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APPLICATIONS INVITED TO RUN A FAIR PRICE SHOP AT CANDOLIM

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Panaji, January 08, 2013 …. Applications are invited from the  interested parties, residing in the locality of Candolim, Bardez  Viz Registered Co-operative Societies, Educated Unemployed, individuals belonging to  Scheduled Caste/Tribes,  Freedom Fighters, physically handicapped and others having spacious premises for  handling and storing P.D.S. and non P.D.S. commodities and should  be  financially sound, with reasonable business to run a Fair Price Shop.

Majority of the Registered Co-operative Society are necessarily required to be of Educated unemployed and  should be one the five register of Employment Exchange for 2 years and they should be within the age limit of 18 to 35 years of each members.

Educated unemployed should  have passed S.S.C.E. through any recognized  school in Goa State and should be in the live register of the  Employment Exchange at  least for 2 years and should be within the age  limit of 18 to 35 years. Besides, he should be completely free from  encumbrance of studied. No  Member of family definition being Father/Mother, Spouse, Unmarried Sons/ Daughters and Unmarried Brothers/Sisters living  in the same undivided family should have authorization  to run  the Fair Price Shop in the Goa State.

The applications should reach to the Office of the Mamlatdar of Bardez- Goa, on or before January 30, 2013.

RULES FOR THE USE OF GOVERNMENT MOTOR VEHICLES AMENDED

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Panaji, January 08, 2013 …. The Government  has amended with immediate effect the ‘Rules for the  use of Government Motor Vehicles of the Government of Goa’.

In rule 26 of the Principal Rules for the use of Government Motor Vehicles of the Government of Goa, and  its amendments issued vide Notification dated 15/11/1990 shall be substituted as under: “26- The Secretaries  to Government, Heads of Department and other Officers authorized under Rule 43 are permitted to use the vehicle for private purposes also, if they so desires, subject to the condition that an amount of Rs. 500/- per month is compulsorily  deducted from their salary and fuel should not exceed quota allotted/sanctioned. Further, the exhausting fuel quota should  also not be an excuse for not performing official journeys.”

PRECAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN TO PREVENT WATERBORNE AND FOODBORNE INFECTIONS IN VIEW OF CONTAMINATION OF WATER

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Panaji, January 08, 2013 ….. In view of the contamination of water distribution lines at Cortim-Mala-Fontainhas, though the situation is brought under control by PWD, it is still  advisable to take necessary precautions by the public to prevent Waterborne and Foodborne infections viz Typhoid, Diarrhoea, Cholera, Viral Hepatitis etc.

Common symptoms of these infections are Fever, Nausea, Vomiting, Loose Motions, Jaundice, Abdominal Pain and Fatigue.

These diseases are easily preventable and general public is requested to take following measures for prevention.  Good personal hygiene is the single most important preventive measure; Consumption of boiled water i.e. water should be boiled for atleast  2C min  before consumption; Consume freshly cooked food; Do not consume water, milkshakes, fruit juices and eatables from roadside vendors; Maintain cleanliness  in surrounding and do not throw garbage in open; Never do self-medication or take medicines directly from chemist shop.  Medicines should always  be taken after getting proper advice from a qualified doctor.

All cases with above mentioned symptoms should immediately report  to the nearest  Health Centre or Physician.

E – GOVERNANCE AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR TRANSPARENCY: PHALDESSAI

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Panaji, January 8, 2013 …. E Governance is the perfect conceptual solution for smooth and transparent functioning of the Government process stated MLA and Chairman of ITG Shri Subhash Phaldessai today while addressing the gathering after inaugurating the seminar on Specialized Training for E-Governance Programme at Internatinal Centre, Donapaula. Fishing Trips in Goa

The Seminar has been organized by the Department of Information and Technology in association with Goa Electronics Ltd, and ITG which was attended by the HOD’s of various Government Departments.

Speaking further Shri Phaldesai said, E – Governance creates ways for transparency, cost reduction, instant response and productive output to the citizens in the state. The Goa Government has taken up this project on war footing in order to bring the various government schemes to the doorstep of the people, he added.

