14/06/2015 … Stating that casinos being operated in the state had spoiled young goans and their families President of the goa Pradesh congress committee luizinho falieiro has stated that there had to be a total stop on the casino activities in the state

Addressing media persons at the party head office in panjim gpcc president luizinho faleiro said that though he personally felt that the casino activities had to be stopped in goa his party demand was to see casino’s being moved out of rive mandovi as it had no right to be inside mandovi river

Mr faleiro said that it was sad to see that a lot of goan families were destroyed due to their members going on to casinos getting involved in casino activities …

13/06/2015 … Criticising the toruism department Calangute mla Michael lobo has once again termed the upcoming tourism projects such as amphibious vehicle, sea plane and ropeway as an eye wash in the goan people eyes put up by the tourism minister dilip parulekar

Speaking to media reporters calangute mla Michael lobo said that every government was trying to get in new innovative ideas for which state tourism minister was very much innovative to get such kind of tourism projects in the state but there was a need of getting proper expertise to put things such as amphibious vehicle, sea plane, rope way and other tourism related projects in place

Mr lobo said projects such as amphibious vehicles, rope way or sea planes would never take off in goa

Lobo also stated that since feasibility was not there it was just an eye wash done by tourism minister in front of goan people

12/06/2015 … Bicholim mla naresh sawal had criticized the state government decision of minting money by harassing the common man in the name of implementing toll tax

Addressing media persons the bicholim mla naresh sawal said that it was totally wrong on the part of the state government to generate revenue in the name of toll tax and therefore had to revert back on the decision as soon as possible

Sawal also stated that the state government had been fooling the common man on various issues of the state

11/06/2015 …. St cruz mla babush monsoratte has preferred defence minister Manohar Parrikar a better choice as the state minister of the state other than present chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar stating that the former chief minister Manohar Parrikar was a person who could hear an mla even if he was from opposition and was a go getter …

Speaking to goanreporter st cruz mla babush monsoratte said that he still believed that the present defence minister Manohar Parrikar was a better choice as chief minister than present cm Laxmikant Parsekar as mr Parrikar was a go getter where he could be explained on various issues of his constituencies and of the state

Monosoratte said that he was thankful to the congress for having removed him from the party as he was able to get his developmental works done for his constituencies which he was finding difficult to get it done earlier

Commenting over the recent comment made by dabolim mla mauvin godinho saying that the congress party had done a mistake by removing babush, Monsoratte stated that mauvin might had criticized the congress party for not removing him as both of them were sailing in the same boat ….

10/06/2015 … st cruz mla babush monsoratte has said that the pwd minister sudhin dhavlikar was doing a great job as a pwd minister and no one had the right to disturb the pwd minister from doing his job as far as developmental works were concerned
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mr monsoratte was speaking to goanreporter over the issue of allegations made by taleigao bjp mandal president dattaprasad naik who said that the pwd minister had failed in his duties as far as taking up the developmental works of taleigao constituency were concerned

mr monsoratte said that though he had done most of the developmental works in his constituency he had never tried take up the credit for it by putting up a plaque at the side of the works just as others were trying to do so in taleigao constituency

Meanwhile president taleigao bjp mandal dattaprasad naik said that sudhin dhavlikar had totally failed in his job as a pwd minister and therefore he had to be replaced by any one of the bjp mla’s who were capable of getting their works done

09/06/2015 …. Asking for international products like maggi, pepsi and others to be banned in the country Members of the hindu janajagruti samiti has criticized the state bjp led government for the delay in taking actions against nestle products maggi even when the state was one of the most developed state of the country

It may be noted that Last week Nestle’s Maggi brand of noodles had come under the scanner after several of their samples tested positive for msg and high levels of lead.

Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Sunday had said the government would enforce a ban on Maggi noodles in the State on Monday adding that he was initially reluctant in doing so but thought it better for the citizens …

Addressing media person’s in panjim charudatta ingle of hindu janajagruti samiti said that any product of international brand was a serious issue in the country and the government event at central of state has not been able to take any cognizance of the concerned products until it has been proved by certain machineries

Mr pingale said that such companies who sell poison should not only be banned in the country but also should be given severe punishment under 95a for hurting the religious sentiments of hindus along with economic compensation and state government had to be very serious about such issues …

Commenting over the fourth all india convention which is about to start from 11 june to 17th june at dhavali in ponda mr pingale also stated that the convention would be attended by 410 representatives of more than 200 organizations from 21 concerned states of bharat along with Nepal, Bangladesh and srilanka ….

