Panaji : March 9, 2020…. Kala Academy has declared the result of Children Drawing Competition at State Level. The prize winners at Taluka level in categories namely Primary level, middle school level and high school level were qualified to participate in the State level children drawing competition which was held on February 16, 2020 at Mushtifund High School, Cujira-Bambolim.

The detailed result is as follows:

Category Á’(Primary Level) (Std Ist to Std IVth Students) -1^st Prize – Ishaan Abhijit Desai, The Little Penguins School, Bainguinim, Old-Goa, Tiswadi, 2^nd Prize – Sarth Kamlax Tengse, Government Primary School, Koparwada, Curti-Ponda, 3^rd Prize – Neha Deulkar, Vidya Bharathi Primary School, Margao, Consolation Prizes – Avni Anand Lotlikar, Manovikas English Medium School, Margao, Anvi Prabhu, Little’s Primary School, Fatorda, Ananya Mangesh Kolap, Sharada Mandir School, Miramar, Archa Atul Naik, Vidya Bharati Primary School, Margao, Sakshi Deepak Naik and G.S, Amonkar Vidya Mandir, Mapusa.

          Category ‘B’- Middle School Level, St Vth to Std VIIth students, 1^st Prize – Nipun G. Joshi, Mahila and Nutan English High School, Margao, 2^nd Prize- Keya Phadte, Sharada Mandir School, Miramar, 3^rd Prize – Yash Kurtikar, Vidya Vrudhi School, Ponda, Consolation Prizes – Rohit K. Halder, Shree Mallikarjun Vidyalaya High School, Canacona, Pritisha Samanta, Deepvihar High School, Mormygao, Rupesh Verekar, G.S. Amonkar Vidya Mandir, Mapusa, Aditya Nitin Devalekar, Mahila and Nutan English High School, Margao and Anushree Khandeparkar, Mushtifund High School, Cujira.

          Category ‘C’- High School Level, Std VIIIth to Std Xth students,  1^st Prize, Vihav Naik Desai, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalay, Canacona, 2^nd Prize – Sufala D. Priolkar, Swastik Vidyalay, Priol-Ponda, 3^rd Prize – Shruti Shrinivas Nayak, Bhatikar Model High School, Margao, Consolation Prizes – Vedant Vishnu Borkar, Ravindra Kelekar Dyanmandir, Margao, Shrey Kumar Singh, Bhatikar Model High School, Margao, Ashvita Ashok Gosavi, Sarvodaya E.S. High School, Curchorem, Shruti B. Naik, Sarvodaya E.S. High School, Curchorem and Rajaswa Kholkar, Mahila and Nutan English High School, Margao.

          The State level children drawing competition was judged by Shri Naguesh Rao Sardesai, Shri Rajesh Chodankar and Ms. Veenita Chendvankar.

          The date of prize distribution function of Taluka Level and State Level Children Painting Competition will be informed at a later stage.

Panaji : March 04, 2020 :::: The Department of Environment, has designated various Officers as ‘Authority’ for the maintenance of the ambient air quality standards in respect of noise.

