[Goanet] Press Note on Talk by Prof.Ishtiaq Ahmed at Goa University

[Rahul Tripathi]

PRESS NOTE
'Indo-Pak relations are key to South Asia's future' says Prof.Ishtiaq Ahmed

In a world where political and economic situation is in a flux and
cooperation is the only way forward, India -Pakistan relations would hold
the key to South Asia's future, said Prof.Ishtiaq Ahmed, Professor
Emeritus, Stockholm University. Speaking at a talk on the subject co
organized by School of International and Area Studies and DDKosambi School
of Social Sciences, Goa University, the Pakistan born Swedish political
scientist also touched upon the crisis in Pakistan in its formative years
that continues to plague the nation in several ways. While he appreciated
India's remarkable growth in the recent years, he cautioned against the
tendencies of religious polarization and politicization of history, as the
same tendencies have prevented Pakistan from moving on as a nation.While
India can very well move on with its South Asia minus Pakistan approach,
for the latter it may not be an option  he asserted. Responding to a
question on Pakistan's position on terrorism, he hoped that the Prime
Minister Shahbaz Sharief's  statement at the recent Shsnghai Cooperation
Organization on denouncing the same was made with right intent.He also
recalled being influenced by D.D.Kosambi's writings during his formative
years.Prof.Ahmed has been an acclaimed author of books like 'Pakistan: The
Garrison State', 'Jinnah: His Successes, Failures and Role in History' and
'Punjab : Partioned, Bloddied and Cleansed.The lecture was very well
attended by students, faculty and members of civil society.

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[Goanet] Press Note GRE

[Olencio Simoes]

Goenchea Ramponkarancho Ekvott (GRE), Goencho Ekvott Orville Dourado, 
Ex-Minister Alina Saldanha, and others associations members remembered Late 
Matanhy Saldanha on his 74th birth anniversary. The garlanding ceremony was 
held at Cansaulim Market Circle.Olencio Simoes General Secretary Stated that 
Goa had lost a dedicated worrier whose love was only to save Goa and Goans for 
posterity.
He appealed to all youths of our state to emulate Late Matanhy Saldanha so that 
we have great leaders like him who had worked selflessly, which currently the 
state of Goa is finding deficit off. Agnelo Rodrigues President stated that 
It's almost a decade now since the late Matanhy Saldanha left us but the 
fishing community of Goa and India will never forget his  40years of dedicated 
service to our community in  Goa, India, and to the world. 
He also stated that Matanhy was against destructive Mega projects like Double 
tracking,5star resorts, mega housing, etc which the state is trying to bulldoze 
over us even after a large section of the society is opposing it. We appeal to 
the state government to withdraw all projects which is against the interest of 
the State and Goan, he also stated that if Matanhy were alive he would have 
fought tooth and nail to see that these projects were scrapped.




   
   - Olencio Simoes(BA,BBA,BPED & MBA)
   
   - General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),   

   - President of Goa United Workmen Union(GUWU),   

   - General Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU)    

   - General Secretary of National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF)
   - Joint Secretary of Goencheo Ekvott (GE)
   -  Member of National Coastal Protection Campaign 
(NCPC).Address:H.no.58,opposite health center,Ward no.8,Baga,Near 
railwaystation,Cansaulim Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. www.olenciosimoes.com

[Goanet] Press Note on Celebration of Mental Health Week 2022 in Carmel College

[Glenis Mendonca]

Sir/ Madam

Kindly find the following attachment (Report of Mental health Week
Celebrations in Carmel College) worthy of publication in your esteemed
newspaper/media..

Thank you.

Warm regards

Dr. Glenis Mendonca
Media I/C
Carmel College of Arts, Science and Commerce for Women, Nuvem-Goa

[Goanet] Press Note for kind favour of pulication

[Gulab Marg]

To,

The Editor

--

Sub: Request to give Press Publicity.

Sir,

Attached is a Press Note of Alliance of Romi Konknni Associations along
with a photograph for kind favour of publication in your esteemed newspaper

 Will be grateful if you kindly publish the Press Note in your esteemed
newspaper / news magazine.

Thanking you.

Yours Sincerely

(Fausto V. Da Costa)

Coordinator

Alliance of Romi Konkani Associations

[Goanet] Press note for kind favour of publication

[Gulab Marg]

To,

The Editor

--

Sub: Request to give Press Publicity.

Sir,

Gulab awards 2020 & 2021 and Felicio Cardoso Potrkarita Puroskar will be
presented to the winners on July 20, 2022 at a special function to be held
at Ravindra Bhavan’s Conference hall to mark the 69th birth anniversary of
the Founder editor of Gulab late Rev. Fr. Freddy J. Da Costa.

 Will be grateful if you kindly publish the Press Note in your esteemed
newspaper / new smagazine.

Attaching herewith an invitation for the function.

Thanking you.

Yours Sincerely

(Fausto V. Da Costa)

Editor - Gulab

[Goanet] PRESS NOTE: Goa's #1 priority for Ministry portfolio allocation: Employment Generation

[Goa IT Professionals]

*PRESS NOTE *(March 15, 2022)



*Goa's #1 priority for Ministry portfolio allocation: Employment Generation*





This note is to inform the Press and Media community of Goa that our
association has sent the following letter to the BJP state and national
leaders with suggestions to organize certain key departments towards
successful delivery on Goa’s #1 priority (ie. employment and livelihood
generation) on which the performance of BJP-Goa governments of the last 10
years has been dismal thereby aggravating the sufferings of Goans and
hurting aspirations of Goan youth. Left unattended in BJP-Goa’s upcoming
third term this top-most priority will cost it very dearly on the political
front in the times ahead. Early signs of this are already visible in the
recent election results.



We would much appreciate your kind support to highlight this important
matter through your esteemed publications and channels so that the new
government is compelled to do the right things for Goans to prosper right
here in Goa. Thank you.



**



Date: 14-March-2022



Subject: *Goa's #1 priority for Ministry portfolio allocation: Employment
Generation*



Dear state and national leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party,



Congratulations on your performance in the recent Goa Assembly elections.
It is clearly a mandate for governmental stability and locally sustainable
development towards modern employment generation for Goans to prosper in
Goa.



With the Goa government workforce saturated, new jobs need to come from the
private sector. Our beloved late *Shri Manohar-bhai Parrikar’s dreams *of
reversing Goa’s brain-drain (bit.ly/3t7mNyC) as well as our *visionary
Prime Minister Narendra Modiji’s revolutionary Startup India and Make in
India* initiatives have seen poor progress in Goa over the last 10 years of
your Goa governments. Thousands of unemployed and under-employed Goans,
8000+ young Goans graduating every year and over a lakh of Goans migrated
out in recent decades for employment yearning to return back need *modern,
knowledge-driven, well-paying, green industries such as IT, ITeS, Creative,
Electronics and Manufacturing* in Goa.



Modern employment generation is the “Day One, Priority One” for your new
government! Such a critical matter requires your key ministries to be
organised for efficiency as follows:

1. Employment generation related ministries/departments to be *grouped
together under one minister:* *Industries, Information Technology, and
Skill Development & Entrepreneurship*.

2. Minister chosen for this key portfolio needs to be strong, experienced,
self-driven, open-minded, collaborative, progressive and results-oriented.

3. Avoid other peripheral department(s) in his portfolio to ensure focus
and results.

4. Non-performing past ministers to be excluded from this important role.

5. For maximum acceleration, it would be ideal for the Chief Minister to
lead this key portfolio in mission mode for a year before handing over to
another competent minister.

6. Additionally, the *Education, Science & Technology, and Labour &
Employment* departments must also be held by one such legislator to
facilitate the key portfolio referred in point #1 above.



Scattered organization of these crucial ministries/departments in your Goa
government’s last 2 terms has led to loss of great opportunities for Goa
regarding modern employment generation with egos and power tussles
defeating the greater good.



We hope you consider our above inputs to reverse Goa’s brain-drain ravaging
our beloved homeland since the last few decades and blaze a new trail to a
“Golden Goa”. Assuring you of our full support in this regard as we have
always done since 2012.



Regards,

Goa IT Professionals

http://www.goaitpro.org



**





For any clarifications you may reach out to the following Goa IT
Professionals (GITP) Core Team members:

*Gurudev Naik* (President): +91 91672 60039

*Vincent Toscano* (Vice President): +91 97654 10020

*Yash Ganthe* (Vice President): +91 98224 75519

*Amogh Desai* (Secretary): +91 98231 44405


Regards,

*Goa IT Professionals – GITP *| www.goaitpro.org | goa...@gmail.com

*Important links: About GITP  | GITP on
Social Network  | GITP Core Team
 | *Goa Skills Registry - GSR
 | Project GEIT

[Goanet] PRESS NOTE - 7 KONKNNI MARTYRS MEMORIAL FUNCTION ON 4.09.2021

[Jose Fernandes]

Sir/Madam,

Kindly give publicity to the following news item.

Regards,
Jose Salvador Fernandes
9881810832











*PRESS NOTE*

*7 KONKNNI MARTYRS MEMORIAL FUNCTION ON 4.09.2021*

The Kuwait Konknni Mogi (KKM) and Kuwait Konknni Kendr (KKK), both the
Konknni organizations which were instituted in Kuwait, and working actively
to promote and nurture Konknni in Romi script through its activities, has
renovated the historical 7 Konknni Martyrs Monument, in Agassiam Church
area. The 7 Konknni Martyrs Monumenr was was erected under the leadership
of Agassaim villager, who was working in Kuwait, and well known as late
Shaikh Agnel 34 years ago. Since the Monument was not maintained all these
years, it was seen that the Monument erected to remember and pay respect to
those who have laid down their lives for Konknni, was in a dilapidated
condition. Seeing the historical Monument in such a decrepited condition,
the KKM thought of renovating the same. As KKM took the intiative of
renovating the Monument, the famous Kuwait Konknni Kendr (KKK) came forward
to finance the full renovation work.

Accordingly, the 7 Konknni Martyrs Monument has been renovated, with the
financial help from KKK.

The re-inauguration will be held on 4th September, 2021 (Saturday), at
10.15 am, in Agassaim, near 7 Konknni Martyrs Monument.

The President of KKK, Elvino bab Rodrigues will be the Chief Guest for the
function.

Konknni lovers and well wishers as well as villagers, and people from
neighboring villages are requested to attend the function.




*Thanking you, *



*Jose Salvador Fernandes*

Member, KKM

Mobile No. 9881810832

[Goanet] Press note

[Olencio Simoes]

In favour of Publication,please




 


Olencio Simoes , the Spokeperson of Aam Aadmi Party and Candidate for Cortalim 
alongwith  Vasant Gopi Naik Candidate forDabolim resigns from  primary 
membershipof Aam Aadmi Party.



Vasant Gopi Naik accused theparty for hobnobbing with the BJP’s agenda and 
propaganda aiding in destroyingthe secular principles of our constitution of 
India.AAP and Arvind Kejriwalhave  shown their clear affiliationand  support to 
BJP   right from India Against corruption movementtill date, as he has 
supported Article 370 which has bifurcated the state ofJammu and Kashmir .Also 
the recent silence on the  communalviolence in northeast Delhi in February 2020 
and The Citizenship Amendment Act(Bill) CAA has showcased that still waters run 
deep. 



Through Olencio’s minuteobservation he has noticed that Arvind Kejriwal has 
misled the people of Delhi as his party had foughtthe election promising  Jan 
Lokpal Bill,Delhi Swaraj Bill and full statehood for Delhi but has diverted the 
peoplesissues to mere freebies.



 Naik also stated that Arvind Kejriwal isclearly backed by RSS and BJP who 
working like Narendra Modi style as he is roaming around the world to sell 
Indiaand Kejriwal is roaming around India with tax payer money to finish India. 
he hasalso questioned why Mamta Banerjee of West Bengal, Naveen Patnaik 
ofOdisha, Nitishkumar of Bihar, PinarayiVijayan of Kerela,Kalvakuntla 
Chandrashekhar Rao of Telangana, Jagan Mohan Reddy of Andhra Pradesh are not 
roaming toexpand their party and why is only AAP roaming entire India ??As it 
is the BJPwho is supporting him with the entire machinery. 



Olencio expressed hisdisappointment with Arvind Kejriwal Government  who 
reiterates about honest politics but isnot practised. We need to figure out why 
prominent leaders like PrashantBhushan, Yogendra Yadav , Ashutosh and many 
other founder members of AAPhave left the party  in a jiffy and thesame holds  
for Punjab where the  opposition leader Sukhpal Khaira quit the party along 
with 2MLA’s.



Olencio Simoes statedthat the development model is a Jumla in Delhi as the 
government health caresystem has failed and Delhi has witnessed more than 25000 
deaths during thisongoing pandemic. The distrust was surfacing when he observed 
that AAP provedthat they are communal as well as corrupt as their ZP candidate 
in Benaulim wonon the fraud OBC certificate . Kejiriwal led government could 
have prevented therecent Church demolition in Delhi .His indifferent attitude 
shows clearly thatAAP is compromised on its ideology and principles. During 
Kejriwal’s recentvisit to Goa he spoke of freebies and electricity but 
sidelined the core issuesof Double tracking, River nationalization, CZMP, Coal 
and several main issuesof Goa. If a Konkani academy could be set up in Delhi 
then  why cant they atleast rebuild the Church in Delhi. It stands  clear that 
they are contesting again just  like in 2017 with the sole intention todivide 
the secular votes in Goa.



Olencio and Gopi furtherstated that he will decide his political journey ahead 
by taking intoconsideration all his well wishers suggestion. Olencio stated 
that we Goansneed to be vigilant and introspect the political scenario before 
its too lateor this could spell doom for Goa.




 


  -Sd-



 VasantGopi Naik



  -sd- 



Olencio Simoes



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[Goanet] PRESS NOTE OF GE

[Olencio Simoes]

kindly publish press note
   
   - Olencio Simoes(BA,BBA,BPED & MBA)
   
   - General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),   

   - President of Goa United Workmen Union(GUWU),   

   - General Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU)    

   - General Secretary of National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF)
   - Joint Secretary of Goencheo Ekvott (GE)
   -  Member of National Coastal Protection Campaign 
(NCPC).Address:H.no.58,opposite health center,Ward no.8,Baga,Near 
railwaystation,Cansaulim Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. 

