Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: No permission should be given to build petrol pumps within 50-m radial distance of schools in the State, the Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has said. Under Section 31 of the RTE Act, Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights is responsible for monitoring the provisions of the Act and its functions which includes safety and security of the children. Acting on a petition by Gregory D’Souza, Chairperson, Village Panchayat Child Committee, Siolim-Marna Panchayat, that alleged setting up of a petrol pump within 50 m of Keerti Vidyalaya, Siolim, the Commission pursued the…
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Goemkarponn desk Panaji: Congress Party has decided to shift its gear in view of the Assembly Elections which are just eight months away. AICC Incharge Dinesh Gundu Rao will be arriving in Goa next week and will tour the entire State holding meetings with Congress Block Committees in all forty constituencies to take review of the party organisation at the grass root level. These meetings will follow a major reshuffle in the Congress Party. AICC Incharge Dinesh Gundu Rao held a Virtual Meeting with the State Co-ordination Committee which was constituted few months back to mobilise the Congress Membership in…
Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant today said that a full fledged budget will be passed by July 19 in Goa assembly. “We are managing with vote on account which has limitations. Once the full budget is passed, finance related issues will be resolved,” he said when asked about Power Minister Nilesh Cabral’s complaining against pending files in finance department, CM said that may be files are pending due to some finance rules. “This happened because there is vote on account and not full budget. Cabral hasn’t spoken to me about this issue. I will look into it,”…
Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant today has ruled out any differences with Health Minister Vishwajit Rane. “There was never any misunderstanding only difference of view which is obvious; when it comes to State, we all are one and united,” said CM Sawant Differences between CM and Health Minister have surfaced time and again in public domain over various issues including management of oxygen during thepeak of second wave of covid. Bharatiya Janata Party chief JP Nadda had earlier asked Goa’s Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Health Minister Vishwajit Rane to keep aside their differences and focus on…
Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: A day after the Union Health Ministry dropped Ivermectin from the country’s Covid treatment protocol, the Goa government too dropped it’s proposal to purchase the drug. Addressing press conference post Cabinet meeting, thr Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant informed that he has dropped the proposal to purchase Ivermectin for prophylaxis or Covid treatment after Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) decided to drop the drug from treatment. He said that government had earlier purchased the drug, which was made available to the patients in the home isolation kit as the same was approved by ICMR earlier. He…
Goemkarponn desk CALANGUTE: Following State-wide criticism the Village Panchayat Calangute has passed a resolution unanimously to write to concern authorities to denotify Calangute as Urban Area. Calangute Sarpanch Shawn Martins said that the villagers had several apprehensions and they communicated the same to our ward members. “We also thank our Hon. MLA & Minister Michael Lobo, ZP Dattaprasad Dabolkar, all our Panchayat Members and various groups like Citizen Front etc for supporting the resolution,” he said. The villagers and activists had demanded the State government to de-notify the urban status of Calangute village. “Urbanization means destruction and taking concretization to…
Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: A day after Goemkarponn revealed the names of the hospitals who hid the number of COVID19 deaths, the Margao-based Mother Care Hospital said that the delay in reporting deaths was due to shortage of staff. “We have come across an article on your website that says that Our hospital did not report Covid deaths. This is incorrect. We had converted our entire hospital into a hospital for treatment of Covid positive Patients. Therefore all deaths in our hospital from the 15th of April 2021 were of patients that were Covid positive,” Sagar Utagi, Director of Mother Care hospital…