06/06/2015 … The state government has identified rivers like chapora, aguada bay, sal and zuari for the purpose of shifting casino vessels out from river mandovi …

Though nothing could be finalized in the meeting held between the state government officials and casino operators on Thursday the state government has set up its plans to provide infrastructure in any one of the identified river for the casino’s to be shifted by the end of this years

Addressing media persons after the meet ports minister dilip parulekar said that the government would provide all assistance to ensure the off-shore casinos were shifted by December 2015 and Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar would consulted before taking a final decision

The off-shore casino operators have unanimously agreed to move their vessels out of river Mandovi provided Goa government provides suitable infrastructure like jetties. A feasibility report by the Ports Administration will ascertain where out of the four identified spots, the four vessels will be anchored.

05/06/2015 …. Stating that no more statues were needed to be installed inside the assembly complex Pwd minister sudhin dhavlikar has once again reiterated his desire of installing the life-sized statue of the father of the Opinion Poll, Dr Jack de Sequeira at a tourist spot mentioning the name of city bandodkar football ground to be developed in to a tourist park where in the statue of dr sequirea could be installed for tourist visiting goa if the football stadium was not constructed …

It may be noted that after the demand was made by the children of opinion poll to install a life size statue of dr jack sequiera inside the assembly comples recently the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party legislators consisting of envoirnment minister alina saldanha and calangute mla Michael lobo had urged the government to honour the hero of the Opinion Poll, Dr Jack de Sequeira, by installing a life-sized statue of the leader at the State Assembly complex in Porvorim, next to the statue of the State’s first chief minister Dayanand Bandodkar.

The Goa Assembly had in March 1994 passed a resolution to install a statue of Dr de Sequeira in the Assembly complex. The resolution had been proposed by the then Panjim MLA J B Gonsalves.

Speaking to goanreporter pwd minister sudhin dhavlikar said that some bjp legislators had brought up this issue of their own and was not aware if the bjp party was supporting it as bjp party had not brought any such thing to our notice …

Dhavlikar again stated that he was not oppose to any such demands made by his co-legislators but was only worried that after installing such statues it had to be maintained properly if they were put up at certain places ….

Meanwhile commenting over the issue of pwd minister ccp mayor subham chodankar said that as a mayor he would welcome the idea of setting up a statue of dr sequiera in the capital city but would definitely like to know as where would it be installed and how

05/06/2015 ….. Stating that the name of goa had made a brand in international market through events of electronic dance music festivals Calangute mla Michael lobo had come in support of event like sunburn and supersonic to be held in vagator even after the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority had given its no for holding such big events on the beach belts of Candolim and Vagator

It may be noted that In a major blow to the organizers of mega electronic dance music festivals like Sunburn and Supersonic the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority had given its no for holding such big events on the beach belts of Candolim and Vagator, where it’s held annually in December, attracting several lakhs of visitors across the world and had suggested three large sites in south Goa for holding EDM festivals at places like Betul plateau, Cananguinim hill top and Cabo de Rama cliff hill top.

GCZMA was of the view that the site at Candolim cannot be rented out for such a large magnitude commercial event as the area constitutes a sand dune complex, classified as CRZ I, where no activity could be permitted while On the other hand the site at Vagator was best suited for exhibitions and festivals, where the influx is far less compared to the EDM festival attendees.

The concerned authority of GCZMA had reached to such conclusion following site inspection and observation made by the expert members consisting of Dr. Antonio Mascarenhas and Dr Nitin Sawant, who visited the mega event sites- of Candolim on December 31, 2014 and Vagator on January 3, 2015 to gather information whether or not such activities can be damaging to a sensitive coast

Speaking to goanreporter calangute mla Michael lobo said that as long as beach area were not disturbed events like sunburn and supersonic should be allowed in the coastal areas of north goa and authorities of gczma should try and verify if such events were really disturbing the sensitive coast of the coastal areas …

Lobo said that technical people from gczma should be put in to service to verify the facts and as long as no construction or sand dunes were disturbed in to the area …

GCZMA had noted that there should be change in the venue of the mega festivals events held in Goa and hence decided to forward the same to Department of Tourism for comments views as per the minutes of the meeting held on May 26 stated and the experts had also observed that at Candolim large undulating sand dune area was severely trampled upon and vegetation was found uprooted in totality.