[Goanet] Press note issued in the press conference at New Delhi on 19th February 2021

[Venantius J Pinto]

All India Kisan Sabha
36 Pt. Ravi Shankar Shukla Lane (Canning Lane)
New Delhi-1, email- kisansa...@gmail.com

Press note issued in the press conference at New Delhi on 19th February 2021

Repeal Pro-Corporate Farm Acts
Ensure Legal Guarantee for MSP
Enact Alternative Laws to Protect Farmers’ Interest

The success of the 6th February Chakka Jam and 18th February Rail Roko has
effectively manifested the pan India character of the ongoing farmers’
struggle and sounds a warning to the Modi-led BJP Government. AIKS demands
that the Modi Government should give up its arrogance, repeal the 3 Farm
Acts, withdraw the amendments to the Electricity Act, make MSP@C2+50% a
legal right with guaranteed procurement for all crops across the country
and amend the anti-farmer clauses in the Pollution Ordinance 2020
immediately. All cases foisted on farmers and leaders of farmers
organizations, journalists and others must be unconditionally withdrawn to
resolve the genuine issues raised by the farmers struggle.

The PM while speaking in both the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha had accused
the protesting farmers of not being ready for reforms and standing for
maintaining the status quo. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Farmers are opposing the pro-corporate reforms and stand for pro-farmer
reforms. The PM is deliberately trying to misguide the people due to his
adamant pro-corporate bias.

The Prime Ministers comment that ‘MSP was there, is there and will remain
there is part of a deliberate campaign to misguide the people. Narendra
Modi and the BJP had promised MSP by ensuring 50% profit above cost of
production in the 2014 Lok Sabha election manifesto, as per the
recommendation of the National Commission for Farmers that was headed by Dr
M S Swaminathan. During the last 7 years in power, the PM did not implement
this promise and is hence directly responsible for the ongoing farmers
struggle.

The existing rate of MSP based on A2+FL calculation is not remunerative and
according to reports only 6% of the farm produce based on the estimate of
Gross Value Added (GVA) has been procured by the Government by providing
this meager MSP. Hence huge majority of the farmers are forced to sell far
below the announced rate of MSP, making MSP only notional for the vast
majority. For example the rate of MSP for paddy is Rs 1868 per quintal but
farmers in Bihar, Jharkhand and many other states get only Rs 800 to Rs
1200 per quintal. It is significant that the LDF Government in Kerala
provides Rs 2850 per quintal for paddy with assured procurement with the
support of the cooperative sector.

The benefit of surplus created out of value addition of farm produce is
amassed by the corporate companies. For example, the farmers receive price
at the range of Rs 18 to Rs 30 per kilo from the intermediaries for Basmati
paddy while the branded Fortune Special Basmati Rice of the Adani group is
being sold at the price of Rs.208 per kilo.  Some of the brands are sold in
the range of Rs 700 to Rs 2200 per kilo. Likewise, in the coffee belt the
farmers get Rs 120 to Rs 130 per kilo for coffee beans while the corporate
sector sells instant coffee powder at an average of Rs 3000 per kilo.
Certain brands of coffee like Nestle Blend 37 and Nescafe Gold Organic were
being sold at around 12,000/Kg a few months back and even now are being
sold at Rs.8,000/- to about Rs.10,000/Kg.

This sort of loot and exploitation by the corporate sector and their
intermediaries in the market is one of the main reasons for the widespread
indebtedness of the peasant households and the resultant massive peasant
suicides. Every hour two farmers are committing suicide in India and 2468
peasants per day are forced to give up agriculture.

In the context of the ongoing farmers struggle, AIKS demands that the Union
Government consider the following

The Union Government after consulting all the State Governments must bring
the law for MSP@C2+50% for all crops across the country with guaranteed
procurement to ensure MSP as the right of the farmers.
The primary responsibility to provide MSP@C2+50% lies on those entities
that procure the produce from the farmers. These entities earn income and
profit and sustain out of the trading and processing of farm produce and
marketing of value added consumer products. The MSP law must make them
liable to share certain percentage of the surplus with the primary
producers. Hence, the State Governments should enact a law with the clauses
that make it essential for the agro processing industries, trade and market
enterprises in the private, public and cooperative sectors  to share the
surplus they acquire through trade and value addition with the respective
farmers to ensure MSP@C2+50% . Noncompliance shall be treated as an
offence.
The state legislation should include clauses to promote non-profitable
social cooperative institutions of peasants and workers to promote
collective cultivation, procure and trade stock, undertake agro-processing

Re: [Goanet] Press note GRE

[Olencio Simoes]

  

Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott

(Raponkars,Magkars, Cantaikars, Pagelkars)

 

Regd.Under Societies Act.1860   HeadOffice: 
   Affiliated to National FishWorkers Forum

Reg.No. RS./240/76   FABRICABLDG
NewDelhi. Reg. No. 487/8

  CANSAULIM P.O. 403712

 
MORMUGAO- GOA

Ref :   
     Date: 24th Oct 2020

 

In favourof Publication, please

 

Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott today alongwith Cortalim MLA Alina Saldanha 
,Hendrique Dmello Sarpanch of Velsao andCovenor Cerson Antao of Goencho Ekvott 
remembering late Matanhy Saldanha on his72nd Birthday. Several members of 
GRE,GE and GUWU assembled  at his statue at Cansaulim for garlandingceremony, 
GRE also paid floral  tribute andone minute silence was observed to late Thomas 
Peter who was the General Secretaryof National Fishworkers Forum.

 

Agnelo Rodrigues President said that Matanhy Saldanhawas like a father to the 
fishing community of Goa and India. He was the founderof GRE and NFF. It is 
only because of his 40years of selfless service that haskept the fishing 
community still alive.

 

Rodrigues stated that their late leader wasthe first to  start the 
environmentalrevolution in Goa. His first agitation at the age of 24years 
against the ZuariAgro chemicals  resulted into theenacting  of Water Pollution 
Act which eventuallybenefited the world. Besides  he wasinstrumental in 
demanding and formulating several environmental laws which hashelped today 
fishing community and conserving  Coastal Ecology.

 

GRE and Agnelo has urged the state governmentto make a strong case for Bharat 
Ratna for Late Matanhay Saldanah for his exceptional contribution to 
theenvironment and the downtrodden .

 

 

  OlencioSimoes General Secretary  along with MLAAlina Saldanha paid 
his tribute to late T.Peter who died fighting for thefishing community of 
Kerela and India and promised to carry forward his legacy .

 

  Simoeshas urged the government to keep his promise of saving 
Matanhy’s legacy anddemanded that the CM Dr.Pramod P Sawant  scrap the Coastal 
Economic Zones notified inGoa in 2016 in which Sagarmala has planned 30 
projects to make Goa Coal hub.

 

  GREhas also urged the CM to drop the new  CRZ notification 2019 which 
gives exemption  to all ports related infrastructure in Goa. Simoesdemanded 
that the  major port authoritiesbill 2020 which gives autonomy to the Mourmugao 
Port 

Trust(MPT) should be dropped immediately and theentire jurisdiction of MPT 
should be handed over to Captain of Ports, as thenew bill has  given MPT  total 

unauthorized powers to lease 53km of coastline,76850 acres of water spread area 
and 533.48 acres of Land area  to private players like Adani,Jindal etc. 
TheNational waterways bill 2016 has privatized 6 rivers of Goa which also need 
tobe dropped as this act will bring port led development across 200km 
ofwaterways  irreversible damage to  Goa’s fragile ecology as Goa consist of 
40estuarine, 8 marine and about 90 riverine islands which will be 
totallyimpacted. 

 

-Sd-

AgneloRodrigues

President

 -sd-

OlencioSimoes

(General Secretary of GRE, AGFU  of

National Fishworkers’ Forum.Contact:9158875851Email id:olencio...@yahoo.co.in)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


   
   - Olencio Simoes(BA,BBA,BPED & MBA)
   
   - General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),   

   - President of Goa United Workmen Union(GUWU),   

   - General Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU)    

   - Vice-Chairman of National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) & Member of National 
Coastal Protection Campaign (NCPC).Address:H.no.58,opposite health center,Ward 
no.8,Baga,Near railwaystation,Cansaulim Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851.    

 

On Saturday, 24 October, 2020, 11:36:48 am IST, Olencio Simoes 
 wrote:  
 
 kindly publish press note of GRE.Thanks
   
   - Olencio Simoes(BA,BBA,BPED & MBA)
   
   - General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),   

   - President of Goa United Workmen Union(GUWU),   

   - General Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU)    

   - Vice-Chairman of National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) & Member of National 
Coastal Protection Campaign (NCPC).Address:H.no.58,opposite health center,Ward 
no.8,Baga,Near railwaystation,Cansaulim Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851.    

  

[Goanet] press note GRE

[Olencio Simoes]

Goenchea RaponkaranchoEkvott

(Raponkars, Magkars, Cantaikars,Pagelkars)

 

Regd.Under Societies Act.1860   HeadOffice: 
   Affiliated to National Fish Workers Forum

Reg.No. RS./240/76   FABRICABLDG
NewDelhi. Reg. No. 487/8

  CANSAULIM P.O. 403712

 
MORMUGAO- GOA

Ref :   
 Date : 9th October   2020

 

 In favour ofPublication, please

  Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott OlencioSimoes General Secretary and 
Vice Chairperson of  National Fishworkers Forum [NFF] said thatfishermen of Goa 
and India mourns the demise of our beloved leader and oneamong the tall 
stalwarts and General Secretary of  NFF late.Thomas  Peter from Kerala.

 

Simoes said that he Coming from the background of a fishing village, theson of 
Thomas and Clarie Bell dedicated his life and defined his role ofengaging with 
and for the struggling communities. Comrade T Peter’s relentlessefforts of 
working with the small-scale traditional fishing community acrossIndia spans 
over four decades. He served the community with the basicconviction that it is 
their voices that should be at the forefront whiledemanding their rights. 

 

He was handed over responsibility at various levels organisationally -leading  
Kerala Swathanthra Matsya Thozhilali Federation [KSMTF] at thedistrict and 
state levels as the District and was the State Secretary and StatePresident of 
KSMTF ,Executive Member of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples(WFFP)and  
Syndicate Member of the KeralaFisheries University. He performed the 
responsibilities handed over to him withgreat passion and dedication. This was 
also visible at various forefronts withour former leaders like Fr Thomas 
Kochery, Ram Bhau Patil, Harekrishna Debnath,Matanhy Saldanha and many others 
in the anti-trawling struggle, Struggleagainst Joint ventures, Against diluting 
of CRZ etc.

 

Struggle for him did not confine with the fishworkers only but being 
insolidarity with various people’s movements nationally, regionally and 
locallywith the Narmada Bachao Andolan, Anti Coco-Cola Struggle, Anti 
EndosulphanMovement, Anti Kudankulam Struggle, Anti Sterlite Struggle  are a 
fewamong the many struggles he shared solidarity with. This definitely 
issomething which T.Peter stand apart from various leaders too. His 
simplisticand distinct lifestyle is something which was peculiar which was 
symbolic aswell as political. 

 

The pandemic has paved way for the untimely departure of our dearcomrade. His 
last days of extensive campaign and work was focussed on theproposed upcoming 
shipping corridor in the coast and building up alliances tofight 

 

 

against this draconian project in the garb of Sagarmala which would 
bedisplacing thousands of fishworkers from their lives and livelihoods. He 
alsowas seriously engaged in bringing and building up a policy for protecting 
thefishworkers and the coasts.

 

As we all are coming to terms with this untimely loss, NFF also standswith 
Peter’s family and remember them for their dedication for giving us Peterto 
take forward the aspirations of the fishing communities. It will be 
Peter’senergy, optimism and politics of a new world is possible that will lead 
andhelp us to carry the communities aspirations and vision forward.

 

 

 

   -Sd-

Agnelo Rodrigues

(President)

 

 

    -sd-

  Olencio Simoes

(Gen. Sec. ofGRE, AGFU  Chairperson of National Fishworkers’ 
Forum.Contact:9158875851 Email id:olencio...@yahoo.co.in)

 

   
   - Olencio Simoes(BA,BBA,BPED & MBA)
   
   - General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),   

   - President of Goa United Workmen Union(GUWU),   

   - General Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU)    

   - Vice-Chairman of National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) & Member of National 
Coastal Protection Campaign (NCPC).Address:H.no.58,opposite health center,Ward 
no.8,Baga,Near railwaystation,Cansaulim Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851.    

[Goanet] Press note Goencho ekvott

[Olencio Simoes]

 

 

 

In favour of Publication, please

GOENCHO EKVOTT delegationalong with local Panchayat members of VP Naqueri - 
Betul submitted a memorandumregarding the Coal issue, Double Tracking, the 
three linear projects throughMollem, the Major Ports Authority Bill and the 
Sagarmala project to the DeputyChief Minister Mr. Chandrakant Babu Kavlekarat 
his residence at Betul.

 

Ex-ZP KhushaliVelip and all the Panchayat members of VP Naqueri - Betul Mr. 
Taro ShivaKerkar, Mr. Jose Seby Fernandes, Ms. Retina Carvalho e Simoes, Ms. 
AkanshaNaik, Mr. Gurudas Velip, Mr. Delfi Barbosa, Ms. Climca Fernandes and 
Localfishermen leader Mr. Pandari Kerkar Pagi were present along with the 
GoenchoEkvott delegation.

