Panaji: May 11, 2015 … The Directorate of Women & Child Development has informed to all Griha Aadhar beneficiaries who have been sanctioned their benefits upto 28^th February 2015, are hereby informed that total of 111976 Nos. beneficiaries on record who have submitted their Life Certificates before 31^st March, 2015 have been credited with their monthly benefits @ Rs. 1200/- (Rupees one thousand two hundred only) for the month of March, 2015 to their respective declared bank account through ECS. The total amount disbursed for the month is Rs. 13.44 crores for all beneficiaries.

          Also in case of beneficiaries whose earlier ECS payment had bounced due to incorrect bank details and who have corrected their bank details with the Department of Women and Child Development Certificates before 31^st March, 2015 are also informed that their bounced pending arrears have also been credited to their corrected bank accounts.

          All the concerned beneficiaries are requested to verify their bank account to confirm receipt of the disbursements and incase the amount is not received or for any other discrepancy may contact. Also those beneficiaries who have not yet given their Life Certificates/Income certificates as per scheme should immediately submit to their respective Taluka offices of this Department or contact Griha Aadhar Help Line No. 2438844/8551833933.  

Panaji : Dated May 10, 2015 … The Prime Minister of India today launched three Central Government schemes – two insurance and one pension for the common man in a programe held at Calcutta. A special programme was organized over the scheme launch at the campus of Ravindra Bhavan, Sankhali. Approximately crowd of three thousand people in the vicinity of Bicholim and Sattari taluka witnessed the live speech of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on two big size LED screens.

The Minister for Aayush Shri Sripad Naik, Deputy Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly Shri Anant Shet, MLA and Chairman of Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation Shri Pramod Sawant were present on the occasion.

Addressing the public, Minister for Aayush Shri Shripad Naik said that the initiatives of Central Government are aimed at providing affordable universal access to essential social security protection in a convenient manner linked to auto-debit facility from bank accounts. He complimented the official of various banks for their initiatives that they have taken to strengthen the efforts of the Government.

Speaking further Shri Naik said, the pension scheme will focus on the unorganized sector and provide subscribers a fixed minimum pension of Rs 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000 or Rs 5,000 per month starting at the age of 60 years, depending on the contribution option exercised on entering at an age between 18 and 40 years.

The schemes are launched by different banks in different cities of the country. Bank of India was given the task of launching the schemesin Sankhali.

Other present on the occasion were Smt. Ankita Navelkar, Chairman of North Goa Zilla Panchayat, Shri Vishwajeet Rane, Shri Satyavijay Naik, Shri Shankar Chodankar, ZP, Mayem, Shri Srinivasan of New India Insurance, Shri B. K. Arsekar, Deputy Zonal Manager of Bank of India.

Earlier Shri B.K. Arsekar welcomed the guest. Shri Sakordekar compered and proposed vote of thanks.

Panaji, May 10, 2015 …. Governor of Goa Smt. Mrudula Sinha launched three ambitious Social Security Schemes Pradhan Mantri Jivan Jyoti Bima Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana & Atal Pension Yojana in the distinguished presence of Chief minister Shri Laximikant Parsekar, Panjim MLA Shri Sidharth Kuncolienkar and other dignitaries at the Panjim Community centre .

 Speaking on the occasion Smt.  Sinha said that an efficient  government which is sensitive to the needs of the people is able to make just decisions and policies for the benefit of the people,  which are consistent with the interest of the country as a whole. She expressed happiness that three new major ambitious Social security schemes pertaining to the insurance and pension sector are being launched  for the benefit of people . The people of the country are happy and  are in a festive mood.

Speaking further she said that these schemes are in a simplified form and the people she said  always welcome  such good initiatives.

Chief Minister Shri Laximikant Parsekar  said that this was the   path breaking initiative by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi towards providing affordable universal access to essential social security protection in a convenient manner linked to auto-debit facility from the bank account of the subscriber. People of the country he said are fortunate to have a Prime Minister who has come up from a grassroot level secondly he said that Shri Modi was the first Prime Minister who was a Chief Minister of a state and therefore he could understand the pulse of the common people. While explaining the schemes in brief, the Chief Minister said that all the eligible people from Goa can avail the benefit of all the three schemes. He appreciated the banks for crossing the pre-launch target that was given to them.

          MLA and Chairman of Economic Development Corporation Shri Siddarth Kuncolienkar also spoke on the occasion.

  Chief  Secretary Shri R. K. Srivastava, Finance Secretary, Dr. Sharat Chauhan were also present. Earlier Chief General manager SBI Mumbai Circle Shri Sudhir Dubey welcomed the gathering while General Manger SBI Shri Hardayal Prasad proposed a vote of thanks.

 The seven venues where the schemes was  launched today  are community hall, Mala, Panaji; Lohia Maidan, Margao; old bus stand, Ponda; Curchorem bus stand; Ravindra Bhavan, Sankhali; Mapusa taxi stand and a Vasco ground.

May 9, 2015 …. The Chief Minister Shri Laxmikant Parsekar has said that the Government has initiated various steps to explore avenues other than mining  to strengthen economy of the state. Tourism he said  is the major industry which is largely contributing to the economy of the state and therefore there is need to boost and upgrade the industry and related infrastructure to attract tourist visiting Goa.

