29/10/2014 ….  Members of the movement for special status for goa on Tuesday met chief minister Manohar and submitted a memorandum outlining some of the measures that could be taken up by the state government as long as the issue of special status was finalized

In their memorandum the members pointed out to the state government asking to prohibit agricultural land from being transferred to persons who were not resident of goa for a minimum period of 30 yrs …

Mr lobo said that development in villages should be not more than ground plus one and government should act on such measures as fast as possible

October 28, 2014 …. Honorary Company Commander of Home Guards Shri John Aguiar has said that a disaster can be termed as a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts  and therefore there is need that the members of community are trained to handle disasters and  assist is saving lives.

Shri Aguiar was speaking at the lecture cum demonstration on Emergency methods of evacuating casualties  without equipment conducted by the Home Guard and Civil Defence Organisation at the Annual  Training Camp organized by the 1 Goa Battalion NCC at Bhumika High School, Poriem today.

Shri Aguiar said sometimes rescue materials are not available to the rescue team at the site in emergency situation. There are various other methods, which could be useful for rescue. Such methods are known as “Emergency Methods of rescue”.  He said, when a stretcher is not available, and when there is a patient to be carried improvisation may have to be resorted to. This improvisation may be carried using the equipment carried by the rescuer, in the unit, or with material available locally. He said that the rescuer must understand the correct techniques to be applied on the casualty and execute the correct method of carrying the casualty so that the suffering of the casualties are minimized.  It is also important he said to ensure personal safety as accidents and injuries to rescuers may jeopardize the whole operations.

Senior Platoon Commander Shri Uday Kurtarkar  explained the methods in detail while they were being demonstrated.

Company Quarter Master  Sergeant Shri Anand Naik, Assistant Section Leader Shri Narayan Pagi, Home Guard Shri Laximan Talwar and Civil Defence Volunteer Shri Uday Kuri Conducted the demonstration.

The methods demonstrated were “Human Crutch” where a rescuer acts as crutch to the injured, “Fireman’s lift” which is a nine step method to lift the casualty, the “Pick-a –back” method which is applicable only when the casualty is conscious without any injury  and not able to walk, “Pick a Back (Reverse)” for the casualty who is conscious with an injury such as burn on the belly or chest, wound on the neck,  Fore method, The cradle method, , backward drag, , Double human crutch, 2-handed seat and several other methods were demonstrated.

The cadets were attentive and participated in the demonstration exercise and asked questions.

Major Shivaji Dharwadkar earlier welcomed the team on behalf of the Camp Commandant and later proposed a vote of thanks.

Camp Commandant Colonel  Nand Kishor Subedar,  Adm. Officer  of  1 Goa Battalion NCC,  Colonel Samanta, Deputy Controller of Civil Defence Smt. Laura Britto, GCS, Camp Adjutant Major James Christopher, Major Gunaji Dessai, Capt. Vinod Joshua and others were present for the programme.

Panaji:  October 28, 2014 …. Minister for Sports & Tribal Welfare, Shri Ramesh Tawadkar exhorted the Panchayats/ZillaPanchayats& Municipal Bodies to draw a master plan to carry out socio-economic development of the tribal people and the tribal areas by utilizing the various schemes and funds meant for their upliftment under Tribal Sub Plan.

 Shri Tawadkar was speaking at the launching of the ‘Adivasi Vikas Yojana’, which was attended by large ST community members at a function at Ravindra Bhavan,  Margao today.

 The scheme provides financial support of uptoRs. 1.25 crores for new projects and Rs. 60.00 lakhs for upgradation/renovation of existing projects to Village Panchayats/Zilla Panchayats and Municipalities with substantial tribal population to create new infrastructure as also carry out one time maintenance for the benefit of the village communities.

 Shri Tawadkar asserted that the time is not far when the whole ST populace will match the best of the talent in the country wiping away the need for reservations to these communities any more.

 Speaking further, Shri Tawadkar outlined the need to take up a small village with a large ST population as a Model Village and provide the inhabits with latest entrepreneurship skills in dairy farming, horticulture, farming, etc. apart from  various providing infrastructure projects to lift up their standard of living.  If we provide this technological know-how to these people, then they will have no aim to come to the urban areas, he remarked.

 Highlighting the various schemes meant for the upliftments of the tribal people, the Tribal Welfare Minister called upon the local self-government body representatives to work out a scheme that can have the big impact by reaching it to the desired target so that it can go along way to serve and bring about change in the standard of living of this community.

 Secretary, Tribal Welfare, Shri Talem Tapok, IAS stating that India with such a large population has only 8.6 % population as Schedule Tribe, underscored the need to popularize the various schemes so as to reach the maximum and the deserving people.  He appealed to the grass root workers to take it to the local populace to have the desired result of such schemes.

 The Adivasi Vikas Yojana scheme envisages that any Village Panchayat/Zilla Panchayat and Municipality having 40 % of tribal population as per list notified by the Department of Tribal Welfare is eligible to avail of the benefit under the scheme.  The Government may also reduce the requirements of tribal population to 30 % on the recommendation of the sanctioning committee in case of urgency and realizing importance of any project.

