Panjim : February 14, 2020 … Government is striving towards providing good facilities to fisherman community in the State. In this regard  a well equipped Fish Market Complex comprising of adequate cold storage and other modern amenities will be constructed at Fatorda, Margao  stated Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant. He was speaking at  inaugural function of  Aqua Goa Mega Fish Festival 2020  organised by  Directorate of Fisheries held at SAG Campal ground Panaji yesterday.

Chief Minister further informed that foundation stone for the project of Fish Market at Fatorda  will be laid shortly. The Government is fully committed towards welfare of people those are in the business of fishing. He urged youths of State to get involved into this business as fisheries business has lots of potential to grow in larger scale.

Chief Minister Dr. Sawant  stressed on need to explore new avenues of fishing other than fishing in the Sea. Back waters fishing and other types of fishing activities will help to make available fresh and good qualities of fish throughout a year, he added.

Dr. Sawant also expressed that young generation need to move towards special studies in fisheries so as to make better research in fish economy.

Minister for fisheries Shri. Filipe Nery Rodrigues spoke about the growing potential in the sector of  fisheries business. Main objective of organising Aqua Goa Fish Festival to spread awareness regarding fisheries business and various aspects of its economy he added.

Bollywood  Actress Smt. Mugdha Godse said that Fishing business is evolving as a new career and it is very much welcoming that lots of  youths are getting involved in the business.

Aqua Goa Fish Festival being  held till February 15, 2019  has unique aquarium,  fish pond and also variety of food stalls around . various activities such as seminars, competitions and entertainment programmes will be held during the   festival.

On the occasion Directorate of Fisheries felicitated Fisherman, Raponkars and Fisherwomen for their valuable contribution towards fisheries business. Shri. Ajit Chodankar, Shri. Harshad Dhond, Shri. Minguel Rodrigues, Smt. Librata, Smt. Ana Maria Colaco, Shri. Agnelo Rodrigues, Shri. Joao Lobo, Shri. Caitan Fernandes were felicitated on the occasion.

Director, Directorate of Fisheries Dr. Shamila Monteiro welcomed the gathering.

Minister for PWD Shri. Deepak Pauskar, MLA Sanguem Shri. Prasad Gaonkar, MLA, St. Andre Shri. Francis Silvera, Mayor, CCP Shri. Uday Madkaikar, Chairman of EDC Shri. Sadanand Shet Tanavade, Vice Chairman ESG Shri. Subhas Faldessa, Secretary Fisheries Shri. P.S. Reddy, DIG, Coast Guard  Himanshu Nautiyal were present on the occasion.

Panaji: February 13, 2020 …. The Governor of Goa Shri Satya Pal Malik visited villages of North Goa District today. During the time he visited the heritage homes of Shri Caetano N.De Souza at Gongrem and Shri Armando Braganza at Mazalwado at Assagao in Bardez Taluka. where he  discussed about the construction and maintenance of such heritage homes for which he favoured the felicitation of the owners of these  houses during the celebration of National Days at Raj Bhavan.

Thereafter the Governor visited the agricultural fields in Corlim village in  Tiswadi Talika and had  meeting with the farmers and elected representatives in the Panchayat hall  where he discussed issues related to agriculture.

During the interaction the Governor suggested to the farmers to bring fallow land under cultivation. He also suggested to the Agriculture Department to organize field visit of farmers to salinity affected lands in Brazil which have been converted into cultivable land. He assured to discuss with the Chief Minister and other Ministers regarding the issues of maintenance of Bunds and sluice gates. He explained that the Goan brown rice is in great demand in other parts of the country. Which needs to be tapped by the farmers of Goa said  the Governor..

Collector North Goa Smt. R. Menka IAS, Addl. Collector-II, Shri Gopal Parsekar, Addl. Collector-III, Shri Mahadev Arondekar,  Director of Agriculture, Shri Madhav Kelkar, Deputy Collector & S.D.O, Shri Vivek H.P, Deputy Collector & S.D.O-I, Shri Ashok Potekar, Deputy Collector & S.D.O-II, Shri Mamu Hage IAS, Mamlatdar Bardez, Shri Laxmikant Kuttikar, Mamlatdar Tiswadi, Shri Franklin Ferrao, Talathi Assagao, Shri Viraj Sangodkar, and ZAO, Smt. Neelima Gawas were those who accompanied the Governor.

