7-jan-2013 … Members of the goa people’s mining front on Monday met the state chief minister Manohar Parrikar and sought to know about the state government progress over the schemes meted out for the mining affected people especially for the truck owners association ….

The members of the truck owners association sought to know from the chief minister as why the state government had not kept their say in the supreme court till date over the mining issue and also insisted on getting the trucks under the edc department for loan repayment to various banks and also has asked for a sum of rs fifty thousand for each truck owner and twelve thousand for each goan driver under the mining affected package scheme ….

Speaking to media reporter a member of south goa truck owner’s association Prasad phaldesai said that they has questioned the state chief minister Manohar Parrikar as why his government had not put their say in the court till date on which chief minister Parrikar had said that the state government would put their say in the supreme court on 17^th of this month when the hearing would come up in the court …

Prasad also said that the members had also asked the chief minister to forfeit their trucks yearly road tax payment..

Meanwhile another member of the association Mahesh angle said that at the moment they were not interested in any package as such but were asking the government to impress upon rbi to stop sending them the letters of repayments of loans taken for purchase of trucks ..

Panaji, January 04, 2012 … Chief Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar today said that his Government has fullfilled almost all the assurances given to the people of the state during election. He appealed to the people to support the Government in the process of development and maintain conducive and positive atmosphere in the state to enable the government work for the interest of the state and its people.

Launching the unique Griha Aadhar scheme by distributing sanction letters to 360 beneficiaries from Tiswadi taluka under Griha Aadhar scheme to be implemented under  the Directorate of  Women and Child Development in the city today the Chief Minister said under the Griha Aadhar scheme as many as 7703 sanction letters were given to the beneficiaries in the state today.

He said the benefit of the schemes be it Griha Aadhar, Ladli Laxmi, Dayanand Social Security scheme is being extended to the people irrespective of caste, creed and religion. However, to implement the welfare schemes effectively what is required is positive and not negative atmosphere  he asserted.

Shri Vishnu Wagh, MLA, and Chairman of Kala Academy, Smt Vaidehi Naik, Mayor CCP Panaji, and Shri P. Krishnamurthy, Secretary Women and Child Development were present on the occasion.

The Griha Adhar Scheme envisages an amount of Rs 1000/- per month for house wife.

The Chief Minister reiterated that his Government is committed for the welfare of needy and poor people and in the same breath said that efforts are being made to fulfill  all the assurances given to the people in next two years. He also listed various schemes of the Government including  recently launched KTC Monthly Bus Pass facility. He disclosed that electronic Ration card system will be started in Goa in next two months.

Shri Vishnu Wagh MLA and Smt Vaidehi Naik complimented the Chief Minister for having conceived the idea of launching Griha Aadhar scheme which they pointed out will ease the financial burden of house wives to sustain livelihood.

Earlier Smt Varsha S. Naik, CDPO, ICDS Tiswadi taluka who welcomed the gathering urged the women to focus on education for their empowerment.

28-dec-2012 …keeping in mind the tragic incident of the delhi bus-gang rape incident the old goa police officials have decide to tighten its day night patrolling systems along its old goa jurisdictions specially along the 800 mts fields stretch in calvaddo in corlim village known as kottar …

The 800 mts ancient lonely strecth road of Kottar has been an ancient traditional pathway in the middle of the fields in corlim village which also connects the road for locals to walk from mari bhat to manguearrar ward a ward which is a part of the caramoblim village is famous for sluice gates …

But recently the same 800 mts kottar road has been a serious concern for locals an unwanted issues of alcohol, drugs and also prostitution seems to have been taking place along the stretch both in day and night time and locals fear that issues such as rape or murder can take place along the stretch at any given time …

A local village speaking to herald correspondent said “ though this 800 mts stretch was used as one of road to gone in to the fields or for fishing in olden days now this road is becoming dangerous as many a time we see various things taking place such as at one stretch you would find a group of youths partying with alcohol, at another stretch one could notice young youth smoking and no one know whether it is cigarette or drugs and not only that you would also find couples on the same stretch coming in car’s, bikes and doing what not till late night as the whole stretch is a black out area and everyone is doing freely whatever they want” …

The villager also stated “one would be surprised that recently some of our boys who had gone for a walk along the stretch were surprised to find a whole lot of condoms, undergarment’s clothes’, beer-can’s and other items along the whole stretch which made us to think as what is going on here and few days back to our surprise at 8 in the night we noticed that there were over fifteen to sixteen boys in different groups at various corners along the stretch and at one corner in the middle of the road there was a 16 year old girl along with a boy sitting on a bike and busy chatting till late and thinking about the delhi rape gang incident if by chance any things happens to the 16 year old girl who would be blamed then and whose name would be spoiled and therefore I am happy and thankful to old goa police that they have decided to be more strict and keep an eye on such streets which are lonely and could be used for unwanted issues,

Old goa police inspector rajesh mardolkar over the issue said “ we do belevie that such type of lonely stretch roads are of serious concerns and therefore have decided to keep an eye on such roads and bad elements day and night and would also ask the local corlim panchayat to light up the road area with road lights in the next few days “

Meanwhile local panch members goraknath kerkar said “I have also heard about such incidents taking place along the kottar road and therefore the panchayat not wasting anytime further would see that the electric poles along the kottar stretch are installed with lights and the panchayat from their side would right to the old goa police station to see that more strict vigil is maintained on such lonely area roads in corlim village …

Former transport minister and cumbarjua mla pandurang madkaikar has said that though he might leave politics in life but would not leave the congress party which would be his first and last choice..

