Lusofonia games held

16-01-2014 … health minister laxmikant Parsekar on Thursday inaugurated the newly constructed athletic stadium at the goa medical college and hospital in Bambolim. The stadium is especially constructed for lusofonia games 2014 that starts on the 18^th of this month.

Others present on the occasion were sports minister Ramesh Tawadkar, north goa MP Shripad nail, CEO  of lusofonia games Keshav Chandra and director of sports authority of goa sandeep Jacques .

All athletic events of Lusofonia Games 2014 will be conducted at the Athletics Stadium in Bambolim which is the first integrated athletic complex in Goa constructed according to the IAAF specifications and norms. The facility has a permanent seating capacity for 3,500 persons and a temporary seating capacity for  6,500.

 Addressing media persons after the inauguration, the  health minister praised the efforts of his BJP-led government for having carried out the sports projects in a record time.

mr Parsekar said that whatever sports infrastructure that was created for the present lusofonia games could also be used for future sporting activities.

15-01-2014 … In a tragic incident which took place at a hotel in santa cruz village on Wednesday morning, three workers perished and one is critically ill while they were cleaning the hotel septic tank. Presence of Some Noxious gas is said to be the cause of the incident.  

 The deceased are  identified as Mahesh majik from poriem sattari, chandru naik from dandeli and vishnudev from kerala ..

While the fourth one who took ill and is being treated at goa medical college and hospital was identified as santosh oli from Nepal.

Speaking to media reporters,  santa andre mla Vishnu wagh said no proper precautions were undertaken by the hotel owner while asking the workers to enter the septic tank

14-01-2014 … With the issue of setting up a garbage treatment plant at baigunim coming up once again sarpanch of old goa village panchayat nilkhant bhomkar along with his panch and member of old goa garbage action committee recently met chief minister manohar Parrikar and appraised him about the consequences that would arise if a garbage treatment plant was allowed to be set up close to the world heritage site at old goa …

It may be noted that even though various originations along with the local mla, north goa mp and panch members of old goa village panchayat have been opposing to the upcoming of a garbage treatment plant at baigunim in old goa, corporation city of Panjim recently was able to get a permission for the construction of a compound wall at baigunim after ccp had appealed in the high court asking for a permission on which the old goa village panchayat had refused to give …

Speaking to goanreporter sarpanch of old goa village panchayat nilkhant bhomkar said they had met chief minister monahar Parrikar along with my pancha’s and member of old goa garbage action committee and has explained to him about our grievances over the issue of the upcoming garbage treatment palnt at baigunim

Bhomkar said that he was also of the opinion that garbage has to be treated somewhere or the other in the state but not at old goa, when everyone knows what is old goa being it a historic place

Bhomkar also stated that they were definitely confident that cm would listen to their grievances and would think over the issue as one of the ward of old goa village panchayat comes under the constituency of chief minister Manohar Parrikar

13-01-2014 …. The state bjp party would ask for an explanation from his st andre legislator Vishnu surya wagh as why he was not able to attend the vijay sankalp rally at merces on Sunday evening

It may be noted that vijay sankalp rally at Merces bypass was well-attended not only by the general public but also by its alliance partners even as BJP’s own MLA Vishnu surya wagh was absent.

MGP’s three MLAs pwd minister Ramkrishna ‘Sudin’ Dhavalikar, co-operation minister Pandurang ‘Deepak’ Dhavalikar and Ponda MLA Lavoo Mamledar were seated along with BJP leaders on the dais.

Also present were fisheries minister avertano furtado and Velim MLA Benjamin Silva. The BJP said that it had extended invitations to alliance partners as well as independent MLAs and parties supporting their government.

Speaking to goanreporter state bjp president vinay tendulkar said that though his party member tried a number of times to reach out to mr wagh he was not in contact with them and therefore his party would surely like to know as why mr wagh was not able to attend tue vijay sankalp rally on Sunday

Tendulkar also stated that though a number of bjp supporters had attended the Sunday’s rally from st andre constituency there were certain people who had tried to stop bjp supporters from st andre constituency by giving them money and asking them not to attend modi’s vijay sankalp rally

12-01-2014 … In yet another fight between the state chief minister and Panjim mla Manohar parrikar and ccp mayor surendra furtado the mayor of the corporation city of Panjim on Monday has said that his office would fine the state bjp led party if no permission were taken from ccp office for putting up hoardings and banners in Panjim city jurisdiction for the vijay sankalp rally which took place on last Sunday evening ….

