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Goemkarponn Desk PORVORIM: Gearing up for the Budget 2021-22 implementation, the Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant has set target of December 19, 2021 to ensure that maximum proposals or projects, proposed in the Budget are implemented. The Chief Minister on Thursday chaired a meeting of Secretaries of concerned departments to chalk out Action Plan to implement the Budget, which was tabled in the House on March 24. Speaking to reporters post meeting, Sawant said that the focus would be laid to reduce dependency on market loan and to make departments and Corporations self-sufficient. He said that aims is to ensure…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: BJP State President Sadanand Tanawade today informed that he has requested the Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant and Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho to keep in abeyance the fines to be implemented under the new motor vehicles rules. “I have asked Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant and Mauvin Godinho to keep in abeyance the fines to be implemented under the new motor vehicles rules as these steep fines are not feasible to the people of the state,” said Tanawade He further said that he has have already spoken to CM Dr Pramod and Transport Minister Mauvin on the…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: While stating that lockdowns and curfew severely impact lives if common men, Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant today said that prevention by following COVID appropriate norms & vaccination can defeat the virus. “Prevention by following COVID appropriate norms & vaccination can defeat the virus. Lockdowns & curfews severely impact the lives of common men,” said Sawant He further urged all the eligible citizens to get themselves vaccinated at the earliest. “We have to fight strategically to ensure that both lives and livelihoods are protected,:”he added He further said that going for a lockdown is not the solution…

Goemkarponn Desk TALEIGAO: Goa University (GU) today has issued a circular to all its affiliated colleges asking to hold all theory classes for all Under-Graduate (UG) programmes in online mode in April 2021. However practicals for final year students will continue to be in offline mode. “Theory Classes for all Programmes to be conducted only in the Online mode during the month of April, 2021; Practicals for the Final Year students only to be continued in the offline mode. 3. For the Final Year students, one 15/IT is to be compulsorily conducted in the offline mode,” the circular states It…

Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: As expected, with the civic polls coming closer the leader of Opposition and Margao MLA Digamber Kamat joined hands withGoa Forward president Vijay Sardessai. Even during the last elections both had alliance for municipality election under the banner of Model Margao and Fatorda Forward. While addressing media Digamber Kamat said his main motto is to defeat BJP. “People are fed up with BJP government for small issues people are coming on streets. Every second day there are agitations. it looks like there is hitler rule going on in Goa,” he stated. Sardesai said this is a new…

Canacona. Sources at Canacona Community Health Centre informed that till Tuesday, 916 Covid-19 cases were detected since the pandemic infected the world at the end of 2019, and with 13 deaths so far Canacona taluka with about 50 thousand inhabitants, it’s a matter of few weeks when Canacona will have one thousand Covid-19 cases. What is alarming for the residents of Canacona is that a few weeks ago the taluka had a couple of active Covid-19 cases but during last few week the active case load increased manifold. Sources from Community Health Centre at Canacona while divulging the data of…

Goemkarponn Desk Canacona: While whole of India talks about Digital India, we have thousands of Canaconkars who have to travel more than 10km to get a single line on their mobile showing that they are in range of connectivity. We are talking about a village called Khotigao in the jurisdiction of Canacona which has a population of more than three thousand mostly tribal and forest dwellers for whom mobile connectivity has till now remained a distant dream. To make matters worse for them, till a year back they had one mobile service provider which covered the entire village, after the…