13/06/2014 …. Not even a single pie would be paid to arihant contractors until and unless the officials of the national institute of oceanography states that the candolim beach was cleared from the debris of river princess said tourism director Nikhil dessai

It may be noted that earlier in May 2012, Arihant had submitted a report to the tourism department claiming that they had removed the ship in its entirety but later a subsequent survey done by NIO had established that substantial portions of the ship still remained under the sand.

Speaking to goanreporter director of tourism nikhil dessai said as work was still going on of removing the remaining debris of river princess and till date over 4000 tonnes of metal scrap was removed from the sea lying below the sea and goa shipyard limited was monitoring the whole process

Dessai said once goa shipyard had informed that the process was completed the department would ask the services of nio to conduct an underwater survey and then only could take a final decision of making a payment to the arihant contractors

12/06/2014 … With the prime minister of india to make his maiden public visit to goa on Saturday members of the all india trade union congress goa branch on Thursday has hoped of prime minister modi of making statements on resumption of mining activities’ in to the state of goa as soon as possible

Addressing media persons general secretary of aituc goa branch Christopher fonseca said that everyone in the state would like to welcome the prime minister of the county in goa and also hope that mr modi would focus on the key issues of the state and also tell the people of goa as when the mining activities in the state would start

Fonseca said that he had failed to understand as why there was a delay from the state government side to start legal mining activities in goa when the Supreme Court had given full power to the state government to start legal mining with proper guidelines

Fonseca also stated that there should be no politics in the mining issue and it had to resume as early as possible

11/06/2014 …. In its first public programme after taking over as the prime minister of the country Prime minister of india shri narendra modi would inaugurate the start up work for the 470 crores new mandovi bridge which would be constructed in a 24 months’ time said chief minister Manohar parrikar on Wednesday

prime minister narendra modi who would be in goa on Saturday at ins hansa in vasco would also interact with bjp booth level worker’s at goa university indoor stadium followed by inauguration for the start up work of new mandovi bridge at kala academy and later would have interaction with 100-150 invitees at a five star resort in the capital city

 Addressing media person’s chief minister manohar Parrikar said that most of the clearances for the new Mondovi bridge were on board and were expecting for the actual work to start by mid September

 Parrikar said the bridge was a four lane bridge with a distance of around 2.2 kms and would solve the problems of people from bardez area

 Commenting over his visit to Delhi chief minister Parrikar said that he had made courtesy visit to various minister of the modi led government and had while interacting with the central environment minister had specially spoke on issues like Kasturirangan report, buffer zone, green tribunal and other issues related to environment …

10/06/2014 …. St andre mla vishnu surya wagh has assured people of Bambolim curca village in st andre constituency of giving proper water supply as well as power supply in their village by taking up the concerned developmental works with his government …

Mr wagh was addressing locals villagers of curca bambolim village after inaugurating a kadamba vehicle for the villagers of Bambolim, gmc colony, old bambolim and naushim in st andre constituency

Mr wagh had requested the ktc chairman mr carlos almeida for a kadamba bush for local villagers who had been deprived of bus facilities for the past thirty five years …

Meanwhile deputy sarpanch diona khorgaonkar of curca Bambolim village panchayat said that the kadamba bus would help the locals a lot who were finding it difficult to travel to the capital city …

09/06/2014 …. The work for the construction of the new zuari bridge would commence by november to december said Pwd minister sudhin dhavilkar on Monday

Speaking to goanreporter pwd minister sudhin dhavilkar said that the work for the construction of the zuari bridge was going on at a faster pace and the selected consultancy services would submit its project report to the pwd department by end of this month and once going through the report government of goa would send its report to ministry of road, transport and highways who then would further take the action on zuari bridge

Commenting on the number of frequent roads accidents taking place at various parts of the state Dhavlikar said that he was also concerned towards the issue even when roads of the state were in a good condition specially after national and state highways being tarred and he was also of the opinion that each and every driver of the vehicle should take a note to drive cautiously considering all the moter vehicles rules and regulations

