27/04/2014 … Elections for the 11-ward of the taleigao village panchayat got underway peacefully at the various booths levels situated in and around the taleigao village panchayat on Sunday morning

The village panchayat of taleigao has a total of 16,055 votes comprising 7,999 male and 8,056 female voters and has a total of 26 booths and 45 candidates in the fray …

The counting of votes will be held on Monday.

Besides individual candidates, there are also three panels one by St cruz mla Atanasio Babush Monserrate, another backed by bjp and a third by former BJP assembly candidate Agnel Silveira in the fray…

The st cruz mla babush mobsoratte and his wife and taleigao mla along with his sons were also seen at the polling booth to cast their votes on Sunday morning

While it is expected to be a straight fight between the monsoratte and the bjp supported panel the third panel is likely to put up a good fight as the panchayat elections will surely prove as to what extent does mr monsoratte has a hold over the constituency

Speaking to media reporters st cruz mla babhsh monsoratte said this time his panel manifesto had emphasized on clean and green taleigao and would also strive upon basic amenities

Monsoratte criticized the bjp panel for taking credits of the developmental projects done by him and mentioned that he was ready for an open debate with the chief minster on the issue

Meanwhile taleigao mla jenifer monsoratt along with ccp mayor surendra furtado and other ccp corporators of the monsoratte panel were also seen trying to helping the monsoraate panel candidates on voting day

26/04/2014 … In a startling revelation which could spark involvement of various government authorities along with banks officials and locals various names of cricket stars of international fame along with bollywood stars seems to have been registered under the mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee act scheme in chimbel village in tiswaddi taluka …

Member of the goa parivartan manch led by its convenor advocate yatish naik on Saturday said that names of cricket starts such as ricky pointing, Sachin tendulakar his family, rahul dravid his family, yuraj singh his family, saurav ganguly his family, viendra sehwag, kapil dev his family and goan cricketer saurabh bandekar names has been listed in list of the mgnrega workers list specially resident in chimbel areas of tiswaddi taluka …

The issue doesn’t stop here also the name of bollywood icon like amitabh bachan and his whole family along with his late mother teji bachan figuers in the scheme list along with other names of bollywood stars like amir khan, late singer kishore kumar

Even what is more shocking is that the list also figures the name of one person as Manohar Parrikar in to the list of the scheme who seems to have worked under the mgnrega scheme which pay a daily allowance of 150 per day …

It may be noted that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is an Indian law that aims to guarantee the right to work and ensure livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

Presently under the scheme a daily wage worker get an amount of over rs 150/ per day …

Speaking to media reporters convener of goa parivartan manch advocate yatish naik said that the manch had written to the president of india as well have met the governor of goa shri b v wanchoo to look in to the matter and investigate in to the fictitious names registered in to the mgnrega workers list who have been availing benefits under the fictitious names from the scheme

Adv naik also urged for a thorough inquiry in to the matter which could have involvement of government machinery in connivance with certain bank officials and local people

Meanwhile vice president of goa cricket association dr shekar salkar expressed surprise over the names of cricket stars being figured in to the mnrega list and asked for a inquiry in to the matter

25/04/2014 … The state bjp led government on Friday ruled out the formation of Mining Corporation citing that the corporation could bring more source of corruption instead of putting things in to order

Addressing media persons at the conference hall at the secretariat at porvorim chief minister Manohar parrikar said that the state government would soon formulate a mining policy within the framework of mining and mineral development act which could take care of each and every mining dependent goan

Parrikar said that there was possibility of starting some of the mines in the state from October this year

Parrikar also stated that once the election code was over his government would revamp the mining department in a complete way and action would also be taken on those who were found to be involved in illegal mining activities earlier

20/04/2014 …. Stating that the congress party would not remove the dabolim mla mauvin godinho for his anti party activities in the recent held lok sabha elections the state congress party on Saturday demanded for an auditing to be done of his benami assets as well as of his properties being purchased in pernem taluka …

Addressing media person spokesperson of the state congress party durgadas kamat said that the high command has asked the state congress party to not to call the dabolim mla mauvin godhino for any party meeting and to let him rot with the bjp party

Commenting over the issue of mhadei dispute kamat said that the state government without making it a political issue should appoint a battery of lawyers so as to see that the case was fought in the interest of the state in the best possible way and that there was no noc given by then congress led government

19/04/2014 …. Even though the taleigao bjp mandal has fielded up candidates at the upcoming taleigao village panchayat elections St cruz mla babush monsoratte has said that there is no competition against his taleigao democratic front panel and was confident of winning the polls in all 11 panchayat wards

The st cruz mla babush monsoratte heads the progressive development front from which mr monsoratte has fielded 11 candidates in eleven wards of the taleigao village panchayat and was seen moving from houses to house campaigning for his candidates at the upcoming panchayat elections

 While the state bjp party has also announced its party panel fielding 11 candidates for the upcoming taleigao panchayat elections against the panel of babush monosratte which are schedule to take place on april 27^th

 Speaking to media reporters the cruz mla babush monsoratte who leads the taleigao development front said that the bjp panel who have mentioned various development plans for the taleigao village panchayat specially the community hall were themselves unaware that the community hall for the taleigao village had been constructed all with other development projects

Monsoratte said there was no bjp panel in front of his panel and was competing against his own self trying to improve from the past five year term in better way for the village panchayat of taleigao

Monsoratte also stated that the taleigao water problems had occurred due to the negligence of the pwd department

18/04/2014 …. South goa lok Sabha candidate Reginaldo Lourenco on Wednesday said that having fought battle with four bjp candidates at the recent held lok Sabha elections in south goa he was prepared to fight more battles with the bjp candidates

speaking to media reporters at the party head office in Panjim reginaldo said that he had fought the recent held lok Sabha election against four Bharatiya Janata Party candidates namely Churchill Alemao, Savio Rodrigues, Shalom Sardinha and Narendra Sawaikar and was hopeful to come out victorius in it.

