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call off your strike and start with the resumption of mining services in mining activities says chief minister laxmikant parsekar to mining truck owners

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17/12/2015 …. Chief Minister laxmikant parsekar has urged the mining truck owners to call off their strike and start with the resumption of its services in the mining activities ….

 Speaking to media reporters at the secretariat at porvorim chief minister laxmikant parsekar said that e would like to request the striking truck owners to accept the company rate at the moment and assured to increase the rate once the dollar would improve in the international market.
Mr parsekar also stated that his government had help the mining sector in the last three and half years after the halt of mining activities in the state and therefore the truck owners should also need to help the state government in re starting the mining resumption
Parsekar also stated there were also certain people who had vested interest in creating problems in the mining belt and taking political mileage out of it
 

state government gives Financial assistance to 156 students under the “ sant Sohirobanath Ambiye Dnyanvriddhi Shishyavrutti” Bursary Scheme 2014/15

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16/12/2015 … Chief minister laxmikant parsekar distributed an amount of over 12 lakhs Financial assistance to 156 students under the “ sant Sohirobanath Ambiye Dnyanvriddhi Shishyavrutti” Bursary Scheme 2014/15 at a function held at the secretariat at porvorim on tuesday …
 
Under the scheme a Goan student will get financial help to pursue higher education and technical education courses within the state if their parents’ annual income does not exceed 3 lakh per annum. The ‘bursary scheme’ is available for students pursuing professional education or even a regular post-graduation.

The scheme will be operated through Goa Education Development Corporation.
 
The maximum amount of grant will be restricted to 40,000 per annum. Only those cases where the total course fee does not exceed 60,000 per annum will be considered under the bursary scheme.
 
The actual grant given to a student under the scheme would be calculated on the basis of the fees paid for each of the course/program and will be limited to the payment of fees and other charges given to the College/Institution.
The beneficiary of the scheme or the student should have completed his std Xth and XIIth and graduation in case of post Graduation students from an institution in Goa.
For benefit under the scheme, in case of post graduate course, the requirement of graduate degree from college/ university from Goa, will be relaxed for degree from Central University, NIIT, IIT, IIM & other statutorily created Institutions
 

one term under ccp mayor yatin parekh was a good one

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16/12/2015 … St cruz mla babush monosratte has said that the one year term under the leadership of the then mayor ccp yatin parekh had been a progressive one for the corporation city of panjim rather than then other terms of vaidehi naik, surendra furtado and present ccp mayor subham chodankar …
It may be noted that the tenure of the present 30-member Corporation of the City of Panaji comes to an end on March 22, 2016 due to which the state election commission has decided to hold elections for the post of councillors on March 13 according to state election commissioner
CCP is currently headed by mayor Shubham Chodankar who belongs to the BJP-backed panel. CCP councillors are evenly balanced between the BJP-backed panel and St Cruz MLA Antanasio ‘Babush’ Monserrate-backed panel.
Speaking to goanreporter.com st cruz mla babush monsoratte said that mr parekh had done a good job in the first year term of last five years as a ccp mayor while making surendra furtado as the ccp mayor with the support of his panel was just a marriage of convenience
Mr monsoratte said that then ccp has been left behind in terms of development due to the false promises given by the then chief minister manohar parrikar who had assured on the floor of the house of giving 50 crores to the corporation but till ccp had not received the same
Mr monsoratte also stated that issues like vision panjim, smart cities should not be an election gimmick but there was a need for the ccp mayor along with the councilors, architects, engineers to give their suggestions as far as panjim smart city was concerned

need to preserve goan identity while implementing regional plan 2021 says bjp vice president dr wilfred mesquita

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15/12/2015 …. Vice president of the goa state bharatiya janata party dr wilfred mesquita has said that the implementation of the state regional plan was done in such a way that the identity of goans was preserved for posterity and life long
Speaking to media persons in panjim dr mesquita said that there was a need to take every citizen of the state in to confidence while implementing the regional plan 2021 if it was in the interest of the state and if goans opposed it then the government of the day had to listen to the sentiments of the goans too ..
Mr mesquita said that there was a need to retain goan identity in every form while implementing the state regional plan 2021 instead of fighting for special status
Mr mesquita also stated that asking for special status and destroying goas identity would in no way preserve goa’s image for future generations

my constituency has no problem in hosting edm festival sunburn says calangute mla michael lobo

