July 2, 2016 …. Shri John Aguiar, Information Officer, Department of Information & Publicity, Government of Goa , has been selected for the  award of Deputy Director General,  NCC Commendation Card, for his valuable assistance to the NCC activities in Goa.

He will receive the award at a simple function to be held at NCC Office, 1 Goa battalion, NCC at Shanta Building,  on July 5 at 9.30 am at the hands of Group Commander NCC (Belgaum Group) Col. Kripal Singh. The name of  Shri Aguiar was recommended by Col. Nand Kishor Subedar, former Commanding Officer of the 1 Goa Battalion NCC.

Shri Aguiar has been himself an cadet Senior Under Officer in NCC and has been closely associated with the activities of NCC in Goa. He was instrumental in forming an association of Ex-NCC cadets and also instituting an achievers award for Ex-NCC cadets.

He is also Public Relations Officer of Goa Police Department and Honorary Company Commander of Home Guards. He was awarded the Goa Chief Minister’s Gold Medal for meritorious services, Presidents Home Guards Medal for meritorious services in Home Guards organization and DGCD commendation cared and disc.

Panaji: July 1, 2016 …. The Deputy Chief Minister, Shri Francis D’Souza today inaugurated one day Workshop on ‘Solid Waste Management’ (SWM) Rules and Sanitation organized by Goa State Urban Development Agency in the city today.

 The objective of the workshop was to review and assess the work done by the stakeholders to accomplish the goal of Swacch Bharat Mission.

 Vice-Chairman, GSUDA, Shri Sudhir Kandolkar; Chairpersons, Councilors, Chief Officers and staff of GSUDA attended the function.

 Shri D’Souza speaking on the occasion said that the objective of the Swacch Bharat Mission can be achieved easily in this small State of Goa with due assistance of Municipalities who have a major responsibility in comparison to other states.

 The Government endeavors to provide logistic to Municipalities in the State to make the Swacch Bharat Mission successful. He regretted the non participation by some of the stakeholders from local self bodies who have an important role to achieve the task.

 Shri D’Souza advised to organize timely meetings to review and assess the work and carve out system to speed up system to tackle the garbage problem. This seminar will help to take stock of progress of the work under Swacch Bharat Mission and hoped that the Seminar will help to deliberate, discuss and decide the future strategy.

 Secretary, Urban Development, Shri Sudhir Mahajan in his address urged the people to be sensitive towards cleanliness and work seriously to speed up cleanliness in ones respective areas. We have to create basic habits, practices pertaining to cleanliness to achieve the objective Swacch Bharat. There is no dearth of resources provided by the Government but the Officers need to guide local people to make the mission Swacch Bharat Mission, he pointed.

 Commissioner, CCP, Shri Dipak Desai also spoke on the occasion    

 Shri Elvis Comes Member Secretary   GSUDA welcomed the guests while Shri Hossamani, Chief Project Officer GSUDA proposed the vote of thanks. 

Panaji: June 30, 2016 …. The Directorate of Social Welfare is implementing the scheme to Grant Monthly Financial Assistance to the Persons Engaged in Traditional Occupation/Businesses including Motorcycle Pilots”.

Recently the Chief Minister has announced in the Budget, that the Yellow/Black Auto Rickshaw Drivers will be benefited. To create awareness on the above mentioned scheme the Directorate of Social Welfare has organized an awareness Programme on July 3, 2016 at Azad Bhavan, Porvorim Goa, at 3.00 pm where Chief Minister of Goa and  Social Welfare Minister will be briefed about the scheme.

Panaji: June 29, 2016 … The Directorate of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary services, Panaji has informed that the auction for collection of usufruct of 120 Coconut fruit bearing trees at Cattle Breeding farm, Copardem, Sattari for the period of three years w.e.f July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2019 has been fixed on July 8, 2016 at 11.00 am at Cattle Breeding Farm, Copardem, Sattari.

Those interested may inspect the Coconut trees on any working day except Sunday and holidays between 9.00 am to 11.00 am and 2.30 pm to 5.00 pm.

