AERIAL VIEW Though there is not much significance to Panchayat Raj in a small state like Goa, yet it is a very important institution. We may say why do we need panchas when every voter knows the Ministers and MLAs personally? Also most of development works are being carried out by MLAs? The answer is even if we know MLAs, they will not visit every ward to do your work of overflowing gutters, tree cutting, road widening, supporting people in getting panchayat related documents, garbage management, helping people getting schemes like Swayampurna Goa, Sarkar Tumchya Dari, Ladli Laxmi etc. No…
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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Waste Management Minister Babush Monserrate today informed that the tender for the Solid Waste Management Plant at Baiguinum would come out in the next two months. “This plant is the need of the hour, and work is going on in that direction; tender for the waste management plant will be out in the coming two months,” said Monserrate. He further said that they have the necessary permissions pertaining to the plant, and there is no question of the local MLA’s opposition. “We have all the clearances from the Court; we will go ahead with the plant,” he…
Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: A delegation of AAP leaders led by AAP Goa unit President Adv Amit Palekar on Tuesday handed over a memorandum to the Director of DOE, Shailesh Zingade, requesting him to take back the decision of merging the Government Primary Schools in the interest of public and students. Expressing concern over the government’s decision of merging the Government Primary Schools, AAP made the offer to adopt the Government Primary Schools which are to be merged. “AAP is willing to take over these schools if the government acknowledges that it has failed to provide Goan children with educational facilities…
Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Ponda Police arrested former Dharbandora ZP Govind Kushta Gaonkar (49 in connection with illegal laterite stone extraction at Borkotem, Mollem, after Court rejected his anticipatory bail application. The accused, apprehended by Police, had filed an anticipatory bail in the Court of Session Judge, South Goa Margao, following a crime registered against him by police. The Mines Department alleged that accused had conducted theft of laterite stone amounting to Rs 1.39 Crore. According to Ponda Police, on 25 July, Collem Police registered an offence against Govind Gaonkar based upon the complaint of Jeetendra Veluskar, Assistant Geologist Department of…
Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – A mega celebration of Tiranga Mahotsav as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav on the completion of 75 years of Independence of the Nation is scheduled for celebration on Saturday (13th Aug) in Canacona. GLA Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar informed significant celebrations are planned at the three main state borders at Patradevi, Castlerock and Polem. ‘The responsibility of Polem is with Canconcars ‘, Tawadkar said. The Tiranga Mahotsav is jointly celebrated by the Directorate of Higher Education in association with Shree Mallikarjun and Chetan Manju Desai College and Dy. Collector (Canacona), supported by the Directorate of Education…
Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – Stating Canconcars needs to introspect as to what is happening in the State, Goa Forward Party Supremo Vijay Sardesai asked the villagers to defeat BJP-sponsored candidates in the panchayat elections and elect people with an independent mindset to bring new ideas for their village developments. Sardesai spoke to the media on the sidelines of his religious visit to Shri Mallikarjun Temple on Shravan Somvar. ‘Canconcars are revolutionary people, and they have the chance to lead the way to throw away BJP’s evil mentality of ruling Goa as a family property, by defeating BJP sponsored candidates in…
Goemkarponn desk VASCO: In a rare display of immense patriotism, around 500 students of St Joseph school set an example and motivated the BJP Leaders, including Vasco MLA to keep the slogans chanting even after the Prabhat Feri culminated at the school The energy display was such that the headmistress, Vasco MLA and BJP Mandal President Deepak Naik had to chant slogans for the next 30 minutes because the students who arrived back at the school just refused to stop chanting slogans ” Bharat Mata Ki Jai ” and ” Vande Mataram.” Finally, BJP Mandal general secretary Girish Borkar went…