TCP board approved the draft ODP for Mormugao in its 172nd board meeting held today. The draft will be notified and kept open for public suggestion for 60 days, informed Dy CM and TCP Minister Babu Kavlekar. TCP also granted approval to include some parts of Old Goa into Greater Panaji PDA(GPPDA) as per the request of the Old Goa Panchayat. “Public will be given 60 days time to raise objects and give suggestions in this regards too,” informed Kavlekar. Total 46 application for change of Zone under Section 16 B of TCP Act came before the Town & Country…
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PANJIM: Two persons died of Covid in the last 24-hours in Goa. A 60-year-old man from Usgao died at GMC today while a 72-year-old man from Curtorim who was brought dead at Hospicio Hospital, Margao tested positive for Covid in post mortem report. Covid death toll of Goa now stands at 672.
Margao – The Government must ensure that South Western Railway refrains from using armed police force to carry out the work of double tracking for transportation of Coal from Vasco. If the authorities act with high handedness on peaceful protestors who are fighting to preserve the identity of Goa, We will be compelled to launch a massive agitation all across the State warned Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat. I am shocked to read reports of media statements issued by South Western Railway stating that FIR’s will be lodged against the protestors who assembled at Davorlim to question railway authorities on…
Vasco BJP MLA Carlos Almeida on Friday said that works on the Vasco KTC Bus stop would be taken up though bank finance . ” The works on the KTC Vasco Bus stand has temporarily stopped in the sense that the piling works of the Depot is over. We have now placed a proposal from a private finance company which is a banking institution . The bank from Calcutta will finance us and though I have a verbal approval, the proposal is with the bank and once the finance comes, the work will start immediately . ” Said Almeida Carlos…
Aam Aadmi Party while strongly objecting to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s proposal to circumvent the Goa Staff Selection Commission while recruiting 10,000 government servants pointed out that these are jobs in government service meant for Goans and not jobs in Bharatiya Janata Party Private Limited. Surel Tilve of AAP asserted that the CM Sawant’s claim that the Goa Staff Selection Commission is overloaded is merely an excuse for them to give the jobs to their supporters and well wishers and pointed out that Health Minister Vishwajit Rane is already on record about this. He pointed out that in a audio…
PANJIM: Indian National Congress (INC) President Sonia Gandhi has approved joining of former minister Joaquim Alemao and Yuri Alemao in the Congress Party informed Congress Goa desk in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao today. “I welcome them to our party and hope they will play a big role in strengthening INC Goa in the days to come,” said Rao. The father son duo are likely to formally join the Congress party tomorrow
PANJIM: Anti Corruption Bureau(ACB) will be assigned the task of investigating the ‘labour gate’ scam related to alleged misappropriation of Building and Other Construction Workers (BOCW) Welfare Fund. CM Pramod Sawant has given his approval to ACB to inquire into the matter and the corresponding file has been sent to the labour department. Former Goa Lokayukta Justice (retd) PK Misra, had directed ACB to file a First Information Report (FIR) against ‘unknown’ persons for conspiracy to ‘siphon’ out funds of BOCW Welfare Fund and against those who fraudulently took benefit of the fund. The funds were earmarked to give financial…