Dattaprasad Naik, Chairman of GEL, Shri Piyush Gupta, Associates Vice President of National Associates, Shri Subhash Bhatnagar, Advisor to NIC, Hydrabad, Shri B. S. Borkar, MD, GEL, Shri J. S. R. Anand, SIO, NIC graced the inaugural function.

Earlier Shri Nilesh Phaldesai, Director, DOIT welcomed the guests. Ms, Sneha Sirsat compered the function.

state bjp party annouces its state executive committee

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8-jan-2013 …. The state bharatiya janata party on Tuesday announced its state executive committee which along with its present vinayak tendulkar would have six vice presidents, two general secretary, six secretaries, four spokesperson and a organization general secretary …

The committee would also have 60 members along with 21 permanent invitees which includes chief minister Manohar Parrikar, north goa mp shripad naik, bjp minister’s, mla’s  and fourteen members as special invitees …

Addressing media briefing at the party head office in Panjim on Tuesday afternoon bjp president vinay tendulkar gave more details of the state executive committee names listed for the next three year term…

 the state executive committee has six vice presidents  such as dattaprasad, prabhakar kholkar, govind parvatkar, anil hoble, neena naik, sanjay harmalkar, nilesh cabral, along with two general secretaries- sadanand tanawade, narendra sawaikar, six secretaries- shilpa naik, sheikh jina, satyavijay naik, siddhi shetye, bhamtu velip, josehpine d’cruz, one treasurer- sanjeev desai, four spokesperson- vishnu wagh, dr wilfred mesquita, damu naik, dr pramod sawant along with a general secretary organisation satish dhond

goa state police department initiates Women Helpline – 1091 in goa.

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7-jan-2013 … Women in the society are vulnerable to various forms of crime including sexual assault, eve teasing and domestic violence. Every women victim deserves not only a patient hearing at the Police Station by the Reporting Officer, but also a quick response and follow up on her complaint, so that her trust and confidence in law enforcement agency does not get lost.  In order to fine tune the response of police officers at the police station level and increase the accessibility and health of women victims certain concrete measures have been adopted for the existing mechanism of Women Parasailing in Goa Helpline to ensure that women victims of crime get quick justice.

1091 an exclusive Women Help Line Number of Goa Police will be functional round the clock in Central Police Control Room, Panaji.

The dedicated Help line number (1091) can be dialed by any women victim of crime in the Central Police Control Room.

The calls received centrally by Central Police Control Room (CPCR) will be immediately transferred to the nearest Police Control Room vans as well as respective jurisdictional police stations for further necessary action.

The PCR calls related to victims who are resident of Panaji Town and Margao Town will be handled exclusively by the Women Police Stations situated in Panaji as well as Margao.

All such calls related to both these towns will be referred to the concerned Women Police Stations by Central Police Control Room (CPCR).

However, all other calls will be referred to by the Central Police Control Room (CPCR) to respective police stations and will be handled by the respective Police Stations only.

Redistribution of Women Police:

Ø   Every Police Station will have 2-3 LPC and 2-3 LHC.

Ø   Women PS will have 1 PI, 2 WPSI and adequate number of LPCs/LHCs.

Reaching out to people on regular basis:

Regular communication by local Police with people to understand their problems related to various aspects of policing is very important.  It is in this backdrop Goa Police has recently launched “Saad – Sanvaad” community policing scheme where regular interaction by District SsP has started in their respective jurisdiction.

To make senior officers available for redressal of public grievances, the District SsP in South and North and all SDPOs will be available for members of public on working days at their respective district Headquarters between 4.30 pm to 5.30 pm.  Residents can meet them with their problems.

All PIs of PS will also be available for hearing public grievances in their respective Police Stations between 4.30 pm to 5.30 pm daily.

Any complainant who is not satisfied with local PI, and has also exhausted other proper channels of grievance redressal can meet Director General of Police, Goa on working day between 11 a.m. to 12 p.m

members of goa mining people’s front meet chief minister manohar parrikar sought as why state government has not put their say over the mining issue in the supreme court

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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 17th 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 ..

 

CM LAUNCHES GRIHA AADHAR SCHEME SANCTION LETTERS GIVEN TO 7703 BENEFICIARIES IN GOA

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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.