          The officers are Smt. R. Menaka, IAS Collector and District Magistrate, North Goa, Office Tel. No. 2223612, 2225383, 2427690, 2225083, Fax No. 2426492 and Mobile No. 9822123071, Shri. Ajit Roy, IAS, Collector and District Magistrate, South Goa, Office Tel. No. 2705333, 2702699, 2737566, 2714907, Fax No. 2733026, 2794402 and Mobile No. 9422439439, Shri. Dashrath Redkar, Addl. Collector-(I) and Addl. District Magistrate, North Goa, Office Tel. No. 2223418, 2225383, Fax No. 2426492 and Mobile No. 9422456712, Shri. Surendra Naik, Addl. Collector-(I) and Addl. District Magistrate, South Goa, Office Tel. No. 2794423, Fax No. 2733026 and Mobile No. 9822142132, Shri. Shashank Tripahti, IAS, Dy. Collector and Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Tiswadi, Panaji, Office Tel. No. 2225511, Fax No. 2225511 and Mobile No. 8142135900, Shri. Kedar Naik, Dy. Collector and Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Ponda, Office Tel. No. 2312469, 2311498, Fax No. 2312469 and Mobile No. 9823915623, Shri. Sudhir Kerkar, Dy. Collector and Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Bardez, Mapusa, Office Tel. No. 2262038, 2250398, Fax No. 2262038 and Mobile No. 9423139899, Shri. Sachin Desai, Dy. Collector and Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Bicholim, Office Tel. No. 2362058, 2360254, Fax No. 2362058 and Mobile No. 8668219025, Shri. Chandrakant Shetkar, Dy. Collector and Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Pernem Office Tel No. 2201142, Fax No. 2201142 and Mobile No. 9922356241, Shri. Mangaldas Gaonkar, Dy. Collector and Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Satari, Office Tel. No. Nil, Fax No. Nil and Mobile No. 9611148943, Shri. Satish Prabhu, Dy. Collector and Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Salcete, Office Tel. No. 2794145, Fax No. Nil, Mobile No. 9420687231, Shri. Paresh Fal Dessai, Dy. Collector and Sub- Divisional Magistrate, Mormugao, Vasco, Office Tel. No. 2512688, 2500565, Fax No. 2512688 and Mobile No. 9423307942, Shri. Rohit Kadam, Dy. Collector and Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Quepem, Office Tel. No. 2662228, 2662241, Fax No. 2662228 and Mobile No. 9822137728, Shri. Ajay Gawade, Dy. Collector and Sub – Divisional Magistrate, Sanguem, Office Tel. No. Nil, Fax No. Nil and Mobile No. 9834233061, Shri. Pritidas Gaonkar, Dy. Collector and Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Canacona, Office Tel. No. 2643696, Fax No. 2643696 and Mobile No.9403529512, Shri. Pradeep Naik, Dy. Collector and Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Dharbandora, Office Tel. No. 2614036, Fax No. 2614037 and Mobile No. 9850065288, Shri. Utkrisht Prasoon, IPS, Superintendent of Police (North Goa), Panaji, Office Tel. No. 2416100, Fax No. 2416243 and Mobile No. 7875756013, Shri. A.K. Gawas, Superintendent of Police (South Goa), Margao Goa, Office Tel. No. 2732218, Fax No. 2733864 and Mobile No. 7875756005, Shri. Uttam Y. Raut Dessai, Sub-Divisional Police Officer, Tiswadi, Panaji, Office Tel. No. 2226519, Fax No. 2226519 and Mobile No. 7875756021, Shri. Nelson Albuquerque, Sub-Divisional Police Officer, Ponda, Office Tel. No. 2317978, Fax No. 2317978 and Mobile No. 7875756035, Shri. Serafin Dias, Sub- Divisional Police Officer, Salcette, Office Tel. No. 2714449, 2710656, 2714454, Fax No. 2714449 and Mobile No. 7875756086, Smt. Sunita Sawant, Sub- Divisional Police Officer, Mormugao, Vasco, Office Tel. No. 2500222, Fax No. 2500222 and Mobile No. 7875756048, Shri. Gajanan Prabhudessai, Sub-Divisional Police Officer, Mapusa-I for Pernem, Mapusa and Anjuna Police Stations, Office Tel. No. 2262207, Fax No. 2262207 and Mobile No. 7875756025, Shri. Edwin M.S. Colaco, Sub- Divisional Police Officer, Mapusa-II for Calangute and Porvorim Police Stations, Office Tel. No. 2412723, Fax No. 2412723 and Mobile No. 7875756029, Shri. Kiran J. Paudwal, Sub- Divisional Police Officer, Quepem, Office Tel. No. 2663900, Fax No. 2663900 and Mobile No. 7875756043, Shri. Gurudas Gawade, Sub- Divisional Police Officer, Bicholim, Office Tel. No. 2363737, Fax No. 2363737 and Mobile No. 7875756025.

