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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and seeks to buy approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs land betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas. Please contact: contac...@sangath.com or yvo...@sangath.com or ph+91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Very amusing read... Surprised to note that the Government had one 'ball' left!!! After having read about this sore story about the River Princess for so many years, I believed it had none, but well, now we know for sure that the Government has no balls!! And now that the HC has the balls, we just have to wait and see what happens. >>>Message: 4 >>>Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 22:37:26 -0400 >>>From: "Goanet News Service" <n...@goanet.org> >>>Subject: [Goanet] River Princess: Govt puts ball in HC court >>>To: "Goanet" <goa...@goanet.org> >>>Message-ID: <blu0-smtp4366495ce81761fe04c0d6b3...@phx.gbl> >>>River Princess: Govt puts ball in HC court >>>PANAJI: Revenue minister Jose Philip D'Souza on Monday told the House that the fate over the removal of the M V River Princess, responsible for eating up an entire beach at Sinquerim, depended on the Goa bench of the Bombay high court. In his reply on the demands for grants, D'Souza said that the government is determined to remove the vessel. "There are two options available - to continue the contract with Jaisu Shipping subject to stringent terms and conditions or to float fresh international tenders to refloat the vessel. Before any of these two actions are taken, it is necessary that the high court gives permission," he said. "This is because there is a stay on the removal of the vessel, and Jaisu Shipping has been fighting against the decision of the government to cancel the contract. Unless the high court issues directives to the government to remove the grounded vessel, it will not be possible for the Goa State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA) and the advisory committee constituted to take further action in the matter," the revenue minister said. "In the event of Jaisu Shipping continuing with the contract, the government will set up a monitoring mechanism to ensure that the work is completed before March 2010. And in the event of floating fresh tenders, the government will take steps to ensure that the new company appointed will complete the task before the arrival of the monsoon in 2010," D'Souza added. It maybe pointed out here that the government realized that the presence of the vessel had caused environmental changes, including beach erosion and diversion of currents and flow of sea water, and decided to declare the River Princess as a state disaster, which was accordingly notified on March 30 this year. Meanwhile, tourism minister Francisco Xavier Pacheco in his written reply to a starred question by opposition MLAs Francis D'Souza and Dilip Parulekar stated that GSDMA has recommended to the high court that Jaisu Shipping should be allowed to complete the work of re-floating and towing away of the River Princess without fail by March 31, 2010. In trying to resolve the vexed issue of the River Princess, Pacheco has stated that the GSDMA has also made several other suggestions to the high court. It has stated that the government will withdraw the termination notice issued to Jaisu Shipping and that company will in turn withdraw the arbitration proceedings filed against the government, said the tourism minister. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/goa/River-Princess-Govt-puts-ba ll-in-HC-court/articleshow/4854298.cms