Mr madkaikar was speaking to herald correspondent on the sidelines of inaugurating the hot mixing works of the 4.73 kms stretch from the kadamba by pass road to navelkar estate recently in old goa village panchayat and attended by old goa sarpanch vishal volvoikar along with panch members janita madkaikar, vinay naik and others ..…

The works have been undertaken by the public works department and has been estimated to the tune of over a crore and is estimated to be completed within the next few days time …

Speaking further over the rumors of madkaikar name being figured as one of among the four trying to switch over to the bjp party Madkaikar said “I am silent that doesn’t means that I want to jump in to another party as no way I would do this as congress would be my first and last party which I would be in before leaving politics and at the moment we are silent is that we want to give the parrikar government time to function though in the past few months the government has been functioning very slow but still we hope that the present chief minister manohar parrikar would do many more development of the state and presently I also do not have any problems as far as getting my developmental works done from the bjp led government”

Madkaikar said “I am happy that the present government is not treating us differently but same as what an mla has to get a treatment from a government as presently the second bridge from cumbarjua-gaundalim would be started along with other projects such as repair works of st estevam ground, carambolim ground and therefore I can say that we are getting full cooperation from the parrikar led government”

Asked about his reaction on the recent issue undertaken b y villagers of corlim of stopping huge constructions projects coming in the jurisdiction of corlim village madkaikar said “I do believe that it is the right of the local villagers to decide as what type of development they want and what they have to object to and then could put the same suggestions in front of their concerned  panchayat who I do belevie have to abide by the villagers suggestions as if huge projects do keep on coming in village areas then it would be the villagers who would suffer from water, roads, electricity and other amenities and therefore it is the rights of the villagers to oppose as what they do not want in their villager and panchayat have to take it in to consideration”

Madkaikar also stated that “if proper infrastructure is created with proper planning before giving permission for construction projects then it is a different case but in the corlim village there is no planning yet done in terms of basic amenities by the local village panchayat and it’s a surprise as how the panchayat has gone ahead and given permission for such huge construction projects without locals approval”

Panaji, December 24, 201 …. Chief Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar has extended warm wishes to people of Goa on the occasion of Christmas popularly known as “Natal”.

In his message Chief Minister said, the festival of Christmas is a symbol of love and compassion  and celebrated in many parts of the world with joy and enthusiasm.

Let us on this occasion dedicate ourselves to strengthen the unity and promote national integration and take Goa to new heights of progress and prosperity.

Panaji, December 24, 2012 …   The Governor of Goa Shri Bharat Vir Wanchoo has extended his warmest greetings and best wishes to the people of Goa on the most auspicious and joyous occasion of Christmas.

The Governor says, on this very special day, we celebrate the Birthday of Lord Jesus Christ, whose eternal and most valuable message of love, peace, sacrifice, tolerance and brotherhood continues to influence and inspire the entire humanity.  Our country is a proud inheritor of a secular society, where people belonging to different faiths have traditionally lived in harmony, amity, social solidarity and unity.

The celebration of religious and spiritual occasions like Christmas, have great relevance and importance in maintaining brotherhood and unity among the brethren of our country.  Let us, therefore, on the auspicious eve of Christmas, take a vow to promote and practice the valuable message given to us by Lord Jesus Christ, which will make the human society happier and more peaceful to live in. May the celebrations of Christmas this year, bring renewed joy, lasting peace and greater prosperity to one and all he concluded.

Panaji: December 24, 2012 …. The   Minister for Women  South Goa Sightseeing Packages and Child Development Shri  Dilip  Parulekar has said that the Government has given thrust on providing adequate facilities to schools . He said the objective behind this is to create favourable atmosphere in schools.

This was stated by shri Parulekar at Padal Bethoda where he was chief guest for a inaugural function of Anganwadi Centre . The function was organized by the Directorate of Women and Child Development.

Speaking further Shri Parulekar advised the parents to provide proper attention towards the nourishment   and all-round development of their children so as to enable them to emerge as a good citizen. Anganwadi Centers are the centers of moulding the children to develop with balanced personality. Therefore Anganwdi centers play a vital role in shaping the personality of children at primary level. Hence the Government intends to  strengthen infrastructures for Anganwadi  Centres  by providing  building with  adequate  facilities he informed.

The Industries Minister Shri Mahadev Naik announced that the Government has planned to construct a new building for high school equipped with adequate facilities in Bethoda . The Government has also plans to construct new buildings for Anganwadi Centers wherever required in Shiroda  Constituency he added.

Shri Naik further informed about the various developmental works which have been completed, which are in progress and which are to be taken up in future in Shiroda area.

Smt. Reshma Pai Kuchelkar, Manager GSIDC, Shri Umesh Naik, Consulting Engineer GSIDC and others were present on the occasion.

Smt. Poonam Sawant, Sarpanch welcomed the guests. Shri Durgaprasad Ward Member compered the function. While Shri. Sadanand Gaonkar, Dy. Sarpanch proposed the vote of thanks.