While the issue of induction of NCP Benaulim MLA can
wait as the High Command of both the NCP & INC will
resolve the issue later may be in a day or two the
portfolios were announced this evening:
Shri. Pratapsingh Raoji Rane INC Poriem CM
Portfolios: Home Financeand other not alloted yet
Dr Wilfred De Souza NCP Saligao DEPUTY CHIEF MINISTER
Portfolios: Tourism
Mr Sudin Dhavalikar MGP Marcaim MINISTER
Porfolio: PWD
Shri. Luizinho Faleiro INC Navelim MINISTER
Portfolio: Industries
Shri. Dayanand Narvekar INC Aldona MINISTER
Portfolio: Information Technology
Shri Digamber Kamat INC Margao MINISTER
Portfolio Power & Mining
Shri Atnasio Monserate INC Taleigao MINISTER
Portfolio: Town & Country Planning
Shri Pandurang Madkaikar INC Cumbarjua MINISTER
Portfolio Transport
Shri. Subash Shirodkar INC Shiroda MINISTER
Portfolio Panchayats
Shri. Joaquim Braz Alemao INC Cuncolim MINISTER
Portfolio Urban Development
These are the major porfolios alloted . The fact that
Sports has not been alloted thus far is an indication
that the induction of Mr Francisco (Mickey ) Pacheco
will be a certainity.
There was not much cheer over the allocation of
portfolios but given the delicate act of balancing the
portfolios vis a vis experience this seems reasonable
until the budget session which is due in July 2005
Mr Kamat has been dispensed of the Urban Development
portfolio which he held under the Parrikar regime for
almost two terms. For Joaquim Alemao the allotment of
this portfolio, which brings all the 13
Municipalities and the Corporation of City of Panaji
under his fold -- it will be a testing time given
that some factions within the Cuncolim Assembly
Constituency are demanding the reversion of Cuncolim
Municipality back to its Panchayat status. There is
also the demand to revoke the Housing Board complex
proposed in Cuncolim which the Rane government
committed to cancel. Mr Alemao will also have to
tackle the issue of garbage disposal which as of date
is the biggest issue affecting the State, with it
comes the stray dog menance etc
The Town & Country Planning having been offered to Mr
Monserate he will have to prove his detractors wrong
who had labelled him as intending to convert Goa
beginning with his Taleigao Constituency into a
concrete jungle.
With Power retained by Mr Kamat Mr Luizinho Faleiro
will have to tread in unison with Mr Kamat for
obviously there can be no industry without power.
Mr Dhavlikar has been content with the PWD it is not
known whether some of the spicy 22 projects selected
by Mr Parrikar to be under the GSIDC would be reverted
to the PWD but that seems to be the case now that some
of the projects have come under scrutiny for costs
factor.
The detailed notification will be available only
tommorrow listing out the minor portfolios. The basic
objective of CM Rane appears to be an attempt to keep
the erstwhile BJP led coalition government agenda
untouched as far as development is concerned. As it
is a word of praise was showered by MrDayanand
Narvekar on the excellent development activity carried
out in the past 51 months and none will disagree on
this count . Hence Rane stands forewarned to continue
this pace. This was also the advice by the Congress
High Command Ms Sonia Gandhi to CM Mr Pratapsing
Raoji Rane to keep up the pace of development thereby
indicating that the Parrikar Goverment development
activity indeed was a cynosure of all eyes.
GODFREY J I GONSALVES
Borda Margao Goa
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