Shri Parsekar was speaking after inaugurating newly constructed  building “Paryatan Bhavan” for Directorate of Tourism at a function held at Patto Panaji today. The five storeyed building  is constructed   an cost of Rs. 26 crores.

Shri Parsekar speaking further  keeping in view the up-gradation of tourism industry the Government has launched amphibian vehicle and hot ballon as tourist attraction and the government is striving to upgrade Goa tourism on par with international standards.

Minister for Tourism, Shri Dilip Parulekar while addressing  the function said that due to proper planning and efforts the growth of tourism increased from 4% to 12%  and Government is further aiming to increase it to 15% in future. The Government he said has undertaken various steps to provide conducive  atmosphere for tourist in the state. Strengthening of infrastructure for beaches in coastal areas will help to attract more and more tourists in the state. The Government is planning to develop infrastructure to the  international standard and the newly introduced  facility of hot air balloon, amphibian bus and seaplane, and helicopter would be incorporated in future he added.

MLA and Chairman of GTDC Shri Nilesh Cabral speaking at the function also spoke.

MLA and Chairman EDC Shri Siddharth Cuncolienkar, Mayor CCP Shri Shubham Chodankar, Commissioner NRI Affairs , Dr. Wilfred Mesquita, Chief Secretary  Shri R.K. Srivastav EE WRD , Shri Pramod Badami, President TTAG Shri Francisco Braganza,Secretary Tourism, Consultant of the Project Shri Ravishankar,  Shri Gurudas Shirodkar and  Shri Jayant Jadhav both Members of Board of Directors GTDC and  others attended the function.

Shri Deepak Narvekar PRO GTDC welcomed the guests and compered the function.

09/05/2015 … The state government has approved mining transfer renewal and grant registration fees from 100% to 5% on stamp duty chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar has said …

Addressing media persons after the cabinet meet on Friday chief minister laxmikhant Parsekar whose government completed six months on Friday said that the cabinet had also decided to extend another two years for kids of freedom fighters for applying for various government jobs in the state and also mentioned about 20 coaches being approved in sports authority of goa on contract basis

Commenting over political parties crying over increase in water and power tariff in the state Parsekar said that the state of goa had the lowest water bills and also power tariff than other states like delhi, Maharashtra, gujrat, Karnataka, rajasthan, mahdya Pradesh and tamil nadu ….

Parsekar also stated that his government had decided to remove the sunset clause from the land tenancy act and had also approved around 38 projects in the state worth 2138 crores which would create a job for around 65, 000 people in the next few years

09/05/2015 …. A total of around 25000 crores would be required for the power department to carry out underground cabling in the state if powers voltage problems had to be eradicated totally from the state said power minister milind naik on Friday …

Addressing media persons power minister milind nak said that since the cost of carrying out underground cabling all over the state was too huge the state power department had a proposal of first carrying out the underground cabling work in touristic places of the state and the same were done at certain tourist places in the state

Commenting on the power billing system in the state Naik said that the consumers in the state would now be able to get the power bill bi monthly due to the efforts put in by the officials of goa electronic limited

Naik also stated that the revenue collections through the power bills after the introduction of bill bi monthly had increased tremendously

08/05/2015 …. Even though some of the state bjp leaders have raised objections over the ongoing coalition between the state bjp and mgp party, Pwd minister sudhin dhavlikar has said that the coalition between booth the coalition partners would remain for the upcoming 2017 no matter which leader had its opinion over it …

Speaking to goanreporter pwd minister sudhin dhavlikar said that the coalition talks had taken palce at the top level between the present defence minister Manohar Parrikar and central union minister nitin gadkari and therefore such talks of certain bjp leaders asking not to go with mgp had no value …

Dhavlikar also rubbished allegations that his pwd department had not done any developmental works in some of the bjp constituencies

Meanwhile commenting on the issue of bjp and mgp coalition for the 2017 state assembly elections vice president of the state Bharatiya Janata party dr wlifred mesquita said that alliances were always welcomed in the bjp party and party would accept whoever could accept bjp party with no extra demand ….

Panaji: May 6, 2015 … The Electricity Department, P.W.D. and Goa Electronics Limited, Government of Goa in association of Department of Information Technology, have enabled Online Payments of Electricity Bills through State Portal (https://www.goa.gov.in).

  With this facility, the Electricity and Water Supply consumers will be able to Pay Electricity/Water Bills Online through various e-Payments modes such as Credit Card, Debit Card and Internet Banking of all banks.  In order, to facilitate these Online Payments the State is using State Bank of India, Payment Gateway.

 The service charges to avail e-Payments by Debit Card, Internet Banking is absorbed by Government, whereas the service charges to avail Online Payments through Credit Card is levied on the consumer.

 With this initiative, the consumers will be enabled to Pay Electricity/Water bills at their convenient place and time thereby relieving the Consumers in standing long queues and saving their valuable time.

 For any assistance in paying bills Online Citizen can contact Toll-Free Number 1800-233-5060.