05/03/2013 … Former zp member from cumbarjua constituency dhaku madkaikar on Thursday filed his nomination form for the st Lawrence zilla panchayat constituency …

Dhaku former zp member is the brother of cumbarjua mla pandurang madkaikar and has this time shifted his zp constituency from cumbarjua to st lawrence constituency after the cumbarjua constituency which has now been named as corlim constituency was reserved for lady candidate in the upcoming zp polls while st Lawrence zp constituency has been reserved for an st candidate …

Speaking to media reporters zp candidate from st Lawrence constituency dhaku madkaikar said that as he had major votes in carambolim village panchayat which was now put in to st Lawrence zp constituency he was confident of winning the zp elections once again

05/03/2015 … Former revenue minister and senior vice president of the nationalist congress party jose Philip dsouza would be the next state ncp president in goa with effect from 1st 0f april …

It may be noted that the former ncp president nilkhant halarnkar had recently resigned from the president post after which the ncp committee members unanimously had decided on the name of mr dsouza to take over as the new president though the official announcement would take place once the state ncp leaders meet its central leader praful patel who is schedule to attend the state ncp meet on 14th of this month after which mr dsouza name would be officially declared …

Speaking to goanreporter senior vice president of ncp party jose Philip dsouza said that he was a loyal party soldier and if given the post would accept it according to the wishes of the party

Commenting over the issue of ghar vapsi dsouza said that it was wrong on part of rss to make a statement on a person like mother Teresa

Meanwhile st andre mla Vishnu surya wagh said that no one should disturb the atmosphere of communal amenity by making such statements

04/03/2015 …. Mgp-bjp combined candidate for taleigao constituency yogesh vinayak desai on Wednesday filed his nominations form for the upcoming zp elections..

Speaking to media reporter’s vinayak dessai reposed confidence that mgp-bjp combine would try and give main boost to make taleigao a village …

Meanwhile two independent candidates anisha Pereira and st estevam panch member celesta ghatwal also filed their nominations forms for the upcoming zp elections from corlim constituency taking up the tally to a total of six lady candidates being in the fray ..
Speaking to media reporters both the candidates expressed confidence of getting victorious in the zilla panchayat elections

04/04/2015 … St cruz mla babush monsoratte on Tuesday said that the recent comments made on mother Teresa by certain organizations were not in good taste

Speaking to goanreporter the st cruz mla said that mother Teresa was a person who had come to serve, help the poor and needy and was never in to the part of conversion in the country ….

Commenting over the issue of ghar vapsi monsoratte said it was the politicians who had created such a vicious atmosphere and in goa there was no one who was interested in believing in this issue if ghar vapsi

Commenting over the issue of third front Monsoratte said that though he was of the opinion of having a regional political party whose high command was from goa he was still for himself and would think about it when the third front was there in reality

03/03/2015 … Two Mgp-bjp combined candidates sandeep vernekar for chimbel and disha kawlekar for st cruz zp constituency on Tuesday filed their nominations forms for the upcoming zp elections ..

Both the candidates submitted their nomination forms to the deputy collector sabaji shetye and were accompanied by the mgp block president of st cruz constituency prakash naik along with the supporters

Speaking to media reporters mgp block president of st cruz constituency prakash naik reposed confidence that mgp-bjp combine would get both the zp seats elected in st cruz assembly constituency

Meanwhile the st cruz mla babush monsoratte zp candidates Savanna maria araujo for st cruz, Sudesh kalangutkar for chimbel merces and Sydney baretto for taleigao also flied their nominations forms for the upcoming zp elections at the deputy collector office in panjim …

All the three candidate were accompanied by the st cruz mla babush monsoratte along with his supports

Speaking to media reporters mr monsoratte said that since the state government had filed to give any powers to zilla parishad there was less of enthusiasm shown in zilla panchayat elections

02/03/2015 … Pwd minister sudhin dhavlikar has said that his mgp party were liberal over the issue of ghar vapsi and felt that such thing should not take place in the state

Addressing media persons at the party head office in panjim pwd minister sudhin dhavlikar said that it was not proper in taking history ahead trying to destroy everything in the name of ghar vapsi as it was not in proper taste

On asked about the news of politicians try to form a third front dhavlikar said that when time comes such issue would have political importance while at the moment it was of no use to predict of third front

