Panaji, June 18, 2015 ….  The Kranti Maidan at Ponda which is under renovation will be inaugurated on  Goa Liberation Day December 19, 2015 disclosed Minister  for PWD Shri Sudin Dhavalikar on the occasion of Goa Revolution Day Celebration at Ponda today.

 Shri Dhavalikar said  the ongoing work of the historic Kranti Maidan will be expedited  to pave the way for its inauguration as scheduled.

 The PWD Minister reviewed  the progress of work which is undertaken and underway in Ponda and its peripheries . he said an amount of Rs. 200 crores has been earmarked for sewerage plant the tender  for which will be floated. This plant he said will  benefit the areas within the Ponda Municipal Council besides its surrounding areas.

 The PWD Minister also  recalled the sacrifices of  Freedom Fighters and Martyrs who  struggled and shed their  blood to liberate Goa from Portuguese colonial rule. Let us on this  auspicious occasion rededicate ourselves to achieve higher progress and development and maintain unity to take the  State to greater heights of progress and prosperity he added.

Shri Rohidas Naik, Ex-MLA and President of Freedom Fighter Association Ponda spoke on the occasion. Students from various schools presented patriotic songs.

 The function was attended by Adv. Narendra Sawaikar, Chairman Law Commission, Shri Lavoo Mamlatdar, MLA, Smt. Radhika Naik, Chairperson PMC, Councilors, Freedom Fighters among large number of students.

 Earlier the PWD Minister and other dignitaries placed wreaths on Hutatma Smarak and paid homage.

June 18, 2015 …. Governor Smt. Mridula Sinha and Chief Minister Shri Laxmikant Parsekar paid rich tributes to the martyrs and freedom fighters on Goa Revolution Day at a State-level function held at Azad Maidan here today.

The Governor, Chief Minister and other dignitaries placed wreaths at the martyr’s memorial and paid  homage. The Police Guard of honour paid compliments to the martyrs memorial.

The Governor Smt. Sinha recalled the call given from Margao by the late Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia to the people of Goa to join the freedom movement on this day in 1946. He said: “Goa Revolution Day was an appropriate occasion for Goans to reflect on the past achievements and renew a pledge to not only safeguard the hard-earned freedom, but to steadfastly work for greater peace, progress, and prosperity for all sections of society, in accordance with democratic aspirations and national priorities.”

Smt. Sinha expressed happiness that the Government and the people of Goa had zealously maintained the tradition of paying rich tributes to great souls whose suffering and sacrifices paved the way for Goa’s liberation. The liberation of Goa from colonial subjugation led to emotional bonding of the people resulting in the moral, intellectual, social, and speedy economic development of the State, She said.

Chief Minister Shri Parsekar said that Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia’s clarion call in 1946 from Margao, 60 years ago, gave a major jolt to the colonial rule and great momentum to the freedom movement of Goa. He said the issues concerning freedom fighters would be taken care of by his Government.

On the occasion the Governor and Chief Minister released laminated colour freedom fighter’s registration Certificate.

Shri Shyamsundar Nagvekar, President of Goa, Daman and Diu Freedom Fighters Association Panaji expressed his views on the occasion.

Minister for Cooperation, Shri Pandurang alias Deepak Dhavlikar, Minister for Environment Smt. Alina Saldanha, MLA Shri Sidharth Kuncolienkar, Mayor of Panaji Shri Shuban Chodanankar,  Shri  Chief Secretary Shri R. K. Srivastava, Director-General of Police Shri  T. N. Mohan, DIG’s Shri S. Renganathan and Shri K. K. Vyas, Collector North Smt. Neela Mohanan, Secretaries to the Government,  Director of Information & Publicity Shri  Arvind Bugde, Joint Secretary(Home) Shri Sanjiv Gadkar, Joint Secretary (Protocol) Shri Deepak Dessai) President of Goa Daman and Diu Freedom Fighters Association Naguesh Karmali, Goa Swatantra Sainik Sangh president Chandrakant Kenkre, freedom fighters, and citizens were present.

Dr. Dayanand Rao compared the function while the choir group of Bal Bhavan was in attendance .

On her arrival at the venue of the function the Governor was received by Chief Minister, Chief Secretary Shri R. K. Srivastava and Director General of Police Shri T. N. Mohan.

17/06/2015 … The state nationalist congress party had condemned the central government decision to hold yoga on a Sunday which is a holiday for catholic community …

Addressing media persons at the party head office in panjim ncp spokesperson trojano dmello said that it was sad to see that the government had given permission to hold yoga day on a Sunday which was a holiday day for catholic community

Mr d’mello said that state ncp party had written to the goa chief secretary asking for an inquiry in to the fiasco that was continuing in regard to the mbbs seats for the year 2015-2016 …

16/06/2015 …. The issue of goa cricket elections which is schedule to take place on 28th June seems to be going from bad to worse as the opposition camp led by former gca president vinod phadke has now alleged that the present ruling group has forged proxies of around 24 clubs and instead has put up duplicate nominees for gca elections who have been not even been a part of the concerned clubs at any point of time

It may be noted that the more than fifty clubs which includes the like of salgaocar sports club , dempo sports club, lapaz, panjim gymkhana have been purposely left out of the election voting rights along with a number of other clubs from the state as alleged by the opposition group …

Recently the representatives of cricket clubs who had come to Porvorim to file the nominations of their proxies to participate in the election of the Goa Cricket Association to be held on June were shocked to find that the gate of GCA was closed.

former President of the GCA Vinod Phadke stated that there are 104 registered clubs affiliated to the GCA and the representatives of around 60 clubs had come on Saturday morning to file the nomination of proxies of clubs but were surprised to note that the gate of gca was found to be closed.

