Panaji, September 25, 2018 … MLAs Shri. Milind Naik and Shri. Nilesh Cabral were inducted in the Council of Ministers at a simple ceremony held at Darbar Hall ,Raj Bhavan, Donapaula yesterday.

Governor Dr. (Smt.) Mridula Sinha administered the Oath of Office and Secrecy to both the Minister designate. Earlier Chief Secretary Shri. Dharmendra Sharma IAS, read the order of appointment.

Shri. Naik took the oath in Marathi while Shri. Cabral  in Konkani

The swearing-in ceremony was attended by Minister for PWD Shri Ramkrishna alias Sudin Dhavalikar, Minister for Town and Country Planning Shri Vijai Sardesai ,Minister for Tourism Shri Manohar Azgaonkar, Minister for Revenue Shri Rohan Khaunte, Minister for Art and Culture Shri Govind Gaude, Minister for Water Resources Shi Vinod Palyekar, Minister for Housing Shri Jayesh Salgaonkar ,Minister for Panchayat, Shri Mauvin Godinho, Minister for Health Shri Vishwajit Rane ,Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly Dr Pramod Sawant, Member of Parliament Shri Narendra Sawaikar and Shri Vinay Tendulkar, MLA ’s Shri Rajesh Patnekar ,Shri Glenn Ticlo ,Smt.Alina Saldanha, Shri Deepak Pauskar, Former chief Minister Shri Laxmikant Parsekar, Former Speaker Shri Rajendra Arlekar, Goa and Maharashtra organising Secretary( BJP )Shri Vijay Puranik, BJP National General Secretary and Goa Desk  incharge Shri B.L Santhosh, former MLA Shri Rajan Kuncolienkar, Former Deputy Speaker Shri  Anant Shet, senior BJP leader and family members of both the designated ministers amongst others .

Panaji, September 25, 2018 … Directorate of Museum in collaboration with Rajiv Gandhi Kala Mandir will organized a programme Gazalrang Mushayara at Rajiv Gandhi Kala Mandir, Ponda on September 29, 2018 from 5.00 p.m to 7.00 pm to mark foundation day of Goa State Museums.   

The programme is open for public and all are cordially invited to attend the same.

Panaji, September 24, 2018 ….The statement of market price of important essential commodities  in Panaji Centre as intimated by the Registrar of Co-operative societies for the week ending August 21, 2018 is as follows.

In wholesale, the prices of raw rice common, wheat Shivri, moongdal, moong and potatoes decreased by Rs. 80/- to Rs. 200/-, Rs. 50/- Rs. 200/- to Rs. 300/-, Rs. 200/- and Rs. 200/- to Rs. 600/- per quintal respectively. Maida and chillies green increased by Rs. 10/- to Rs. 160/- and Rs. 1,000/- to Rs. 2,000/- per quintal respectively.

The prices of other important essential commodities like parboiled rice outside, wheat Khandva, turdal Barshi, gramdal, gram Kabuli big, sugar S-30, gur fine, sunflower oil, coconut oil, vegetables ghee “Ruchi”, rawa, green peas onions, tomatoes, eggs large and banana (Vassai) remained steady during the week.

In retail, the prices of eggs large decreased by Rs. 2/- to Rs. 10/- per dozen. Rawa, green peas and chillies green increased by Rs. 2/- to Rs. 4/-, Rs. 10/- and Rs. 10/- to Rs. 20/- per kilo respectively during the week.

The prices of other important essential commodities like parboiled rice local, parboiled rice outside, raw rice common, wheat Khandva, wheat Shivri, jowar Shalu, turdal Barshi, moongdal, gramdal, moong, gram Kabuli big, sugar S-30, gur fine, sunflower oil, coconut oil, vegetable ghee “Dalda”, maida, potatoes, onions, tomatoes and banana (Vassai) remained steady during the week.

