GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
August 17, 2002
ANJEDIVA CHURCH MUST BE SHIFTED: The State government has expressed its
inability to take any steps in the matter of the proposed closure of the
500-year-old Our Lady of Springs church at the Anjediva island as Navy's
Sea Bird project is all set for commissioning. Making the State
government's stand quite clear in the Goa Assembly, the Chief Ministers,
Manohar Parrikar, stated on August 16 that the Navy project involving
national security had to be given top priority and as such nothing much
could be done in the matter. (H)
MORE SUBSIDIES FOR AGRICULTURE DEMANDED: Saligao MLA Dr Wilfred de Souza
was informed that in the Saligao constituency an area of 54 hectares
approximately has been left unsown in the different panchayats during the
khariff season of 2002…Pernem MLA Jitendra Deshprabhu said, "Why doesn't
the government think of providing 50 per cent cash subsidies and set off
electricity charges so that agriculture becomes more economically viable. (H)
SCHEME FOR UNORGANISED SECTOR: the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Parrikar, has
said that the government will soon announce a scheme to provide dignity of
living to the un-organised section in the State and implement it from
January next year. (NT)
OPEN SPACES TO CIVIC BODIES? The private member's resolution was to
recommend to the State Government to "to enact a suitable legislation for
making it compulsory to the developers of the plots including Comunidade to
hand over open spaces to the local self bodies as it becomes no man's land
and becomes a nuisance in the area". (H)
MINGING COS ENCROACH: M/s Dempo Mining Corporation has encroached over
19.02 hectares of forest land dumped rejects on cashew plantation at Mayem,
while M/s Rajaram Bandekar has used 4.32 hectares of forest land to dump
rejects at Pale. This was stated by Forest Minister Vinay Tendulkar while
replying to a starred question from Aldona MLA Dayanand Narvekar. (GT)
SCHEMES FOR DROP-OUTS: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said the drop out
rate is high after VIII Standard and the government is holding parleys with
the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education to offer an
option to such students. Those students who find the subjects difficult
will be permitted to take up less taxing subjects and vocational courses to
halt the exodus. (GT)
ISLANDS FOR TOURISM: Forest Minister Vinay Tendulkar agreed to look into
the request made by Santa Cruz MLA Victoria Fernandes to promote the twin
islands in the Mandovi estuary opposite Ribandar-Sao Pedro, as tourist
spots. (GT)
HUSBAND-WIFE DUO VOTED: The husband-wife duo comprising Dr Jawaharlal
Henriques and his wife, Jeanette, were elected unopposed as sarpanch and
deputy Sarpanch respectively of Sodiem-Siolim Panchayat. (H)
FISHING BEGINS ON A DULL NOTE: Day one of the fishing season (August 16)
began on a dull note for the mechanised vessels and others connected with
the activity with sardines and "hampio" turning out to be the major catch
while the prized solar shrimp proved elusive. (H)
REFRIGERATION "SHOCKS" MAN: Forty-three-year-old Anthony Minguel Dourado
died due to electrocution after he received a shock while opening the
refrigeration in his house at Raia late in the night on August 15. (H)
WOMAN ELECTROCUTED: A routine activity to collect cucumbers in the morning
proved fatal for 60-year-old Mogu Bablo Gaude from Karmane-Keri in Ponda,
when she got electrocuted after coming in contact with a live wire in a
field about 500 metres away from her residence. (H)
MAPUSA TEENAGER DROWNED: Independence Day celebrations came to a tragic end
for a group of young students, who went for a swim, when one of them,
Deepak Redkar (16), got drowned in a pond at Verla-Canca on August 15. (H)
COSTLY RIDE: One Alcina Monteiro, a resident of Moira-Bardez, realized the
hazards of carrying two pillion riders on her bike when she met with an
accident at Moira on 14 August. (GT)
URBANISATION IN NAVELIM: Around a dozen residential and commercial
complexes have sprung up in the central part of the Navelim village and