 

Joint Secretary ofGoencho Ekvott Mr. Olencio Simoes briefed the Hon. Deputy CM 
about the illeffects of the Coal issue with particular reference to the 
satellite portproposed at Betul as part of the Sagarmala project. He apprised 
Mr. Kavlekarabout the quantum of coal that would pass through Goa and specially 
through theSix Nationalized Rivers, one of them being River Sal which is a part 
of hisQuepem constituency and which is likely to be destroyed due to dredging 
whichwill inturn displace entire fishing community at Betul and has requested 
theDy.CM to scrap Coastal Economic Zone(CEZ) and all 30 projects which is 
proposedin Sagarmala programme as this projects is only to facilitate coal 
toSouth  Maharashtra and North Karnatakasteel plants.

 

Arch. RoylaFernandes apprised the Hon. Deputy CM about the ill effects of the 
fugitiveCoal dust which has given rise to coronary, cancer and respiratory 
diseasesparticularly in Vasco Da Gama where reportedly the maximum number of 
deathswere officially reported during the current COVID-19 pandemic on account 
of thereduced immunity due to coal pollution.

 

Founder of GoenchoEkvott Engr. Orville Dourado Rodrigues cautioned the Hon. Dy. 
CM about thedestruction that the Satellite Port at Betul would cause to the 
established Fishingand Tourism Industry which is the mainstay of Goa’s economy, 
unless immediatesteps were taken by the Goa Government to stop and forwith 
scrap the doubletracking project through Goa, and the destruction of the 
protected Tigerreserve for the 3 linear projects for the benefit of a few 
business houses inKarnataka and who do not reside in Goa.

 

Mr. Babu Kavlekaractively interacted with the delegation and assured his whole 
hearted supportto GOENCHO EKVOTT. He appealed to all present  to put the 
interest of theState of Goa and the well being of its residents before 
everything else, andthat such undesired  projects that have absolutely no 
benefit to the Stateshould not be allowed and he also promised the delegation 
that he will raisethe issue with the Hon. Chief Minister of Goa Dr. Pramod 
Sawant and promised tofix a  meeting to relove the issue.

 

Later thedelegation which also included Goencho Ekvott youth leader Denver 
DouradoRodrigues presented an invitation to Mr. Babu Kavlekar for their 
AwarenessCampaign to be held on 10th October, 2020 at 6:00 pm near the Betul 
bridge.

 

 

 

 

 

-Sd- -sd-

Joint secretary  Mr. Olencio Simoes   Founder of Goencho Ekvott 
Engr.Orville Dourado Rodrigues

 

 

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   - Olencio Simoes(BA,BBA,BPED & MBA)
   
   - General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),   

   - President of Goa United Workmen Union(GUWU),   

   - General Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU)    

   - Vice-Chairman of National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) & Member of National 
Coastal Protection Campaign (NCPC).Address:H.no.58,opposite health center,Ward 
no.8,Baga,Near railwaystation,Cansaulim Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851.    

[Goanet] press note GRE

[Olencio Simoes]

Kindly publish press note.Thanks
   
   - Olencio Simoes(BA,BBA,BPED & MBA)
   
   - General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),   

   - President of Goa United Workmen Union(GUWU),   

   - General Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU)    

   - Vice-Chairman of National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) & Member of National 
Coastal Protection Campaign (NCPC).Address:H.no.58,opposite health center,Ward 
no.8,Baga,Near railwaystation,Cansaulim Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851.    

[Goanet] Press note GRE

[Olencio Simoes]

Kindly publish press note
Olencio Simoes,General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),General 
Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU) Vice-Chairman of National 
Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) & Member of National Coastal Protection Campaign 
(NCPC).Address:H.no.344,opposite health center,Ward no.8,Baga,Cansaulim 
Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. 

[Goanet] Press Note

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*PRESS NOTE*



*‘Ambeanni’ *

*Wendell Rodricks’ last Memoir in Fashion*

22nd February, 2020.

Blender’s Pride Fashion Tour (15th edition) in collaboration with the
Fashion Design Council of India.

Richardson & Cruddas, Byculla, Mumbai.



Bringing the universe of pride to life, the* Blenders Pride Fashion
Tour* celebrated
its milestone 15th edition by unveiling an exclusive collaboration
with the *Fashion
Design Council of India (FDCI)*. The tour celebrated the festival of
fashion and reflected the ethos of pride through three themes – *Craft,
Identity and Blend* – in the three city chapters of Kolkata (with its
extraordinary craft), Hyderabad (with its consummate synthesis of the
ancient and the modern) and Delhi (with its patent modernity),
respectively. The tour concluded in Mumbai on an extravagant note with an
artistic display in a museum-style exhibit of 45 of the country’s leading
designers clothes and ended with a spectacular fashion presentation,
featuring 15 design behemoths that showcased iconic ensembles truest to
their DNA. The hour-long event kick started with Bollywood actor and brand
ambassador for BPFT, Priyanka Chopra paying homage to the late Wendell
Rodricks.  At a prior event in the day, a beautiful tribute video of the
Master Couturiere was aired that brought an endearing tear to many. The
Chairman of the FDCI, Mr. Sunil Sethi along with Schulen Fernandes
(Creative Head - Wendell Rodricks) announced that the legacy of the
eponymous label will continue to successfully operate in the future, just
as it has in the past. Thus, posthumously honoring the vision of the late
Designer when he set a new standard for the industry by handing over the
mantle to Ms.Fernandes in August 2016. She has been handling the business
ever since, while Wendell had moved on to his next and soon to be fulfilled
ambitious project, the Moda Goa Museum. The ‘Ambeanni’ collection is
Wendell’s last fashion work before his sudden demise two weeks ago and is a
fitting tribute to Colvale, his village of belonging and his home state of
Goa.



*The ‘Ambeanni’ Collection* / Wendell’s last memoir in fashion is an
extremely special collective of the late pioneering designer’s resort
style *minimalistic
design ideology*; crafted in the early 90’s for India and inspired by it’s
beach state of Goa. Staying true to the brand’s blue print, the collection
uses *natural fabrics like linen and silk* to create fluid effortless
fashion in Wendell’s favourite and what eventually came about to be
his *signature
colour, ‘White’*. The six ensembles celebrate the six ‘Ambeanni’ trees in
the label’s classic *design inventions like the backless crop top, sarong
style tie skirt, anti-form fitting gowns in dramatic proportions and a
beautiful knitted handcrafted detail *in subtle hints of gold*.* The
collection employs a very elaborate *three-dimensional* facet to every
ensemble in the form of *intricately knitted pieces* by the extremely
talented local artist, Reena Bino. The exquisite knitted details celebrate
the beauty of the mango trees that were so dear to Wendell in the form of
leaf, stem, veins and flowers.  The featured knitted designs are in *styles
of ginormous layered circles, aero-dynamic breast plates, cape sleeves in
flair, over sized grand earrings and custom form fitted necklaces* that
highlight the *brand’s long standing statement* *centre-staging slow
fashion with an artisanal touch.*  In true Wendell Rodricks iconic
style; *gravity
defying necklines, ‘Cutting on Square’ drapes, zero fastening silhouettes
and spartan sparkle embroidery *made a delectable appearance on the ramp.
Truly taking the legacy forward, Creative Head – Schulen Fernandes
presented Wendell’s last pieces of fashion art to an enraptured audience of
fashion enthusiasts and celebrities, taking a bow in honour of the legend
that is Wendell Rodricks.

e-shop at http://wendellrodricks.com/

[Goanet] Press Note: 14 Sesa Football Academy Boys to represent Goa (Sub Junior category) in National Qualifiers of the Reliance Foundation School and College Football 2019

[carol]

Dear all,

Greetings of peace!

Below, kindly find the press release for 14 Sesa Football Academy Boys 
to represent Goa (Sub Junior category) in National Qualifiers of the 
Reliance Foundation School and College Football 2019. Kindly consider 
and publish the same in your esteemed daily.


Best,
Carol Mascarenhas

++


*14 Sesa Football Academy Boys to represent Goa (Sub Junior category) in 
National Qualifiers of the Reliance Foundation School and College 
Football 2019*




14 junior boys from Sesa Football Academy will represent Goa in the West 
Zone qualifiers of the Reliance Foundation School and College Football 
tournament 2019, to be held in Mumbai. The boys will play under the 
banner of The Progress High School, Sankhali in the tournament. The 
fourteen boys, who are enrolled in Vedanta’s flagship CSR initiative in 
Goa – Sesa Football Academy – accomplished the feat while also 
representing the club (SFA) in GFA U-14 First Division League.


The boys are Sendy Mangte, Zimik Maring, Savio Peixoto, Nishar, Gleeson 
Fernandes, Sereno Noronha, Md. Sahil, Joyston Rodrigues, Saumya Gosavi, 
Jeff Dias, Vicky Diwale, Atharva Gawas, Manav Simon, and Mohan Naik. 
Sendy Mangte was declared man of the tournament in the qualifiers for 
his excellent performance, scoring 10 goals from 6 games.


The team is led by Coach Prasad Surlakar, Assistant coach Sankalp 
Pednekar, and Physiotherapist Nitesh Sawal. The Goan team faced off 
against Malabar Special Police Higher Sec. School, Malappuram today and 
won 5-1 handsomely.


Speaking on the achievement, coach Prasad Surlakar commented, "I feel 
proud of the boys as they have worked hard on the pitch and have 
balanced their academics as well. I feel confident about the games lined 
up for us in Mumbai and we will give our best "


An initiative of Sesa Community Development Foundation (SCDF), SESA 
Football Academy (SFA) was founded in 1999 for the holistic development 
of the local youths through football. The academy has created the 
conditions for discovering, creating and building talent for football.

[Goanet] PRESS NOTE - WENDELL RODRICKS DESIGN SPACE

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 *PRESS NOTE -  Wendell Rodricks Design Space, Festive Promo.*

This December, the Wendell Rodricks Design Space showcases as part of their
'Festive Edit' a very special range of handcrafted jewellery in Goa's
beautiful heritage art of Crochet. Each piece is exclusive and exquisitely
made by Ornella Menezes, a local talent from the village of Colvale. The
eponymous label is very happy to collaborate with this very gifted young
lady, who does not just passionately crochet but is also a trained
classical jazz singer and a piano teacher; all while pursuing a B.Sc.
degree at St.Xavier's College (Mapusa). Ornella recently made statement
crochet jewellery for the Schulen Fernandes for Wendell Rodricks
'Zentangle' Collection, which featured at the Grand Finale show in Delhi at
the Lotus Make-up India Fashion Week. She has learnt her crochet skills
from her mother Jannette, who interestingly on special request made a
delicate hair accessory for the Designer almost two decades ago*.*

This very special line of jewellery is truly an artistic impression and a
labour of love. Supporting slow fashion and promoting local artists, the
Wendell Rodricks Design Space (Campal) will feature this one-of-a kind
collective of statement earrings, necklaces and bracelets all through
December bringing you much festive cheer!

For interview contact Ornella Menezes at 7743951892



e-shop at http://wendellrodricks.com/

Re: [Goanet] Press note

[Oscar Carmino Lobo]

Please make sure that the French students are taken good care and keep a
hawk's eye for their safety and security.

Thank you.

Oscar Lobo

On Tue, 10 Dec. 2019, 10:46 am Retreat N Style, 
wrote:

>  *PRESS NOTE*
> 2019 will be remembered for French students at St Xavier’s College Mapuca
> as a historic year that began a French Connection Exchange Programme
> between Goa and France. In July 2019 ten students and two teachers from the
> college travelled to France and were hosted in family homes in France.
> Between Normandy, Brittany and Paris, the students learnt a lot about
> French culture.
> Now it is Goa’s turn to host the French students. They arrived yesterday
> and will see the best that Goa has to offer. The Museum of Goa, visit and
> lunch at Pilar Seminary, Goa Chitra Museum, the Mapuca market, Old Goa,
> Panjim, the Figuereido House, lunch at the Taj Fort Aguada, Goa
> University,  Goa International Centre, The Bishops Palace and Fundacao
> Oriente, the French and Goan students have a sensory Goan cultural treat in
> store for them.
> For further details call Crystal Lobo, French professor at St Xavier’s
> College. Her email is crystalml...@yahoo.com.
> The students will be in Panjim for a photo op and available for interviews
> at the Panjim Church steps. Please liaise with Crystal when the media can
> arrange the interaction.
>
>
>
> e-shop at http://wendellrodricks.com/
> 
> 
>

[Goanet] Press note

[Retreat N Style]

 *PRESS NOTE*
2019 will be remembered for French students at St Xavier’s College Mapuca
as a historic year that began a French Connection Exchange Programme
between Goa and France. In July 2019 ten students and two teachers from the
college travelled to France and were hosted in family homes in France.
Between Normandy, Brittany and Paris, the students learnt a lot about
French culture.
Now it is Goa’s turn to host the French students. They arrived yesterday
and will see the best that Goa has to offer. The Museum of Goa, visit and
lunch at Pilar Seminary, Goa Chitra Museum, the Mapuca market, Old Goa,
Panjim, the Figuereido House, lunch at the Taj Fort Aguada, Goa
University,  Goa International Centre, The Bishops Palace and Fundacao
Oriente, the French and Goan students have a sensory Goan cultural treat in
store for them.
For further details call Crystal Lobo, French professor at St Xavier’s
College. Her email is crystalml...@yahoo.com.
The students will be in Panjim for a photo op and available for interviews
at the Panjim Church steps. Please liaise with Crystal when the media can
arrange the interaction.



e-shop at http://wendellrodricks.com/

[Goanet] Press note from Wendell Rodricks

[Retreat N Style]

 THE ZENTANGLE COLLECTION
SCHULEN FERNANDES FOR WENDELL RODRICKS
FDCI LOTUS MAKEUP INDIA FASHION WEEK
SPRING SUMMER 2020
NEW DELHI.



Designer and Padma Shri awardee Wendell Rodricks and the label's creative
head Schulen Fernandes on invitation by the Fashion Design Council of India
presented their Zentangle collection alongside three other stellar Indian
designers Anamika Khanna, Manish Arora and Rajesh Pratap Singh as part of
the LMIFW's Grand Finalé on 12th October.

