6-march -2013 … Members of the mining affected people specially from the truck owners association on Wednesday met chief minister Manohar Parrikar and submitted their various grievances specially asking for a package to the family members of the mining affected people

 Speaking to goanreproter sanguem mla subash phaldesai said that there was a need from the central government side to give a 100 crore package to the state government mining affected people where the state government was paying a huge revenue of 900 crores to the central government from the mining industry

 Subash said there was a need from the state government side to give some guidelines to the reserve bank of india so as to help the truck owners who feared of their trucks being confiscated by the banks due to non payment of their installments …

 Subash also said that there were some who were trying to hype the Margao issue for no reasons when there was not even a single complaint filed on it

5-march -2013 … – Work for the upcoming lusofonia games 2013 is going on smoothly and would be completed well no time said executive director of sports authority of goa elvis gomes on Thursday …

it may be noted that about 13 countries which were once ruled by the Portugese would participate in the Lusofonia Games which are due to be held in Goa in the month of November 2013.

The 3rd Lusofonia Games wherein the Portuguese-speaking nations participate, will be held in nine disciplines of athletics, basketball, football, judo, taekwondo, table tennis, volleyball, beach volleyball and wushu.

The state government has already geared up for developing infrastructural facilities to host the forthcoming Portuguese Commonwealth Games event for which the entire facilities including indoor and outdoor stadia, tracks will be developed at a cost of Rs 220 crore.

An athletic ground will be coming up at Bambolim, as part of infrastructure development, a running track is being developed at Peddem ground in Mapusa town, while the existing Peddem indoor ground is being refurbished and Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium at Fatorda is given a facelift.

Speaking to goanreproter executive director of sports authority of goa elvis gomes said though the works for the lusofonia games 2013 started a bit late they were hopefully to meet the schedule deadline …

Gomes said though goa never had such type of infrastructure it was for the first time such facilities were developed and once games were over the same would be put to use for various other state competitions …

Meanwhile sports minister ramesh talwadkar said the work was going on well and by first week of September we would get the whole infrastructure ready for hosting the lusofonia games 2013

4-march -2013 … – St andre mla Vishnu surya wagh on Tuesday carried a joint site inspection of the goa medical college premises sewage treatment plant and raised serious objections over the functioning of the sewage treatment plant at gmc

The joint site inspection was carried along with the Villagers and panch members of  curca bambolim telaulim village Panchayat though having been informed officials of the goa medical college hospital remained absent at the joint site inspection

the local villagers informed the St andre mla about the problems they were facing due the seepage of the water from the gmc sewage water treatment entering in to their villages due to which locals well’s, septic tank’s were spoiled as well as small water ponds had been formed due to which there was a danger of mosquito breeding in the nearby wards

Speaking to media reporters st andre mla Vishnu wagh said that it was shocking to note that the gmc staff were working at the site of the sewage treatment plant without maintaining proper hygiene standards

 Wagh said that there were many lapses found in to the release of the sewage water treatment plant

 What’s more surprising was to note that even after the gmc officials being informed about the inspection none of the officials came at the site nor did not tried to find out as what a group of people which involved the st andre mla and local villagers were doing inside the campus of gmc hospital raising serious doubts about how the security systems is working in and out of the gmc complex ….

2-march -2013 … South goa mp Francisco sardinha on Saturday asked the state state bjp led government to stop giving a step-motherly treatment to the elected representatives of the opposition benches stating that the state government had to treat everyone equally while allocating various state government schemes …

Speaking at a press conference held at the party head office in Panjim sardinha accused the state government of sidelining him from the state government schemes since he was belonging to the opposition party ….