Press Release For the day as on 27.12.2012 pertaining to the cases Registered

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Press Release For the day as on 27.12.2012 pertaining to the cases Registered

                             at below mentioned Police Stations / Units are as under.                    

                    NORTH GOA DISTRICT

PANAJI PS: Shri Abdul Rehman r/o Scuba Diving in Goa   Merces complained that on 25.12.12 at 01.15  near  Children’s  garden Campal,, unknown  accused person  rode his Activa  scooter in a  rash and negligent  manner and  on reaching  near  Childrens  garden Campal, without  taking proper cautions took his  scooter  towards right side  and dashed  to pulsar  M/Cycle  No.GA-07-F-0731  as a result of the impact  he fell down on the  road and  sustained  fracture  injury to his  left  leg. Further unknown rider of Activa scooter fled away from the spot along with his scooter. Cr.No.386/12 u/s 279, 338 and 134 (a) (b) of M.V. Act stands registered. HC- Sanjeev V. Salunke is I.O.

CALANGUTE PS: Mr. Manohar Parulkar complained that between 23.00 hrs. on 26.12.12 to 09.15 hrs. on 27.12.12 un shop  No.441 B Web  World, Wadi-Candolim, unknown accused   person effected  entry into his  shop by  breaking  the wire  net  fitted  to the  hole of  exhaust  fan and committed  theft of  cash of Rs.8,00,000/- including  both  Indian  and  foreign currency. Cr.No.303/12 u/s 457, 380 IPC stands registered.

PONDA PS: Shri Irfan s/o Haidar Khan, age 38 yrs. r/o Ganjem- Usgao complained that on 26.12.12 at 13.30 hrs,  at Usgao, accused  person Mohammed Ishmit s/o Mohammed Akhtar, age 19 yrs,  r/o Betoda  n/o  U.P. driving  Rickshaw No. GA-02-V-6837, stole  six big old  tyres  and  one  sumo Jeep  tyre  belonging  to him  which  were kept  in an open  public  place  in front of his house  all W/Rs. 10,000/-. Cr.No.395/12 u/s 379 IPC stands registered. ASI P.B.  Gawade is I. O.

ECONOMIC CELL PANAJI:Shri  Edney Herdia  r/o  Edmar House , Ella-Old Goa  complained that  between October 2011  to till date at  Banners Broker India  Ltd. , Alfran Plaza  Panaji,  accused  person  namely  Mrs.  Ana Luisa Onofre Alves Bento  and others induced  him and others to invest  in the  company styled  as  Banners Broker Indi a Ltd. with promise  of high returns and when was entrusted  with his funds  and of other  investors, failed  to provide the promised returns,  misappropriated  the funds  and hence  cheated the him  and other  Goan  investors  to the  tune of Rs.15 lakh approx.  The scheme  of the  company  is also  in the  contravention  of the Prize chits and  money  circulation  schemes ( banning )  Act  1978 . Cr.No.41/12 u/s 406, 420 IPC and u/s 4, 5, 6, of the Prize   chits and money circulation schemes Act 1978 is registered. PSI S.  Padwalkar is I.O.

SOUTH GOA DISTRICT

CUNCOLIM PS: On 27.12.12, one Miss Suvarna d/o Chandrakant Velip, age 30 yrs. r/o Kasapwada Chawdi, Netravali  Sanguem  admitted in  GMC Bambolim  as a  case of burn  injuries, expired while undergoing medical treatment. U.D.No.37/12 u/s 174 Cr. P. C. stands registered. PI R. V. Raut Desai is I.O.

VASCO PS: Vivek Kumar r/o INS Hansa Dabolim complained that on 13.11.12 between 10.00 hrs.  to 11.00 hrs.  at place  not known  unknown  person impersonated  him and  withdrew cash of  Rs. 1,23,140/-  by different  transaction  from the  debit card of SBI, Chicalim  Branch  belonging  to him  through the  internet  thereby  cheated  him  to the  tune of Rs.1,23,140. Cr.No.250/12 u/s 419 IPC and 43, 66-C and 66-D of Information and Technology Act 2000. PI R. A.  Shetgaonkar is I. O.