Schulen Fernandes for Wendell Rodricks took from the label's archives and
put the Zentangle Collection in a future realm with its stark modernity,
tribal history and dramatic look. Zentangle is an elegant metaphor and
model for inspiring a deliberate artistry in life. The art form uses simple
lines and curved spaces in a deliberate unplanned manner so that it can be
viewed from any side. This is the reason many tribal art forms adopt a
Zentangle approach unconsciously in their art. The collection is thus also
inspired by tribal body painting and is a tribute to the first ever
collection that Wendell Rodricks presented in his career. Using a
minimalist resort palette of white, silver, sand and azure blue as well as
fabrics like cotton, lycra, linen and georgette, the styles featured
silhouettes that were large and voluminous with a cinched or exposed slim
waist. Zentangle art, crochet, silver woven lines and shimmer accents
appear in the collection. The accessories are all tribal inspired and
deliberately elaborate in style using flowers, lace, wire, beads, bamboo,
metal and feathers.

Further and more importantly this collection was all about celebrating the
LMIFW's all-inclusive theme. Besides the regular ramp supermodels the
ensembles were featured on four special fashion influencers like burn
victorious Sharan, voluptuous gorgeous Sakshi, stylish transgender Ravi and
openly out gay model Siddharth Dangi. Truly making it a complete visual
statement of #myfashionmytribe in Minimalist Resort style that was Grand
Finalé worthy for the Fashion Designer Council of India’s Lotus Makeup
India Fashion Week.

Mr. Sunil Sethi, president of the FDCI in a statement said "these four
eminent Designers were the leading lights whose attention to detail was
unquestionable as their presentations showed how design may look diverse,
but the grid remains congruous.'

Actress Kangana Ranaut closed the show to thunderous applause from the
audience, that comprised a front row of the crème de la crème of the
capital city as well the fashion elite of the industry and Bollywood
celebrity Sonam Kapoor. The collection was absolutely loved and received
effusive praise by the fashion press and fashion enthusiasts alike.

For more details/interview, please contact Schulen Fernandes at :
schulen.wrdes...@gmail.com

PHOTO CAPTIONS :
Special influencers as models image tags:
8091 Siddharth Dangi
8341 Sakshi
8123 Sharan
8093 Ravi Banra

8402 Sony Kaur in finale garment

1 (from left to right)
Schulen Fernandes, Wendell Rodricks, Manish Arora, Anamika Khanna and
Rajesh Pratap Singh.

4_01
(From left to right)
Wendell Rodricks, Kangana Ranaut and Sunil Sethi


e-shop at http://www.wendellrodricks.com/eshop/

[Goanet] PRESS NOTE: India’s Top 4 Football Academies -Tata, Reliance, JSW and SESA to Compete atFirst EverVedanta Youth Cup Goa 2019

[carol]

Dear all,

Greetings of peace!

Below, kindly find the press release for India’s Top 4 Football 
Academies -Tata, Reliance, JSW and SESA to Compete atFirst EverVedanta 
Youth Cup Goa 2019. Kindly consider and publish the same in your 
esteemed daily.


Best,
Carol Mascrenhas

++



India’s Top 4 Football Academies -Tata, Reliance, JSW and SESA to 
Compete atFirst EverVedanta Youth Cup Goa 2019


U- 18 Football Academies-Tata, Reliance, JSW Bengaluru FC and SESA 
Football Academy have confirmed their participation


September 22rd, 2019, Goa: Vedanta Sesa Goa Iron Ore brings together 
India’s top four corporate football academies for the first time by 
organizing the inaugural edition of the Vedanta Youth Cup,which is 
endorsed and recognized by Goa Football Association (GFA).The tournament 
is scheduled to be held at Sesa Football Academy, Sirsaim, Bardez, Goa, 
from 23rdto 29thSeptember 2019. Vedanta’s initiative is aimed providing 
the country’s youth with a platform, thus creating opportunities at 
national level to harness the best of the young talent in footballing 
arena. It is in line with Vedanta’s CSR vision of developing the 
grassroots structure for football in India.


Speaking on the initiative, Annanya Agarwal, President, SESA Football 
Academy said, “I am very excited to be hosting the first ever such 
football U-18 national level premier tournament in India. Our objective 
behind the Vedanta Youth Cup is to establish a competitive sports 
environment for the country’s youth, which will help in honing up and 
nurturing of their footballing skills at the national level.”


The invitational tournament will feature a blockbuster line-up of 
India’s premier four youth football academies– Tata Atletico Football 
Academy, Reliance Foundation Young Champs, JSW Bengaluru FC and SESA 
Football Academy. A brainchild of SESA Football Academy, the tournament 
will be held under the aegis of Goa Football Association and is a 
pioneering effort by the academy.


Lavino Rebello, Vice President of Goa Football Association, North 
Goasaid, "The state of Goa has a huge number of talented footballers and 
tournaments such as Vedanta Youth Cupwill contribute in bringing about 
and graduating the best of the young talent to serve Indian football."


Sauvick Mazumdar, CEO, Vedanta Iron Ore Business commented “We are fully 
committed to promote football at grass roots level by providing world 
class training& infrastructure as well asa competitive environment to 
the aspiring youngtalent, in order to prepare them to compete at higher 
levels. This is in line with our community development philosophy and 
passion for football despite tough business conditions.”
It is the first time ever that these 4 premier academies will get the 
opportunity to come together and participate in a competitive tournament 
at U-18 level. The four participating corporate academies are leading 
the development of football at the grassroots-level in India and have 
contributed immensely to the Indian Football ecosystem.


Brahmanand Sankhwalkar, Chief Mentor at Sesa Football Academy said,” 
Players at the youth level in India need to have more competitive games 
so as to assess their performance and learn from others. Vedanta Youth 
Cup will definitely provide a great exposure to the young trainees as 
they will compete against the best in the country."


For the Youth Cup, Charles Dias, AIFF 'B' License coach, along with 
Neves Fernandes as his assistant, will be guiding Sesa Football Academy, 
while Carlos Santamarina, UEFA Pro 'A' License coach, will lead Tata 
Football Academy. Erstwhile, former Indian National Team player Arata 
Izumi will mentor the U-17 Reliance Foundation Young Champs as their 
Head Coach and on the other hand, Naushad Moosa will be at the helm for 
JSW Bengaluru FC U-18 team.



Ends

[Goanet] press note

[Olencio Simoes]

kindly publish press note
Olencio Simoes,General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),General 
Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU) Vice-Chairman of National 
Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) & Member of National Coastal Protection Campaign 
(NCPC).Address:H.no.344,opposite health center,Ward no.8,Baga,Cansaulim 
Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. 

[Goanet] Press Note

[Retreat N Style]

 Dear ASI Goa,
This is an open letter to your order/request to register all our antiques
in private homes/collections/museums in Goa with your esteemed office.
In two weeks as of Friday 13th September 2019. Two weeks? Our homes
Sir/Madam are over two hundred years old and you expect us to register the
entire house objects in two weeks?
Do you expect us Goans to employ staff to count everything in our homes?
Our great grand mother’s earrings, our great great grandfather’s toilet
seat, the floor tiles 400 years old, the laterite kitchen sink, the tiles
on our roofs? Yes. These are the less precious objects. What you want are
antiques that can be sold, traded and valued right?
If so why only private homes? What about public places? In all Government
offices we see antiques. Chandeliers in the Adil Shah Palace heisted by
Smart City don’t feature in this list? Why don’t you ask them all to
register their antiques. For centuries (yes you read that right) the
Cabo/Raj Bhavan has been looted by successive Governors of it’s antique
furniture, porcelain and silver. Are Government offices above this law?
Talking about law, is this a law or is this a request? What if we don’t
want to declare our so called daily objects that you classify as antiques?
How can private homes like the Menezes Braganza in Chandor or the
Figuereido House in Loutolim register their entire homes in two weeks? Are
you going to depute them staff to do the count of the objects? It will take
months. Are you going to go to every church, temple, place of worship to do
a registry of their antiques? Where do we start? Old Goa itself will take
almost a year or more to count it’s treasures... from books to candelabras,
vestments to minuscule statues.
Are you going to go into bank vaults to check our jewellery? Old Goan Hindu
and Catholic gold that has been with families for generations? What about
clothes? Saris gifted through families? The porcelain we eat from daily
without looking at their over hundred year vintage? They are antiques
according to you. The same goes for the chairs we sit on and the beds we
sleep in, the home deities we worship and the walls that boundary our
homes. They are all antiques.
What about Goans who live overseas or work abroad? You expect them to rush
home in a week and list their antiques with you. That is daft and
impractical Sir/ Madam.
So please Sir/Madam, get this hare brained idea out of your head. Go and do
your real work to protect our Goan heritage. Go to the fields and hills
with treasures. Identify trees over hundred years old and protect them. Get
the dovorems (go look up what those are) laterite platforms, the monoliths,
the abandoned forts and garbage strewn tirths, the old wells used as dumps,
the hero stones and sacred stones unprotected in forests. Get them
registered and accounted for. Goa is an open museum for the taking and
looting. Get there first before private homes.
As for museums, have a proper Goa Museum or take over the Old Secretariat
and place the precious objects for public viewing. Don’t build another
‘sinking’ museum that will be demolished in ten years. In the process more
treasures will be lost. We Goans are not stupid. We all know how the coin
collection was looted during the transfer from the Menezes Braganza Hall in
Panjim to the new ex Goa State Museum. Did you keep a count of that loot
that included rare Impressionist paintings? No.
Sorry Sir, those who have a museum or want to protect their treasures may
register with you. We want to. Will you provide us armed guards, CCTV and
Alarm systems please?
If so we will register our antiques with you. But two weeks? You mean two
weeks from now in 2020
I remain humbly and proudly Goan,
Wendell Rodricks


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[Goanet] press note Mormugao CZMP

[Olencio Simoes]

Plz publish press note on Mormugao CZMP presentation
Olencio Simoes,General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),General 
Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU) Vice-Chairman of National 
Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) & Member of National Coastal Protection Campaign 
(NCPC).Address:H.no.344,opposite health center,Ward no.8,Baga,Cansaulim 
Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. 

[Goanet] press note on fishing ban

[Olencio Simoes]

Olencio Simoes,General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),General 
Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU) Vice-Chairman of National 
Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) & Member of National Coastal Protection Campaign 
(NCPC).Address:H.no.344,opposite health center,Ward no.8,Baga,Cansaulim 
Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. 

[Goanet] Press Note

[Jose Manuel Octavio Da Costa Rodrigues]

To

The Editor



Sir,

Kindly give publicity to the following news item.

Thanking you in advance,

Yours Sincerely,

Jose Manuel Octavio Da Costa Rodrigues

H.no. 524

Dr. Gama Pinto road

St.inez

Panaji Goa

9404779516






*PRESS NOTE*

*EMINENT GOANS DAY CELEBRATIONS*


The Green Stars Cultural Promoters, Panaji is celebrating the Goa Statehood
Day on 30th May, 2019 with photography Exhibition 'Goa' from 11 a.m. till 6
p.m. at Green Stars House, Panaji.

 “EMINENT GOANS DAY” on 31st May, 2017 on the occasion of Dr. Francisco
Luis Gomes (31-5-1829) and Abbé Faria (31-5-1756) birth anniversaries and
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad (31-5-1874) death anniversary at Green Stars House,
Panaji at 5:30 p.m. The speakers for the occasion are Mr. Francis Pais, Mr.
Lourenco Fernandes, Mrs. Ana Tereza F. Rodrigues

Thanking you,

*Jose Manuel Octavio Da Costa Rodrigues*

[Goanet] press note

[Olencio Simoes]

kindly publish press note.
Regards
Olencio Simoes,General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),General 
Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU) Vice-Chairman of National 
Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) & Member of National Coastal Protection Campaign 
(NCPC).Address:H.no.344,opposite health center,Ward no.8,Baga,Cansaulim 
Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. 

[Goanet] Press note on women's workshop held in City

[Avertino Miranda]

Please find attached press note on workshop organised by Indian Christian
Women Movement held in the city recently for favour of publication.

Re: [Goanet] Press Note from Wendell Rodricks

[Roland Francis]

Congratulations Wendell Rodricks.

Roland 
Toronto.


> On Jan 11, 2019, at 4:22 AM, Retreat N Style  wrote:
> 
> *PRESS NOTE*
> 
> 
> *SCHULEN FERNANDES for WENDELL RODRICKS DAZZLES DOHA FASHIONISTAS AT SHOP
> QATAR DESIGN DISTRICT 2019 AT DOHA EXHIBITION AND CONVENTION CENTRE IN
> DOHA, QATAR*
> 
> At Qatar Design District 2019, Doha Qatar, Schulen Fernandes for Wendell
> Rodricks won over the fashion media and public by showing The Vague de
> l'eau, The Water Waves Collection in Wendell Rodricks signature White and
> Black hues.
> 
> Looking out at the vast Arabian sea and the Persian Gulf, tranquil and calm
> waves swell in it's depth or rage and crash at the shore. The 'Vague de
> l'eau' collection takes inspiration from the poetry that is water waves.
> From it's flowing, swirling, curling, rippling dynamics of motion and how
> moonlight to sunlight make it glisten from silver to gold. From Goa to Doha.
> 
> The collection uses soft supple fabrics of crepe silk/georgette and satin,
> as well as knit to represent water's formless fluidity in it's silhouettes.
> While pleated silk organza perfectly visualises the ripples and swish of
> the ocean waves in it's texture. The colour palette in white symbolises the
> vitality of the sea and it's surf by day and in midnight black, the depth
> of it's breathtakingly beautiful look by night. Subtle, shimmery
> hand-embroidered bead work lends a glamorous hint of the ocean's sparkly
> gleaming surface as it reflects nature's radiant light.
> 
> 
> 
> Applauding the collection front row were officials from Qatar’s Tourism
> department, esteemed VIP Qataris, the Ambassador of India to Qatar P
> Kumaran with his wife and fashionistas from the media and fashion elite of
> the industry.
> 
> Qatar National Tourism Council (QNTC) official Noor Al Thani explained,
> "India is a key visitor source market for Qatar. Following on Bollywood
> Week's great success in the 2018 edition of Shop Qatar, we are excited to
> have Indian culture so prominently represented”. 20 designers from Paris to
> Mumbai showcased their latest Spring/ Summer collections on the Design
> District's runway. From India, Raw Mango, Tarun Tahiliani, Namrata
> Joshipura and Wendell Rodricks were the four designers chosen for their
> individual fashion shows displaying the diversity of Indian fashion styles
> at the Design District's catwalk. Visitors can buy their collections at
> their pop-up stores from 9th-11th January 2019, (from 3pm-10pm).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> e-shop at http://www.wendellrodricks.com/eshop/
> 

[Goanet] Press Note from Wendell Rodricks

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*PRESS NOTE*


*SCHULEN FERNANDES for WENDELL RODRICKS DAZZLES DOHA FASHIONISTAS AT SHOP
QATAR DESIGN DISTRICT 2019 AT DOHA EXHIBITION AND CONVENTION CENTRE IN
DOHA, QATAR*

At Qatar Design District 2019, Doha Qatar, Schulen Fernandes for Wendell
Rodricks won over the fashion media and public by showing The Vague de
l'eau, The Water Waves Collection in Wendell Rodricks signature White and
Black hues.

