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Panaji: Chief Secretary, Parimal Rai chaired the first meeting of the State Level Steering Committee set up for streamlining Covid vaccination program in advance. The meeting was attended by other Secretaries/official members/Govt Health Experts and members of civil society including Presidents of Global Rotary International and Lions Club, SMO (World Health Organisation) and Chairperson (GSPCB). Secretary (Health) made a powerpoint presentation and briefed on the various major tasks that the State is expected to undertake, to be ready to carry out the vaccination in Goa. He also shared that a special national level digital platform (Co-WIN) is being created to…

PANJIM: Goa today reported 117 Covid-19 postive cases. While there were 64 recoveries and 3 death. As per the bulletin of Goa total covid death’s are 3 where 2 death’s at GMC and 1 death at Hospicio The patient who expired at Hospicio was brought dead to the hospital and the post mortem covid test was positive for SARS COV 2 virus. Meanwhile, the active cases stand at 1416, total deaths are 693 and samples tested today are 2003

The Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant today announced road-map to double the farmers income by 2022. The road-map prepared by the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) speaks about making Goa self-sufficient in agriculture produce. Addressing a press conference, Sawant informed that the contribution of agriculture to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is less than 5 percent. This has forced us to be dependent on other States to meet our requirements of agriculture, horticulture, dairy, pottery, etc, he said. As such, Sawant said that government has decided to promote Integrated Farming for achieving the goal of doubling farmers’ income by…

Panaji: In a major decision, the Bench of Bombay High Court at Goa set aside appointments of 32 Assistant Data Entry Operators (ADEO) in the electricity department citing procedural lapses in the recruitment. The Court also directed the State to prepare a fresh list based on OM dated 05.03.2007 and issue appointment orders to the 32 most meritorious candidates on or before Jan 31,2021. The High Court ruled that the appointments in 2016, did not follow proper criteria while preparing final list of selected candidates. A total of 56 candidates, which had 32 general category and 24 reserved category, were…

The High Court of Bombay at Goa today has directed the government and State Election Commission (SEC) to respond to a petition challenging the process of the Zilla Panchayat (ZP) Elections slated to be held this month. The petitioner has claimed that the ZP poll notification was issued in Feb and the polls were postponed subsequently in view of Covid Pandemic and holding polls without fresh notification, process and code of conduct is against violation of law and that a fresh process has to be initiated. The petition was filed by social activists  Keval Palyekar and Sudip Tamankar.HC has issued…

Panaji: Dec.2,2020 The office of the District Electoral Officer North Goa District launched Voters Awareness Campaign 2020. A rally was fagged off by Shri Gopal Parsekar , Additional Collector, North from Goa Pharmacy College which winded up at Church Square in the city to mark the launching. While addressing the rally Additional Collector II Shri Gopal Parsekar said that the purpose behind organising the rally is to promote awareness among voters to enroll during ongoing special Summary Revision 2021. He appealed to voters especially to young voters to enroll their names in voters list to participate in democracy. The…

Panaji: In a direct snub to Minister for Waste Management Michael Lobo, Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant said the decision on Cabinet reshuffle is not decided by the ministers but by the party. On Tuesday, Lobo had claimed there would be cabinet reshuffle in the State post Zilla Parishad elections. He had also hinted that Tourism Minister Babu Azgaonkar would be dropped due to inefficiency. Speaking to reporters here, Sawant said that there has been no discussion on Cabinet reshuffle. ”The Minister (Lobo) has not discussed anything with me on Cabinet reshuffle. Also, there is no plan of any such…