15/02/2014 … The state congress party on Saturday accused the state bjp led government of using government funds for its party’s executive meet stay which was recently held in the state last year

Addressing media person’s congress president john Fernandes said that the state bjp party had defrauded goan exchequers while trying to install gujrat chief minister as its prime ministerial candidate of india which was first announced in the state when the bjp party had organized its central executive committee meet in goa last year

Commenting over the issue of the state bjp led government decision of transfer system for casinos operating in river mandovi Fernandes said it was illegal to give the right to transfer for the casinos which was highly immoral

Fernandes also stated that there were duplicities of law where mr Fernandes questioned as why no action was taken on the forest minister alina saldanha who had recently tried to block the highway at cortalim while the same government had arrested an activist tara kerkar for blocking the highway in canacona rape and murder issue

14/02/2014 … : Just arresting the former bureaucrats  is not enough , the Goa police should arrest the builder and the contractor who are the main conspirators in the Ruby Residency case , stated MLA of St. Andre Vishnu Surya Wagh

He stated that the government was just dillydallying on the case and  arresting  the  bureaucrats  namely chief officer Deepak Desai and Paradeep Naik  will not help to resolve the issue in turn it would create a havoc amongst the bureaucracy as bureaucrats would now shy away from taking any decisions .

13/02/2014 …. Stating that the bjp state led government has once again surpassed the goans taking a u turn over the medium of instruction issue st andre mla Vishnu surya wagh on Thursday asked the north goa mp Shripad naik to declare his stand over the moi issue or else he would decide of whether to contest the north goa mp elections or not in the upcoming lok Sabha elections

Speaking to goanreporter  st andre mla Vishnu surya wagh said that the state government had completely taken a u turn on the moi issue contrary to the parties program and policies and therefore would like to know as what stand did the north goa mp Shripad naik had on the moi issue and weather he was ready to challenge the state decision taken by the state bjp led government on moi issue

Commenting over the reports of his name being figured in to the congress list of candidates for the upcoming lok Sabha elections wagh said he was surprised to know that his name was figuring in to the list of congress candidates for the upcoming lok Sabha elections in north goa though he had personally not applied his mind yet for any ticket of any political party

Wagh also stated that there were some of his good friends as well as well wishers who had informed him to contest the upcoming lok Sabha elections …

12/02/2014 … In an effort to ease traffic congestion as well as traffic violators in to the capital city of Panjim the city traffic department has installed around seven close circuit TV cameras in and around the Panjim city.

The initiative from the state traffic department has been a step forward towards making the capital city not only free from traffic congestion or traffic violation on those violating traffic laws which result in traffic jams and hardships for the people but also to keep crimes and thefts under check.

According to traffic officials CCTV cameras are important as it is not possible to post a traffic police at every point, adding it is a common tendency that once a common man notices a traffic police he would immediately put the helmet or the seat belt to avoid being fined.

but if the cameras are in place, the road users will be careful and will avoid violating the laws due to the fear of being caught as the cameras act as the law enforcing agency.

Mr virnodkar said city in the control room the traffic department was able to issue 600-800 fines for traffic violators in a month

 Presently there are seven high definition cctv camera’s installed in the capital city starting right from kadamba bus stand up to Miramar circle and are also in process of installing another eight cameras in days to come

 Panjim traffic pi dharmesh angle said that the major problem was that vehicles remain parked in a haphazard manner which leads to choking of the roads and with the idea of cctv being installed in the capital city there was some road sense and people were more careful in the movement besides obeying traffic rules

11/02/2014 … With few days left for the announcement to be made of the two probable’s for the upcoming lok Sabha elections the state congress party wasting no time seems to have zeroed in on the name of the present bjp mla from st andre constituency Vishnu surya wagh for its north goa parliament seat while state congress youth president velanka alemao also figures in the list of four probable’s for south goa seat

Though the state congress party had forwarded four names to the central committee of the state congress party which includes, girish chodankar, ramakhant khalap, jitendra deshprabhu and Vishnu surya wagh, mr wagh is been considered to be the front runner above the three and the aicc central committee could announce his name anytime once the end of the concluding parliament session and code of conduct is in force

The idea of naming mr wagh as one of the probable candidate for the north goa member of parliament seat for the congress party has been mooted by some of the top senior congress leaders with an idea of mr wagh being from the bahujan community who could give a strong fight to the bjp candidate Shripad naik who is also from the same bahujan community 

What is more surprising is that the nationalist congress party had already shown interest in giving its north goa parliamentary seat to the st andre bjp mla vishun surya wagh though it was not confirmed but seeing the caste factor the congress leaders seems to have believed that mr wagh was the right candidate in north goa if the bjp candidate had to be defeated in the upcoming parliamentary elections

For the south goa parliamentary seat the state congress party seems to have sent four names to the aicc central committee which include present south goa mp Francisco sardinha along with the name of former chief minister luizinho faleiro and the of the two alemao’s Churchill and velanka …

Though Churchill name figures in the list sources said that if there is a by-election held for the benaulim assembly seat then Churchill would give way to his daughter as one of the probable for the south goa parliamentary seat along with luizinho and sardinha ….

