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…
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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…
PANJIM: Health Minister Vishwajit Rane has claimed that Plasma therapy treatment given to two patients recently i showing positive results. The Minister also appealed to people cured from Covid to kindly come forward and donate plasma. “Two patients were given plasma therapy of which one patient is showing improvement in oxygen saturation level while the other patient is as it is. We will be giving him another dose.” said Rane speaking to reporters on the sidelines of government launch event He said, “I urge all the people who have been cured of COVID to kindly come a donate plasma. As…