Looking out at the vast Arabian sea and the Persian Gulf, tranquil and calm
waves swell in it's depth or rage and crash at the shore. The 'Vague de
l'eau' collection takes inspiration from the poetry that is water waves.
>From it's flowing, swirling, curling, rippling dynamics of motion and how
moonlight to sunlight make it glisten from silver to gold. From Goa to Doha.

The collection uses soft supple fabrics of crepe silk/georgette and satin,
as well as knit to represent water's formless fluidity in it's silhouettes.
While pleated silk organza perfectly visualises the ripples and swish of
the ocean waves in it's texture. The colour palette in white symbolises the
vitality of the sea and it's surf by day and in midnight black, the depth
of it's breathtakingly beautiful look by night. Subtle, shimmery
hand-embroidered bead work lends a glamorous hint of the ocean's sparkly
gleaming surface as it reflects nature's radiant light.



Applauding the collection front row were officials from Qatar’s Tourism
department, esteemed VIP Qataris, the Ambassador of India to Qatar P
Kumaran with his wife and fashionistas from the media and fashion elite of
the industry.

Qatar National Tourism Council (QNTC) official Noor Al Thani explained,
"India is a key visitor source market for Qatar. Following on Bollywood
Week's great success in the 2018 edition of Shop Qatar, we are excited to
have Indian culture so prominently represented”. 20 designers from Paris to
Mumbai showcased their latest Spring/ Summer collections on the Design
District's runway. From India, Raw Mango, Tarun Tahiliani, Namrata
Joshipura and Wendell Rodricks were the four designers chosen for their
individual fashion shows displaying the diversity of Indian fashion styles
at the Design District's catwalk. Visitors can buy their collections at
their pop-up stores from 9th-11th January 2019, (from 3pm-10pm).




e-shop at http://www.wendellrodricks.com/eshop/

[Goanet] Press Note ~ LIFW S/S 2019

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*PRESS NOTE*


*SCHULEN FERNANDES for WENDELL RODRICKS DAZZLES FASHIONISTAS AT LOTUS
MAKEUP INDIA FASHION WEEK.*


At the recently concluded Fashion Designers Council of India Lotus Makeup
India Fashion Week in Delhi, Schulen Fernandes for Wendell Rodricks won
over the fashion media and public by showing The WOW FACTOR Collection in
full of vibrant hues.

The WOW factor is an explosive burst of colour on the ramp blending yellow,
reds, blues, purples and pinks in vibrant ones. Pairing fluid silks in
satin and crepe, georgette and lycra together with pleated fabric in sexy,
sassy and uber stylish silhouettes as well as swimwear aimed at millennials
in an all new brand positioning, totally on point for the Wendell Rodricks
label.



Design innovations featured through this collection include an all new
‘infinity’ style detail on capes/dresses and hems making for fluid
controlled volume as well as ruched tie-up detailing on sleeves/tops and
dresses instantly transforming each style from a short to long length,
making them versatile for a day to evening look with a slight tug and tie.



Other styling highlights are ‘drop-stitch knit’ sleeve and hems panels,
scarves and crop tops. Crochet features in a modern style as chunky
necklaces, over sized bags and patterned shoulder straps as well as
intricately beaded handmade statement jewellery; all beautifully
handcrafted by a young talent from the National Association of the Blind
and other gifted Goan women pooling their individual crafts and customising
each piece for this collection, truly adding that WOW factor with their
special knotted touch.


Vibrant colorful dresses paired with a variety of quirky accessories such
as sunglasses, shoes, and handbags got the approval of fashion critics and
bloggers alike. The icing on the cake was the models almost dancing and
flirting with the camera in unique, fun poses! What a collection, and more
importantly, what a show!


For press reviews please check below links:

https://indianexpress.com/photos/lifestyle-gallery/lotus-makeup-india-fashion-week-2018-day-3-5399537/6/

https://www.missmalini.com/2018/10/12/day-2-of-lmifw-was-all-about-mesmerising-details-fashionable-silhouettes/

https://www.mygoodtimes.in/fashion/fashion-trends/wendell-rodricks-has-got-that-wow-factor/

https://boldoutline.in/lmifw-ss19-wendell-splashes-colour-all-over.html



e-shop at http://www.wendellrodricks.com/eshop/

[Goanet] press note Velsao panchayat

[Olencio Simoes]

kindly publish
Olencio Simoes,General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),General 
Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU) Vice-Chairman of National 
Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) & Member of National Coastal Protection Campaign 
(NCPC).Address:H.no.344,opposite health center,Ward no.8,Baga,Cansaulim 
Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. 

[Goanet] Press note GACRZ2018

[Olencio Simoes]

N




GOANS AGAINST CRZ 2018(Federation of all Unions, Political Parties, Activists)
 In favour of Publication, please
Representatives of various NGOs namely, Goans for Goa (GFG), Musical Warriors, 
Transform Goa, Goenchea Ramponkarancho Ekvott(GRE), Goa Against Coal ( GAC) 
including political party Representatives of Congress, Aam Admi Party (AAP), 
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and several activists in the banner called 
Goans against CRZ 2018 hold its 7th protest met at Paloem,Canacona. Goans 
against CRZ 2018 olencio simoes presented a presentation n explained to the 
people nexus between Sagarmala projects,MPT port,nationalization of rivers and 
the present draft 2018 is bought to facilitate this nexus to make Goa 
100million tonne Coal hub by taking our coast of 105km n 180km of our 
rivers.The government  aims only to displace the fisherman and all traditional 
communites living near coast n rivers through this CRZ 2018.This draft will not 
only reduce the NDZ to 50 and 30 5mts but the entire draft is in the objective 
to eliminate all provisions which was made made to protect our coastal ecology 
like sarddunes,mangroves etc in the CRZ 2011 is now opened in draft 2018 for 
port and making Goa a coal hub.Vikas bhagat from Palolem also spoke about how 
the government is harrasing us and not even allowing us the build shacks and 
beach huts at Paloem and if the CRZ 2011 is diluted then Goa will not have 
sandy beach at all and due to this no tourist will cost the state of Goa and 
all of us will be jobless.GACRZ2018 also burned the Draft CRZ 2018 
notifications stating that every Goan and rejected this draft and if this draft 
is not withdrawn then we will be forced to take on streets said Kennedy afonso.
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

Re: [Goanet] PRESS NOTE of Cansaulim Arossim Culeim gram sabha

[Avinash Tavares]

Done.

On Sun, 5 Aug 2018, 12:47 Olencio Simoes,  wrote:

> kindly publish.
>
> Olencio Simoes,
> General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),General Secretary
> of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU) Vice-Chairman of National Fishworkers'
> Forum (NFF) & Member of National Coastal Protection Campaign (NCPC).
> Address:H.no.344,opposite health center,Ward no.8,Baga,Cansaulim
> Goa.403172.
> Phone:9158875851.
>

[Goanet] PRESS NOTE of Cansaulim Arossim Culeim gram sabha

[Olencio Simoes]

kindly publish.
Olencio Simoes,General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),General 
Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU) Vice-Chairman of National 
Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) & Member of National Coastal Protection Campaign 
(NCPC).Address:H.no.344,opposite health center,Ward no.8,Baga,Cansaulim 
Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. 

[Goanet] Press Note - Deliberations on decline in the number of Konknni speakers in Census 2011

[Jose Fernandes]

To,

The Editor,



Sir,

Kindly give publicity to the following news item.



Thanking you in advance,



*Jose Salvador Fernandes*

President

Global Konknni Organisation

(Jagotik Konknni Songhotton- JKS)

Kalaangaan, Makale,

Shaktinagar, Mangalore, 575016

Contact No.:9881810832







*PRESS RELEASE*

An Emergency Meeting was convened by Jagotik  Konknni  Songhotton (JKS), on
July 8, 2018, at Kalangann, Mangalore, to discuss the issue of – ‘Census
2011 registering a decline in the number of  Konkani speakers, in
comparison to the numbers of 2001’.

60 delegates, representing various organisations of various regions,
including one each from Saudi and Dubai, participated in the deliberations.

The following Speakers presented their point of view – Dr. Pratap Naik
(Scholar & Researcher), Goa, Dr. Devdas Pai (Ex-Registrar – Karnataka
Konknni Sahitya Academy - KKSA ), Mangalore, Narayan Kharvi (Ex-President –
KKSA), Kundapura,  Jose Salvador Fernabdes (President – JKS), Goa, Com.
Muneer Katipalla (Representing Byari Language), Katipalla, Paul Moras
(Researcher/Writer), Mangalore, JaisonSequeira (Poet/Singer/Composer),
GurpurKaikamba, Lingappa Gowda (Kudmi Writer/Activist), Neerkere, and
Arunraj Rodrigues (Actor/Playwright/Director) Mangalore. EshanFernandes
(Student), Al-Ain, (his point of view was placed before the gathering).

The speakers as well as the participants were unanimous in their answers to
the questions discussed. They concluded that –

(a) The Census figures do not truly represent the real numbers of the
Konknni people.

(b) The downslide reflects the decline of Konknni.

(c) More than the government and the people, the leaders of the Konkani
Movement are responsible for this situation.

(d) To redeem Konknni from this quagmire, the following was decided –

1.“VISION – 2021” (A massive Awareness Campaign among all Konknnis of every
region to be undertaken, to ensure that the 2021 Census will register a
remarkable increase in our numbers).

2. Jagotik Konknni Songhotton (JKS), at its Global Assembly on the 26th of
August, 2018, to chalk-out the plan of action and also to ensure its
implementation.

Dev borem korum.

*Eric Ozario*

Secretary General

President

Global Konknni Organisation

(Jagotik Konknni Songhotton- JKS)

Kalaangaan, Makale,

Shaktinagar, Mangalore, 575016

Contact No.:9741668619

[Goanet] press note on TCP

[Olencio Simoes]

In favour of publication please.
Olencio Simoes,General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),General 
Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU) Vice-Chairman of National 
Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) & Member of National Coastal Protection Campaign 
(NCPC).Address:H.no.344,opposite health center,Ward no.8,Baga,Cansaulim 
Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. 

[Goanet] Press Note on CRZ

[Olencio Simoes]

In faour of publication please
Olencio Simoes,General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),General 
Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU) Vice-Chairman of National 
Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) & Member of National Coastal Protection Campaign 
(NCPC).Address:H.no.344,opposite health center,Ward no.8,Baga,Cansaulim 
Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. 

[Goanet] Press note NFF,Mumbai

[Olencio Simoes]

In favour of publication please.kindly publish NFF press note regarding CRZ 2018

Olencio Simoes,General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott (GRE),General 
Secretary of All Goa Fisherman Union (AGFU) Vice-Chairman of National 
Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) & Member of National Coastal Protection Campaign 
(NCPC).Address:H.no.344,opposite health center,Ward no.8,Baga,Cansaulim 
Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. 

[Goanet] PRESS NOTE

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 *PRESS NOTE*



*SCHULEN FERNANDES for WENDELL RODRICKS DAZZLES FASHIONISTAS AT AMAZON
INDIA FASHION WEEK.* At the recently concluded Fashion Designers Council of
India Amazon India Fashion Week in Delhi, Schulen Fernandes for Wendell
Rodricks won over the fashion media and public by showing for the first
time a bridal collection aimed exclusively at Resort Destination Weddings.

>From the opening notes of composer Eric Serra who did the music for Jean
Luc Bresson’s magnum opus film The Big Blue, the panoramic LED backdrop and
slinky, sexy bridal resortwear and red carpet worthy gowns wowed the
audience into spontaneous cheers and applause.

“With Goa as the country’s leading wedding destination, it made sense to
show a collection more in sync with the destination”, says Schulen
Fernandes, obviously delighted at the fashion show’s effusive reaction and
thundering applause.

Designer Wendell Rodricks was equally happy at the reception to The White
Carpet Collection for Liva. “It is time to give the Indian bride an
alternate option to the traditional lengha choli with gold embroidery and
crystals. What my well deserved successor Schulen has done is a remarkable
first. Now brides and their entourage can choose a total resort wedding
designer look; trousseau for the bride, clothes for her entourage, from
reception to mehndi on the beach front, to even carrying a part of the sexy
gowns for her honeymoon. I hope Schulen adds a groom’s collection next
season”.

Nelson Jaffrey at Liva Liquid Fashion who provided the fabric for the six
designer show and sponsored the collection was overjoyed at the Schulen
Fernandes for Wendell Rodricks’ White Carpet Collection finale that closed
the fashion show. “It was simply stunning and we will work together closely
in the future”, Mr Jaffrey beamed with pride post show.

Adding to the glamour of the collection were creative footwear by Tres Mode
and spectacular diamond jewellery by The House of MBj.

As soon as the show closed, social media was filled with congratulations
and flattering comments for the Goan designers path breaking, innovative
collection.
“We look forward to a new designer market where not only is Goa or
Carribean, Dubai or Bali, the wedding destination but that the wedding
wardrobe goes resortwear as well with the new millennial bride who want a
dream wedding in every way” concluded Padma Shri award winning designer
Wendell Rodricks.