Panaji: 11/02/2020:: Goa Cricket Association will be conducting the Premier League Tournament during the month of March.

List of players eligible to play in the Premier League is displayed on GCA Notice Board and GCA Website.

The Performance of this league will be considered for the selection of the players in all categories.

All the listed players are requested to register and confirm their availability before 18th February 2020.

Panaji February 10, 2020 … The 32^nd Annual Inspection Day Parade of the Directorate of Fire and Emergency Services was held at the Goa State Fire Force Training Ground at St Inez, Panaji, recently. Principal Secretary, Shri Puneet Goel, I.A.S., was the Chief Guest for the function. Special Secretary, Home, Shri. Ravi Jha, IAS, and Additional Secretary, Home, Shri. Amarsen Rane also graced the occasion.

While speaking on the occasion, Shri Goel said that the Government is making necessary efforts to bridge the gap in Fire Station coverage, manpower and equipment. Shri Goel said that is heartening to note that the Department has been making serious efforts to spread Fire Safety and Disaster Preparedness Awareness among educational institutions and community volunteers at village Panachyat level. He said that this needs to be further given momentum to ensure that awareness reaches the remotest areas of Goa.

Shri Goel added that the Government is earnestly supporting the procurement of sophisticated equipment for Firefighting and life rescue in high rise buildings and also for handling major disasters.  He said that the Government will back efforts of the Department’s in overcoming infrastructure deficiency in terms of building and sophisticated equipment.

 Director of Fire and Emergency Services, Shri Ashok Menon, in his welcome address apprised the dignitaries regarding the various activities carried out by the department in the field of Fire Fighting, Pire Prevention, Fire Protection and Training in the State of Goa. He informed that the construction of Redesigning of the Fire Force Headquarters and additional construction of Administrative and Training block, fire station buildings at Valpoi and Bicholim are being executed through the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation. He also informed that the structurally weak Fire Station Building at Vasco has been demolished and Tender process for new building has been started by the Public Works Department.

Certificates and Trophies were handed over to the winners of the Drill Competition and Winners of Annual sports Meet. The best turns out Fire Personnel from various Ranks were selected for the Best Turn out Awards.

First Place for Squad Drill, Ladder Drill and Tug of War was awarded to Fire Force Headquarters and Pump Drill to Ponda Fire Station. Best Turn Out was awarded to Shri. Dilip Bicholkar, Station Fire Officer, Shri. Damodar D. Zambaulikar Sub-Officer, Shri. Krishna C. Naik, Leading Fire Fighter, Shri. Shailesh T. Patnekar, Shri. Damodar Rao, Shri. Motiram Govekar  Driver Operator, Shri. Shailesh C. Paingitkar, Shri. Suresh Gaonkar, Shri. Suraj Prabhugaonkar, Shri. Hitesh Parab, Shri. Gauresh R. Phadte, Shri. Sairaj R. Naik,  Shri. Shailesh. G. Tari and Shri. Gango B. Lambor, Fire Fighter.

An exhibition of Fire Drill event was also held on the occasion. Assistant Divisional Officer, North Zone,  Shri Ajit Kamat compered the program.

Panaji February 09, 2020 ::: There is a need to capitalise on Medical tourism, an area which has not been sufficiently tapped in Goa stated Minister for Health, Shri Vishwajit Rane at the inaugural of Goa Institute of Management’s 2nd Annual Healthcare Conference, in Panaji, recently.

While speaking on the occasion, Shri Rane informed that the authorities were thinking of converting Primary Health Centres into Wellness Centers.

“We have to think differently”, Shri Rane said adding that early detection of illness was necessary as it would help decrease future medical costs to be borne by the Government.

The Minister further said that Goa already has a good medical insurance program in place and that they were trying their best to integrate the Central scheme of Ayushman Bharat with that of the Goa Medical scheme. Shri Rane stressed on the need to have more public-private partnership in medical specialities. 

Present on the occasion were Advisor, NITI Ayog, Government of India, Shri Alok Kumar, Guest of Honour, Chairperson and Managing Director, Dr Lal Pathlabs, Dr Arvind Lal, Chairperson, Centre for the Digital Future, Shri R Chandrashekhar, Director, Goa Institute of Management, Dr Ajit Parulekar, among others. 

