23-08-2013 … Blaming of a political or a drug related rivalry Former calangute mla agnelo Fernandes on Friday blamed the law and order situation of the state of goa over the issue of vandalism being done at nightclub cum venue for weddings, LPK waterfront, at Battivado in Nerul on Thursday afternoon with the premises causing damages running into lakhs of rupees.

It may be noted that Around 20-25 masked men armed with sledge hammer and pickaxes, with their faces covered with monkey caps, barged in a nightclub cum venue for weddings, LPK waterfront, at Battivado in Nerul on Thursday afternoon and vandalised the premises causing damages running into lakhs of rupees.

The attackers came on 12 scooters with camouflaged number plates, threatened the security guard and the workers with dire consequences before taking away their mobile phones and went on a rampage, damaging the premises.

Speaking to goanreporter former calangute mla agnelo Fernandes said that the issue could be a political motivated one and related to the issue of certain dance bars being kept open in calangute while certain dance bars being asked to be closed

the damaged articles include three LCD television sets of 32 inches, ten soundproof glasses of the discotheque doors, 25 fog lights, seven lanterns, 2 fridges, billing counter and five CCTVs. an unique piece of artwork made of clay was also damaged by the attackers.

Agnelo said that such incidents were bad for the tourist state like goa and also mentioned that minority community would have to suffer due to the close of liquor by 1pm

22-08-2013 …. With about just a few days left for direct benefit transfer of LPG to come into effect, a total of around 60,000 LPG consumers have linked their adhar cards with the bank accounts connected with the goa state cooperative bank in to the state of goa

 Under the scheme, advance subsidy would be transferred to the bank account of the LPG consumers of the public sector oil marketing companies like Indian Oil / HPCL / BPCL, who have completed formalities of seeding their Aadhaar numbers with their LPG distributor as well as with their respective banks.

After the scheme is launched, subsidy amount would be transferred to LPG consumers through their bank account once they book for refill, enabling them to buy cylinders at market rate.

 All LPG consumers who have not linked their Aadhaar number to LPG consumer number and their bank account will have a month grace period from date of launch to do so till September 1 and during this period they will continue to get the LPG cylinders at subsidised rate, as they are getting today, with a cap of 9 cylinders.

Procedure to link Aadhaar to a bank account

 Step-1 ….. Get Aadhaar number from Aadhaar enrollment centres

 Step-2 …. Open a bank account with above Aadhaar number

 Or

If a bank account exists then get Aadhaar number linked to bank account by visiting branch of the bank. Alternatively, fill up a form available with LPG distributors and deposit it in the drop boxes placed at LPG distributors’ premises/ select petrol pump outlets for purpose

 Step-3 …. Link Aadhaar numbers to LPG consumer number at LPG distributors

 Step-4 …. After completion, LPG consumers can check whether their Aadhaar number has been linked to LPG consumer number and bank account at http://petroleum.nic.in/dbtl/linkstatus.html

21-08-2013 … In yet another fight against his own government st andre mla and chairman of kala academy Vishnu surya waugh on Monday said that he was not in favour of the garbage treatment plant being set up by city corporation of panjim at baigunim a heritage site which had rich and ancient cultural history and has also asked the state government to declare the baigunim area a heritage site so that no construction project could come up along the area…

Mr waugh has already been vocal against his own bjp led government on issues like the state participating in the upcoming lusofonia games and its hosting and on monday the st andre mla openly supported the cumbarjua mla pandurang madkaikar in the presence of panchayat minister laxmikhant parsekar stating that he would not mind to join hands with the cumbarjua mla in opposing ccp’s idea of setting up a garbage treatment plant at baigunim ..

 waugh openly made this statements in front of a number of panch members representing various panchayats from tiswaddi areas specially from the constituencies of cumbarjua, st andre, st cruz who were called in for a meet arranged by the directorate of panchayat for an introspections with the panchayat minister laxmikhant parsekar over various issues faced by panchayat bodies in their respective panchayat …

 Speaking on the occasion waugh said that since the site being identified by ccp for setting up of a garbage treatment plant at baigunim, old goa is on the border of my constituency I also do feel that such plant should not come up at a place which has historic culture.

 cumbarjua mla pandurang madkaikar welcome the statement made by the st andre mla and said that he was happy to know that Vishnu also share the same sentiment which I do while opposing the garbage treatment plant at baigunim as it would totally destroy the heritage site of old goa and its surroundings

panchayat minister laxmikhant parsekar said that even though I am aware that the state government is trying to come up with the state of the art technology garbage treatment plants in the state the same should not come up in those place where in the locals and its respective mla’s opposed

Urban development minister francis dsouza said that his government had taken enough precautions not to disturb the heritage site but finally it was up to ccp of weather to come up with the garbage treatment plant at baigunim or not

20-08-2013 … The state cabinet on has decided to give a two years time asking all casinos operating in mandovi river to go deep in to the sea within two years of time …

Addressing media persons after the cabinet meet chief minister manohar parrikar said his government policy was not to allow any further off shore casinos in the state of goa and had intended to remove the exciting off shore casinos from river mandovi where they were presently located

