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Goemkarpon desk Calangute: Calangute Police on Friday stopped the Bike rally which was organised in Calangute on occasion of Shiv Jayanti after North Goa Collector rejected the required permissions. However later allowed the Shiv Premis to have peaceful March from Shantadurga Temple calangute to Baga Circle and back. “Organizers had applied for permission to hold bike rally on occasion of Shiv Jayanti but the permissions were rejected by North Goa Collector due to which the organisers were stopped from having bike rally. They were later given permission to have walking rally from Shantadurga Temple to Baga Circle”, Bardez Mamlatdar Laxmikat…

Goemkarponn desk BICHOLIM: The Chief Minister, Dr Pramod Sawant today announced that the road widening work from Honda to Sanquelim will be taken up soon. The CM was today speaking at a function after inaugurating a high mast at Sanquelim market. “There are many projects completed in Sanquelim and several projects are in pipeline. There are many projects completed including an Open venue at Vasat nagar, three projects in housing board, a Hall and a garden developed by the forest department while vasant nagar primary school foundation stone would also be laid down soon” CM told. “Road widening from Honda…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant has said that during two meetings with the villagers, he has already assured them that three time compensation will be provided to the farmers. He said that the proposed land is barren and Government is also ready to go out of way to provide 50 per cent compensation to the tenants by making necessary provision in the law. Sawant said that all options are thrown open to the villagers and farmers including priority in jobs at the airport He said during meeting, the villagers were requested to allow conduct of survey. He…

Goemkarponn desk Margao: Ahead of the Municipal Polls announcement, Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant has convened the Meeting of High Powered Committee for setting up of Solid Waste Management Project at Sonsoddo, on Monday. The meeting is called to Goa to discuss and finalise the issue of the Sonsodo Waste treatment plant. “I am directed to inform you that the Chief MInister of Goa and the Chairman of the High Powered Committee constituted for setting up of Solid Waste Management Project, at Sonsodo, on Design Built, Own, Operate and Transfer (DBOOT) basis has convened a meeting of the members of…

Mopa people have been protesting peacefully for over a couple of months now against the acquisition of their land for Link road purpose, various minister gave assurance to the people of Mopa and Pernem over the same issue yet failed to solve their problems. The land acquisition will lead to destruction of houses of the locals and farmland who have tilling the land for their livelihood for many years. The high handedness and use of machineries which we had seen in Melauli , the same force is used by the government to suppress the voice of the locals who were…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Marching towards promoting organic farming, the Dr Pramod Sawant led government has formed 40 village level clusters, comprising 900 farmers from Salcete and Mormugao. The government is promoting organic farming under the Central government’s Paramparaghat Krishi Vikas Yojana. The aim is to create awareness about cultivating crops organically without the use of pesticides. In a press statement issued by CMO, it is said that 40 village level clusters have been formed in Salcete and Mormugao, encompassing 200 hectares of agricultural land in each cluster. Total 900 farmers are engaged in organic farming. It said that agricultural land,…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Reform linked additional borrowing permissions are stimulating reforms in Power Sector in the states. As a part of reform process, five more states namely, Bihar, Goa, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand have successfully met the target set by the Ministry of Power for reduction in Aggregate Technical & Commercial (AT&C) losses or achieved the targeted reduction in Average Cost of Supply and Average Revenue Realisation (ACS-ARR) gap. Reduction in AT&C losses and ACS-ARR gap are two of the three reforms in Power Sector stipulated by the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance. A part of additional borrowing…