Photo credit : Sagar Ahuja (Vogue.in)



e-shop at http://www.wendellrodricks.com/eshop/

[Goanet] press note on led lights

[olencio simoes]

Dear sir/madamIn favour of Publication, please.
 Olencio Simoes,Joint General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott and 
Secretary of National Fishworkers' Forum.Address:H.no.344,opposite health 
center,Baga,Cansaulim Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. 

[Goanet] Press Note from Wendell Rodricks Design Space

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Press Note

The Wendell Rodricks Design Space unveils its Valentine collection from 1st
February 2018. This capsule collection features 12 one of a kind dresses
and tops in shades of love red, shimmering silver and sinister black.
Fabrics like foil print rippled lycra, soft satin linen, wrinkle-free
polycrepe and box pleated  georgette are accented with crinkle organza
structured details and sparkle embellishments.


And while we are showering our women with love, we would also like to
'Reverse the Trend'. The Design Space will witness the exclusive launch of
the new men’s grooming essential brand ‘RawNature’. Exquisite and
effective, Raw Nature is an intelligently-curated vegan brand with high
performance, botanical and safe grooming formulations for men.

The brand successfully addresses 2 gaping holes in the domestic men’s
grooming market - the lack of emphasis on safety in men’s personal care
products and the absence of grooming solutions for men’s specific skin and
hair concerns tailored to India’s tropical climatic conditions.


Packed with natural extracts, essential oils and bio-actives tested
rigorously for maximum safety and efficacy, Raw Nature’s product portfolio
covers the entire gamut of men’s specific face, skin, shower, beard, hair
and for the first time in India, men’s hitherto under-addressed
below-the-belt needs. The price ranges from Rs.600/- to Rs.1200/-


In the week to follow, we also host two special designers :

*‘Silvense’ by Vrindaa Ashwani*

(Jewellery)

Silvense founded in New Delhi in 2014 manifests in it's designs the power
of freedom and individuality. With each design, the label embodies the
philosophy of originality and uniqueness; the jewellery is minimalistic,
pragmatic, clean and contemporary. It uses an amalgamation of metals like
silver, brass and gold and each piece is a unique soul of exquisite design
and deep-rooted essence of luxury. The price ranges from Rs.3500/- to
Rs.9000/-


*‘Gush’ by Vrinda and Manav.*

(Shoes)

GUSH was started by Vrinda, a National Institute of Fashion Technology
graduate with Manav, a Business Studies graduate & a lawyer. Two friends,
each with a very distinct style but a common passion ~ to create beautiful,
timeless pieces to express their love for design. In this age of mass
production and fast collections, GUSH humbly bows down to the age-old
Indian pride of ‘karigari’. Raw materials are carefully selected to create
designs that are environmentally aware and cruelty free. Each product is
modern in sensibility but handcrafted meticulously using traditional
craftsmanship techniques to ensure the finest quality. The price ranges
from Rs.2000/- to Rs.3000/-.


The preview of the collections will be at the Wendell Rodricks Design
Space, Campal, Panjim on 1st February 11.00 am to 6.00 pm. Ms. Sangeeta
Desai, founder of RawNature Company will be available at the store for
press interviews.   These products will be on display at Design Space from 1
st till 28th Feb 2018.


For more details and press interview please contact :

RawNature Company : www.rawnaturecompany.com

Sangeeta Desai : 98200 00564 / sang...@rawnaturecompany.com

Mohit Saxena : 98102 69061 / mo...@rawnaturecompany.com


Silvense by Vrindaa : www.silvense.com

Vrindaa Ashwani at : fashionconsul...@gmail.com


Gush by Vrinda & Manav : https://www.facebook.com/GushAccessories/

Vrinda at : gushaccessor...@gmail.com


Team Wendell Rodricks Design Space
Campal, Panjim. Tel.: 0832-2238177

[Goanet] Press note GRE

[olencio simoes]

Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott

(Raponkars, Magkars, Cantaikars,Pagelkars)

 

Regd.Under Societies Act.1860   HeadOffice: 
   Affiliated to National Fish Workers Forum

Reg.No. RS./240/76   FABRICABLDG
NewDelhi. Reg. No. 487/8

  CANSAULIM P.O. 403712

 
MORMUGAO- GOA

Ref :   
     Date: 09th December  2017


 
In favour of Publication, please

  National Fishworkers Forum (NFF)Vice-Chairperson Olencio Simoes and 
AgneloRodrigues President of Goenchea RaponkaranchoEkvott welcomed  Union 
Agriculture Minister, Radhamohan Singh move toimposed an uniform ban on LED 
fishing and bull trawling in the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)from 0-200 
nautical miles of the territorial waters and to end mafia raj in the fishing 
fraternity  .


 
  AgneloRodrigues President of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott stated 
Union Agriculture Minister, RadhamohanSingh decision  and Fisheries 
MinisterVinod Paliencar to initiate the ban on LED fishing and bull trawling is 
in theinterest of traditional fisherman of Goa.


 
The Several species of diurnal andnocturnal fish habitat would  bedestroyed as  
the use of LED lights wouldhave  totally destroyed ecology and thefish will get 
totally extinct as the LED lights will completely destroy theirnursing grounds 
of several  species offish. 


 
  Statingfurther that the fishing fraternity should work towards 
sustainable fishing as alreadyseveral hundreds species are already extinct and 
if we continue with suchdestructive gears soon fish  within5years will be 
extinct as seen in most foreign countries and then fish will beout of reach of 
common man.


 
Fisheries department should come with stringentlaws and if  required amend the 
GoaMarine Fishing Regulation act and implement the said ban so that nobody 
dares to violate the ban in nearfuture.

Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott also urge theFisheries Minister VinodPaliencar 
and Chief MinisterManohar Parrikar to immediately release the petrol subsidy as 
this delay ishampering our traditional livelihood.

  

-sd-

AgneloRodrigues 


 (President)  

       -sd-


 

 Olencio Simoes

    (Gen. Sec. 
of GRE, AGFU &

     Vice Chairperson of 
NationalFishworkers’ Forum)

  Olencio Simoes,Joint General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott and 
Secretary of National Fishworkers' Forum.Address:H.no.344,opposite health 
center,Baga,Cansaulim Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. 

[Goanet] Press Note: Aam Admi Party Quepem

[Bailon Mascarenhas]

Press Note: Aam Admi Party Quepem
Subject: Toilets Survey as initiated by Government

Reacting to the recent declaration by Government to undertake individual 
household toilet survey through DRDA, the AAP Quepem coordinator said that the 
intervention of AAP has woken up the government.

Mrs. Patricia Fernandes said that People from 23 villages in Quepem taluka were 
suffering for the last 20 years although they were promised toilets during 
every election. However it’s during AAP Door to Door campaign that the Dirty 
picture came to light and in disgust the people confided with AAP and the AAP 
Goa Women Front took the issue and submitted petition to South Goa Collector at 
Margao along with the women from tribal villages of Sanguem, Canacona and 
Quepem. AAP will closely monitor along with the people the ground realities of 
this announcement made by the government as it might turn out to be another 
“Jhumla”.

AAP women front was instrumental in awaking the Local MLA of Quepem who has 
reportedly inaugurated the work of construction of 219 Sulabh toilets after AAP 
submitted petition to South Goa Collector on 14 November. AAP is happy that due 
to their intervention the Local MLA himself acknowledged that there is need 219 
for toilets after being elected from Quepem for 4 terms. AAP will monitor all 
these claims made by the politicians and expose them as with ground realities.

AAP is committed for the welfare of the people and will not leave any stone 
untouched to enable them to avail all facilities they are entitles to.

[Goanet] Press Note of Goa Against Coal

[olencio simoes]

Dear Sir/Madam 
In favour of publication please.
Regards Olencio Olencio Simoes,Joint General Secretary of Goenchea 
Raponkarancho Ekvott and Secretary of National Fishworkers' 
Forum.Address:H.no.344,opposite health center,Baga,Cansaulim 
Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. 

[Goanet] PRESS NOTE ~FESTIVE PROMOTION AT WENDELL RODRICKS DESIGN SPACE

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*PRESS NOTE*



The Wendell Rodricks Design Space opens this festive season with a
collective of three amazing creators: Gevan Hoogewerf-Abreu, a leading cake
designer specialising in stunningly exquisite wedding & special occasion
cakes.  Suzanne Pillai, a former Miss India (1990)/supermodel showcasing a
line of beautifully embellished stoles from her label ‘*Wrapture*’ and Kim
Maria Figueiredo, a native Goan jewellery designer who’s delicately
handcrafted ‘Saraguro’ accessories are one of a kind.

Gevan’s passion for baking from a young age led her to complete a course in
bakery & confectionary at the prestigious IHM, Mumbai. Following soon after
with a basic course in sugar-craft. With her natural flair for sugar-paste
work, she is self-taught in creating artisanal floral decorations to
complement and adorn her delicious cakes. Keen to be among the finest
speciality cake makers in the country, she has enhanced her creative skills
learning new techniques with acclaimed cake makers in the UK and New
Zealand.  She will take orders for custom designed wedding and party cakes
for Goa and Mumbai during the period of the promotion.

Suzanne started designing shawls three years ago, at the suggestion of a
friend who admired her flair for style. Her chic shrugs & stoles are what
the clinking chatterati love to wrap themselves in every winter.
*Wrapture’s* luxurious Pashminas are interestingly adorned with chantilly
lace, crochet and shimmer details. Making them the perfect fashion
accessory to complete your festive look or as a gift option.

Kim hails from a family of artists, thus effortlessly mastering the art of
the intricate handmade ‘Saraguro’ jewellery. Each piece is individually
designed and created by Kim herself from thousands of tiny glass beads
sourced from Japan & the Czech Republic, crystals from Jablonex Preciosa and
artistically woven together only with Nymo and Fireline imported from U.S. to
ensure the best quality.

Suzanne Pillai's scarves retail from Rs. 4,050/-, Kim Figueiredo's beaded
jewels from Rs. 500/- and Gevan’s cakes start from Rs.10,000/- onwards.

Fashion Designer Wendell Rodricks looks forward to welcome these beautiful
innovators in Goa. "It is such a pleasure to have Gevan, Suzanne and Kim at
my flagship store in Panjim. Gevan’s masterpieces in sugar-craft left me
speechless. The finesse & craftsmanship of her work is simply astounding
and her cakes are decadently delicious. Suzanne has been my model since the
late 1980's and is one of India's most charming, beautiful ladies. When I
first saw her shawls, I was struck by their elegance and luxury. As for Kim
Figueiredo, one look at her exquisite beadwork needed no convincing that we
should promote her intricate, dazzling talent. I am sure Goa will enjoy
viewing and indulging these three talents and treasures at the Wendell
Rodricks Design Space in Panjim".

A preview of the design collective will be at the Wendell Rodricks Design
Space, Campal, Panjim on the 3rd November from 11.00 am till 6.00 pm with
Gevan & Kim Figueiredo.  The merchandise will be on display and sale to the
public at the Wendell Rodricks Design Space from 4th November 2017  to 6th
January 2018.



For media quotes and personal interviews, please contact :

Gevan Hoogewerf-Abreu : +91 9869409122 / gevan...@gmail.com

Suzanne Pillai : +91  9821141547 /  suzanne.pil...@gmail.com

Kim Figueiredo :  +91 9823921701 /  fig...@gmail.com



e-shop at http://www.wendellrodricks.com/eshop/

[Goanet] press note on nationalization

[olencio simoes]

Dear Sir/madam
Press note of All Goa Fishermen Union on river nationalization.
kindly publish.
thanks 
Olencio Simoes,Joint General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott and 
Secretary of National Fishworkers' Forum.Address:H.no.344,opposite health 
center,Baga,Cansaulim Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. 

[Goanet] [PRESS NOTE] GITP Suggestions for E-governance in Goa

[Goa IT Professionals - GITP]

Dear Goanet(goanet@lists.goanet.org), 

 

In postscript are details about our suggestions of various E-governance
initiatives to the Goa government for its consideration which will bolster
current Goa government motto of Goem, Goenkar, Goenkarponn by improving the
delivery of the much-needed people friendly service.  

We hope Goa government puts its full thrust in further streamlining delivery
of public service. We request your support to push the govt into action.
Kindly cover this story in your publications and let us know if you need any
quotes or bytes from our Executive Team. 

Thank you very much.

Regards,

Goa IT Professionals - GITP |  www.goaitpro.org |
 goa...@gmail.com

-- Forwarded message --
From: "Goa IT Professionals - GITP" < 
goa...@gmail.com>
Date: 19 Aug 2017 15:34
Subject: Suggestions for E-governance initiatives in Goa
To: "cm goa" <  cm@nic.in>, "cmo goa" <
 cmo@nic.in>, "Shri Manohar Parrikar" <
 manoharparri...@yahoo.co.in>, "Rohan
Khaunte" <  ro...@pywt.in>, <
 min-it@gov.in>, "Chief Secretary - Goa" <
 cs-...@nic.in>, "Secretary Chief Minister" <
 sectocm...@gmail.com>, <
 ro...@shivsamarth.com>, "Goa Director DoIT" <
 dir-dit@nic.in>, "Goa Sneha A. Sirsat" <
 sneh...@nic.in>, "Managing Director - Infotech Corp
of Goa" <  m...@infotechgoa.com>, "md-itg.goa" <
 md-itg@nic.in>, < 
sect-it@nic.in>, <  secit...@gmail.com>,
"SidharthKuncalienker" <  sidk...@gmail.com>
Cc: "gitp_core" < 
gitp_c...@googlegroups.com>, "Narendra Sawaikar" <
 sawaikar.naren...@gmail.com>, "Shripad
Naik" <  nshripa...@gmail.com>, <
 i...@goaelectronics.co.in>



Dear officials of Goa Govt.

