OLDGOA: Best Hotels Near Beale Street Memphis Health Minister Laxmikhant Parsekar on Saturday said that there was a need for Corporate as well as Business houses to come forward in helping the State Government in carrying out Developmental Works of the Society at Large

Mr Parsekar was speaking at a function held at the Corlim Primary Health Centre in Tiswaddi Taluka, where in a Multi-Purpose Ambulance  Van was donated by Sygenta India Limited to the Corlim Primary Health Centre as a part of their Corporate Social Responsibilities …

Also present for the function were Site Manager of Sygenta India Limited Martin Gosh who handed over the keys of the Ambulance to the Heatlh Minister in the presence of Directorate of Health Services Sanjeev Dalvi, Officer Incharge of Corlim Primary Heatlh Centre Dr Kedar Raikar, Heads of Corporate Social Responsibilities Sygenta P S Jagdesha, Sakharam Borkar and other digintatires …

Presently the Corlim Primary Health Centre covers a distance of  areas such as Borbot, Diwar, Mangado, Ela, Merces, Bambolim, Nagalli, Siridao and Bhatim in which there are over Eleven Sub-Centre’s along with one Non Bedded Primary Health Centre and One Rrural Medical Dispensary covering a population of over ninety thousand people with the addition of migrant laboureres coming to a total of over a lakh of population under the Health Centre …

Speaking during the Function Health Minister Laxmikhant Parsekar praised the efforts of the Officer Incharge of Corlim Primary Health Centre stating that Praising the efforts of the Health Officer Incharge of Heatlh Centre Dr Kedar Raikar for being able to get help from Sygenta India Limited for donating the Ambulance to Corlim Primary Health Centre

Health Minister Laxmikhant Parsekar said that he had asked his Health Director Sanjeev Dalvi to carry out an Audit Report of those Health Officers who had performed in their Services in Community Heatlh Centre’s and Primary Health Centre’s with honesty and sincerity and like Dr Raikar who had transformed the Corlim Primary Health Centre in one of the best Primary Health Centers of the State …

The Vehicle which has been donated by Sygenta India Limited has cost over a three lakh of rupees and would be used for Mass Communication, Site Inspection, Educating Communities, Conducting Elocution Competition on Health Arena’s, School Health Competition’s, Spraying and Fogging of Malaria in and around the areas coming under Corlim Primary Health Centre

Site Manager In-Charge of Sygenta India Limited Martin Gosh said “Sygenta has been in Corlim for more than forty years now and we always had a close relation with the Community and we see that from our side we should always give a helping hand to the Community and a donation of an Ambulance is more of a help in that respect and we hope that the Ambulance is not used more often and hope that everyone is healthy and fine and if in case of emergency we would certainly like to have all the facilities available at the Village in Corlim…

Mr Gosh also said as Dr Raikar has been in touch with PHC and the idea has come from PHC and we are happy to support them as we just see this as a beginning in supporting the Community at Large”

In Charge of Corlim Primary Health Centre Dr Kedar Raikar said “earlier the concerned Health Centre had only a single vehicle to cover vast areas coming under our Corlim Health Centre jurisdiction and we used to hire vehicles to carry out their programmes and site inspection and in and around the area and with Sygenta coming forward to help the Corlim Primary Health Centre we would surely be able to work more better helping out the common people of the society in and around our jurisdiction

After being ticked off by the Supreme Court-appointed Centrally Empowered Committee over “erroneous and incomplete data” on mining, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has sought to deflect the blame on erstwhile Congress regime for the “mess-up”.

“The former government had miserably failed to maintain the records, including the number of operational mining leases, exports and productions. This mess is inherited by my government which is now working overtime to put in place all the records,” Parrikar told PTI.

In a strong-worded letter to the state chief secretary, the Centrally Empowered Committee, which is inquiring illegal mining in Goa, had complained about “erroneous and incomplete data”.

Justice M B Shah Commission also investigating into the illegalities had expressed similar complaint in the past.

Clearing the air on the issue, Parrikar said, “A total of 130 mining leases were operational in the state for last five years. There is no proper record of all these mines. The mines department was also unaware about 400-odd traders who were involved in the business”.

He said the state Mines and Geology department, which saw some tainted officers being sacked, went through a tough time as it had to reconstruct all the details.

“Now since the matter is in the SC, we have time to clear this mess and get things in place before mining resumes,” the Chief Minister said.

On resumption of mining activity which has been halted for over last two months post the Supreme Court order, Parrikar said the state government was awaiting directions from the apex court.

Goa is the country’s largest exporter of iron ore with 43 million metric tonnes of ore shipped abroad during last financial yea

Even as cinema buffs are busy catching up with Brazilian Hair Extensions in Memphis movies at the ongoing International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, two ‘serenading’ friends here are re-bonding over music, which united them over a decade ago before they parted ways for a better livelihood.

Musicians George Cartt and Joao Zinto went their separate ways 13 years back for a living. Now they have come together again for the sake of music at a IFFI stall.

“I went to Dubai to earn my livelihood. Fifteen years after working there, I came back to Goa this year and found Cartt again. We are now back playing music together,” said Zinto, who is his late 50s.

“We had no friendship initially. It was necessity that brought us together then. Our bonding became strong and when he left for Dubai, we became thick friends,” Cartt, who continued pursuing music all these years in Zinto’s absence, explained.

The duo watch no movies at the festival although they serenade the guests every day for three hours. Zinto is on the Goan percussion instrument ‘Ghumat’ with a ‘mouth organ’ mounted on his chest. He plays both theinstruments together.

Cartt is on the guitar singing Konkani songs of the yesteryears which inspired many musicians in the Hindi film industry. Among the musical scores that they play comprise some of the best compositions by Minguel Rod, M Boyer and Chris Perry, all legendary names in Konkani music.

Cartt, hailing from Loutolim village is a neighbour of Emiliano D Cruz, a well-known serenading artist who has even played for former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during the CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) in India.

“Most of the times people ask us what is the meaning of song that we play. We have to construct the story and explain it to them,” he said.