12-10-2013 … Secretary of All India Congress Committee A Chellakumar on Wednesday denied any rift among the party mla’s asking for a change in leadership which is presently with the former congress chief minister pratapsingh rane

 It may be noted that the Opposition leader Pratapsingh Rane’s “ineffective” leadership in the assembly has led to some disenchantment in the congress legislative party.

 A group of legislators led by St Cruz MLA Atanasio ‘Babush’ Monserrate had criticized Rane for failing to expose the government’s sins of omission and commission stating that the leader of opposition had failed in highlighting a number of issues as far as the state of goa was concerned

Speaking to goanreporter Secretary of All India Congress Committee A Chellakumar dismissed reports of any split in the CLP over the leadership issue

Chellakumar said that there won’t be any change in leadership

 st cruz mla babush monsoratte said that it was wrong on part of the opposition leader to decide on whatever he wanted an sideline other party mla’s on certain issues

11-10-2013 … With a demand of asking Konkani to be taught in schools through devnagiri script only former nri commissioner educardo faleiro on Tuesday said that Konkani in devnagiri script was very important for today’s kid’s so as to informed the students about the goan cultural identity and also to have access to other India languages and to Indian culture

Addressing media persons at the party head office in Panjim former nri commissioner eduardo faleiro said that the medium of instruction in the state of goa at the primary and pre primary level should be either in Konkani or Marathi as Konkani was the officials language of the state while Marathi had been the literary language of the large segment of the goan population

Eduardo also emphasized on the need of organizing programmes for sensitizing parents as to the need for their children to learn in their native language …

10-10-2013 … ccp mayor surednra furtado on Tuesday lead a delegation along with his ruling corporators to the governor of goa bharat vir wanchoo over the issue of Non-implementation of recommendations of second state finance commission and Amendments to existing Laws as per 74th Constitutional Amendment to devolve the powers to Urban Local Bodies

Addressing media persons outside the raj bhavan after meeting the governor bharat wir wanchoo at dona paula on Tuesday morning ccp mayor surendra furtado said thatI have to bring to your kind notice that this Corporation has the will and the capability to bring about a sea-change for the betterment in the living conditions of the teeming citizens within Panaji and has in mind to develop Panaji in an orderly and systematic manner by providing all the essential services and urged the governor to see that 74th Constitutional Amendment was enacted more strongly in to the state of goa by giving major powers to the corporation

furtado also said that he had informed the governor of the corporation not receiving a single pie from the state government since the time he had taken over the mayor of the corporation city of Panjim

09-10-2013 … The state police department has on Monday arrested three goan youths from sancoale in connection with dacoity in which driver of an interstate transport vehicles was robbed on its way from loutoulim to ponda on Sunday morning

Addressing media person director inspector general of police o p mishra said that the three youths who were in their age group of 25-30 were local residents of sancoale and had been also involved in other small burglaries which had occurred in the areas …

08-10-2013 … The state congress party on Monday alleged the present led bjp government of being involved in a ten crore scam in entertainment society of goa which had taken place during the last iffi 2012 by awarding certain contracts worth crore of rupees to a few selected contractors ..

Addressing media persons at the party head office in panjim congress spokesperson reginaldo lourenco alleged that the present chief minister Manohar Parrikar who is also the chairman of the entertainment society of goa had given more preference to artist who were from outside the state instead of giving more preference to goan artist

In regard to the upcoming assembly session Reginaldo also alleged of the speaker of the state legislative assembly being bias to the opposition party mla’s of not allowing to give enough time for putting up their question in the assembly session

07-10-2013 … Tourism minister dilip parulekar on Friday denied that he was involved in any irregularities being done for regularizing his encroachment in serula communidade land

 It may be noted that the state Nationalist Congress Party on Thursday had demanded the resignation and sacking of Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar for fraudulently regularizing his encroachment on Serula Comunidade land. 

 NCP pointed out that on November 9, 2011 Parulekar made an application before Attorney of Serula Comunidade requesting to regularize the encroached area. 

