Panaji: February 23, 2013 …. Governor of Goa Shri Bharat Vir Wanchoo unveiled of the Trophy of GPL T-20 tournament alongwith guest of honour Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly Shri Rajendra Arlekar, GCA President Shri Vinod Phadke at GCA ground Porvorim on Saturday.

Speaking on the occasion Governor said, I would like to congratulate Goa Cricket Association for their visionary efforts to organize GPL T-20 tournament and have this trophy which, I am sure, will go a long way in encouraging cricket in the State of Goa.

Sports and games have a very special and intrinsic value in our social and cultural life.  These activities are an integral part of our day-to-day life.  Cricket has become one of the greatest sports of entertainment and competition in the world, particularly in our own country.  For us it is a passion.  It is an international team sport, one that is playing a splendid role in integrating people and in a way cultures from various regions and races.  India has made great progress in cricket.  Though their outstanding skill, determined efforts and spirited team work, Indian cricketers have made outstanding achievements have become icons and have in the process enhanced the prestige and glory of our country.

Cricket as a game is not only a sport of entertainment, but has come to play a major role in promoting social and national cohesion, besides fostering international understanding and enhancing human relations. International cricket

matches help in bringing together people from different parts of the world.  Though we in India have several traditional and modern sports ad games, people are usually glued to passionately watch cricket matches with great enthusiasm.  We in Goa have an excellent infrastructure for cricket and hence, we should make efforts to again host international cricket matches in Goa, Stated the Governor.

Goa is well known for sports and games.  Goans have latent talent and an unceasing passion for multifarious sports and games.  The Government is making planned efforts to promote sports and games in an institutionalized and scientific manner.  While football is the State game of Goa, other games are also being encouraged ad developed.  I am happy that cricket is gaining more and more significance in Goa.  We should provide the youth of our State with world-class facilities, pragmatic guidance and scientifically-oriented training to enable them to achieve excellence in this field of sport.  Goa has produced cricketers of a very high standard and class in the past and I am sure that under the able aegis of Goa Cricket Association, Goan cricketers will continue to make a mark in the international cricketing arena.

All of us need to understand that the Government cannot be expected to achieve everything; howsoever much it may want to.  We need well-intentioned organizations like the Goa Cricket Association, to supplement Governmental efforts to promote sports and games in a big way.  There should be greater cooperation and constant interaction between the stakeholders to bring about innovative changes in promoting these activities.  Integrated institutional arrangements are essential to guide and promote the various sports, including cricket.  Our universities, colleges and schools should help in identifying the talent amongst the youth.  They should provide them broad opportunities for practicing different sports.  Needless to say, sports activities have intrinsic benefits like physical fitness and well being, social interaction, entertainment, healthy

competition, personality development, potential and skill development, inculcation of sense of achievement, pride, patriotism and self-confidence.  These are all qualities that we want our youth of today to possess.

We need to appreciate that the spirit of sports is to produce a combination of qualities like fairness, courtesy, generosity or to put it in one word-sportsmanship.  Sportsmanship is the soul or essence of all sports and games.  We should play matches with full vigour, energy and to the best of one’s ability, however, we must not forget to maintain a code of conduct and nurture the sporting spirit.  We must remember that in any game, one side has to win and the other has to lose.  The players, spectators and team owners ought to realize that lessons are learnt in defeat as well and it is only in defeat, that the true character of an individual is revealed.

I hope that the various efforts being made by the Government and organizations like Goa Cricket Association will usher in a new era of accelerated progress in the field of sports and games in the State and in particular, in cricket which will enable the Goan youth to be able to successfully compete at the national and international levels added the Governor.

GCA Secretary Shri Chetan Desai welcomed.  GCA Vice President Dr. Shekhar Salkar porposed the vote of thanks.

22-feb-2013 … Tourism minister Dilip Parulekar on Friday blamed the central congress led government for the Hyderabad terror attack which killed 12 people and injured 84 others on Thursday night stating that it was due to the congress led government at the centre who had stopped prevention of terrorism act initiated by then then Vajpayee led bjp government …

 It may be noted that two simultaneous powerful blasts had ripped through a crowded area close to a cluster of bus stands in Dilsukhnagar area where in the blasts triggered by improvised explosive devices tied to two bicycles had taken place in the peak hour at two sites 100 metres apart outside a roadside eatery near Konark and Venkatadiri theatres in the area located on the Hyderabad-Vijaywada national highway in hyberabad police limits.