When goanreporter asked the state congress president john Fernandes as weather mr wagh name was listed in the four probable’s that were sent to the aicc central committee mr Fernandes said “ party would finalize its candidate name once the election code of conduct comes in to force but we know who are our likely candidates for the two seats in goa and naturally we have whispered in to their ears about it and campaign for the same has already started as we certainly know who are our candidates”

On asked if like other congress leaders he was also interested to go alone without the support of his coalition partners for the upcoming parliamentary elections Mr Fernandes said “ here in goa the sentiments of congressmen are to go alone as congress has a mass base committee and cader’s in the state in place and therefore everyone in the congress feels that if ticket is given to congress then we can produce results and win both the seats in the state”

“I also feel that with the candidate we have in mind it would be a cake walk for the congress party to win the parliamentary seat in north goa specially and since south goa is our seat we have no problem to regain that seat once again with same candidate or the other candidate whichever is decided by the high command mr Fernandes said ”

10/02/2014 …If you are a traffic vehicle violator, then please make it sure that no one see’s you while violating vehicular rules as the same violation done by you could be registered as a complaint to the official of the transport department as the state transport department is all set to start its sms complain services which is all set to start with in a week’s time …

Under the new system which is the sms complain services of the transport department every adt (additional director of transport) would get a separate code (example adt Panjim would get a code 02-07) on which a complainant could send his traffic violation complaints to the concerned adt after which in turn the complainant would receive an unique id no from the same adt for further inquiries

Speaking to goanreporter a top official of the state transport department said “ any traffic vehicular complaints such as auto rickshaws, tour operators charging additional charges, bus operators not issuing tickets, negligent driving and any traffic violation that is seen could be registered with proper details through the sms complain services”

This is the easiest way the officer said “as earlier a complainant who would file his complaint to the transport department had to go through long process to get his problem solved but with this new initiative a complainant would get his problem solve as soon as possible”

The officials also stated that “once the complain was send to the concerned adt, the same adt would send the complain to his motor vehicles inspector or assistant motor vehicles inspector who after completing his inquiry in to the complain would get back to the his adt with the report and the concerned adt would then pass on the final report to the complainant who had filed the complaint”

Presently the state transport department in total had ten assistant director of transport officials along with two enforcement officials who come under the ambit of the director of transport department government of goa .  

09/02/2014 … Stating that he had undertaken various developmental works in the jurisdiction of the corporation city of Panjim Ccp mayor surendra furtado is trying to seek another term as the ccp mayor for himself when the elections for the mayor and deputy mayor post would be held for the corporation city of Panjim next month …

It may be noted that last year in april ccp corporator Surendra Furtado and corporator Bento Lorena of the st cruz mla Atanasio Monserrate’s panel had won the mayor and deputy mayor of the Corporation of City of Panaji respectively.

The councillor from Miramar Mr Furtado along with his wife who is also the ccp councilor had headed the 14-member group, affiliated to the MLA of Santa Cruz constituency and had won the post of ccp mayor… 

 Speaking to goanreporter ccp mayor surendra furtado said though he was interested in another term as a ccp mayor everything was in the hands of st cruz mla babush monsoratte and his group of fourteen councilors

furtado said that since he was the senior most corporator in ccp he knew the working system of ccp in a whole which did help him in the past few months after taking over as a ccp mayor

08/02/2014 … The state congress party would soon write to the central technical authorities asking for investigating in to the tenders works undertaken by the state bjp led government through goa infrastructure development corporation said gpcc president john Fernandes

Addressing media persons at the party head office in Panjim gpcc president john Fernandes said that using urgency clause the state government had sanctioned some of the development projects at an exhorbitant rates like the one of the stay bridge at calvim

 Accusing the state government Fernandes said the present government had also sped an excessive amount on the opening and closing of the recent concluded lusofonia games 2014 on which his party had received complaints from various people

 Fernandes also spoke over the issue of the canacona building collaps

06/02/2014 … Demanding for a public participation in to the amendment of the state regional plan 2021 member of the goa parivartan manch has asked the state government to act the tcp act immediately which could give rights to local self bodies in deciding the future of the state

Addressing media persons in Panjim convenor of goa parivartan manch advocate yatish naik requested the state government to act accordingly in order to ensure that the goa town and country planning act was amended appropriately so as to be in tune with the of the 73 and 74^th amendment act to the constitution of the country

Yatish said the bjp party who have given long promises before the last assembly elections due to which bjp had come in to power had forgotten its promises specially over the issue of regional plan 2021 ..

Yatish also stated that there was a need of participatory process over the issue of regional plan 2021 by involving local self bodies and examine their suggestions on merits …