 Accordingly, on December 4, 2011 the Attorney called for a general body meeting and resolved to regularize the said land as per article 380 (2) of the Code of Communidade by collecting amount in the form of value of the land. Rs 3.41 lakh were collected from the Minister as land price, NCP said. 

 The attorney then made an application to the Administrator of Comunidade, North and it was moved to Administrative Tribunal. On October 28, 2012, Minister was granted possession of land. 

 Speaking to goanreporter  tourism minister dilip parulekar said that for the last twenty years he has been fighting in the court for the possession of the land through legal procedures and the procedure of the same was done many years back

 Meanwhile NCP spokesperson trojano demello on Friday urged Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar to sack the cabinet minister and initiate an inquiry into the land grabbing case, failing which the party would approach Goa Lokayukta. 

 Trojano said that the Attorney of Serula Comunidade, who is also Panchayat secretary and the Administrator of Comunidade, North, was also working as Under Secretary tourism, has blatantly misused government powers favouring Parulekar in the grabbing of land admeasuring 599 sq mtrs. 

06-10-2013 … Even though the state tourism department has made its stand clear that event like sunburn would not be held at candolim the organizers of percept management are still in hopes that the event would be held in candolim and on Friday submitted a detailed presentation of parking management system for the three day event in candolim …

It may be noted that Sunburn Goa is considered to be Asia’s biggest electronic dance music event sprawling over 3 days in December …

 This year the organizers the line-up of artists this year in 2013 would show-case several of the most renowned in dance music hand-picked from around the globe, along-side the shining stars of India,

but Citing security reasons the state tourism department has already made its stand clear that they would not allow events like sunburn to be held at candolim and that the final decision would be left on the tourism department single window committee

 Speaking to goanreporter Vice-Chairman & Managing Director of Percept Limited harindra singh said they would be happy if candolim was given the place to hold the event as candolim has been the home for sunburn event

Singh also said that there was a need for the state to think if two events could be handled at one time like sunburn or goa mix grind festival and why certain people were insisting of organizing events at same time

Meanwhile tourism minister dilip parulekar said that the final decision would be taken by the single window committee of the tourism department which would be held in the next week

05-10-2013 … Functional areas for the upcoming lusofonia games 2014 would be ready by the end of this month Chief minister Manohar parirkar said on Friday …

Addressing media persons at the launching of the lusofonia games 2014 official website at the conference hall at the secretariat at porvorim chief minister Manohar Parrikar said that the functional areas would be ready by 24^th of this month while the infrastructure set up would take a bit of time to get completed due to heavy rains lashing in to the state of goa

Parrikar said that 110 crore budgetary for the games infrastructure would be released in a period of over 12 months

Parrikar also criticized the erstwhile congress led government for utilizing the lusofonia games money for unwanted reasons

04-10-2013 … Goa’s oldest political party Maharashtra gomantak party has once again shown its intention to contest the forth coming state assembly elections and have already started to establish its party in some of the state assembly constituencies …

In its efforts to establish its base in st cruz constituency the party president of the state mgp Deepak dhavlikar announced its block level committee of the mgp party with former sarpanch and present panch member of merces village panchayat prakash naik being appoint as the block present of the mgp party in st cruz constituency along with chaya prashant naik as the mahila mandal block president of mgp party

Along with prakash and chaya also more than thousand people joined the mgp party in st cruz constituency

Speaking on the occasion newly appointed block president of mgp party in st cruz constituency prakash naik thanked the mgp party for having shown confidence in him and promised to make the mgp party strong in st cruz constituency

Meanwhile mgp president Deepak dhavlikar said it was a good sign that the mgp party had taught of re-organsing its base in st cruz constituency and would also think of the same in other constituencies too in the state

03-10-2013 … South goa congress mp Francisco sardinha on Wednesday assured of getting environment clearances in mining from the ministry of environment and forest once the Supreme Court had given its say to go on mining activities in the state

Addressing media person south goa mp Francisco sardinha said that he would surely ask the moef to give environment clearances with certain parameters and also demanded food security ordinance to be implemented by the state government as early as possible

Sardinha also stated that since he was a part of a congress led government at the centre he was in support of the ordinance letting politicians to go behind bars if found guilty in any scam