Speaking to goanrepeorter tourism minister Dilip Parulekar said that it was wrong on the part of the central congress led government who had stopped pota initiated by then Vajpayee led bjp government at the centre due to which such attacks were taking place in the country

 The previous major attack in Hyderabad was on August 25, 2007 when two blasts took place almost simultaneously in which 42 people were killed. The first blast was in Lumbini amusement park followed by another at an eating joint.

Parulekar said such people who have done such terror attacks were the people of the congress party who had stopped prevention of terrorism act which was started

 Official sources said a general alert was issued for two consecutive days from February 19 to all major cities suggesting a possible attack by Pakistani-based terror groups to avenge the hangings of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and Mumbai attack convict Ajmal Kasab.

Parulekar also questioned the central congress led government decision of why afzal guru and ajmal kasab were hanged without informing everyone…

Panaji, February 22, 2013 … The Government has   promoted  on ad-hoc basis, the following incumbents of the posts included in the Schedule II of the Goa Civil Service Rules, 1997 to Junior Scale of the Goa Civil  Service in the Pay Band  of  Rs. 15600-39100  with Grade Pay  of  Rs. 5,400/-, with immediate effect and has posted them as follows:

Kum. Sangeeta Sakaram Rawool, Commercial Tax Officer as Under Secretary (Health-I) ; Shri Umakant Nhanu Korkankar Commercial Tax Officer as Deputy Collector & SDO-II, South, Margao; Smt. Fransquinha Oliveira Commercial Tax Officer as Under Secretary (Public Grievances); Shri Paresh M. Fal Desai Mamlatdar, Sattari  as Assistant Commissioner of Commercial Taxes; Shri Sudhir S. Kerkar Mamlatdar, Tiswadi as Deputy Commissioner, Corporation of City of Panaji; Shri Satish B. Desai Mamlatdar, Pernem as Additional Director of Municipal Administration and Smt. Sangeeta S. Naik Joint Mamlatdar-III, Ponda as Administrator of Communidade, South

The above ad-hoc appointments shall be for a period of one year in the first instance or till the post is filled on regular basis whichever is earlier.

The Officers Kum. Sangeeta Sakaram Rawool, Shri Umakant Nhanu Korkankar and Smt. Fransquinha Oliveira shall continue to hold the posts held by them prior to their promotion till 31/03/2013 or till the substitute is posted, whichever is earlier and officers

Shri Paresh M. Fal Desai, Shri Sudhir S. Kerkar, Shri Satish B. Desai and Smt. Sangeeta S. Naik shall continue to hold the posts held by them prior to their promotion till 31/05/2013 or till substitute is posted, whichever is earlier, in addition to their own duties, until further orders.

Consequently, the transfer and posting of the following Junior Scale Officers of Goa Civil Service is ordered with immediate effect, in public interest:

21-feb-2013 … In a bid to streamline and rationalize taxi fares the departments of Transport and Tourism together are expected to ensure that electronic meters with printed slips are installed by taxis in Goa by March end.

Though the charge has been denied by taxi operators, the current move seeks to bring all forms of taxi services including tourist taxis, black and yellow cabs under the same type of meters.

Speaking to media reporters transport director arun dessai said that a joint decision would be taken by the department together with the tourism department over the issue which was an ongoing process.

Arun also stated that autorikshaw vehicles would also be asked to install a fair table chart at every autorick shaw stand from point to point basis …

20-feb-2013 … While the name of the village of cassabe de sanquelim has been changed to sakhali the state cabinet also approved the name of justice p sudarshan reddy for the post of lokayukta and the same has been sent to governor for appointment while metioned that march 18^th could be the date for announcement of the state budget …

Addressing press media at the secretariat at porvorim chief minister Manohar Parrikar said that the name the lokayukta was sent to the governor for his advice so as to clear the appointment

 Parrikar said punishment for a person who files a bogus complaint was a must and if it was not done then there as no point of having a lokayukta

 The cabinet also gave its nod for insertion of pet clause in the recruitments for post of ldc, jr stenographer, drivers and government primary school teachers …

