June 25, 2015 …. Anti Narcotic Cell of Goa Police today organized a five kilometer marathon race on the tar road from Miramar Circle to ‘Divja Circle’, Panaji under the title “Run Against Narcotic Drugs” as part of awareness on ill effects of narcotic drugs.

 Inspector General of Police Shri Sunil Garg, IPS flagged off the race in the distinguished presence of DIG (Crime and Range) V. Renganathan, SP (ANC) Shri Kartik Kashyap, SP(HQ),Shri Vishram Borkar,  SP(S), Shri Shekar Prabhudessai and others.

 Male and female athletes above the age of sixteen years participate in the event. The registration will commence at 06.00 a.m. The race commenced at 07.00 a.m.  from Miramar.  A cash prize of  Rs. 7777/-, Rs. 4444/- and Rs. 2222/-each were  awarded to the three winners in  male and female category, so also the trophies and the commendation certificates..

In male category Shri Amarnath Chauhan of  Military Training Regiment, Bambolim bagged the first place, Shri Francisco Clement of the Goa Fire Force bagged the second place and Shri Nitesh Kumar Gupta of the 6TTR Bambolim bagged the third place while in the female category the first prize was bagged by Miss Danita Diniz of RCC fatorda, the second prize was bagged by Miss Prachi Naik of PTS Valpoi and thierd prize was bagged by Miss Sonali Kambli also of PTS Valpoi.

 In male category Shri Amarnath Chauhan of 3 Military Training Regiment, Bambolim bagged the first place, Shri Francisco Clement of the Goa Fire Force bagged the second place and Shri Nitesh Kumar Gupta of the 3TTR Bambolim bagged the third place while in the female category the first prize was bagged by Miss Danita Diniz of RCC fatorda, the second prize was bagged by Miss Prachi Naik of PTS Valpoi and thierd prize was bagged by Miss Sonali Kambli also of PTS Valpoi.

Panaji: June 24, 2015 …. The Governor of Goa Smt. Mridula Sinha has said that the mission of making Swacch Goa, Swacch Bharat will not be possible without the wholehearted  participation of people and  involvement of every segment of society.

            Smt. Sinha was speaking at a meeting held with Builders/Developers at Raj Bhavan,  Dona Paula  today.

The Governor during the course of discussion suggested various measures such as   providing  toilets to schools, or at public places, Putting up Swacch Bharat Abhiyan Hoardings, Printing and pasting of slogans Swacch Goa, Swacch Bharat on vehicles, Printing of slogans on the receipts books, Providing of  toilet and water facility to the construction workers, placing of dustbins at required residential  places, Avoid dumping  of debris/waste on road sides or public places, Creation of awareness among  residents , occupants of building o stop use of plastic, to exhibit LED display on  Swacch Goa, Swacch Bharat Abhiyan in residential and commercial complexes,

She also suggested submitting report of activities undertaken by Builders/Developers to the office of Governor

Shri Avinash Borkar, Akar Creations Pvt. Ltd., Fatorda, Margao, suggested to set up sewerage treatment plant in coastal areas so that the problem of the garbage can tackled.

            Shri Vinay Bhasin, Palaceio Property Developers Pvt. Ltd., informed about various steps being taken by his firm as regards to hygiene and sanitation.

                Dr. Jagannath ( Desh ) Prabudessai M/S Prabhudessai Realtors, Shri Sandip Nigalye M/s Raj Housing Dev. Pvt. Ltd, Shri  Joe Mathias M/s Mathias Construction Pvt.Ltd. Shri Nikhil Angle  GM Projects Milroc Good Earth Property & Developers,Panajim, Shri Jose Braganza  Braganza & Fulari Ventures Pvt. Ltd, Siolim , Shri Dwarka Rao Local Rep. For Goa Gera Development Pvt. Ltd., Panaji, Shri Rajesh Sheth Jai Bhuvan Builders Pvt, Ltd., Alto-Porvorim, Shri Sanjeev Kamat Kamat Construction Pvt. Ltd,  Panaji, Shri Premanand Corgaunkar, Manager, Nanul Real Estate, Margao, Shri Nitin Saraf, Nitin Developers Pvt. Ltd., Miramar, Panaji, Shri Ben Saldanha , Saldanha Developers Pvt. Ltd., Panaji, Shri Nilan Miranda, BM Real Estate , Margao , Shri Rohit Borkar, Borkar Dvelopers Pvt. Ltd., Fatorda , Margao, Shri Ragvendra Shetiye Chandan Groups, Panaji, Shri Wenceslao Fernandes, Business Development Associate, City Scape Developers, Murida, Fatroda ,Margao    the meeting was attended by

 Dr. Radhakrishnan Special Secretary to Governor welcomed.

