Panaji Dated: April 6, 2015 … Power Minister Shri Milind Naik recently attended the public grievances at Pale, Sankhali and surrounding areas pertaining to the power problems in the respective areas.

        Also present on the occasion were Shri Pramod Sawant, MLA and Chairman, of Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation. Sarpanchas and Panch Members of Pale, Velgue, Surla, Amona, Navelim, Kudnem, Harvalem and Councillors of Sankhali Municipal Council.

        The Minister who gave a patient hearing to the grievances said, that his Department is seized with the problems faced by the people and that the same would be resolved at the earliest thereby giving relief to the power consumers. As regards issue of electricity bills, he assured the people that the mechanism is worked out with the help of GEL to issue bi-monthly bills to the power consumers.

        The Minister also directed the accompanying Power Department Officials to note down the difficulties faced by the people and to attend to them forthwith. Shri Naik said, that he is very much concerned for the power consumers and therefore to improve the services to the people, adequate staff is being recruited in the Department  and measures are been taken to upgrade the facilities. He also visited various parts of Goa to get a feedback from the people. The minister said that he has covered seventeen constituencies and attended to the grievance to the people so far. This exercise will continue further till all the constituencies are covered.

        The Minster also paid a visit to Amona Substation and acquainted himself with the working and difficulties faced by the staff.

        The Chief Engineer of Electricity Department Shri Lakshimanan, Assistant Engineer Shri Burye, Executive Engineer Shri T. Prabhu, Asstt. Engineer Shri Shirodkar  and other officials were  present on the occasion.

Panaji: April 05, 2015 …. Governor of Goa, Mrs. Mridula Sinha has extended greetings the people of Goa on the auspicious occasion of Easter on April 05, 2015.

 In her message, the Governor said, “Easter commemorates the glorious resurrection of Lord Jesus Christ.  It is an auspicious occasion for us to recall the eternal and valuable message of love, forgiveness, tolerance, compassion and brotherhood, preached and propounded by Lord Jesus Christ”.

 May the celebrations of Easter, this year, bring greater peace, happiness and unity among the people, the Governor adds.

meanwhile Chief Minister Shri Laxmikant Parsekar , has greeted the people on the occasion of Easter.

 The Chief Minister in his message has  expressed the hope that the Easter celebrations would inspire everyone to work for a peaceful and benign life. He said that the eternal significance of Christ’s resurrection is that love is stronger than hatred and truth triumphs over evil. Easter celebrates compassion and brotherhood and the renewal of hope in a better tomorrow.

 May the celebrations strengthen the bonds of unity and spread hope and joy, he added.

05/04/2015 … Hoping to complete the new zuari bridge within three years time st andre mla vishnu surya wagh has expressed happiness on being able to protect houses of residents from morgad and zuari waddo in st andre constituency while constructing a fly over from Bambolim to goa velha for the upcoming new zuari bridge

It may be noted that the Central Government has sanctioned Rs 1,100 crore for the proposed six-lane Zuari bridge and the foundation stone for the six-lane Zuari bridge is expected to be laid by the year-end and the bridge readied by 2017-18.

Addressing media persons in his office st andre mla Vishnu surya wagh said that the centre had already given permission for the construction of the new zuari bridge and even the pwd minister had informed the assembly of commission the bridge as soon as possible but presently the problem was of locals from morgad and zuari wadda who were worried of their houses being demolished due to the bridge but after he had taken up the issue in the last two years he had suggested to the committee of constructing a one kilometer fly over from Bambolim right up to goa velha which had been accepted by the committee …

Wagh said that after his idea was accepted it was now planned to have a fly over which would start near Bambolim cross and going through fields from behind morgad waddo would touch the new agaisaim-goa velha by pass road and with this idea not a single house would be demolished which constructing the fly over though a cost would go a bit higher but thinking of next fifty years this was acceptable …

Wagh also stated that he had also demanded a sub way under siridao bridge as lot of accidents do take palce at siridao but since a fly over was suggested there was no need of a sub way near siridao bridge

panaji: April 3, 2015 … Chief  Minister Shri Laximikant Parsekar  flagged  off 30 Specially designed  bikes for traffic police at a function held at Police Headquarters , Panaji today in the presence of Director  General of Police Shri T. N. Mohan and Inspector General of Police Shri Sunil Garg, IPS, Deputy Inspector General of Police Shri R. Renganathan, IPS,  DIG Shri K. K. Vyas, Superintendent of Police (Crime) Shri Kartik Kashyap, Superintendent of Police (HQ & Traffic), Shri Vishram Borkar, Superintendent of Police (South) Shri Shekar Prabhudessai and others.  

Later addressing the media , Chief Minister announced launching of traffic cells at Bicholim, Anjuna, Pernem, Quepem. He also informed that the road safety education has been imparted by the Traffic police to 7224 drivers and riders, 21499 students, 1030 home Guards, 182 Naval Police, 1963 factory workers 917 other road users and Road Safety tips have been give to  25480 road users.

Panaji: April 2, 2015 …. The Chief Minister Shri Laxmikant Parsekar will be the chief guest for state level function of World Health Day to be held on April 7, 2015 at Institute of Nursing Education, Bambolim at 10.30 am.