along the highway. And, the village is bracing up to witness a building
boom in the coming years. (H)
A.I.R. SERVICE TO STATE: Goa broadcasts to Gulf, China and even South East
Asia. But radio transmitters in this State broadcast to listeners only for
a little over half of each day. This information came out in the
Parliamentary question raised by Rajya Sabha MP, Eduardo Faleiro, on August
12. (H)
MHADEI DIVERSION: The diversion will not only affect the Sattari region,
but also bring about the destruction of Goa, feels Mr Sadashiv Narayan
Marathe of Velguem in Sattari. It will affect the supply of drinking water
to North Goa and reduce the water table in Sattari, Sanguem, Ponda and
Bicholim to such an extent that it will wipe out agriculture in these
areas, he says. (Joaquim Fernandes in NT)
MUMBAI COPS TO STUDY GOA TRAFFIC: Taking serious note of the increasing
road accidents, the Goa Police department has plans to appoint some retired
officers from Mumbai to conduct a study in traffic policing in the State. (GT)
EC RULES OUT EARLY POLLS IN GUJARAT: Pouring cold water on ruling BJP's
demand for early assembly polls in Gujarat, the three-member Election
Commission yesterday unanimously decided to consider holding elections only
in November-December as the law and order situation in the riot-hit state
"is still far from normal". (PTI report in Herald)
CARDIAC MIRACLE! The Department of Cardiology, KLE's Heart Foundation,
Belgaum, added another feather to its cap by successfully performing the
closure of a hole in the upper chamber of the heart of a 40-year-old female
by amplatz device (without cutting the chest). (GT)
PREPARING FOR THE DELUGE: "Goa is a part of the planet on the rim of the
Indian Ocean basin where geology and ecology intersect mythology…Goa is a
tectonic alloy of rock formations which have different ages. Oldest rocks
are 3400 to 3600 million years old and are found on the Karnataka
border…The coastal lands of Goa comprise of the land sunk under the sea,
the continental shelf, the beaches and the sand dunes, the sub-coastal low
lying areas, the estuarine zone with the mangroves and the man-made
agricultural lands named as khazans. Most of these lands may simply vanish
in this century itself, if not much earlier (by 2050 AD)." (Nandkumar Kamat
in Zest-NT)
DR SHIRODKAR FOR BRAZIL: Dr Ajit Shirodkar, horticulture enthusiast and
resident of Alto Santa Cruz has been invited to make a presentation on
Alphonso cultivation at the Seventh International Mango Symposium to be
held at Recife, Brazil, next month. The title of his presentation is
"Alleviation of Yield Variability and Quality Improvement in Alphonso-Long
Term farm Experience". (H)
S P O R T S
CHURCHILL, SIGNALS IN LAST FOUR: Churchill Bros Sports Club downed Cabral
Sports Club 2-0 to book a place in the semi-finals of the servo Governor's
Cup football tournament at Duler in Mapusa. Corps of Signals scored a
fluent 3-1 victory over Napoli Sports Club at Tilak Maidan in Vasco. (H)
D E A T H S
16 Aug: Benaulim-Rebod: MINGUEL FRANCISCO FERNANDES, husband of Lucy,
father of Ashley and Wendel.
16 Aug: Canacona: LAXMI VISHNU VERNEKAR, mother of Vaman/Vanchena,
Shripad/Sajala, Surendra/Sumedha, Kiran/Pratima, Satish/Kalpana and
Mohini/Pramod Rivankar.
16 Aug: Siridao: PASCOAL JOAQUIM AFONSO, relict of late Ana Rita, father
of Santano/Joanita, Camilo/Isabel, Conceicao/Xavier, Pedrinha.
15 Aug: Cavelossim: MARIA EUGENIA B PALHA E RODRIGUES, wife of late
Francisco, mother of late Felicissimo, Mousinho/Agnes (UK), Filomena/late
Jose Barros, Francisco Chatterbriand/Hilda, Oscar/Anna, Evita/Casmiro
D'Souza (UK)
16 Aug: Navelim-Dialgona: ANTHONY GOES, husband of Ancy, father of
Joana, Jenisia, Roosevelt.
G O A W E A T H E R
Temp: 25.3 deg C (77.5 deg F) at Assagao at 7.30 am today.
Max temp: 28.9 deg C, Humidity: 93%, Rainfall 1853.0 mm (Yesterday)
Weather: After last night's showers, the morning has been quite dry,
even some sunlight escaping through the gaps in the rain clouds.
Courtesy: H=Herald, NT=The Navhind Times, GT=Gomantak Times
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