 The decreased and increased in wholesale and retail prices were due to decrease and increase in wholesale prices in supplying markets.

 The supply position of important essential commodities were normal during the week, except that of parboiled rice local and jowar Shalu the arrival of which was not noticed during the week.

Panaji, September 23, 2018 …. The Goa Government participates in a nationwide Sanitation Campaign, Swachhata Hi Seva ‘SHS’ 2018 from September 15, 2018 to October 2, 2018 which aims at accelerating the Jan Andolan for realizing the vision of a clean India, further reinforcing the principle that ‘Sanitation is everyone’s business’.

The Directorate of Panchayat will organize cleanliness drive on September 24, 2018 from 11.30 a.m onwards in the premises and vicinity of Junta House along with all other Departments located in Junta House for realizing the vision of Clean India and to make the campaign a great success.

The officers/officials/staffs of various Departments will be participating in the cleanliness drive/shramdaan activity on September 24, 2018 followed with Swatchta pledge to be administrated by Smt. R. Menaka IAS, Director of Municipal Administration.

The Directorate of Panchayat has appealed to all the Departments to actively participate in the said drive in order to make the SHS campaign a great success.

Panaji, September 21, 2018  …  “Girls are special. Nature has made them special,” said Dr (Smt) Mridula Sinha who was the Chief Guest at the concluding function of the ‘Girls in Aviation Day’ organized by the Women in Aviation International India Chapter and Lockheed Martin India, in Panaji recently. The Governor said, “A woman is blessed in a special way to nurture the family and contribute to society and the country.”

 “Today, the sky is the limit for women and women are going places,” said the Governor stressing that equal opportunities, to education, health etc, should be provided in society to all.

 Women in Aviation International (WAI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the encouragement and advancement of women in all aviation career fields and interests.

Present on the occasion were President, Women in Aviation International India Chapter, Smt. Radha Bhatia, Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin India, Phil Shaw and APD Goa Airport, Shri. B.C.H Negi.

Panaji ::: September 21, 2018 … The Regional Cyber Security workshop for West Zone was inaugurated by Dr. Kushal Pathak, Deputy Chief Election Commissioner, Election Commission of India, New Delhi today at ESG, Panaji.

The three day long workshop was organized by Chief Electoral Officer, Altinho Goa and was attended by Chief Information Security Officer, Officers from Election Commission of India and District Election Officers and Chief Electoral Officers and Officials officials from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Daman and Diu, Dadara Nagar Haveli, Madha Pradesh and Goa.

In his key note address, Dr Kushal Pathak, enlightened the various cyber threats for personal and official data by using and sharing social media, emails and internet. He said, keeping in mind the various incidents of data stealing and hacking of websites of several organizations around the world, this workshop will sensitize the election staff for safety of data and also create awareness about the new communication tactics.

He said personal data security is more important in this modern technical era, one can assesses manipulate or delete your data from any part of the world and therefore it is time to sense of urgency to learn all of us to understand and take precaution and measures for safety of our personal data.

Shri Kunal in his welcome address said that the Election data is more important and larger than the data of ‘Aadhar’. He said data contains lots of attributes which can affect privacy of citizen. He pointed that the Election Staff from DEO, CEO and ECI play a very important role in maintaining the data safe. Accumulation of data of eligible voters of the country is important for the Election Commission, but at the same time Shri Kunal stressed that the workshop will go long way to keep our own data safe.

We all are playing very important role for the safety of data.  The data is linked with the security of the country, so all of us have the enormous responsibility to protect it from hacking or theft,” Shri Kunal added. 

The IT experts, in various sessions, shared information on various topics and explained about cyber security. Dr. A. Nagarathna, National Law School of India University, Bangalore explained what is cyber crime, Provisions of Cyber Laws and its applicability on Election Process while Shri Surender Kumar Verma, Scientist B CERT explained current scenario of Cyber Attacks, Types of attack and the Legal Framework of Cyber Security in India.