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The Sarvajanik Ganesh Mandals across the State have either decided to cancel or curtail the Ganesh festival this year following the OVID19 pandemic, which has hit the State and the country badly. The mandals across the State, which normally begin preparations for the either 11 or 21-day festival, are still in double mind. Many have already decided to cancel the festival this year but no formal announcement has been made, sources said. One of the oldest Sarvajanik Ganesh festival was held at Sadar Ponda Krantimaidan, which is celebrating the elephant headed god for 48 years have decided to curtail this…

PANJIM: The Contract System prevails in BJP and they run their Governments by taking on Contract MLA’s who are originally elected on other party tickets. Congress party believes in Service to Humanity and our GPCC president has spent his entire tenure in Service of People and Congress Party stated GPCC General Secretary Amarnath Panjikar while reacting to statement made by BJP State president Sadanand Shet Tanawade. BJP president should ask the Chief Minister to show guts and reveal the information on who first came with the proposal of the new Raj Bhavan as demanded by GPCC president Girish Chodankar stated…

The Indian Institute of Architects Goa chapter has welcomed the Building plan approval management system by TCP. “Considering challenges of post Covid and transparency & consistent clarity in approval system, this is a very good step in facing the digital era for approval procedures in the State of Goa,” said Manguesh R Prabhugaonkar, Chairman – the Indian Institute of Architects Goa Chapter. He congratulated the TCP team and said he looks forward to continue such online initiatives where human interventions and multiple interpretations will stop and also establish standardisation. “We also request TCP to keep on updating their website by…

The COVID19 fatalities continued in Goa with three more patients succumbing to the virus while 286 new cases were recorded on Monday. The COVID Bulletin says that 72 year old male from Merces, admitted at ESI COVID hospital with co-morbid conditions died while two others – one 70 year female from Sanguem and 68 year female from Vasco, admitted at Goa Medical College, Bambolim with co-morbid conditions succumbed. The State now has 6816 confirmed cases while 4876 recoveries. The Active cases are now 1884 and the death toll is 56 On Monday, 3248 samples were taken, out of which 1979…

Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant on Monday launched the online Building Plan Approval Management System (BPAMS) initiated by the Town and Country Planning Department in the presence of Deputy Chief Ministerbabu Kavlekar at  Secretariat, Porvorim. This initiative is towards the goal of attaining faster and hassle free clearances for land development and building construction approval in a transparent manner. This is also to improve Goa’s ranking under Ease of Doing Business by Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), says a department press release. The BPSMS is an automated end to end process design to cover the following:…

Suggesting that the rise in number of tests has been the reason for pendency in cases, Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant on Monday said that the testing facilities will be ramped up further and the pendency will be cleared by tomorrow. The CM had come a cropper on the pending cases as the Opposition parties – Congress, GFP, MGP and the independent Rohan Khaunte took the opportunity to expose the shoddy COVID management of the State. The Chief Minister this morning held a review meeting on COVID, which was attended by Health Minister, health Secretary and other officials. Despite the…

PANJIM: Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch (BBSM) President Subhash Velingkar called on Governor Satya Pal Malik requesting that government grants be provided only to regional language primary schools in the State. A three-member delegation of the BBSM, led by Avadhut Ramchandra Kamat, convener of the Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch, met the Governor of Goa, Satya Pal Malik, and gave him a detailed account of the mother tongue media issue in Goa. The visit took place as per the backdrop of the recent passage of the new 2020 National Education Policy by the Central Government in Parliament. A detailed decision to grant…