08/06/2015 …. Stating that there was no objections as far as casinos were being operated close to the capital city of panjim inside river mandovi director of golden peace hotels & resorts pvt ltd shrinivas nayak has revealed of paying an an amount of rs one crore to the corporation city of panjim by the concerned casino operators for setting up of the state of the art garbage treatment plant in panjim while former ccp mayor surendra furtado said that the money was taken under csr activities …

It may be noted that at a number of occasion a certain no of ccp councilors had raised objections of casinos being operated close from the capital city and even the former ccp mayor surendra Furtado had earlier during his tenure as ccp mayor had stated that he would direct the CCP Commissioner to seal the offices of the off-shore casinos located in the city due to vehicles owned by casino staff and clients were casing congestion on the roads but nothing worked out till date.

What was more surprising was that even though at one side the ccp councilors were shouting from top of their voice against the casino culture blooming up in the capital city at the same time ccp had taken an amount of rs one crore for setting up a garbage treatment plant at patto as informed by the director, of golden peace hotels & resorts pvt ltd shrinivas nayak to media reporters recently …

When this question was put forth before the former ccp mayor surendra furtado as weather the corporation had taken money from the casino operators mr furtado confirmed to goanreporter of taking money from casino operators under csr activities which the ccp commissioner sanjit rodrigues and the ccp council was aware of and were used for procuring certain machinery …

But surprisingly as we went further in to the issue and asked ccp mayor subham chodankar as well as former ccp mayor tony rodrigues if they were aware of any such money being taken by ccp from casino operators both denied stating saying that the issue was never brought to the notice of council meeting and mentioned to verify the facts which they were totally unaware of

07/06/2015 … Director of golden peace hotels & resorts pvt ltd shrinivas nayak whose company also operates casinos like casino pride and casino pride2 has questioned the idea of shifting casinos out from mandovi river even when the casino operators have been following each and every order of the state department

It may be noted that the state government had recently identified rivers like chapora, aguada bay, sal and zuari for the purpose of shifting casino vessels out from river mandovi after which casino operators have unanimously agreed to move their vessels out of river Mandovi provided Goa government provides suitable infrastructure like jetties …

Speaking to goanreporter director, golden peace hotels & resorts pvt ltd shrinivas nayak said that even though there was no real reason for the casinos to be moved out of river mandovi they were ready to comply with the state government decision

Mr nayak said that the casino vessels were there in mandovi river to do casino business and therefore shifting casinos deep in to the see could create various problems specially security wise for casino operators as well as those trying to go on casinos …

Mr nayak requested to the state government to conduct a proper study taking in to consideration the number of employment that had been given by the casino business in the state having more than 10,000 direct employees

Commenting over the issue of goans not to be allowed inside the casinos Mr nayak also stated that the company already had policy where in under 21 was restricted from going inside casinos and even if any goan informed about a goan entering casinos he was been banned from entering

The state nationalist congress party has urged the state government to hand over the entire delimitation process to be held before the municipalities elections in the state to the state election commission fearing of favoritism of municipality wards as per the wants of bjp mla’s …

It may be noted that the state government had decided to hold elections for electing new municipal councils for 11 municipalities around the state on November 1 this year deciding not to hold the municipal election on party lines and also to hold the delimitation process of wards before the elections

Addressing media persons in panjim vice president of the state nationalist congress party jose Philip d’souza said that there was a fear in the mind of the goans there the delimitations process could be done to favour some of the bjp mla’s to get their candidates win in the municipality elections

Mr dsouza said that since there could be certain interference by certain bjp mla’s he was of the opinion that the complete delimitation process to be handled by the state election commission

Meanwhile ncp spokesperson trojano dmello asked the state government to complete the delimitation process by august and also raised surprise of the Christian mla’s being mute spectators on municipalities elections being held on 1st November which is an all saints day …

06/06/2015 … The state ncp party has strongly condemned the statements made by the tourism minister dilip parulkear over the incident of the gangrape case which took place in the coastal belt of north goa where in mr parulekar had said that such incidents done by pettry criminals were bound to take place in touristic spots

It may be noted that on Monday evening two Delhi based women tourists were kidnapped, gang raped, brutally assaulted, and were held to ransom by a gang of five men who posed as police officers from the crime branch and anti-narcotics cell of the Goa police.

The incident occurred at Arpora and the complaint was filed by taxi driver Abhijit Kochrekar whose car was hired by the Delhi based tourists.

The accused identified by police are Ajay Kusbas, a resident of Arpora, Jeevan Pawar, a native of Karwar, Nadeem Khan, a native of Rajasthan, Trevor Joseph, a native of Mumbai and Kamlesh Chowdhury, a native of Hyderabad.

Addressing media persons tourism minister dilip parulekar said that the accused were migrated youngsters and where ever tourist activities were there such minor things were bound to take place

Ncp spokesperson trojano dmello said that he was surprised to know that the tourism minister had termed the tape accused as petty criminals

Meanwhile former sarpanch and panch member of calangute village panchayat joseph sequiera said that though the incident had taken place in anjuna it was wrong to defame the name of calangute village for unnecessary things