On asked if there was a need of a suspension of the licence of a vehicle driver found in rash and negligent driving Dhavlikar said that most of the motor vehicles rules and regulations were from 80’s and he had brought this to the notice of the earlier minister’s who were also of the opinion of changing of some of the motor vehicles rules like fines and all which in the pipeline …

Dhavilakar was also of the opinion that alteast two thousand fines should be charged for those violating traffic rules while driving the vehicles and if required even suspension of license for six months

08/06/2014 …. Stating that law and order situation was detoriating in the state day by day due to the lethargy of the senior police officers coming from outside the state the state congress party on Friday also reterated the for a separate cadre of the state …

Addressing media person’s spokesperson of the state congress party durgadar kamat said that law and order situation graph rate had been increasing day by day due to the negligence of the senior police officers of the state who had no control on his low level officers

durgadas also stated that the state government should equally give grants to all the colleges in the state so as to raise down the fees level for students aspiring to study bca/bba in well known colleges

07/06/2014 … Asking for an immediate cleaning of the coastal beaches from the oil spillage and tar balls menace President of the state congress party john Fernandes on Saturday asked the state government to direct Indian coast guard to carry out immediate cleaning of the beaches from such pollution which had created danger to marine life

Addressing media person’s gpcc president john Fernandes said that it was the duty of the indian coast guard to monitor Indian waters and also to prevent such disaster on state coastlines identifying the pilferage of oil spillage and check the leakages in high sea

Commenting over the issue of a golf course coming up in north goa Fernandes said that his party was against the ideas of the concerned golf company of lifting water from the water table which was deprive water for farmers from water table …

Fernandes said that his party was totally objecting towards conversion of green paddy fields in caranzalem in to huge buildings and gave a 24 hours deadline to state government asking to take action on government officers who gave permission to such illegal projects or else warned of filing criminal cases against the concerned state government department

Fernandes also stated that the construction of a new road along the Miramar donapaula road was highly objectionable as it was not fitting in to pwd manual and was done spending public-ex chequers money

05/06/2014 …. In a way to give boost to tourism activities all round the year the state tourism minister dilip parulekar on Thursday said that the tourism department would welcome organizers who would like to hold events  like sunburn or supersonic in the state of goa in the tourism calendar year ….

It may be noted that events like sunburn which has been organized in the past few years and supersonic which had been organized in the last year had drawn a number of international event organizers to hold events of electronic dance music festivals in goa which the concerned organizers had proposed of having it during the available dates of the state tourism calendar year …

Speaking to goan reporter tourism minister dilip parulekar said that the state government intention was to see goa being known as a happening place for 365 days in a years and attracting tourism in the state his department was open for events like sun burn or supersonic being held round the year

Parulekar said that internationally acclaimed companies had approached his department for organizing tourism related activities in the state and state government would definitely give them guidance required for organizing the activities

Parulekar also stated that his department main focus was to increase international as well as domestic tourist flow in the state of goa …

04/06/2014 … In order to tackle any unforeseen incidents during the upcoming monsoon season the directorate of panchayats on Wednesday said that all the village panchayats of the state have been asked to carry out its pre monsoon village panchayats works or else action would be taken by the directorate of panchayats on the concerned village panchayats …

It may be noted that every year the directorate of panchayats do instruct state panchayats to take up the work of cleaning nullahs and storm water drains and also ask them to indentify landslide-prone areas and to undertake work to avoid landslides during the monsoon along with low lying areas which do get flooded with rain water

Locals from some of the villages of the state revealed that their village panchayats, till date, had not taken up pre-monsoon works due to which rain water had got accumulated on some of their village roads in the absence of proper drains. 

Sawant said the pre-monsoon works to be taken up by the municipalities or panchayats are the routine works, which in normal course do not come under the purview of any election code but still Yet, works are delayed. 

Sawant also agreed that some panchayats in the state were not serious about taking care of the pre monsoon works in their concerned panchayats