25/03/2015 … Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on wednesday today presented his maiden budget in the state legislative assembly
parekar presented the budget for two and a half hours.
here are the following transcripts of the state budget in english, konkani and marathi
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24/03/2015 …. With Congress rebel and unattached St Cruz MLA Babush Monserrate extending his unconditional support to the BJP-led coalition to elect its chairperson to the North Goa zilla panchayat congress mla from cumbarjua constituency pandurang madkaikar has urged the need of independent mla’s to join hands in supporting a independent candidate for the north goa zilla panchayat chairperson post …
It may be noted that In North Goa, the BJP-led alliance, which includes MGP, wrested 12 out of 25 seats it contested, leaving them with the option to take support of an independent candidate to cough up a majority. BJP won 11 out of 23 seats, while MGP won one out of two. The alliance needs one more seat to get its chairperson elected.
Two of the Monserrate supported candidates Savanna Araujo (St Cruz) and Sydney Barreto (Taleigao) who emerged winners will support a BJP nominee for the North Goa ZP chairperson’s post.
Speaking to goanreporter st crua mla babush Monserrate said that keeping in mind the development of the two ZP constituencies his zp candidates would support the bjp led panel to elect the ZP chairperson in North Goa.”
Meanwhile cumbarjua mla pandurang madkaikar who also has two supported independent zp candidates stated that the mandate given by voters at the recent concluded zp elections was against the bjp party and since the majority was of independent zp candidates he felt that all the independents should get together and support an independent zp for the north goa zp chairperson post
Madkaikar also stated that babush should not give his support to the bjp led candidate for north goa zp chairperson post and would not mind to support babush candidate for the zp chairperson post if babush wanted to join the independent camp
23/03/2015 … The state congress party on Monday accused the bjp led government of trying to mint money at the cost of poor beef eaters by trying to sell beef through selected cold storage at a higher rate
Addressing media persons party spokesperson agnelo Fernandes said that the present frozen beef supplied in the state was totally of bad quality while the shortage of beef supply had resulted in to soaring in the beef prices which had put more burden on poor beef eating community
Agnelo said there was a need for the state government to look in to the issue of shortage of beef to the satisfaction of the communities who consumed beef and demanded that the interest of beef traders, beef eating community and the employees of goa meat complex were safe guarded
Panaji: March 22, 2015 … The State Government has instituted a Scheme, “Dalit Mitra Puraskar”, under which State Government will award Rs.25000/- cash, a shawl, a shrifal and a Certificate on the occasion of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti to a Dalit or non-Dalit who has worked for the Welfare of dalits for 25 years or more.
The objective of the Scheme is to encourage individuals creating social awareness and to encourage the society. In general, to work for the up-liftment and welfare for dalits which will improve their socio-economic condition, education, standard of living.
The individual will have to be a Goan Residents above the age of 60 years and who has rendered at least 25 years of remarkable service for the up-liftment of dalits in Goa in order to improve their socio-economic condition, education, standard of living etc.
Interested persons may obtain prescribed application form from the Directorate of Social Welfare. The last date for submission of duly filled application is March 27, 2015 along will all the relevant documentary evidences.
Panaji: March 21, 2015 …. Governor of Goa, Mrs. Mridula Sinha has extended greetings and best wishes to the people of Goa on the auspicious occasion of Gudi Padwa on March 21, 2015.
In her message, the Governor said, “Gudi Padwa is one of the important festivals celebrated in this part of our country.
The celebrations of this traditional festival brings added joy and enthusiasm to each and everyone and further promote our cultural legacy. Like other parts of the country, Goa has a rich cultural heritage which, I am happy to say, is being perpetually promoted by the people and various organizations.
Our country is well-known for centuries for its cultural and spiritual wealth, which has kept its people united and progressive. We should try our best to further promote all the cultural and spiritual qualities of the country which will help us to maintain national cohesion and social solidarity”.
Further the governor has said the Gudi Padwa festival brings joy and happiness to everyone.