Parrikar said the licenses for off shore casinos were been given during the then government of ravi naik, pratapsingh rane, francisco sardinha and digambar kamat …

Commenting over the issue of state information commissioner’s parrikar said the cabinet had resolved the cancellation of the process for appointment of state information commissioners and re-advertised after proper examination of all issues including the orders of the Supreme Court

Parrikar said cabinet had decided to frame policy for unauthorized religious structures on public places

Parrikar also stated that the cabinet had decided to appoint science and technology department as the nodal agency for setting up common garbage treatment facilities in the state

19-08-2013 … Chief Minister manohar parrikar on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for the integrated school complex of the rosary high school at plot no 5 at the educational complex at cujira bambolim …

Present on the occasion were founder of the rosary school mrs thecla Rosario, chairman of rosary education society and ccp councilor tony rodrigues, fr Alexandra Pereira and other dignitaries …

The new education complex of the rosary education society which is about 6726 of sqmt’s in land would in house more than thousand students’ right from secondary to higher secondary education along with a school play ground and is slated to be completed in a span of two to three years time …

Speaking on the occasion chief minister manohar parrikar said he had started to dream about the integrated school complex for city schools right from 2003 but had stuck up due to legal battle but was now happy to see that things had progressed and some of the city schools had started their work in the school complex at Bambolim and would also get sports complex nearby to it  

Chairman of the rosary education society tony Rodriguez thanked school pta members for standing behind the school in get the school land at the integrated school complex …

Meanwhile While parrikar denied to comment anything on the funds for the ongoing lusofonia games infrastructure and in turn commented to ask the sports secretary over the issue

18-08-2013 … Demanding that the casinos from mandovi river had to go down in deep sea president of the goa Pradesh congress committee subash shirodkar on Tuesday said that his party would oppose tooth and nail the parrikar led government decision of allowing permission to horse shoe casino operating in mandovi river ….

Addressing media persons in the city gpcc chief subash shirodkar said that such move of allowing horseshoe casinos to operate in mandovi was a bad sign for the state and the bjp government would have to pay the penalty of it

Commenting over the issue of dance bars in the state girls Shirodkar said such issue was the worst of the wise which was not suiting to the goan culture

Meanwhile ccp mayor surendra furtado said that ccp would not allow any office of horse shoe casino to be set up in its jurisdiction

Surendra also called said that ccp would not allow and dance bars to be set up in the capital city

16-08-2013 … In what could be said as a major set back for the state government over its idea of preparing a city draft master plan for the Panjim city mayor of the corporation city of Panjim Surendra Furtado on Saturday said that the people of Panjim city were taken for ride with so many consultants being appointed for the preparation of the Panjim city master plan in the past few years as he was not aware of any master plans being done by Spain-based consultants LKS India private limited who had no permission from the corporation …

Speaking exclusively to goanreporter CCP mayor Surendra Furtado said that he was not aware of any master plans done by LKS because as CCP earlier had appointed Groupe SCE a French company based in Bangalore to do the Comprehensive Mobility Plan in the last seven to eight years and lks had no permission from the Corporation and the same has been appointed by the Government of Goa and by GSIDC

Surendra said that eight years back Government of Goa through the CCP had appointed Hudco who have given entire Comprehensive City Plan to the government after than under UNNURM the other consultants appointed were Charles Correia Foundation and now I hear that some LKS has been appointed and therefore it is for the GSIDC and Government of Goa to tell you what exactly is going on

Surendra also stated that Comprehensive Mobility Plans prepared by groupe sce had taken in to consideration issues such as traffics, roads, parks, gardens, bridges, footpaths and flyovers prepared with an estimated cost of 800 crores rupees

15-08-2013 … The state bjp party would ask the present state government to act fast on those congress leaders who were found to be involved in illegal mining and other illegal acts of governance said vice president of the state bjp party dr Wilfred mesquita …

Addressing media persons at the party head office in Panjim bjp vice president and nri commissioner dr Wilfred mesquite said that certain statements made by the goa desk in charge of the congress party mr digvijay singh stating that bjp leaders supported illegal mining in mp and Karnataka mr singh was trying to cover up the sin of omission and commission of congress leaders in goa

Dr Mesquita said that his party would force the government to take criminal action no those congress leaders who had looted and plundered goa during their rule

Commenting over the issues of casinos operation in mandovi river dr mesquita said that his personnel opinion was that casinos were required for goa’s revenue in to the state

14-08-2013 … On the occasion of 50 years of goa vidhan sabha over 30 professional and non professional colleges from goa on Thursday took part in the all goa inter collegiate quiz competition on goa vidhan Sabha held at the goa legislative secretariat in porvorim …

The function was inaugurated by Deputy Speaker and mayem mla anant shet who was the chief guest of the function in the presence of secretary nilkhant subhedar, ex mla mohan amshekar moderator of the quiz competition nagesh sardessai and others …

The quiz competition topics were based on the different aspects of the goa vidhan Sabha since its establishments in 19645 till date and had various questions covering assembly bills, past and present mla’s, various developments and others issues related to goa vidhan Sabha …

Speaking to goanreporter moderator of the all goa inter collegiate quiz competition nagesh sardessai gave more details of the event and said that the even was a successful one