Panaji, December 22, 2012 … The Deputy Chief minister Shri Francisco De Souza has said that the education is the best investment to higher up in life and lead a happy and  comfortable life. He appealed to the parents to give good and higher education to their children.

Shri Desouza was speaking as a chief guest for annual social gathering and prize distribution function organized by Shree Dayanand Arya High School at Neura in Tiswadi yesterday.

Speaking further Shri De Souza said it is the responsibility of every one of us to provide healthy atmosphere to our children to enhance their inborn so that  they emerge as responsible and worthy citizens of the country. He told parents to interact with their teachers about the progress of their children. There is no alternative to education as it is a key to all-round development he further added.

Shri Desouza congratulated the students who received awards for educational excellence and cocurricular activities. He also appreciated the teachers and the staff for their endeavor to achieve students progress.

Prof. Ramrao Wagh Chairman of AZMANE High School advised the students to acquire technical education to secure jobs in the industrial sector. He appealed to the students to avail the Government schemes like Goa Scholar to pursue higher studies in abroad. He congratulated the recipients of awards. He also appreciated the NGO Rotary Club for their commendable services in educational field and adopting the Dayanand Arya High School for this purpose.

SirCharles Bonifacio Immediate Past President Rotary Mid Town-Panaji also spoke on the occasion.

Shri  Vinod Kamat Sarpanch, Shri Vithu Narvekar Chairman of the High School,Shri Shashikant Naik, Chairman PTA, and other members of the managing Committee and staff and teacherswere present on the cassion.

Shri Madhav K. Kharvi, Head Master presented the annual report of the school activities. Shri Shashikant Sawant ,Gen. Secretary welcomed and introduced the guests. Smt. Uma Vaze Savoikar  compered the function.

22-dec-2012 … Dabolim mla mauvin godinho on Friday expressed satisfaction over the bjp led manohar Parrikar government stating that the present North Goa Sightseeing Packages government had given him a good treatment as far as carrying out his developmental works in his constituency were concerned and mentioned that the treatment was even better than his own erstwhile congress government who sometimes had put obstructions in his files being passed …

Speaking to media reporters Godinho said that he was happy with the Parrikar led government who was not discrimination between ruling and opposition and was getting the same cooperation which he would have to get from a ruling party

 Stating that he was sidelined in the state government during the kamat led government Godinho said that for no reason also he was sacked from the president of campaign committee and presently even after so many thing it seems that the congress party has not learnt any lessons also while choosing the leader of the congress legislature party …

 Commenting over the upcoming loksabha elections Godinho also stated that like he was firm in his decision of state congress party going along in state assembly election he was also of the opinion that both the south and north goa parliamentary seats the state congress party had to go alone and fight for it

22-dec-2012 … in keeping with the spirit of Christmas and their annual tradition of donating to noble causes, the Goan welfare association, Qatar, on Saturday donated Rs. 2 lakh to Caritas Goa.

President of the association simon d’silva handed over the Rs. 2 lakh cheque to archbishop filipe neri ferrao in the presence of former chief minister luizinho faleiro,

Former Caritas Goa director Fr Valerian Vaz and present caritas director fr maverick Fernandes and others

The Goan welfare association, Qatar has been donating regularly for charitable causes in Goa in the past few years last year and has also helped victims of tsunami, the Gujarat earthquake, to children rights and you (CRY) and other organizations

Speaking on the occasion caritas goa director fr maverick Fernandes thanked the association for help caritas goa with a noble cause …

President Goan welfare association, Qatar, Simon D’Silva thanked Vaz and former Goa chief minister luizinho faleirowho guided and converted the association altruistic desires into reality.

22-dec-2012 … Chief minister Manohar Parrikar along with porvorim mla rohan khaunte and aldona mla glen ticlo on Friday evening carried a joint site inspection of the porvorim constituency along with the porvroim market area and promised to get the market complex ready within the next one year …

Various government officials concerned with the porvorim market project were also a part of the inspection team where in chief minister along with the porvorim mla and others inspected various place in and around porvorim constituency

 Speaking to media reporters chief minister Manohar Parrikar said the issues seems to have been pending due to difference of opinion and the same would be solved in the next five to six days

 Porvorim mla rohan khaunte said that since they were concerned about the congestion taking place in porvorim area they were trying to shift the market in the same vicinity and with cm intervention he expect the work to be taken up in a war footing basis …

 Meanwhile aldona mla and chairman of housing board glen ticlo said his department was working for a proper planning systems and it would be done in the next few days

21-dec-2012 …. Having said that a wrong procedure was followed by the event organizers of sun burn Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar on Friday

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said that if proper procedures were not followed by the organizers then no permission would be granted to an event like sunburn though navelim mla and fisheries minister avertano furtado impressed of shifting the sunburn event to south goa ….

Speaking to media reporters tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar said though the single committee was yet too decided over the issue of sun burn event to be held in goa till date no permissions were given to the concerned party though wrong procedures were been followed by the event organizers of promoting the event for which permissions were yet to be given from the state government side ….