23/06/2015 … In a bid to oppose the labour laws in the country the all india trade union congress goa branch would join the nationwide all workers strike which would be held on September 2nd this year …

Addressing media persons in panjim aituc convenor Christopher fonseca said that the issue of labour laws in the state were going from bad to worse and the state led government had not take enough steps for the welfare of labours in the state …

Commenting over the functioning of the Parsekar led state government mr fonseca said that it was a sorry state of affairs that were being seen in the state as the state government had failed in its promises given to goans during the time of elections

22/06/2015 … Member of the aam admi party goa branch have threatened to knock the door of the court if chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar do not remove the pwd minister sudhin dhavlikar from his portfolio over the issue of submitting false affidavit to the election commission

Addressing media persons after meeting goa governor mridula sinha over the issue app member dinesh vaghela said that they were able to get more information from the chowgule college where in mr dhavlikar name was not figured in the passed out list

Mr vaghela said that his party was going through a proper system and was pursuing mr dhavlikar issue specially after mr dhavlikar had shown his passing out certificate openly to public

Meanwhile app member valimiki naik informed that they had met the governor and had also brought the issue to her notice …

21/06/2015 …. Stating that the formation of a third front political party in the state of goa had no means Former pwd minister Churchill alemao had said that it was the national party like the congress party which could end the rule of bjp in the state of goa in the next state assembly elections thus eying his return to the congress fold …

Speaking to exclusively to goannreporter the former pwd minister said that though he had left the congress party on certain issues he had no problem to return back in to the congress party and would do it at the right time

Mr alemao said that he would definitely contest the next state assembly elections either from navelim or benaulim constituency

Alemao also commented over the issue of the formation of a new third front in the state

20/06/2015 … Chief Minister laxmikhant Parsekar has said that the schools in the state were open options of holding yoga day either on Saturday or Monday if any of the schools had a problem to hold it on Sunday …

Addressing media persons at the cabinet briefing chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar said that the issue was not a compulsory one and therefore there would not be any action on any one if one was not interested to be a part of the yoga day

Parsekar said that the cabinet had decided to constitute a high powered committee to study the applications of the state freedom fighters where in the state government was thinking of giving one time settlement to the deserving freedom fighters

Parsekar also stated that the state assembly session was called on from the 27th of july while another decision the cabinet had taken was to increase the remuneration of the contract mbbs doctors from rs 30,000 to rs 42,000 per month …

Commenting over the issue of pwd minister false affidavit on educational qualification mr Parsekar said that if anyone had any grievances then he should have gone to the election commissioner and put forth his point before him …

Senior Journalist and Secretary of St John Ambulance Shri Jovito Lopes has been conducting a training programme for Home guard volunteers of Panaji Division and series of lectures on the first aid with demonstrations.

Shri Lopes conducting delivered a lecture on basic of first aid as part of the lecture series and training programme at Institute Menezes Braganza hall today.

The volunteers responded well to the trainer and even demonstrated the correct ways of handling the casualty.

Shri John Aguiar Honorary Company Commander earlier introduced while Seniro Platoon Commander Smt. Carolina fernandes proposed a vote of thanks. Seniro Platoon Commander Shri Suresh Patekar and Platoon Commander Smt. Meenakshi Kubal were also present.

19/06/2015 …. Power Department has taken up work of solving power problems in Chimulwada, Gavkarwada, Kumbharwada and Mayem Village Panchayat is taken up on priority basis.  In the first phase, renovation and improvement of HT line passing through Hilin area was taken up under which all the old conductor were changed.

Structural items like cross arms, pins and also insulators were changed. Essentially, to strengthen the poles so that they stand stable when they are partly underwater during rains, foundation of poles were provided with concrete muffing. Total expenditure incurred was to the extent of Rs.2 lakh on said work.

The results of this renovation can be seen as interruptions have considerable minimised due to faults in Hilin area during this rain. Apart from this, to completely improve the power scenario of Narva feeder and 12 associated transformers on it, a development work has been proposed under which underground cable has been planned from Shardanagar to Mayem Village Panchayat at total estimated cost of the work is Rs.30 lakh. After completing all the codal formalities a tender for the said work was opened on 26^th February, 2015.

Total 4 contractors participated. Presently, it is in the final stage of contract awarding process. Within next few days the successful bidder would be issued with the work order to actually commence the work. Once this work is completed, it will form a ring wherein from Bicholim Sub Station, Narva feeder will pass through Devgale, Haturli, Hilin, Chimulwada, Kumbharwada, Shardanagar, Kelbaiwada and back to the Bicholim Sub Station.

This way it is going to be very convenient for Electricity Department to restore power supply in case any fault is occurred in thickly vegetated area. Originally the said work was decided to be carried out under R-APDRP scheme. However, knowing the sensitivity of the issue and urgency, minister directed to take up the work under different head so that it can be commenced speedily.

The work of laying underground cable from Shardanagar to Mayem Village Panchayat has to go along the existing road and as per the standard norms of state during the rains any sort of excavation activities even along the road are prohibited, so actual work on this stretch will begin only after rains.

 Power Minister, Shri. Milind Sagun Naik during his visit to Bicholim Sub Station two months back directed the Power Department to immediately come out with the solution so that powers outages in Chimulwada, Gavkarwada, Kumbharwada and Mayem Village Panchayat are reduced and also while attending to faults life of Electricity Department staffs are not at risk.

 Power minister has directed department upon giving priority to the works which are of importanT but have stayed behind. One such example is work at Keri Sattari. Consumers of this area apprised the minister that any fault occurring in Morlem area like falling of tree and branch results in complete outages of Keri Sattari village. Minister directed to immediately study and take up corrective action.

To resolve this problem, Department initiated the work of erecting 11KV line from Ravan to Shiroli. Almost 90% of the work of erection of line comprising of 2 kms length has been completed by department. Once this line is charged, consumers of Keri Sattari are going to receive power supply from two directions.

As a result in case of fault, power could be restored in shortest span from alternate direction. Apart from following the works of bigger magnitude like underground cabling, erection of new sub station minister has given direction to department to give stress on completing smaller work departmentally for which thorough care is taken to make available material and man power to the engineers.