GITP would like to make the following suggestions for E-governance
initiatives the government may be planning:

*  Presently, online payments of utility bills are enabled on the websites
of individual departments. Citizens have to visit websites of individual
departments such as Electricity, City Corporation, etc. This can be replaced
by a much more convenient mode of payment, the Bharat Bill Pay System
(BBPS). Each department can electronically provide the bills to BBPS. BBPS
acts as a single window for all bills. Several banks have now integrated
with BBPS and hence bill payments can now be made from an online banking
channel of any bank.

 

*  Birth certificates, driving licenses, state board marksheets, etc. are
currently issued in physical form. The DigiLocker allows government
departments as well as any other organization to additionally provide the
document in electronic form by storing it in the AADHAR-linked DigiLocker
account of the citizen. The agency needs to know the AADHAR number of the
citizen. The agency then has to convert the document into an electronic form
and store it into the citizen's account. The documents stored in DigiLocker
can be accessed by any other department if the citizen provides as approval
without having to phyically submit copies. Departments, panchayats,
municipal corporations of Goa can adopt this technology so that citizens
never lose their documents and do not have to carry them when approaching
the government for any services.

 

*  Village Panchayats are expected to set up their websites as announced
recently. This should not make every Panchayat develop a website. A single
multi-tenant website should be made by the Panchayat department and every
Panchayat should be allowed given a section on the website to upload their
details. Payment of taxes, etc. can be implemented just once. This will save
a lot of cost. This is possible using frameworks like Drupal.

 

*  A travel guide App specially made for Tourist/People visiting Goa. We can
enlist the different category of Service Provider like 1- Travel- Taxi,
Rickshaw, Travel Agent, Rent-A-Bike, Private Cruise, etc. 2- Food List the
different Restaurants with Authentic Cuisines. 3 - Events, Etc. We can have
numerous services that can be included with some nominal charges to the
interested party.

 

*  All departments should allow filling forms online. The details of the
person should be obtained from the UID system based on his AADHAR number.
The citizen should NOT have to take a printout of the form. He has to be
only physically present at the department to electronically sign on an
electronic pad.

 

*  Currently each government department has its own website. Instead, the
department of IT 

[Goanet] Press note of our monthly crash course in konkani

[Tim de Mello]

Dear Fr. Silveira:


Are these courses available on video?

There are Goans here in Canada who would like to learn their mother tongue.


Tim de Mello

===




Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 00:10:25 + (UTC)
From: Jose Silveira <josesilveir...@yahoo.com<mailto:josesilveir...@yahoo.com>>
To: "goa...@goanet.org<mailto:goa...@goanet.org>" 
<goa...@goanet.org<mailto:goa...@goanet.org>>
Subject: [Goanet] Press note of our monthly crash course in
konkani.Fr. Jose Silveira, S.J
Message-ID: 
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KONKNNI COURSE FOR BEGINNERS ATTHOMAS STEPHENS KONKNNI KENDR, PORVORIM?THOMAS 
STEPHENS KONKNNIKENDR, ALTO PORVORIM, will conduct halfday Konknni Crash Course 
for beginners in Devnagiri and Romi script from July 17, 2017 to August 11 
,2017.The emphasis is laid on communication and learning proper grammar.The 
timings are either from ?10 am to 12:30 pm ?OR ??2.15 p.m. to 5.15 p.m. Since 
the seats are limited, you are requested to bookyour seat by calling the office 
during office hours ( 2415864).
We have this course every month. You can call us at the office and enquire 
about the same.
?


Mog Asum !Jose Silveira, S.J<><><><><><><><><><> GOD BLESS 
YOU?<><><><><><><><><>
JOSE SILVEIRA, S.JXavier ResidenceC/O Thomas Stephens Konknni KendrB. B Borkar 
RoadAlto-PorvorimBardez- Goa.403521Mob: 7767020080

[Goanet] Press note of our monthly crash course in konkani.....................Fr. Jose Silveira, S.J

[Jose Silveira]

KONKNNI COURSE FOR BEGINNERS ATTHOMAS STEPHENS KONKNNI KENDR, PORVORIM THOMAS 
STEPHENS KONKNNIKENDR, ALTO PORVORIM, will conduct halfday Konknni Crash Course 
for beginners in Devnagiri and Romi script from July 17, 2017 to August 11 
,2017.The emphasis is laid on communication and learning proper grammar.The 
timings are either from  10 am to 12:30 pm  OR   2.15 p.m. to 5.15 p.m. Since 
the seats are limited, you are requested to bookyour seat by calling the office 
during office hours ( 2415864).
We have this course every month. You can call us at the office and enquire 
about the same.
 


Mog Asum !Jose Silveira, S.J<><><><><><><><><><> GOD BLESS YOU 
<><><><><><><><><>
JOSE SILVEIRA, S.JXavier ResidenceC/O Thomas Stephens Konknni KendrB. B Borkar 
RoadAlto-PorvorimBardez- Goa.403521Mob: 7767020080

[Goanet] PRESS NOTE.

[olencio simoes]

 Dear Sir,
Kindly publish press note of GRE regarding fishermen houses at Baina.
Regards
Olencio Simoes,Joint General Secretary of Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott and 
Secretary of National Fishworkers' Forum.Address:H.no.344,opposite health 
center,Baga,Cansaulim Goa.403172.Phone:9158875851. 

[Goanet] [PRESS NOTE] GITP Welcomes Budget Commitments for IT and Employment, gives recommendations to fulfill it

[Goa IT Professionals - GITP]

*-BEGIN-*


*GITP Welcomes Goa Budget Commitments for IT and Employment, Recommends
Ways to Fulfill it*

Goa IT Professionals welcomes Mr. Parrikar’s strong commitments in his
budget towards Goan education reforms to align with international
benchmarks, and, generation of high-income modern employment for Goans to
prosper in Goa. GITP is glad to have contributed in various ways to this
endeavor so far, and assures full-hearted support to turn these words into
reality on a war-footing given the urgency of the situation in Goa.

The declarations and provisions made in the budget have sparked a new hope
among thousands of Goan IT professionals and their families. GITP
appreciates the importance laid on the IT industry as it employs
professionals from several educational streams and stands to eliminate
Goa's long standing problem of unemployment, brain drain and outward
migration.

*GITP has further made below recommendations on ways to achieve the
commitments made by Goa Govt in the Budget 2017*, based on the current
state of the industry:

*Government projects*
The budget lays stress on digitization of government records. Many
government departments will have to undertake IT projects. The startup
policy should make provision for preferring companies with local presence
for these projects.

*Ease of Doing Business*
All procedures and necessary forms should be available on a website. There
should be a single windows that needs to be approached for starting a
business. Many states have enforced time-bound clearances of industrial
projects. A project is deemed to be approved if there is no response from
the government within 15 days. As a small state, Goa can do far better than
this.

*Plug and Play centers*
The incubation centers proposed in the budget should offer plug and play
services and should not be restricted for startups that need incubation. A
company looking for setting up in Goa should be able to start on a small
scale in these centers and later move to the IT Park. All necessary
infrastructure such as reliable power, internet, etc. should be managed by
the center, allowing prospective companies to immediately start their
business without infrastructural hassles.

*Effective Marketing*
The government needs to get into overdrive to visit mid-sized companies in
other parts of the country and understand their needs. From the interaction
we have had so far, most companies need and environment that lets them
focus on their business without worrying about regulations, water supply,
transport, internet and power generation.

*Utilization of existing spaces*
Though the IT park is 2 years away, the government and IPB should
facilitate the setting up of development units in the state in existing
workspaces. Most of the large companies in other cities have started on a
couple of floors before moving to larger premises.

*Tax relief*
The government should announce a tax relief to IT and ITES companies for at
least 5 years proportionate to the percentage of local manpower. This will
make Goa a profitable location and will encourage companies to hire local
talent. Once we have a sizable number of companies in Goa, there will be
enough manpower to attract more companies to the state.

*Upgradation of school labs*
IT-literacy in rural Goa is suffering due to non-working PCs in schools.
These can easily be revived with cost effective solution proposed and
demonstrated by GITP using devices such as Raspberry Pi.


*-END-*

Regards,

*Goa IT Professionals – GITP *| www.goaitpro.org | goa...@gmail.com

*Important links: About GITP  | GITP on
Social Network  | GITP Core Team
 | *Goa Skills Registry - GSR
 | Project GEIT

[Goanet] [PRESS NOTE] GITP Recommends Administrative changes for Generation of Modern Employment

[Goa IT Professionals - GITP]

Dear Goanet (goanet@lists.goanet.org), 

 

In postscript are details about our suggestions to the newly inducted Goa
government which will further bolster current Goa government motto of Goem,
Goenkar, Goenkarponn by creating the much needed high-income modern
employment options for our youth without having to leave the state.  

While the state government is going to prepare the Common Minimum Program,
we hope Goa government puts its full thrust on Information Technology for
creation of jobs for Goan youth. We request your support to push the govt
into action. Kindly cover this story in your publications and let us know if
you need any quotes or bytes from our Executive Team. 

Thank you very much.

Regards,

Goa IT Professionals - GITP |   www.goaitpro.org |
 goa...@gmail.com

 

-- Forwarded message --
From: "Goa IT Professionals - GITP" < 
goa...@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 15, 2017 3:38 PM
Subject: Administrative recommendations for Modern Employment Generation
To: <  manoharparri...@yahoo.co.in>, <
 sudindhavli...@yahoo.co.in>, "Vijai
Sardesai" < 
vijaisardesai4fato...@gmail.com>, "Rohan Khaunte" < 
ro...@pywt.in>, "cm goa" <  cm@nic.in>, "cmo goa"
<  cmo@nic.in>
Cc: "Narendra Sawaikar" < 
sawaikar.naren...@gmail.com>, "Shripad Naik" < 
nshripa...@gmail.com>, "gitp_core" < 
gitp_c...@googlegroups.com>



To: Hon. Chief Minister, members of ruling alliance
CC: Press

Dear members of the Goa Govt.,

In the past Goa has suffered because of rampant outward migration of its
youth resulting in the dilution of its identity. The political parties that
are part of the new government had stressed upon job creation in their
manifestos. The government has to enable citizens to earn their livelihood
rather than depend on allowances given by the government.

 

Goa already has a disproportionate number of civil servants per capita. All
future job creation needs to happen in the private sector in knowledge-based
and green industries such as IT, Electronics and manufacturing. We should
have high-income modern employment options for our youth without having to
leave the state. The government now needs to get working in this direction
from Day One. This is the only way we can get rid of the immoral economy
that is currently powering Goa.
 
We request certain changes to the administrative setup:
Industry and IT should be headed by a single minister
It is necessary to build a perception about Goa as an investment-friendly
state. The minister will be expected to coordinate among the departments and
take holistic decisions. Several industries complement each other. IT
industry works for other industries. They cannot be looked at in isolation.
The minister needs to be energetic and have excellent communication skills
to be able to interact with potential investors.

Departments of Industries and IT should have a single full-time director
So far the Directors have been given additional charge leaving them no time
to focus on effective functioning of their departments. All states have a
full-time Director for these critical departments. Goa being a small state
should appoint a single IAS officer in charge of both the departments.
Again, this role requires a dynamic and energetic individual. 
The departments should be given time-bound targets in terms of job creation
in the private sector.

Involve industry professionals as advisers
Several professionals like us are willing to voluntarily offer their
services and expertise to the Government. We request the government to
capitalize on this motivation of professionals from the industry and involve
them in the policy-making and its execution. 

All the infrastructure that is getting developed needs to benefit Goan
natives and not just tourists. For that to happen, Goans have to be retained
in Goa. We hope the new dispensation will give utmost importance to
fulfilling this need Goa screams for. As a responsible organisation, The Goa
IT Professionals pledge their support, time and energy in bringing back our
sons of soil.

 

Regards,

Goa IT Professionals - GITP |   www.goaitpro.org |
 goa...@gmail.com

Important links:   About GITP |
 GITP on Social Network |
 GITP Core Team |
 Goa Skills Registry - GSR |
 Project GEIT

 

[Goanet] Press Note

[ST. XAVIER'S COLLEGE - MAPUSA - GOA - INDIA - 403507 (Tel/Fax: 0832-2262356; Web:xavierscollege-goa.com)]

Dear Sir,

I will be grateful if you please publish the enclosed in your issue and 
oblige.

With many thanks and kind regards.

Yours sincerely,

Fr. (Dr.) Jeronimo D'Silva
Officiating Principal,
St. Xaviers' College,
Mapusa, Goa


PRESS NOTE
DANCE CLASSES AT ST. XAVIER'S COLLEGE, MAPUSA

Here is an opportunity to learn Indian Classical Dance.  St. Xavier's 
College, Mapusa, announces Bharatnatyam Dance Classes for Beginners.  
These classes will be held every Sunday from the month of March-2017, 
from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon at the College Seminar Hall.


For Registration and other details contact the College Office on 
7447762356.

[Goanet] Press Note

[Ulhas Parab]

Respected Sirs,

Kindly publish news & photographs attached along with the press noted.

Dr. Ulhas Parab
Gen. Secretary, GPCC

[Goanet] PRESS NOTE: RALLY FOR GOA 26th Jan.

[Roxanne Coutinho]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *

Date of release: 27-Jan-2017



*Rally for Goa” Public Meeting held in the Panjim Garden on Republic Day*



*GOA (27-Jan-2016): *The organisers of the Rally for Goa – a public meeting
called by several public interest organisations in the state – informed
media that a total of 30 organisations had decided to accept the Goenchi
Mati Movement's (GMM) proposal to have a meeting to prepare a citizens'
manifesto for the coming elections on February 4. However, by the time the
Rally actually started, the number of organisations had swelled to 54.
Civil society organisations that the GMM did not know of came to the Panjim
Garden asking for their names to be added to the list for the People's
Manifesto.

The largest contingent came from Sanguem, from the ward that is opposing
the erection of the distillery at Amdai. However activists came in from as
far as Valpoi, Caurem, Cavelossim and Cansaulim. Ramesh Gauns, though ill,
came from Bicholim. Others who came to see and give support to the rally's
objectives included Wendell Rodricks, Floriano Lobo, Valmiki Naik.