It may be noted that a number of huge hoardings of bjp prime ministerial candidate and gujrat chief minister narendra modi, along with state chief minister manohar parrikar, national bjp president rajnath singh were seen being erected at various places in and around the city jurisdiction for which officials of the ccp said that no permissions were taken for putting up such hoardings by the state bjp party …

Presently according to the ccp official’s ccp charges an amount of rs 300, per sqmts for a single hoarding and if permissions were given to state bjp party for putting up hoardings inside the city jurisdiction than ccp could earn a huge revenue from the bjp party which could go in to ccp coffers

Speaking to goanreporter ccp mayor surendra furtado and deputy mayor bento lorena said that law was equal for everyone and if permissions were not taken by the bjp party for putting up hoardings with required fess than ccp would try to find out the facts and fine the concerned party as per ccp laws …

Meanwhile state bjp president vinay tendulkar said that his party had asked for permission and in the given time and since there was no reply from ccp office they taught that the permission was granted to them for putting up hoardings inside the ccp jurisdiction

Tendulakar charged that the issue was being made in to a political issue out of nothing

11-01-2014 …. Goa’s first national award-winning director Rajendra Talak on Saturday said that there was a need for goans to remain firm on truth so that every goan could fight the corruption menace which had eaten the state as well as the country too

Mr talak was addressing media people in the capital city where in talak spoke about his new upcoming Marathi and konkani film A Rainy Day which would be released on 23th of this month across pune, Maharashtra and goa …

The film produced by Iris Productions, stars Mrinal Kulkarni, Subodh Bhave along with goan actors prince jacob, menakshi martins and other.

The story and concept of the film, which is based on corruption, is by Rajendra Talak himself. While the music for the film is done by Ashok Patki, and the talents of Oscar award winner Resul Pookotty.

A Rainy Day is Rajendra Talak’s 5th film after Aleesha, Antarnad, Saavariya.com and O Maria.

Talak said he would not have a problem even to show the film to the goan legislators or bureaucrats so that they could learn out something from his film

Meanwhile commenting over the mining issue of the state Talak also stated that his earlier film allesha had a lot to talk about the issues concerning to the goan mining industry but politicians had failed to take a leaf out of his movie

10-01-2014 … With the incident of building construction collapse at canacona coming in to the fore in the past few days the officials of the goa state pollution control board have now also swung in to action to check as if weather the area of the ruby residency was crossing all together over twenty thousand in sqmts and if yes than why permission of environment clearance from state environmental impact assessment authority was not taken by the concerned builders …

It may be noted that the death toll in the Canacona building collapse has reached 27, with the rescue teams operating manually recovering three more bodies from the debris on Thursday while the state government had already declared the other buildings of ruby residency as unsafe to stay.

Officials of pollution control board are now also trying to find out if the building did required environment clearance from pcb department and also if pcb had issued any permission for setting up a sewerage treatment plant for the project

Speaking to goan reporter chairman of goa state pollution control board jose noronha said that his department had not received any application from the concerned builder of ruby residency and if the area was more than twenty thousand sqmts than the builder had surely defaulted for which after verifying the facts a complain could be logged against the builders of the ruby residency

Meanwhile chief town planner p s putturaju said if the total area of survey no 26 and 27 was acceding more than twenty thousand in sqmts then an environment clearance was required for the project and if the builders had not taken it then it was another procedural lapse while taking permission from government department that the concerned builders had done

09-01-2014 … In what could put more light in to the incident of the canacona building collapse civil engineer vishwas dessai who is been wanted by the state police in connection with the canacona building tragedy had himself given the completion certificate acting as a civil engineer, architect and a contractor too …

According to the documents available with goa365 the civil engineer vishwas dessai while giving the completion certificate to the ruby residence in survery no 26/2, 3 & 4 has stated that

( I hereby certify that the works as been completed and I am fully responsible for the structural safety and RCC design of the structural residential house belonging to mr jugdeep sehgal and mr pradeep birring, c-002, ruby residency, chawdi, canacona goa. in survey bearing 26/2, 3 & 4 of chawdi village canacona taluka goa state and I here by certify that the erection of the above building has been carried out under my supervision and I guarantee that all the material such as (kind, quality and grade) and workshop is in accordance with detail and general specifications and that work has been carried out in accordance with the sanctioned plan, elevation and section )

More surprising to note was that even the structural design of the building was given to mr desai by the owner of the building mr jagdeep sehgal and pradip birring for carrying out structural design and supervision of the proposed construction of the residential building ..

Desai had also stated in his structural liability certificate that the structural works shall be executed by the owner as per the structural drawing prepared by mr desai and under his supervision …

Speaking to goanreporter over the issue chief town planner p s putturaju said that the concerned file of ruby residency had never reached to his office in Panjim till date and he himself was shocked to see such a huge building at canacona which definitely had procedural as well as technical lapses

Putturaju also stated that along with technical lapses certain regulations were also not followed while constructing the concerned project

Putturaju said his department would also verify the decision taken by the respective district branch officer who had given various permissions to the project