PANAJI/ 08/20/2020:: Goa Football Development Council (GFDC) inaugurated its 37th training centre at Santa Cruz in association with Crown Club Santa- Cruz at the football ground recently. A total of 100 trainees have already enrolled at the centre. This centre will cater to boys and girls from St Cruz, Chimbel, Merces in various age categories such as U-10, U-12, U-14, U-16.

Today, GFDC has 37 grassroots centres to promote the official sport of Goa and train kids between the age group of 6 to 14 years. Over 4000 young football enthusiastic from across the state of Goa are frequent goers to the GFDC centres set up at their respective localities, the majority of these centres being situated in the hinterland areas. There are 100 odd coaches to assist and mould these kids to become better footballers.

The Chief Guest and EX-MLA of St Cruz, Victor Gonsalves praised the parents for sending their children forward for football training.

“I am happy to see that girls have come forward to play football. Children should take seriously the opportunity they have got. GFDC is making football training available for children from a very young age. I wish all the students from this centre good luck,”said Gonsalves.

While the special invitee and Member Secretary GFDC, Aleixo da Costa said it was a proud moment to inaugurate a grassroots football centre at Santa Cruz and requested the trainees to attend coaching regularly.

“GFDC was formed in 2012 by Ex-CM, Manohar Parrikar to develop the game of football. GFDC is striving to develop football at the grassroots level.Over 4,000 trainees are enrolled with us who get a full time coach, nutrition and football kit. We provide coaching to the trainees on a daily basis free of cost. I do not recall seeing any football club from St Cruz taking part in any football tournaments. The reason behind starting centre is to tie together the broken string.When a child indulges in sports he burns calories and at the same time his mind is fresh. A child who takes part in outdoor activity can study better than a child who is kept indoors. if you train hard and learn the technique than St Cruz will see stars like Mandar Rao Dessai and Brandon Fernandes emerge from here,”said Costa.

Panaji February 7, 2020 … National Deworming Day (NDD) will be observed on February 10, 2020. The aim is to de-worm the children’s between the age group of 1-19 years through the platform of Government, Government Aided Schools, Private School and Anganwadi.

The round of NDD will be followed by a mop-up-day (MUD) on February 17, 2020 intent of deworming children who miss the dose on February 10, 2020.

The activities on National Deworming Day will include administering half to one Albendazole tablet depending on the age, to all pre-school, school-enrolled and out of school children.

The parents, guardians, teachers, anganwadi workers and the  public in large to participate and cooperate to make National Deworming Day a success.

Panaji February 06, 2020 … Office of the Commissioner Labour and Employment, Regional Employment Exchange, Model Career Centre Panaji, organized workshop/session on ‘Personal Effectiveness’ at Swami Vivekanand Vidya Prasarak Mandal College of Commerce, Borim and at Government College of Commerce and Economics, Borda, Margao.

Topics covered were motivation, positive attitude, conversational skills, self confidence, goal setting and time management.

Shri Amey Hedge and Dr. Joyti Hedge were the Resource persons/Motivational Speaker in presence of Dr.(CA) Subrahmanyan Bhat, Principal, Dr. Gajanan V. Madiwal, Principal, Dr. Fatima De Souza, Vice Principal, Shri Premjeet Dessai, Shri Cajitan Fernandes, Assistant Employment Officers, Shri Rakesh Dangi, Young Professional and Shri Rajat Harvaleker.

Panaji: February 5, 2020 …. Shri Fausto V. Da Costa, Journalist, editor of Gulab and Tiatr researcher in presence of Member Secretary, Tiatr Academy of Goa, Shri. Cezar D’Mello presented the awards to the winners of 10^th Children’s Tiatr Competition organized by Tiatr Academy of Goa in collaboration with Ravindra Bhavan, Margao today.

‘Kanvllean Kelem Kanv Kanv’ written and directed by Shri Marcos Gonsalves won the 1st place. Other prizes were also distributed to the winners. Judges of the competition Shri Ratnakar Govekar, Fr Milton Rodrigues and Smt Crista Fernandes were felicitated on the occasion.

While addressing the audience, Shri Fausto V. Da Costa, appreciating the performance of children said that they have a bright future in the field of tiatr. He congratulated the winners and urged those who have not won any awards not to be discouraged. He said you might have not won awards today but you have won the hearts of the crowd, this is your stepping stone to success. At this tender age you have done the best. He also praised the work of Tiatr Academy of Goa to encourage local art Tiatr.

The highlights of the awards presentation ceremony was presentation of a Konkani Musical Show.