Speaking to goanreporter over the phone former gca president vinod phadke said that whatever was going on was totally wrong as more than 40 clubs had been denied their voting rights while the ruiling faction had also put up a total of 24 duplicate nominees who were even not a part of the concerned club

Former gca secretary chetan dessai said that it was sad to say that illegal things had been done by the ruling group totally bypassing gca election procedure

Meanwhile porvorim mla rohan khaunte alleged that the state government was misusing its power and interfering in cricket which was totally wrong …

15/06/2015 … The state congress party on Monday appointed former advocate general of goa adv subodh kantak to head the legal and human rights committee of the state congress party …

Addressing media persons in panjim gpcc president luizinho faliero said that the 17 member committee which includes all advocates attached with the congress party would fight against the injustice being done against the common man of the state

Mr faliero said that the chairman of the nri global convention cell simon dsilva of the state congress party would be in goa to file a petition in the high court asking for voting rights to nri goans in various elections such as parliament, assembly, municipalities, panchayats

14/06/2015 … Stating that casinos being operated in the state had spoiled young goans and their families President of the goa Pradesh congress committee luizinho falieiro has stated that there had to be a total stop on the casino activities in the state

Addressing media persons at the party head office in panjim gpcc president luizinho faleiro said that though he personally felt that the casino activities had to be stopped in goa his party demand was to see casino’s being moved out of rive mandovi as it had no right to be inside mandovi river

Mr faleiro said that it was sad to see that a lot of goan families were destroyed due to their members going on to casinos getting involved in casino activities …

13/06/2015 … Criticising the toruism department Calangute mla Michael lobo has once again termed the upcoming tourism projects such as amphibious vehicle, sea plane and ropeway as an eye wash in the goan people eyes put up by the tourism minister dilip parulekar

Speaking to media reporters calangute mla Michael lobo said that every government was trying to get in new innovative ideas for which state tourism minister was very much innovative to get such kind of tourism projects in the state but there was a need of getting proper expertise to put things such as amphibious vehicle, sea plane, rope way and other tourism related projects in place

Mr lobo said projects such as amphibious vehicles, rope way or sea planes would never take off in goa

Lobo also stated that since feasibility was not there it was just an eye wash done by tourism minister in front of goan people

12/06/2015 … Bicholim mla naresh sawal had criticized the state government decision of minting money by harassing the common man in the name of implementing toll tax

Addressing media persons the bicholim mla naresh sawal said that it was totally wrong on the part of the state government to generate revenue in the name of toll tax and therefore had to revert back on the decision as soon as possible

Sawal also stated that the state government had been fooling the common man on various issues of the state

11/06/2015 …. St cruz mla babush monsoratte has preferred defence minister Manohar Parrikar a better choice as the state minister of the state other than present chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar stating that the former chief minister Manohar Parrikar was a person who could hear an mla even if he was from opposition and was a go getter …

Speaking to goanreporter st cruz mla babush monsoratte said that he still believed that the present defence minister Manohar Parrikar was a better choice as chief minister than present cm Laxmikant Parsekar as mr Parrikar was a go getter where he could be explained on various issues of his constituencies and of the state

Monosoratte said that he was thankful to the congress for having removed him from the party as he was able to get his developmental works done for his constituencies which he was finding difficult to get it done earlier

Commenting over the recent comment made by dabolim mla mauvin godinho saying that the congress party had done a mistake by removing babush, Monsoratte stated that mauvin might had criticized the congress party for not removing him as both of them were sailing in the same boat ….

10/06/2015 … st cruz mla babush monsoratte has said that the pwd minister sudhin dhavlikar was doing a great job as a pwd minister and no one had the right to disturb the pwd minister from doing his job as far as developmental works were concerned
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mr monsoratte was speaking to goanreporter over the issue of allegations made by taleigao bjp mandal president dattaprasad naik who said that the pwd minister had failed in his duties as far as taking up the developmental works of taleigao constituency were concerned

mr monsoratte said that though he had done most of the developmental works in his constituency he had never tried take up the credit for it by putting up a plaque at the side of the works just as others were trying to do so in taleigao constituency

Meanwhile president taleigao bjp mandal dattaprasad naik said that sudhin dhavlikar had totally failed in his job as a pwd minister and therefore he had to be replaced by any one of the bjp mla’s who were capable of getting their works done