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Goemkarponn desk CALANGUTE: Cheryl Lobo was elected unopposed as Deputy sarpanch of Calangute, for which election was held at the panchayat office. The presiding officer from the BDO office, Sushant Shetye, said that only one person filed her nomination. Cheryl Lobo proposed her name by Francisco Rodrigues and was seconded by Pooja Matkar as there was no other candidate. Cheryl was declared unopposed as Deputy Sarpanch of Calangute. During the election, only seven members were present; four remained absent, that is, Jyotsana Parulikar, Gabriel Fernandes, Sudesh Mayenkar, Rupa Chodankar remained absent for the election. Last year, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)…

Goemakrponn desk MAPUSA: The villagers of Anjuna-Caisua today gheraoed the PWD officials alleging no water supply for the past 55 days. Locals said that there has been no release of consumable tap water for the last 55 days for all houses situated at Deul Wadda, Dabolwada, Huddo Wada Chapora Bardez Goa. “IDespiteseveral calls, verbal instruction and personal visits to PWD office, till date, no action has been initiated to the above-said matter,” they said. They requested PWD officials to look into this matter personally and sort out the issue on urgent basis.

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Secretary to Governor of Goa, Mihir Vardhan IAS today said that Governor P.S. Sreedharan Pillai will disburse the financial aid for 71 old-age homes, orphanages and other such institutions tomorrow. “Tomorrow, Governor of Goa P.S. Sreedharan Pillai will disburse the financial aid for 71 old-age homes, orphanages and other such institutions tomorrow. He will also visit some institutions,” said Vardhan. He further said that Governor will also plant a sapling of Jack fruit at the Raj Bhavan on October 12. The said sapling has been imported from Vietnam under the Green World Clean World Programme. On the…

Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: People gathered in large numbers at Colva-Betalbhatim Road, where the construction of the mobile tower by Jio is underway under police protection. The panch member said that that it’s totally illegal without taking any permission from Colva panchayat. The Sarpanch said that they have issued show causes notice to the property owner, which will be taken on the 11th of this month. The property owner where the construction is going on said that he has all the necessary permission from PWD as per new government policy. “I have also brought the permission from Dy Collector. Dy Collector…

DECKS CLEARED… “The members (SEAC) decided to recommend the extraction of sand by the traditional method with 50 and 10 per cent respectively to be extracted annually, subject to the compliance of the environment management plan and monitoring plan recommended by NIO as well as the guidelines for sustainable sand mining,” Minutes of SEAC meeting. Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: State Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC) has finally permitted sand mining activities but only through the manual method, along four stretches of River Chapora. However, the SEAC has come out with the condition that 1/4th of the river area should be declared as…

Goa IDC has informed that pursuant to the disposal of the Civil Appeals, the Status Quo directed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court is operating only against the land measuring 12,32,000m2 at Kerim Ponda and another measuring 2,03,445 m2 at Verna being part of the petitions CA no. 9711/2013, CA no. 9712, CA no.6825/2014, CA no. 5662/2014 and CA no.9713/2013 and not against the repossessed land. It may be informed that Goa IDC had allotted land total measuring 3840886 m2 for setting up of SEZ at Verna, Kerim in Ponda and Sancoale in Mormugao to 7 allottees, namely M/s. Meditab Specialities…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Citizens for Democracy has handed over a memorandum to the Chief Minister, Dr Pramod Sawant, demanding fast track investigation into fraudulent cases of change of records of rights in Goa. “The rate at which names of original owners in the land records called form 1 and 14 were getting replaced by persons predominantly from Delhi region either through purchase or frauds was leading to a conclusion that Goa had been sold with only a few properties with defective titles left that were slow in coming under the watch of the land sharks,” said Elvis Gomes. He said…