not applicable for those using more than 16 m3 as they will pay from ₹9/ m3 to ₹15/ m3, which was earlier only ₹5 / m3 and ₹10/m3 SURAJ NANDREKAR/ Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goemkarponn, in its editorial a few days back, had stated that in the Sawant Raj, nothing comes free and documents in hand now prove how true it is. Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant announced up…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: On the backdrop of global warming and climate change, there has been a threat to climate change for various reasons. Scientists have been continuously warnings on the subject. It is understood that in recent heavy rain and flood, the Ganjem and OPA river tributaries of the Mhadei river flowing from Ponda taluka caused massive flooding on the river bank. Around 16 houses on the river bank collapsed at Ganjem, while five were destroyed at Murdi and Savoiverem. Hundreds of houses are partly damaged, and people have still not recovered and are homeless, worried about celebrating the Ganesh…

There has been a kind of cold war between the ministers and MLAs, coming out ahead of elections. Reports also suggest that some ministers and MLAs will desert the party ahead of elections. Last month the fight between Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho and Ports Minister Michael Lobo was out in the open over the digital meters for taxis in Goa. Godinho has also had his share of fights with Cortalim MLA Alina Saldanha, which was widely reported. SURAJ NANDREKAR, Editor, Goemkarponn After much delay, the AICC has finally declared that the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president Girish Chodankar would…

GAURANG PRABHU/ Goemakrponn MARGAO: The Sal River, once considered the lifeline of Goa, is getting polluted day by day, but if the administration and the people take serious notice of it without wasting time, it will not be impossible for this lifeline to flow alive again with its transparent ripples. Nowadays, in addition to cleaning the river, it has become equally necessary and necessary to pay attention to various elements around it that pollute the river by releasing pollutants directly into the river. The major tributaries of the Sasasti Sal river are Kunkali and Naveli. The settlements around these rivers…

Goemkarponn desk VALPOI: With mining closed since 2012 and the trucks lying idle for almost 10 years now, the truck owners in Honda-Sonshi-Naveli, of Sattari taluka, are facing another challenge of safeguarding their trucks. In a shocking development, it has been revealed that there are cases of 15 truck batteries being robbed from the villages. The development has rocked villages of Honda-Sonshi and Navelim as the news of missing batteries spread across villages. Every owner started checking their vehicle batteries, and 15 batteries were missing. Truck owner Prakash Gavas, when contacted, said that a large number of batteries had gone…

Goemkarponn desk Panaji Reacting to Pramod Sawant’s fallacious statement that the Sawant Sarkar is the first Govt to give free water in India Aam Aadmi Party Goa reminded the CM that Arvind Kejriwal has been providing 20,000 KL water a month for free to Delhi residents since 2015. Once again we see the BJP stealing ideas from AAP and trying to sell it as their own. While imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, AAP would like to remind Pramod Sawant that every Goenkar household knows by now that he is playing a desperate game of catch up with AAP. In…