Meanwhile former sarpanch and panch member of calangute village panchayat joseph sequiera said that he was against holding such events in calangute constituency as event like sunburn and supersonic were spoiling young goan youths and even there was no proper infrastructure in calangute constituency to hold such events

04/06/2015 …. The state congress party is working out a separate tactic to tackle its dabolim mla mavin godinho who has been making anti party statements against the congress party …

It may be noted that the dabolim congress mla mauvin godinho had recently criticized the goa state congress president luizinho faleiro of having his own personal agenda and was making a fool of every one being the president of the goa state congress party …

having said that he was humiliated a number of times by his own partymen mr godinho on had also said that he had already made up his mind to move out of the congress party before the upcoming 2017 state assembly elections ….

Addressing media persons at the party head office in panjim congress spokesperson sunil khautankar said that the dabolim congress mla was very much under the scanner of the congress party and was not an important thing for the congress party to think of more than other important issues of the state were concerned …

Khautankar said that the congress party would also like to see for how long the bjp party would support peole like mauvin who was involved in certain scams …

04/06/2014 … Stating that the file regarding implementing toll tax had passed on to the concerned department without coming back to the chief minister pwd minister sudhin dhavlikar has said that the issue of toll tax was kept on hold at the moment and would be implemented once all stake holders were taken in to confidence

Speaking to goanreporter pwd minister sudhin dhavlikar said that there was no need for any one to get upset on toll tax issue as concerned file had not reached to him and to the office of the chief minister after law department had done its vetting due to which certain misunderstand had taken place

Dhavlikar said that toll tax was only started due to the stoppage of mining activities in the state due to which state government had a huge loss of revenue through mining …

Dhavlikar also stated that though chief minister was unaware of the file he was completely aware of the toll issue

03/06/2015 … Demanding equal status to Marathi language members of the Marathi rajya basha samiti on Wednesday staged a dharna in front of the chief minister official residence at altinho

The samiti was the state government to table a bill during the upcoming monsoon assembly session giving official language status to both Marathi and Konkani

Addressing media persons at the site of the dharna newly elected central president of the committee of the Marathi rajya basha samiti gopal ramchandra dhavlikar said that the dharna was a part of the agitation and development programmes organized by the central committee for getting justice to the Marathi language as well as for its protection and propagation

Meanwhile pwd minister sudhin dhavlikar said that since he was also a part of the government his government would definitely think over the issue of giving equal status to Marathi language in the state

01/06/2015 …. Stating that the bjp leaders had committed a breach of privileage Rajya sabha member shantaram naik has criticized the state bjp led government for making u turn and betraying goans on special provisions as far as special status for goa was concerned …

Addressing media persons at the party head office in panjim rajya Sabha mp shantaram naik said that the the bjp national president amit shah was unable to understand the demand of goans which seek for the amendment of article 371 of the constitution to empower goa legislative assembly to enact appropriate legislation to protect their land culture and language with special category

Mr naik said that both Parrikar and cm Parsekar owe an explanations to goans as what was the responses of the prime minister and home minister of india if at all they had taken the special status of goa issue serious

Mr naik also stated that there was a total misunderstand prevailing in some sections of the society that goan land could be protected by amending local law

31/05/2015 … Instead of taking relevant issues concerning the state of goa Congress mla from dabolim constituency mauvin godinho has criticized the goa state congress president luizinho faleiro of having his own personal agenda and was making a fool of every one being the president of the goa state congress party

Speaking to goanreporter dabolim mla mauvin godinho said that he had come to know that under the new president every person was promised for a congress ticket in every constituency of the state and were made to live in a fool paradise

Mr godinho said that the state congress party was going on repeated its same mistakes time and again instead of becoming strong ahead of the state assembly elections

Mr godinho stated that the opposition leader has totally failed in raising issues in the state assembly session as he had had done match fixing and has his own personnel agenda

31/05/2015 …. On the day of the statehood day of goa chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar led the way along with minister for civil supplies dayanand mandrekar in opting out of the lgp subsidy in goa ..

In goa till date a total of 1812 people have opted out of lpg subsidy thus helping the central government to save an amount of 25 lakhs per annum to be used for the development of down trodden people in the country

The function was held at the seminar hall of the secretariat in porvorim on Saturday where in chief minister laximikant parsekar asked goans to think about the cause of poor people and support the opt out subsidy programme in the state

Civil supplies minister dayanand mandrekar said that it was an unique idea started by the prime minister of india shri narendra modiji …