Reginald said that it was the opposition who had to fear about the silent voters as he was confident that he would be victorious in the recent held lok Sabha elections in south goa

17/04/2014 …. The state government on Thursday welcomed the mahdei river tribunal decision of directing the Karnataka state government to block canal with concrete structure before May 31 to stop mhadei water diversion till final order ….

 It may be noted that during the previous hearing, Karnataka had proposed to plug the Kalasa canal at Kankumbi to stop water flowing in the Kalasa nallah from joining the Malaprabha river.

 The advocate general of Goa, Atmaram Nadkarni, during the last hearing held on March 27, brought to the notice of the tribunal, illegalities committed by Karnataka for carrying out work of excavation and construction of the Kalasa canal at Kankumbi without taking necessary statutory clearances.

 Addressing media persons at the party head office in Panjim chief minister manohar Parrikar gave more details about the order set by the mhadei river tribunal

 Parrikar said from the year 2006 up to 2012 the then congress led government in to the state of goa had not done anything nor even had written any protest letter against the Karnataka to the tribunal and hoped that with this order the dispute could be solved through legal arguments

 Meanwhile the state bjp party also announced its party panel for the upcoming taleigao panchayat elections

16/04/2014 … Stating that the announcement made by the state government of giving dearness allowance to government employees was in violation of the model code of conduct the state congress party on Wednesday urged the central election commission as well as state election commission to segregate the state 10,500 postal ballot votes from the recently held lok sabha elections in to the state of goa ….

 It may be noted that the Goa government on Tuesday had raised the dearness allowance of nearly 65,000 civil servants and over 22,000 pensioners, from 90 to 100 per cent of the basic, from January 2014.

 The Union cabinet had approved the proposal to hike DA for its employees and dearness relief for its pensioners to 100 per cent in March and the same has been implemented for Goa government employees. 

 Addressing media person gpcc president john Fernandes said the party was objecting to the statement made by chief minister over the increase of da to the state government employees as the same was announced by the prime minister of india dr manmohan singh prior to the election while mr Parrikar had announced it during the model code of conduct was in force

 Fernandes also stated that he had spoken to his central aicc leaders to log a complaint with the central election commission over the matter

15/04/2014 … Nearly being away from media for days after he was denied the south goal ok Sabha ticket South goa mp Francisco sardinha on Monday denied commenting over his absence from the campaigning process for the south goa congress lok Sabha candidate reginaldo lourenco in the recently held lok Sabha polls in south goa …

It may be noted that the south goa mp Francisco sardinha had stayed away from the congress party campaigning activities specially for the south goa congress lok Sabha candidate reginaldo lourenco after the central congress leaders had denied ticket to the present mp from south goa

Speaking to reporter south goa mp Francisco sardinha said he was in goa during the lok Sabha elections and had not participated in the campaigning process though there was no any particular reason for it and no one could stop him on doing what he felt was right

On asked about his son shalom contesting the south goal ok Sabha seat on an independent ticket Sardinha said that shalom was an individual and every individual had the right to take his own step in today’s world though he had tried to convince him not to contest the polls

14/04/2014 …. With the Taleigao panchayat election scheduled to take place on april 27 of this month st cruz  mla babush monsoratte has stepped up his campaigning process along with his supporters for the panchayats elections asking to vote for his taleigao progressive development front ….

The st cruz mla babush monsoratte heads the progressive development front from which mr monsoratte has fielded 11 candidates in eleven wards of the taleigao village panchayat and was seen moving from houses to house campaigning for his candidates at the upcoming panchayat elections

 Political equations believe that this time it won’t be an easy task for mr monsoratte to get his panel elected at the village panchayat elections and would have to work hard for his victory as the bjp party has also made provisions to put candidates and fight the battle at the April 27 village panchayat elections

 Like his usual trend mr Monserrate had announced candidates for the 11-member panchayat well in advance and had picked up fresh candidates from which only few are believed to be old faces who had fought panchayat elections last term before.

 Speaking to goanreporter st cruz mla babush monsoratte said that he had no issues as far as his voters were concerned and was confident that his support would get his panel elected at the taleigao village panchayat

Monosratte said that at a certain extent he earlier panchayat panel has been able to satisfy their voters in taleigao village with basic amenities

 Monosratte also shared his idea of selecting a new candidate after ever five year term in all the eleven wards under his front for the taleigao village panchayat elections

 Meanwhile rekha shital bandhari who is contesting from ward no X under the taleigao progressive development front said