 Financial assistance is also provided under the scheme for the purpose of land acquisition upto an amount of Rs. 60.00 lakhs per project for taking up of new infrastructure projects.

 The projects will be executed by GSIDC/PWD/WRD/Electricity or any other government departments/corporations as decided by the Department of Tribal Welfare.

 Sanction letter under Atal Ashara Scheme were handed over to the beneficiaries and the meritorious ST students of STD X & XII were also felicitated at the hands of the dignitaries.

 Shri Ganesh Goankar, MLA & Chairman, Goa State Schedule Tribe Finance & Development Corporation Ltd.; Smt. Nelly Rodrigues, Chairperson, ZP(South); Shri Anant Shirvoikar, Chairperson, Commission for SC & ST also spoke on the occasion.

 Smt. Cynthia D’silva and Shri Kushali Velip, ZP Members, BDO’s; Mamlatdars were among those present on the occasion.

 Smt. Sandhya Kamat, Director, Department of Tribal Welfare welcomed the gathering.

Panaji; Oct 28, 2014 …. The National conference of Indian Academy of Echocardiography is being organized in Goa at Ravindra Bhavan, Margao.

This conference will be held from October 30 to November 2, 2014. Dr. Digamber Naik, a renowned Cardiologist from Goa is the Organizing Secretary while Dr. Mahendra Kare from Margao is the Organizing Chairman of the conference. API Goa and Goa Medical College is the host for this conference. 75 highly experienced Echocardiographer from India and abroad will be training the delegates.

The list of doctors attending the conference are from India, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Australia, UAS, UK, Canada, Sweden, Austria and Honkong.

The prominent among them are Dr. Navin Nanda the father of Echocardiography in the world. Dr. Satish Parashar, the father of Echo cardiographer in India and many more like Dr. Natesa Pandian, USA, Dr. Sunil Mankad USA, Dr. Roxy Senior UK, Dr. Reider Winter Sweden, Dr, Thomas Binder, Austria, Sr. CM Yu Hongkong, Dr. J.C. Mohan, Dr. Rakesh Gupta India.

The conference will go on for 4 days with special training session on October 30. The conference will be inaugurated by Health Minister Shri Laxmikant Parsekar and Director of Health Service Dr. Sanjiv Dalvi, and the Dean of Goa Medical College Dr. Pradip Naik are the patrons for the conference.         

27/10/2014 …Acting on the directives of the state government, the Goa State Pollution Control Board has prepared a State Oil Spill Draft Contingency Plan which is aimed at addressing the oil spills issue prevalent along the beaches of the state.

Speaking to goanreporter, the Chairman of GSPCB stated that the Board has convened a meeting on the 28th of October with all stakeholders and would finalize the equipments and staff to be deployed to address the issue.

Commenting over the issue of sewage and waste being dischared in to rive sal which has resulted in the death of shell fish, mr noronha said said that the board has carried out a study of the prevailing conditions in river Sal and has submitted its report to the high court.

Mr noronha further added that the major issue of river sal was the sewage that was being discharged into the river upstream and that the only solution to prevent the waste from being discharged into the river was to have a common sewage treatment plant.

26/10/2014 … The 45th international film festival of india to be held in goa from 20th to 30th November next month could witness stars from the famous Hollywood film titanic which had leonardi di caprio and kate winslet during the ten day festival

According to organizers of entertainment society of goa along with the Hollywood film titanic stars such as leonardi di caprio and kate winslet many more international stars are expected to be a part of the ten day festival

This year though the name of bollywood icon amitabh bachan is in the news for being invited for the inaugural of the 45th iffi in goa the same is yet to be cleared by the central government

Speaking to goanreporter vice chairman of entertainment society of goa damu naik said that almost most of the preparations were over for the festival

naik also stated that more than six thousand delegates had already registered or the festival and was expecting to to cross the 12,000 figure mark

25/10/2014 … The state tourism department has received proposal from the organizers of sunburn as well as from supersonic which would be put before the committee members of single window system and then only the event would be finalized once proper dates are drawn said tourism minister dilip parulekar

It may be noted that Sunburn one of the Electronic and Dance Music festivals in India, has been held in the state of goa for the past few years being held in December every year and this year it would be held on 27, 28th and 29th of December at vagator

While Vh1 Supersonic that began last year would continue to enthrall audiences this year too with world renowned artists and many more turning up on Candolim beach in Goa from 27-30 December 2014.

Speaking to goanreporter tourism minister dilip parulkear said that the single window system committee had received the application from both the organizers who had in-turn asked the organizers as not to have a conflict over the event dates and resolve it between them as soon as possible

Parulekar said that the tourism department had also received a proposal of hosting a kite festival in the state which the state government was trying to do so as to increase the revenue of the state through tourism activities …

Parulekar also stated that the state government was trying to develop infrastructure facilities in the tourism belt so as to make tourism area free from traffic congestion …