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14/12/2015 …. Calangute mla michael lobo has said that he had not problem in asking the sunburn organizers to hold its event in calangute baga if the organizers had any problem in holding the event in vagator as it would get more revenue for people of calangute constituency…
Speaking to goanreporter.com calangute mla Michael lobo said that sunburn electronic dance music festival was a event which brought lot of tourist in the state and specially in calangute area and if the organizers had any problem in vagator then he would welcome the organizers to hold the event at calangute baga
Mr lobo said that more than five lakh square meters of land was available in calangute baga area and if sunburn returns in calangute people of his constituency would be more happy it welcome it in calangute constituency
Mr lobo also stated that there would not be parking problems for the event too as if the event was held in calangute baga

bjp would come to power in 2017 state assembly elections says congress dabolim mla mauvin godinho

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13/12/2015 …. In what could be termed as an embarrassment to the state congress party ahead of its 2017 state assembly elections congress mla from dabolim constituency mauvin godinho has said that the state bharatiya janata party would once again be able to form its government while the congress party would once again doom in the state …
Speaking to goanreporter.com congress dabolim mla mauvin godinho said that even though he was a congress legislator at the moment he was very much close to the bjp party and could join the bjp party ahead of the upcoming 2017 state assembly polls
 … Mr godinho said that he would be happy if the state congress party were able to get atleast five seats by in the 2017 state assembly elections while bjp would be able to form its government in the next state assembly elections
Mauvin said forming of a regional party in the state was a training ground for young politicians to get elected, trained and move on in to national party
Commenting over the issue of maha-gathbandhan being worked out in the state mauvin said that bihar formula could not work in goa an therefore practically it had no political sense of talking about mahagatbandhan in goa

mla rohan khaunte launches free wifi services for porvorim constituency

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12/12/2015 …. Porvorim mla rohan khaunte on Friday launched live free, free wifi services for the people of porvorim constituency from his porvorim office ….
Though presently the wifi services would be an opportunity for the voters of porvorim constituency to access free wifi through hotspots in and around the distance of 200 mts from the mla’s office which would be later increased to the others areas of the porvorim constituency
Mr khaunte said that the wifi services would give a speed of 512 kbps per sec and would be handy in getting relevant information from the internet

we do not need any advice from state congress leaders on helping people affected with natural calamities says state bjp president vinay tendulkar

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11/12/2015 … The state bharatiya janata party has told the state congress party as not to give them any advice on the issue of help the flood relief people in Chennai when the congress party themselves had failed in helping the canacona flood relief people on time …
Addressing media persons in panjim president of the state bharatiya janata party vinay tendulkar said that his party had always been in forefront to help in all ways whenever there had been any natural calamities in the country
Mr tendulkar said that goans were all excited to be a part of the 60th birthday celebrations of the defence minister of india manohar parrikar and more than 50,000 people were expected to be a part of the celebrations on Sunday in panjim
Meanwhile general secretary of the manohar parrikar 60th birth celebrations committee and tourism minister dilip parulekar said that all arrangements were done for the birthday celebrations of mr parrikar

no decline of foreign tourist in the state says tourism minister dilip parulekar

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10/12/2015 … Tourism minister dilip parulekar has said that goa as a tourism destination was selling like a hot cake in international market and therefore there was no decline of foreign tourist in the state of goa
Speaking to media reporters in panjim tourism minister dilip parulekar said that goa’s relation with Russia was very good and therefore there had been no decline in foreign tourist in the state
Mr parulekar also stated that the tourism department would recruit around 100 beach security staff in addition to the 24 staff which was presently working on various beaches of the state on contract basis

state congress party is desperate and frustrated as they cant see a single chance of coming back to power in the 2017 state assembly elections says deputy chief minister francis dsouza

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09/12/2015 …. Deputy chief minister francis dsouza has termed the state congress party as desperate and frustrated who could not see a semblance of a chance to comeback in to power in the 2017 state assembly elections

mr dsouza was speaking to goanreporter.com after the state congress party leaders had recently commented over the birthday celebration of defence minister manohar parrikar asking it to be cancelled and in turn the related money to be used to help the flood victims of Chennai.

deputy chief minister francis dsouza said that his party would like to do things the way they wanted and if there was a need to do anything for the flood victims in Chennai his government would definitely do that too …

Commenting over the issue of regional plan 2021 being kept open for public for suggestions and objections mr dsouza said that he was also of the opinion that certain areas such as forest land, agricultural land, no development zone should not be touched in the regional plan 2021 and his government would also ensure to see that proper care of environment was taken place