20/03/2015 …. Out of five zilla panchayats seats from tiswaddi area the bjp-mgp led coalition were able to garner only one seat which that too went to the mgp candidate fielded in chimbel zp constituency while four seats were won by independent candidates backed by the st cruz mla babush monsoratte and cumbarjua mla pandurang madkaikar …
In st cruz zp constituency savanna maria araujo an independent candidate backed by st cruz mla babush monsorrate won the st cruz sp seats with a lead of over 2807 votes against independent candidate Helena domingos lourenco …
In taleigao zp constituency where there was a straight fight between two candidates Sydney paul baretto an independent candidate backed by st cruz mla babush monsorrate won the taleigao zp seat with a lead of over votes against bjp-mgp candidate yogesh vinayak dessai who was able to poll a total of 1037 votes …
While the st cruz mla backed candidate sudesh kalangutkar in chimbel zp constituency was defeated by the bjp-mgp backed candidate sandip prabhakar vernekar with a lead of 1594 votes …
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the corlim zp seat was won by janita madkaikar with over a lead of 5145 votes against the bjp-mgp led candidate subhada kundaikar
While the st Lawrence zp seat was won by former zp member and brother of curmbarjua mla dhaku madkaikar with a lead of over 2400 votes against bjp-mgp led candidate nilesh kankonkar
19/03/2015 … Around six members of the 108 Ambulance Service Employees Union under the banner of bharatiya mazdoor sangh have gone on an indefinite hunger strike from Thursday at the azad maidan in panjim …
The members have gone on an indefinite hunger strike demanding in front of the state government to remove gvk contract from running 108 services in goa and also in demanding of reinstating their services back along with the new management
The employees, who have been on strike since February 18, have said that while the government was on their side it was GVK which was not ready to register itself as a contractor.
The union has been demanding for regularization, better working conditions and road worthy vehicles in addition to a long list of other demands.
Mr prabhudsesai said that there were a total of 130 staff under the union and all were from goa only
Meanwhile senior vice president of the nationalist congress party jose Philip dsouza along with ncp spokesperson trojano demello and other members also paid a visit at the azad maidan and heard the grievances of the 108 ambulance services employees
18/03/2015 ….. Elections for the zilla panchayat polls on Wednesday received a lukewarm response from voters as not much crowd was notice in corlim and st Lawrence zp constituencies …
big que at the polling booths at old goa village panchayat were noticed and due to the ballot paper voting systems voters had to wait for long in que for their turns to come for voting
there was not much crowd seen at the polling booth situated at corlim village panchayat and the government officials deployed for the duty at the polling booth did not had much problem to deal with the voting system
Voting was also notice in a slow pace in st Lawrence zp constituency specially at the primary school polling booth in karmali village where in independent candidate dhaku madkaikar casted his vote
Dhaku expressed confident of getting a victory at the zp elections ..
Panaji: March 17, 2015 … Chief Minister Shri Laxmikant Parsekar will inaugurate Training Programme for Master Trainers and Resource Persons for adopting skill method in the language teaching of Marathi and Konkani language for Primary School teachers on March 22, 2015 at Vidya Prabodini at 9.30 am.
The Training Programme has been organized by Goa Education Development Corporation in collaboration with Directorate of Education and Directorate of Official Language.
The Chairman of Goa Education Development Corporation, Director of Directorate of Education and Director of Official Language will grace the function.
March 16, 2015 ….. The timings for take offs and landings during the third phase of the re-carpeting of the runaway at Dablim Airport has been relaxed upto to 1 pm due to the intervention of the Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar.
Defence Minister Shri Parrikar convened a meeting at the Dabolim Airport NITB today to discuss about relaxing the timings during the third phase of the re-carpeting of the runaway at Dablim Airport for take offs and landings from 5 am to 1 pm instead of scheduled 5 am to 11 am. The third phase will start from April 15, 2015 and continue upto June 15, 2015.
The Defence Minister impressed upon the Officers of the Airports Authority and the Naval Officers the necessity to relax the timings for the benefit of the Tourism Industry.
Power Minister Shri Milind Naik, MLA’s Shri Jose Luis Carlos Almeida, Shri Siddharth Kuncolienkar, Member Operations Airports Authority of India , Shri G. K. Chaukiyal, Airport Director, Shri K. S. Rao, FOGA Rear Admiral B. S. Parhar, Shri Francisco Braganza President, TTAG, Shri Ameya Abhyankar, Director Tourim, Airport DTM, Shri Anil Thakur and others were present.
The representatives of Airline Industry had represented to the Defence Minister and the Tourism Department Goa requesting for relaxation in the timings as their business would be effected in view of the peak tourist season during the period of the re-carpeting of the of the runaway.
The work on first phase of re-carpeting will take place from April 1, 2015 to April 8, 2015 while the work on second phase will take place from April 9, 2015 to April 14, 2015. However the take offs and landings will not be affected during the first two phases.