VERNA PS:

Sister of the victim girl complained that on 03.08.12 at about 10.00 hrs.  near  Mahalsa  Temple, IDC, Verna  accused  person  namely 1)  Shabu Khan, Contractor, 2) Manoj  and 3)  Sunil both  Security Guard ( full name  and address not known)  kidnapped  victim girl , age 06 yrs.  from their lawful custody. Cr.No.198/12 u/s 363 and Sec 8 of Goa Children Act stands registered.

goa to observe national road safety week

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28-dec-2012 … The 24th National Road Safety Week will be observed from 1st to 7th January, 2013 in the state of Goa.  This year the theme is “Stay Alive, Don’t Drink & Drive”. Goa Traffic Police being one of the stake holders has decided to undertake various activities during this week for spreading the Road Safety Awareness amongst all road users including pedestrians and students. Goa Traffic Police will be conducting various Traffic Education Programme all over Goa covering students, road users, motorists etc. Besides these, following are the competitions organized to create awareness amongst the School children and citizens on Traffic Rules and disciplines.

1.      Essay Writing Competition: An Essay Competition will be held for Senior Citizens on topic “Traffic Problems Then & Now – What Younger Generation should learn from us?” The Essay will be of maximum 500 words and the best three entries will be awarded Rs. 3,000/-, Rs. 2,000/- & Rs. 1,000/- respectively.

2.      Essay Writing Competition: This will be held for Higher Secondary Students and the topic will be “Traffic Rules and Your Parents”. The Essay will be of maximum 500 words and the best three entries will be awarded Rs. 3,000/-, Rs. 2,000/- & Rs. 1,000/- respectively and three Consolation Prizes of Rs. 500/- each.

 3.      Photography Competition: It will be an open category competition. The topic will be “Traffic through the Eyes of Citizens” and the best three entries will be awarded Rs. 3,000/-, Rs. 2,000/- & Rs. 1,000/- respectively and three Consolation Prizes of Rs. 500/- each.

4.      Poster Drawing Competition: This also will be an open category competition with topic “Thanking a Thankless Job – Traffic Cop” and the best three entries will be awarded Rs. 3,000/-, Rs. 2,000/- & Rs. 1,000/- respectively and three Consolation Prizes of Rs. 500/- each.

5.      Poster Drawing Competition: This Poster Drawing Competition will be only for College Section Students. The topic will be “Family Trauma After Accident” and the best three entries will be awarded   Rs. 3,000/-, Rs. 2,000/- & Rs. 1,000/- respectively and three Consolation Prizes of Rs. 500/- each.

6.      Drawing Competition: It will be organized for students of Class VIII to X with topic “Traffic – Your Idea (Good, Bad & Ugly)”. The best three entries will be awarded Rs. 3,000/-, Rs. 2,000/- & Rs. 1,000/- respectively and three Consolation Prizes of Rs. 500/- each.

7.      Slogan Competition on Traffic Scenario: This will be an open category competition and the best three entries will be awarded Rs. 500/-, Rs. 300/- & Rs. 200/- respectively and three Consolation Prizes of Rs. 150/- each.

8.      On the Spot Quiz Contest: The said contest will be held on road by randomly stopping the motorist as well as to the students while giving road safety lectures. He/she will be asked three simple questions pertaining to Traffic Laws and on the spot prize will be awarded to those answering all three questions correctly.

9.  On the spot Prizes for Traffic Rule Abiders: Those motorists found driving/riding by complying all traffic laws will be randomly stopped and rewarded.

The entries for all the above contest except Drawing Competition to reach in the office of the Superintendent of Police, Traffic, Traffic Headquarters, Near Joggers Park, Altinho Panaji on or before 15th January, 2013 by 5.00 pm. As regards to the Drawing Competition it is informed that it will be conducted by Traffic Police in the participating Schools itself on 15/01/2013. The drawing material like papers and crayons will be made available by Traffic Police to the students.

For any other further information, the participants may contact Police Inspector, Traffic Education Cell on the number 0832-2426580 or 7875756073 on any working day or else contact the nearest Traffic Cells in Goa.