Commenting over the resignation of the north goa mp from the presidentship of lusofonia games Parrikar said that the north goa mp had only raised his queries over certain functioning of the committee and had not resigned from the lusofonia games 2013 committee …

 Meanwhile Parrikar also stated that the state government had asked for two months over the moti dongor issue to work out finality and had no objections if high court stayed it for two weeks

20-feb-2013 The two-day Bharat bandh called by major trade unions today severely impacted banking services, crippled certain public transport in some of the major cities of the state …

Also several protest led under the banner as goa convention of workers along with the other supporters marched from the Panjim bus stand to the azad maidan

Some of the trade unions, who are participating in the strike, are – Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, All India Trade Union Congress, All India United Trade Union Centre, Centre of Indian Trade Unions, Indian National Trade Union Congress, united forum of bank unions and many others.

Protesting against privatisation, outsourcing, violation of labour laws, price rise and several other burning issues of the country, trade unions of banking, insurance, public sector undertakings, transporters and unorganized sectors called for the Bharat Bandh.

Trade unionists said that over 10,000 workers were a part in the nation-wide bandh supported by all trade unions of the country which would be held in the country for two consecutive days on Feb 20 and Feb 21.

20-feb-2013 … Like the good samaritan spokesperson of the goa state congress party sudeep tamankar on Tuesday termed bjp leader and north goa mp shripad naik as a clean leader who had fall prey in to the dictatorship of chief minister manohar parrikar and had resigned from his post of the president of the 3^rd lusofonia games …

It may be noted that the the resignation of the North Goa MP and the Bahujan Samaj face of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party Shripad Naik from the Lusofonia games sub committee has brought to the fore, once again, the rumblings within the ruling party.

Though the bjp party is attempting to play down the differences, calling it a shripad’s own decision, the sudden political atmosphere in to the bjp camps seems to have given a new way of taughts as weather is there something wrong between the chief minister Manohar Parrikar and north goa mp shripad naik.

 Speaking at a press conference congress spokesperson sudeep tamankar said that shripad naik who is a clean man was also being sidelined by chief minister Manohar Parrikar using his political tactics which had forced shripad to resign from the lusofonia games …

Sudeep also hope that the state bjp led government would try to conduct the lusofonia games on the given time spending the central government fund in a proper manner …

Meanwhile though north goa mp shripad naik had met the sports minister ramesh tawadkar on Monday evening, sports minister ramesh talwadkar commenting over the issue on Monday had said that though he had came to know about the issue from the news reports he as a sports minister had not received any resignation letter from the north goa mp …

19-feb-2013 … The goa state Congress party on Tuesday demanded that the 96 iron ore mining leases in Goa should be auctioned, instead of being merely renewed, in the spirit of an apex court judgment in the 2G scam trial, which makes a case for auctioning of national resources.

Goa has 336 mining leases spread across the hinterland out of which nearly 100 were operational until the ban came into effect in October 2012. All the operational mining leases are renewable after a period of 20 years.

Addressing a press conference at the party head office state Congress spokesperson Sudip Tamankar said that the state coffers, which have been strained due to the ban on mining would earn over Rs 300 lakh crore over 20 years of the lease period and therefore all the 96 mining leases should be auctioned on the lines of the telecom spectrum auction so that Goa stands to benefit financially.

Sudip further said that the auctioning of the mining leases would not only ensure that Goa ensures a hefty sum in its coffers, but also break the monopoly of four to five mining companies which have been controlling open cast iron ore mining in Goa for decades now.

19-feb-2013 … The 25th Annual Inspection Parade was held at the Fire Force Training Ground, Fire Force Headquarters, St. Inez, Panaji on Tuesday.

Chief Secretary of goa I b vijayan was the chief guest of the function who was accorded a warm welcome with the guard of honour where in the chief guest took the salute and inspected the parade

Certificates and Trophy was handed over to the winners of the Drill Competition, Best Fire Appliance and to the Fire Personnel who was adjudged as Best Turn-Out at the hands of the Chief Guest.

Fire Fighting Appliance using 32 mtrs Aerail Ladder Platform was arranged for the general public.

Speaking at the function Chief secretary and Chief guest of the function I b vijayan said that the fire department had made a significance progress in establishing 14 fire stations and logistics centre at Panjim in the state

Director of fire and emergency services ashok menon also spoke on the occasion