02.03/2015 … Maharashtra gomantak party who has a coalition with the state Bharatiya Janata party on Monday announced its candidates for the upcoming zp polls which would be contest on party lines in the state

Mgp party has got a total of nine zp constituencies such as st cruz, chimbel, in north goa while in south mgp has got zp constituencies such as usgao, betki khandola, curit khandepar, veling priol, kavlem, barcem and sancoale …

Pwd minister sudhin dhavlikar said that the combine bjp-mgp-gvp-independent would surely get maximum number of seats in the upcoming zp polls

It may be noted that the first ZP elections on party lines, for 50 constituencies will be held on March 18 and Filing of nominations for the same had started from February 28, with last date being March 7.

On Monday the bjp women candidate from corlim zp constituency subhada kundaikar filed her nomination form for the zp elections at the deputy collector office in panjim …

Panaji, March 1st, 2015 …  Food Processing Cell of the National Mission on Food Processing involves activities such as New Expansion and Modernization of Food Industries, Cold Chain, Reeder Vehicles, Meat Shops,  Creation of Infrastructure facilities for  Institutions having Food Processing courses,  EDP Programmes, Seminars, Workshops, Exhibitions,  Study tours, Surveys etc.

            The Eligible Organizations including Individuals, Proprietary Units, Companies,  Co-operative Societies, NGOs, SHGs, educational Institutes. May Contact  for more details to Mission Director, Directorate of Industries, Trade and Commerce, Udyog Bhavan, Panaji. Tel. No.(0832) 2222241, 2420787. E-mail: dir.indu.goa@nic.in  www.goaditc.gov.in

Panaji: February 28,2015 .. The meeting of the Goa State Consumer Protection Council was held under the chairmanship of the Minister for Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Shri Dayanand Mandrekar in the Secretariat yesterday. Smt. Deepali Naik, Director of Civil Supplies coordinated the meeting.

The meeting deliberated on various issues pertaining to welfare and development of the general   public. The issues were with regards to health, education, transport, water, electricity, transport, road safety etc.

The Minister Shri  Mandrekar  suggested that the  meetings of the  Consumer Pretection Council should be held every six months .He said it is important that all concerned heads of the Departments attend these important meetings which are held to review the matters related to the public welfare and development.  He said the problems or the issues in regards to the welfare of the public needs to be resolve without delay, he added.

Shri Faizi O Hashmi Secy. Cilvil Supplies, Shri Swapnil Naik Addl. Collector North, Shri Arvind Bugde Director of Information and Publicity, Shri Meena Naik Goltekar Director of Social Welfare, Shri S.T. Nadkarni Principal Chief Engineer WRD, Shri Roland Martins Coordinator of Goa can. Shri Gangaram Morajkar President of Goa State SC Federation,  Smt. Juliana Gurjao Culaco Asst. Director of Sports and Youth Affairs, Smt. Member of Goa State Consumer Commission and others attended the meeting.

Panaji, February 27, 2015 … The Advisory Committee constituted under PNDT Act for South Goa District has stressed the need  to initiate stringent  action against  those clinics which are constantly violating PCPNDT rules by not submitting Form F to the appropriate authorities.

          The Advisory Committee which met under  the Chairmanship of Dr Sachin Shinde, IAS, Collector for South Goa at a meeting held in his Chamber at Panaji recently observed that even after issuing  show cause notices to the clinics for failing to submit Form F there is  no positive response from some clinics and therefore felt the need to suspend licences of such clinics.

 The meeting discussed on various issues related to the implementation of PNDT Act which includes organization of awareness camp about the activities of  PC-PNDT Act through the NGO’s on March 8,  2015 to commemorate the “International Women’s Day” after  identifying the NGO’s at various Outpost, Headquarters,  and Talukas in South Goa District.

 The meeting also discussed about obtaining the  information from the Chief Officer of all the Municipal Councils and Block Development Officers in South Goa District regarding the number of Birth Certificate issued from June 2014 to November 2014 and continue to do so on monthly basis.

The meeting was attended by Dr. Dr. A. Siona Gomes, Sr. Radiologist Chairperson,Dr. Ira Almeida, Sr. Pediatrician Vice-Chairperson, Dr. Minaxi Panandikar, Sr. Gynecologist Member Secretary and Shri. Carmo L. Dias, Asst. Information & Publicity  Dept.