Panaji:  June 28, 2016 …. The Press Council’s Sub-Committee on Advertisements comprising of Shri Gurinder Singh, Convenor and Prabhat Kumar Dash, Member will be visiting Goa to meet with the stakeholders/Authorities of State Government to review/examine the advertisement policy of the State Government of Goa.

            The Sub-Committee will interact with the stakeholders to discuss their grievance on June 30, 2016 between 11.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. in the Conference Hall, Secretariat, Porvorim and with the State Government Authorities on July 1, 2016 between 11.00 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.

            Media persons may attend the meeting to interact with the members of the said Committee and apprise them of their grievances, if any.  

Panaji: June 27, 2016 … Chief Minister Shri Laxmikant Parsekar released an exclusive field study book titled “Traditional Knowledge and Technologies – A Boon of Wisdom” authored by well known folklorist Shri Vinayak Khedekar at Secretariat, Porvorim today.

The book is published by West Zone Culture Centre, Udaipur.

The significant aspects of book are food and eating habits, traditional technology, and ethnic wisdom etc. of cultural field. Overall this is a unique attempt made by the author Shri Khedekar by studying and documenting a very vital aspect of Goan conventional life.

The book illustrates immense use of natural resources and their utility in domestic and for material purpose.

Chief Minister Shri Parsekar louded the work of Shri Khedekar in the work of traditional folklore.

Panaji: June 26, 2016 ….  The Department of Science and Technology, Government of Goa organized a half-day Training Workshop on June 21, 2016, in order to sensitize and make all concerned Government Department aware of their roles and responsibilities waste management Rules as well as the implementation of the GNGCA.

            The Chief Secretary, Shri R.K. Srivastava addressed the participants during the said Workshop and urged the participants to take a proactive part in the implementation of the Act. The Secretary, Science and Technology and Environment, Shri Kunal gave the concluded remarks.

             Resource persons for the Workshop included Adv. S.B. Faria (Retired Director of Prosecution and Legal Retainer for the Goa State Pollution Control Board) who explained the legal aspects of the provisions to fine under the GNGCA with various case studies and scenarios, while Dr. Mohan Girap, Scientist C, Goa State Pollution Control Board explained the salient features of the new Rules as well as roles and responsibilities of various stakeholder Departments.

             More than sixty five Government officials as well as members of the Monitoring-cum-Working Committee for Solid Management attended the Workshop. The question and answer session had queries on the difficulties faced during the implementation of Acts and Rules on ground, which were deliberated and discussed upon.

Panaji: June 26, 2016 … The Government has reconstituted Monitoring Committee for private television channels at the level to monitor programmes and advertisements telecast by cable TV channels at the State level and enforce the provision of cable Act and Rules.

          The reconstituted committee comprise of the Secretary (Information and Publicity) as the Chairman. The members of the committee are Representative of DGP Police, Secretary (Social Welfare), Director, Doordarshan Kendra Panaji, Shri Paresh Prabhu (Representative of Media Organisation), Smt. Jyoti Kuncolienkar, Dr. Radhika Nayak, Dr. Anil Rane and Dr. (Smt.) Sheila D’souza.

        Director, Information and Publicity is the member secretary. The nominated members will have a term of two years.

Panaji: June 25, 2016 …. Public are informed that personnel deputed by the subordinate offices of Division VI, Electricity Department, Mapusa i.e Sub Division I(U) Mapusa, Sub Division II Porvorim, Sub Division III-R Mapusa and Sub Division IV Calangute

for collecting personal information like Mobile Phone numbers, email ID’s etc. from Consumers to incorporate the same in the Data base,which will facilitate the Department to send various types of information like power outages within their area, bill related information etc. through automated SMS/CALL/WEB PORTAL/MOBILE-APP.

They are requested to Cooperate with them by providing the requisite information which will enable them to avail the services mentioned.

Panaji: June 24, 2016 … Directorate of Social Welfare is implementing scheme Grant of Scholarship/Stipend for Differently Abled Persons. The scheme was launched in the year 2002.

The Application forms of the scheme of Grant of Scholarship/ Stipend for Differently Abled Person available at the Directorate of Social Welfare from June 25, 2016 to August, 30, 2016 on any working day during Office hours.

Application form complete in all respect should reach to the Directorate of Social Welfare on or before September 30, 2016.