 Commenting over the issue of sunburn event to be shifted to south goa Parulekar said that even some of the mla’s from south goa side had also urged him for shifting the event like sunburn to south goa …

 Meanwhile fisheries minister and navelim mla avertano furtado said that shifting the sunburn event was the right idea to have the event in south goa …

21-dec-2012 …. Tourism minister dilip parulekar on Friday expressed surprise over the wind-song musical festival event which would be held in baga on the 4^th and 25^th of December during Christmas time ….

Windsong a percept event would witness 22 Indian bans performing folk jazz rock funk blues and soul music on 2 stages at baga grounds and would also feature popular singers like remo Fernandes, lucky ali, rabbi shergil, monica dogra, anushka machanda, ankur tiwari, agnee strings and many more ….

Speaking to media reporters on Friday tourism minister dilip parulekar said that he or his department was not aware of any such event like wind-song being held in baga area as no one had applied for any permission for the event till date to his department …

But to a surprise over the tourism minister dilip parulekar statement managing director of percept shailendra singh informed media in his briefing that appropriate permission were been taken for the event from the state government and the file was already been put up with the appropriate authority …

21-dec-2012 …. Expressing their Romantic Dinner Cruise in Goa sentiments towards the leadership of the state chief minister Manohar Parrikar some of the concerned ministers of the state bjp government on Friday stated that the state chief minister Manohar Parrikar should not be allowed to be made as as the president of the central bjp party ….

It may be noted that the first term of Nitin Gadkari as BJP president comes came to an  end on Thursday after which various senior names along with the state chief minister Manohar Parrikar was considered for the party’s top post though party sources said that despite corruption charges gadkari was about to continue to lead the party for now.

Speaking to media reporter’s deputy chief minister francis D’souza said that goans had voted parrikar government for five years and therefore goans needed Parrikar in goa for the development of the state

Meanwhile Health minister and senior leader of the state bjp party laxmikhant parsekar also said that Parrikar should be in the state so as to continue his good work and better service towards the development of the state

21-dec-2012 …. Accusing casinos of harassing Jet Lev India Accessories  the goan youths employed with them, Porvorim MLA Rohan Khaunte along with goan youth’s who services were terminated by the casino’s met the labour minister avertano furtado on Friday morning and asked him to take strict action on the casino officials over the issue and also demanded to ask the casino officials to take back the goan youth back on jobs ….

It may be noted that even though the issue was raised in the last budget assembly session by the porvorim mla there has been no improvement in working style of the concerned casinos who have started to employ more non-Goans while the Goan youth have been given step-motherly treatment.

In a discussion held with the labour minister avertano furtado in his office at the secretariat porvorim mla rohan khaunte asked mr furtado to look in to the matter and see that the terminated employees were taken back by the casino officials to work on the casinos ….

Speaking to media reporter’s porvorim mla rohan khaunte giving more details about the discussion said that the labor department officials had not taken up the matter seriously due to which the casino officials were treating local goan’s in a bad way …

Khaunte hoped that now at least the concerned department would take of the goans and take them back for services as soon as possible which was one of his major demand

 Meanwhile labour minister avertano furtado assured to take strict action on the casino officials who were trying to terminate goans and employs non goans on goan casinos …

The state tourism minister Dilip Parulekar on Thursday expressed his surprise over the remarks made by the former home minister ravi naik who had stated that events like sun burn had allowed bad elements along with drugs to enter in to the state of goa and therefore it should not be allowed

Sunburn is an electronic dance music festival held over three days. The festival has multiple stages with artists playing simultaneously daily. The festival is an amalgamation of music, entertainment, food and shopping

It may be noted that the Former home minister ravi naik speaking to goa365 on Wednesday had accused the bjp led government of trying to support events such as sun burn stated on which he had raised his objections of being held in goa and had asked for a ban on it ….

Speaking over the matter tourism minister Dilip Parulekar questioned the former home minister as what he was doing during the earlier congress government when the police officials themselves were selling drugs

Parulekar said he had already asked the organizers to go to the south so that the north goa coastal belt was not congested during the Christmas season …

Meanwhile managing director of percent shailendra singh said that he had no option whatsoever to shift the sunburn event from north to south goa

20-dec-2012 …. In order to get central funds for some Jet Lev India of the state tourism related projects it seems that the state tourism department have been able to impress the central tourism minister dr chirangeevi who has assured the state tourism minister Dilip Parulekar of helping with at least a sum of over 300 crores of rupees in the next financial year ….

The state tourism minister was speaking to media reporters at his office at the secretariat where he informed the media that he along with his department officials had met the central tourism minister who had confirmed his visit to the state during the carnival festival next year as a chief guest and would also announced a special package of funds for goa’s tourism related projects ……

 Parulekar said that he in front of the central tourism minister had put up projects such as goa’s beach erosion of which 50 crores were already assured, safe guarding heritage places, one time investments on projects such as beach cleaning and beach security

Parulekar said that the central government had also raised their apprehensions over the previous state governments for not utilizing the 150 crores of central government funds for state tourism related projects

Parulekar also said that his department was also studying the matter over how to take back the tourism land given on lease in sinquerim to a five star resort while the proposal of rope way from Miramar to reis magos fort was already in the pipeline and the same would take over a year to get completed