The world health organization has issued a theme of current public health importance and this year theme is “food safety”.

Shri Sanjeev Kadkade, HOD, Institute of Hotel Management Goa will deliver a key note address. Shri Francis D’souza, Deputy Chief Minister and Health Minister and Commissioner and Secretary, Health will grace the function.

Panaji: April 03, 2015 ….  The Government of Goa has now decided to collect Aadhar Card Number and Life Certificate from Dayanand Social Security Scheme beneficiaries.

 The Aadhar Card if any has to be submitted on or before June 30, 2015 and incase of Life Certificate the beneficiary has to submit a life certificate by May 15, 2015 in the prescribed form (Annexure-D) in Directorate of Social Welfare, Panaji Office for North Goa District or Anganwadi Centre/Village Panchayat or Block Development Office (B.D.O.) and District Welfare Office Directorate of Social Welfare New Collectorate Building, Margao for South Goa District, Anganwadi Centre/Village Panchayat DSSS Financial Assistance will be stopped immediately for the beneficiaries who will fail to submit Life Certificates by the stipulated time.

 The Field Assistants will collect the Aadhar Card/Life Certificate from Anganwadi Centre/Village Panchayats/ Block Development Office (B.D.O.) office and submit to the Directorate on regular basis.

panaji: 3rd April, 2015 …  The Chief Minister Shri Laxmikat Parsekar has said that, the Government has a vision in providing quality education in the state of Goa, for which the Government is giving more thrust on education sector. He said the Government has made additional provision of Rs. 230 crores in this year’s budget.

The Chief Minister Shri Parsekar was speaking at the laptop distribution function that was held in the premises of Ravindra Bhavan, Sankhali today. The function was organized by the Directorate of Education. Deputy Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly Shri Anant Shet, MLA and Chairman of Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation Shri Pramod Sawant, MLA and Chairman of Goa Info-Tech Corporation Ltd Shri Subhash Phaldesai were present on the occasion.

        Speaking further Shri Laxmikat Parsekar has said that the Government has decided to set up Electronic City at Tuyem in Pernem taluka and IT Park at Chimbel in Tiswadi and therefore has acquired 6 lakh Sq.mtrs and 4 lakh Sq.mtrs land at aforesaid places.

The Chief Minister said the Government is spending Rs. 36 crores on the purchase of these quality gadgets and in all about 18000 will be benefitted under the cyber age Students Scheme. He appeald the students about the proper use of this gadgets to upgrade and enhance their knowledge to emerge our future IIT students.

Speaking on the occasion Deputy Speaker Shri Anant Shet, stressed on proper use of gadgets to enhance their knowledge and avoid misuse of the same. In his speech the Deputy Speaker, complimented the efforts of Goa Government.

 MLA and Chairman of Goa Info-Tech Corporation Ltd. while speaking said the motive behind providing the equipment of laptop for the student to enable them to compete in the era of information and technology. The laptops which are provided are of good quality superfast display upgraded with latest technology and are downloaded with various applications to cater to their need.

MLA, Shri Pramod Sawant also spoke on the occasion. He advised to the student to make proper use of the device to enhance their knowledge.

Shri Gajanan Bhat Director of Education Department, Shri Nilesh Phaldessai, MD, Goa Info-Tech Corporation Ltd, Shri Kanta Patnekar, Chairman, Goa Education Corporation , Shri Suyash Naik, Principal, Shri. Govind Avkhale, Shri  Pramod Yedve were others present on the occasion.

Earlier Shri Nilesh Phaldessai, welcomed the guests. Shri Kashinath Naik compered the function while Shri Pramod Yedve proposed vote of thanks.

Later on the laptops distribution ceremony was held at Valpoi, Sattari in which students of Sattari taluka were given the gadgets at the hands of Chief Minister Shri Laxmikant Parsekar.

02/04/2015 …. The state congress party on Wednesday condemned the statement made by chief minister laxmikhant Parsekar informing 108 employees’ women of not to sit in hot sun or else it would be tough to get a match for them …

It may be noted that Women employees from the 108 employees union have claimed on Tuesday that when they were protesting near Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar’s function at Usgao, they were allegedly asked by him why they were sitting in the sun and that it would be difficult for them to find suitable grooms, if they developed a dark complexion.

Addressing media persons at the party head office in panjim gpcc spokesperson agnelo Fernandes said that a serious sickness seems to have affected the bjp leaders in the state and centre especially with racism and sexism with the recent statements made by the chief minister to striking108 employess

Gpcc General secretary sunil khautankar said that if chief minister Parsekar did not apologized for his comments made to the 108 women’s then his party would sent a mirror to the chief minister so as to first see his own face before commenting on others skin

02/04/2015 … Criticizing the state government decision of holding the goa state film festivals during holy week of lent Four mla’s from the state legislative assembly have asked the state bjp led government to postponed the festival to a later date and not to harm the religious sentiments of Christian community …

Addressing media independent mla’s vijai sardessai and rohan khaunte said that it was wrong on the part of the state government to hold film festival during such a holy week specially when 27% of goan minority was mourning during the hold week

Congress mla reginaldo lourenco said alleged that the state government had deliberately kept the film festival during the holy week

Meanwhile calangute mla Michael lobo said that he had also informed his chief minister asking for a change in date of the film