10-march -2013 … – Stating that the procedure in to the appointment of a lokayukta was a suspected one ncp spokesperson trojano demello on Monday asked the state government to lay on the floor of the house certain recommendations made by retired judge p sudarshan reddy over lokayukta in the coming assembly session …

Addressing media persons at the party head office in Panjim ncp spokesperson trojano demello on Monday question the three names of the retired judges who names had figured in the list of the candidates without applying for the post of a lokayukta …

 Trojano said there was a need for the state chief minister to make it public as how the procedure was followed in selecting the candidate for the post of a lokayukta and had to made to public to all

9-march -2013 … – With a view to tackle garbage management issues in to the village jurisdiction of corlim the members of the village Panchayat of corlim on Friday held its first garbage awareness meet inside the pda colony of corlim village …

Hundreds of locals participated in the awareness meet which was organized by the corlim village panchayat members with the support of a sygenta limited company situated in corlim village through its ngo margdarshak with the help of (VRecycle) a private waste management services who have taken the initiative to start this pilot project in the village

It may be noted that the project which is just in its initial stages would help in tackling the issues of present waste management situation of the village of corlim where in the management of waste generated in and around corlim villages specially the dry waste would be collected twice in a week by the labourers of v-recycle and then the same would be sorted out at a sorting station situated in corlim industrial estate

The over all aim of the project is to have a plastic free and clean village that uses sustainable model that has cent collection compliance with an environment friendly treatment and disposal system

Addressing locals over the issue of waste management Clinton vaz of v-recycle informed as how to segregate dry and wet waste which would help his labourer to work in a good way

Sygenta’s Project manager for solid waste management for corlim village Andrew dsouza and panch member of corlim village Panchayat victor Pereira also spoke on the occasion

8-march -2013 … – Having said that Portugal and goa should aim for better economic ties the ambassador of Portugal to India, Dr Jorge Roza de Oliveira on Thursday said that there was a need to tap goan markets as to available the goods that were freely available in goa …

About 10-15 industrialists from Portugal met up with members of local industry on Thursday at a get-together for business organized by the Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Industrialists from Portugal were from diverse sectors such as agro-food, wines, software, automobile components, aeronautics and tourism among others.

Addressing members of the industry at a meeting of industrialists from Portugal and Goa, the ambassador Dr Jorge Roza de Oliveira said they were looking at culture and business from the delegation meet …

Dr oliveira said though there were many proposal that were to be spoken at the meet the main topics to look and discussed from were the agro and wines business

 Meanwhile GCCI president, Mr Manguirish Pai Raikar said that they were looking for an opportunity for exporting the products which are manufacture in the state of goa

7-march -2013 … After certain ngo’s had made their demands of asking the state government to form a goa mining development corporation the Sangum mla subash phaldesai on Friday also supported the demand of goa government forming a goa mining development corporation which would help the mining affected people to get their problems solved from the mining related issues ….

Speaking to goanreporter  sanguem mla subash phaldesai said today there was a need to form such mining corporation as if it was there than certain employess would have not been retrenched by the government like that which have been done now by certain mine owners

Subash said that some of the mine owners had taken away their business out of goa leaving their employees starving and suffered today

Meanwhile commenting over the issue chairman and managing director of rajaram bandekar sirigao mines pvt ltd narayan r bandekar said that he was interested in doing business and such proposal earlier had not succeeded and therefore welcomed any good suggestion coming from any sector though mining had to start …

Meanwhile congress spokesperson sudip tamankar asked the state government to give loans to the mining affected people through the edc department and mentioned that the same could be retaken back through installments once the mining had started

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