 Sardinha expressed dissatisfaction over the present law and order situation of the state           …

 Sardinha also gave his views over the recent announced central budget …

1-mar-2013 … In a way to boost village level season ball cricket tournaments the goa cricket association has decided to support village level club tournaments where in funds for the season ball cricket tournament amount up to rs 20,000 would be provided to cricket clubs of the state …

 Speaking to goanreporter gca president vinod phadke said that as tennis ball cricket tournaments were spoiling the game of season ball cricket tournaments gca would help those state cricket clubs who would like to organize village level season ball cricket tournaments so as to raise up the standard of season ball cricket in goa

 Phadke also said that his main goal was to see a goan boy in one or the other Indian cricket team which he had already promised to the state of giving it in his tenure as a gca president …

 Phadte also commented over the success of gpl-4 t-20 cricket tournament

1-mar-2013 …  Stating that the union budget presented by finance minister P Chidambaram on Thursday had nothing for the state tourism sector, Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar on Friday said that the 2013-2014 budget is 2014 lok sabha election-centric.

Speaking to goanreporter, tourism minister Dilip Parulekar said the budget had nothing for a common man and also neglected the tourism sector, particularly in goa.

 Mr Parulekar also said that the union government appeared to have forgotten that the two Goan  MPs had to approach people next year when the general elections were due. He however assured that the state budget would give adequate weightage the tourism sector in goa.

 Meanwhile, industries minister mahadev naik also expressed  his views on the budget

28-feb-2013 … while the corporation passed the issue of granting film shootings and exhibitions in certain locations of the city chaos confronted the ordinary meeting of the corporation city of Panjim on Thursday where in opposition councilors charged mayor vaidehi naik as a dictator who was not ready to listen to any of the points raised by the opposition councilors at the meet …

It may be noted that the opposition councilors led by its leader councilor rudresh chodonkar, councilor bento lourenco had raised point of the pathetic condition of the caranzalem gardens along with the other issues which the corporation had neglected when the mayor denied to listen to the points raised out of the agenda meet which forced the mayor to passed the resolutions given for the day …

Speaking to media reporter’s ccp mayor vaidehi naik said that since she had faced problems earlier she had brought the same resolutions on the agenda which the opposition councilors objected of passing it and were only in the mood of creating chaos at the meet

Meanwhile opposition councilor rudresh chodankar said the mayor had failed in her duties by not giving a chance to the opposition councilors to talk at the meet and had finished off the meet earlier as the councilors were ready to bring out the market issue …

28-feb-2013 … Stating that there were lot of expectations from the central financial budge 2013-14 Members of the goa chamber of commerce and industry has expressed satisfaction in the central financial budget announced by central finance minister p Chidambaram most of the other association along with gcci expressed dissatisfaction over the budget stating that the budget had nothing new in it specially for the state of goa ….

Speaking to media reporters after the central budget was announced president of goa chamber of commerce and industry manguirish pai raikiar said that though there were no direct benefits for goa from the budget there were indirect benefits and the finance minister had done in good job who had mentioned about improving communication with the industry

President of cii anil kher said that no major trust were addressed in the budget as no one was talking about investment, no talk on encouraging public sector companies while bulk of the budget was trying to take care of problems that had come up

 President of goa barge owner’s association atul jadhav also expressed his dissatisfaction over the budget saying that though lot of expectations were there for the mining affected people mr Chidambaram had not mentioned anything for them

Gcci honorary treasurer pratima dhond also gave her comments over the financial budget

27-feb-2013 … Citing reasons of creating confusions between the families members of people who are about to get married the state congress party on Wednesday asked the state bjp led government to revamp the ladli laxmi scheme in the larger interest of the state

Addressing a press conference at the party head office congress spokesperson sudip tamankar said that that was a need for the state government to take an advice from the Karnataka government who had implemented bhagyalakshi scheme on the lines on ladli laxmi scheme and had different modifications ….

Sudip said that his party was demanding to the bjp led government to take a review over the ladli laxmi scheme and should also take every one in to confidence while implementing the reviewed scheme

 Meanwhile sudip also criticize the state government for implementing parking fees at the edc patto area

26-feb-2013 …. … On the third day of the goa premiere league T-20 cricket tournament-2013 dempo sports club defeated chowgule warriors by eight wickets to win their second match of the goa premiere league T-20 cricket tournament-2013 held at the gca cricket ground at porvorim on Tuesday ….

Chowgule warriors who were allotted to bat first scored 133/8 in their first innings and while dempo sports club chase the target in fifteen over scoring 135/2 ….