Panaji ::: 02/03/2020 ::: In view of ensuing General Elections to Zilla Panchayat scheduled to be held on March 22, 2020, a round the clock ( 24X 7 ) Control Room with phone No.2225083, has been set up in the office of the Collector & Zilla Panchayat Election Officer, for North Goa District.

          The general public may contact on the above phone number with regards to any complaint.

Panaji, March 1st,2020 …. Ambassador of the European Union to India Shri. Ugo Astuto, along with Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant launched the strategy for ‘Fostering Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy in Goa’, making Goa a pioneering state to prepare such strategy. The strategy presents an overall state-level action plan to main stream resource efficiency and circular economy and foster sustainable management of resources in the state.

 The function was organized by Directorate of Planning, Statistics and Evaluation (DPSE) in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and with support from European Union’s Resource Efficiency Initiative (EU-REI) at Panaji recently.

 Director, Directorate of Planning, Statistics and Evaluation (DPSE), Shri Dr. Y Durga Prasad and Counselor, Environment, Energy & Climate Change, European Union Delegation to India, Ms. Henriette Faergemann were present on the occasion.

 Chief Minister, Dr Pramod Sawant expressed his gratitude to Niti Aayog for encouraging the State of Goa to formulate the State strategy on Resource Efficiency (RE) and Circular Economy (CE) and congratulated the Directorate of Planning, Statistics and Evaluation, Government of Goa for steering the development of this Strategy.

Talking about the collaboration, the EU Ambassador said “We are extremely delighted to have been supporting the state of Goa in preparation of the Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy Strategy.

 The strategy has been prepared by Directorate of Planning, Statistics and Evaluation (DPSE), Government of Goa, and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) was assigned to help them develop this Strategy with support from the EU-Resource Efficiency Initiative (EU-REI). The Strategy presents a resource efficiency roadmap for tourism and construction along with addressing the issue of marine litter.

 The strategy recognises the emergent need to use resources judiciously across lifecycle in order to sustain Goa’s long-term development and societal wellbeing.

Stakeholder groups from Goa who participated in the focused group discussions for the strategy paper were Tourism, Construction, Civil Society, Waste, Marine and Business and other Sectors.

 Smt. Ashwini compered the function and Shri Furtado Deputy Director, Directorate of Planning and Statistics proposed the vote of thanks.

Panaji, February  29, 2020 ::: Directorate of Transport, Government of Goa in association with Manipal Hospitals Goa has conducted Basic Life Support Training for the officers involved in Road Safety Program of Government of Goa. The training program was inaugurated by Director of Transport  Department,  Shri Rajan Satardekar.  Head of Department, Oncology Department and a Senior Surgeon at Manipal Hospital,  Dr. Shekhar Salkar were present on the occasion.

The session was  attended by Dy. Director (S), Shri Ivo Rodrigues   and Asstt. Directors and Motor Vehicle Inspectors of Directorate of Transport and Representatives of State Road Safety Council, namely Department of Environment, Panaji  Traffic Police Cell, KTCL and North Goa Collectorate.

The  session was taken by Head of Department, Emergency and Trauma at KMC, Hospital Mangalore and Manipal Hospitals Goa, Dr. Jeedhu Radhakrishnan. PRO of  Manipal Hospital, Shri Jones Samuel  Coordinated the training program.

While imparting  training the  trainer emphasized that, lives can be saved by timely first aid during Golden Hour which is a first hour after accident, during which the accident victim have higher chances of survival. Officers of Transport  Department are involved in duty on highways and roads and can act as a first responded, until medical help arrives.

Trainer demonstrated how’ to move victim to safety  position and carryout first aid. It takes less than 4 minutes for a blocked airway  to cause death. Trainer demonstrated about how to know that  victim is able to breath and clearing airway, restore breathing stop bleeding until help arrives.