The Rally was called to produce a People's Manifesto. For the past weeks,
political parties have been coming out with their manifestoes. However, in
none of these are serious issues bothering the voters included. The status
of these party manifestoes is also not certain, since most parties simply
forget what they have promised in these documents. Often they even act
contrary to the promises in the manifesto. It was therefore thought that a
manifesto prepared by a large number of civil society organisations would
definitely force the candidates standing for election to take notice.

There were no speeches made at the Rally. Three speakers (Dadu Mandrekar,
Miguel Braganza and Claude Alvares) merely conveyed the substance of the
issues facing the various organisations that had come for the Rally. People
who had come for the Rally were encouraged not to sit, but move around the
garden talking to the various social activists who had been provided with
tables to present their posters and leaflets. This proved to be an
attractive part of the Rally, and the boring feature of political meetings
– endless speeches by various persons – was completely avoided.

The principal focus of the meeting, which was largely organised by GMM, was
putting pressure on election candidates to adopt the Goenchi Mati proposals
on mining and sale of natural resources.

An attractive feature of the Rally – which successfully turned the
atmosphere of the Panjim Garden into a celebration of people power or
flower power -- was the hundreds of balloons embossed with the Goenchi Mati
logo. These balloons were released immediately on completion of the Goenchi
Mati pledge, which the assembled people heartily endorsed with hands
raised. The text of the pledge, read out in both Konkani and English, is
given below:

 “*I pledge to the people and future generations of Goa that I will
actively support, promote and vote for the implementation of the Goenchi
Mati Manifesto, and that I will oppose and vote against any and all
attempts to cheat you of your mineral inheritance or the income from it.*”

The Rally was enlivened by the antics and mimicry of stand up comedian
Manohar Bingi from Ponda and by satirical songs -- including one on the
mining loot -- sung by Francis de Tuem, the well known tiatrist. The entire
function was compered by the irrepressible Felly Gomes from Assagao who
ensured there was never a dull moment. A panel discussion allowed six young
voters (five women and one male) to voice their feelings about the coming
elections and Goa's future.

The list of issues will now be put together in a people's manifesto and
handed over personally to the political leaders of the various parties in
Goa. Thereafter copies will also be handed over to the candidates standing
for election. Goenchi Mati Movement members will ask them for their
responses to the people's manifesto by 2nd February, when the responses
will go on social media and guide people on which candidates accept the
manifesto.

The Election Commission accepted the invitation of the GMM to depute
officials with the new voting machines. Participants at the Rally were able
to test the machines and familiarise themselves with the method of using
them successfully. After voting, voters can now verify that the vote was
correctly registered on the machine.

The entire Rally was put together by the Goenchi Mati team which included
Rahul Basu, Shrayragi Israni, Roxanne Coutinho, Vishal Rawlley, Joana and
Tamer Pyres, Andrea Rodricks, Lina Vincent and several others. Film
teams from Video Volunteers and William Rodrigues from St Estevam filmed
the entire event.

The Goenchi Mati Movement is a single issue movement which is by policy not
aligned with political parties. GMM has asked parties to endorse and
incorporate the Goenchi Mati Manifesto into their manifestos for the Goa
Assembly elections on Feb 4. The 

[Goanet] Press Note for favour of publication

[Tomazinho Cardozo]

*125th Anniversary of Tiatr*

*27 tiatr artistes felicitated in Pernem taluka*

Panjim: 125th Anniversary of Tiatr Celebrations Committee and Tiatr Academy
of Goa celebrated 125th Anniversary of Tiatr with a special felicitation
function at the open air hall of Mount Carmel Church, Arambol on January 4.
The tiatr artistes from Pernem taluka, who have contributed to the
development of tiatr were felicitated on the occasion.

Ashok Parab, deputy director of Art and Culture department was the chief
guest and Joe Rose, a veteram tiatr artiste was the guest of honour.
Tomazinho Cardozo, chairman of Celebration Committee and Agostinho Temudo,
president of TAG graced the occasion.

Speaking on the occasion, the guest of honour, Joe Rose reminded the
gathering that more than the awards, the biggest reward is the audience who
has come all along supporting tiatr and the tiatrists. “No doubt, work of
the writers, directors and artistes cannot be ignored, but if audience is
not there, tiatrs will not exist. Hence the audience support has to be
appreciated,” he added.

The chief guest, Ashok Parab congratulated the felicitated artistes and
asked the tiatr fraternity to continue contributing towards the tiatr as it
is the local art, which needs to be preserved and flourished for prosperity.

The tiar artistes who were felicitated included Minguel de Arambol, Gemma
de Morjim, Yeshwant Narayan Tembkar, Alexin de Morjim, Jerry D Britto,
Jackson, Lorna de Morjim, Aires de Arambol, Peter Rodrigues, Pascoal Joao
Mascarenhas, Gabriel Fernandes, Elias Simao Fernandes, Peter Cardozo, Alex
Mestri, Sir Peter, Francis de Mandrem, Constancio Dias, Pascoal Fernandes,
Natty Fernandes, Francis Coelho, Sebastiao D Rodrigues, Morris D Fernandes,
Cosma Fernandes, Domnick de Arambol, Musician Babush, Ratna Salganvkar
and Alesin
Rodrigues.

After the felicitation programme, a tiatr 'Dirvem' written and directed by
Edmund Vaz and which won the first prize at Kala Academy’s Group B Tiatr
Competition was staged. The function was compered by Michael Gracias. He
was ably assisted by William Fernandes and Irene Cardozo, who extended help
in providing knowledge about various tiatr artistes at the time of the
felicitation.

*Tomazinho Cardozo*

Chairman

125th Anniversary of Tiatr Celebration Committee

[Goanet] [PRESS NOTE] Goa IT Manifesto 2017 (GITP)

[Goa IT Professionals - GITP]

Dear members of the Press and Media,

Please find below the *Goa IT Manifesto 2017 (GITP)
*
for all the political parties contesting the upcoming Goa State elections
2017.  This Goa IT Manifesto is created by the GITP Core Team with inputs
from a wide range of experts and industry stalwarts from Goa, India and
beyond.  It is imperative that any party or individual contesting this
election for serving Goans, include the thoroughly researched findings of
Goan IT community in their party manifesto and work towards making Goa a
smart and technology driven state.

*Considering failure of the current BJP and previous governments in
creating any kind of employment avenues for vast number of educated Goans
who are left to wander in other cities seeking livelihoods,  selling local
lands and forcing Goa into a failed state with lost Goan identity. The
current sorry state of Goan employment and Industry scenario continues even
after the current stable government at state and center or the previous
Congress and UPA stable govts, and even so after a huge mandate given to a
forward looking politician like Ex-CM Mr Parrikar and current CM Mr
Parsekar, all the politicians  have successively failed the Goan youth. *

*We wish to reiterate that any political entity contesting the 2017 Goa
state assembly elections which does not accord high priority in their
manifesto to the creation of high-income employment opportunities for Goans
in Goa through clean, green IT and similar industries needs to be treated
as anti-Goan by all Goan voters.*

We request you to include our initiative along with the below summary in
your media coverage.

**

Goa IT Manifesto 2017 (GITP) - Summary

Central Theme: High-income employment opportunities for Goans to prosper in
Goa through clean, green and locally sustainable Information Technology
(IT) industry and affiliated economy! Any political individual or party
that ignores this important matter and prefers to trade in the usual social
divisions and dole schemes intends to keep our locals subdued for easy
political manipulations, and hence is clearly anti-Goan, anti-progress and
anti-national. For it is only when Goans can make high-income, ethical
livelihoods in Goa through their talents and hard work will Goa rise with
rest of India.

*Key Points*:

   - IT Industry = regular IT companies, tech startups, technology-enabled
   R, Engineering Design, Animation, Gaming, Movie, Music, IT Enabled
   Services like BPO, KPO, Call Centers, tech freelancers, content creation
   etc.
   - Implement current Goa IT Investment Policy 2015 immediately in
   entirety and get the Chimbel IT Park completed on a war footing taking the
   locals into confidence.
   - Form two fully-empowered, target-bound and publicly transparent teams:
   - Goa IT Advisory Council – Technology veterans and experts for best
   ideas and global network
   - Goa IT Taskforce – joint govt-industry-academia team fully responsible
   from policy to planning, execution and marketing.
   - Get Goa among the Top 10 Indian states for ease of doing business
   (EODB)
   - Integrate and streamline all Goa government IT related bodies under
   single professional command with publicly transparent performance reviews
   of entire team.
   - Upgrade Goa’s basic IT infrastructure for high-speed broadband
   connectivity and reliable electricity supply to every corner of Goa.
   Promote green power.
   - Low cost incubators and co-working spaces across towns and significant
   villages and village-clusters of Goa. Promote distributed IT Anywhere work
   production from any corner of Goa.
   - Overhaul the entire Goa state education system from school-college
   level to promote greater collaboration between educational institutions and
   industry, and ensure our students are oriented towards innovation,
   entrepreneurship and industry on completing their education.
   - Reverse brain-drain of Goans from Indian/global IT industry to Goa for
   high-grade workforce.
   - Avoid regressive job reservations for locals in IT industry through
   high incentives for companies tied to local workforce component besides
   strong financial support for locals for education and skills development.
   - Create a Goa Innovation Fund to get international funding for local
   talent developing international grade work.
   - Provide funding and other support for local talent to create
   technological solutions to local needs and problems.
   - Exploit central government initiatives and platforms, and establish
   partnerships with national/global tech giants to foster a widespread
   technology-enabled innovation culture in Goa.
   - Make Goa into a global hot destination for technology-related
   conferences and exhibitions leveraging Goa’s global brand for tourism.
   - Make meritocracy and public transparency in government initiatives the
   foundation for all the above 

[Goanet] Press Note

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*WENDELL RODRICKS AT SERENDIPITY ARTS FESTIVAL 2016*


*TEN HISTORIES:*

*GOAN COSTUME*

The time is ripe for the recounting of Goan histories, opening a dialogue
in Goan heritage and commencing a narrative about the rich legacy of Goa
beyond the reputed beaches and famed natural beauty of a splendid land. A
majority of visiting tourists that visit Goa are as astounded to hear
stories from the hinterland as some Goans who imagine that Goan costume
history begins and ends with the Portuguese.

Padma Shri award winning Goan fashion designer Wendell Rodricks, author of
Moda Goa:History and Style and The Green Room, is presently working on
converting his heritage home into The Moda Goa Museum in his native village
of Colvale. In a pioneering curatorial presentation, he brings to the
Serendipity Arts Festival 2016 ten objects related to Goan costume that are
not mere museum objects. Each has a story worth recounting. A history about
Goan mythology, Gods, people, customs, traditions, festivals and folklore.
In a setting inspired from graffiti painted walls of religious sanctums,
palatial manors and humble homes, the lacy effect of the Goan graffiti
painting set the ambience of Ten Histories: Goan Costume.

Apart from the sole prehistoric photograph in the exhibition that has an
engraved laterite rock to support it, the objects are part of a sixteen
year collection that represent a minuscule part of what the Moda Goa Museum
in Colvale will display when it opens in late 2018. This collection is an
attempt to reveal Goan histories pertaining to costume. But it is also a
door to open a dialogue with you the viewer. Suggestions are welcome and
encouraged in our Visitors Comment book.

The Serendipity Arts Festival 2016 and Wendell Rodricks' Ten Histories:
Goan Costume opens 16th December at The Old Secretariat/ex Adil Shah Palace
in Panjim, Goa.


e-shop at www.wendellrodricks.com/eshop/

[Goanet] [PRESS NOTE] GITP disappointed with Goa Govt's failure in improving Ease of Doing Business in Goa.

[Goa IT Professionals - GITP]

BCC TO GOAN PRESS AND MEDIA: 150+ recipients


**

*GITP disappointed with Goa Govt's failure in improving Ease of Doing
Business in Goa.*

Goa government has yet again disappointed the Goan youth as its rank on the
Ease of Doing business in Goa dropped from 19 to 21 in the latest state
wise report. With election code of conduct coming barely in 2 months,
govt's inaction on important issue of employment and bringing industry to
Goa, clearly shows this government is no different than the previous
governments.

In a recent interview CM Parsekar claimed that for Goa the low EODB rank is
wrongly projected and is not improving as Goa is already reformed.  This
however is far from true and the fact is that not just the new and upcoming
units, even the existing units are facing hardships due to old and stale
processes.  The compliance procedures are not listed on any government
website. Entrepreneurs have to rely on information spread by word of
mouth.  With no single window clearance procedure in place, registrants are
left to run pillars and posts to complete initial registration procedures.
Demands of bringing important departments online have been consistently
ignored by the government.

The Investment Promotion Board which was supposed to be a single window for
clearance has become yet another window. Again there is no website for
approaching or contacting this window.  This compared to other states, who
have been running single window systems for years, have major of their
departments and procedures online and have set records in starting new
investments/units in mere 15 days.

It has been a collective failure on the part of the government as well as
industry bodies in resolving the issues related to EODB. Goa has the
highest number of government employees per capita. Yet the resultant
effectiveness evident from such reports proves to be a case of maximum
government and minimum governance.

GITP demands that the work on the industry and employment promotion be
expedited. We also demand to release statistics on number of jobs this
government has created in knowledge based industries like IT, Electronics,
and R

Given the poor track record of this government while formulating and
releasing the Investment Policy and that *till date not even one IT company
has invested in Goa nor any employment has been generated in the IT sector*
due to Government efforts, GITP feels same treatment is being given to
reforms, IT park work, startup and investment promotion, while priority is
being given to freebies and doles in the name of Digital India.

GITP as always assures full and active support to the government for
enabling locally sustainable IT industry and employment generation in Goa.
We also wish to remind this government of the promises it made to the local
youth during last elections about jobs and stopping the brain drain and
warn about effects of governments failure on this fronts in the coming
elections.

**


Regards,

*Goa IT Professionals – GITP *| www.goaitpro.org | goa...@gmail.com

*Important links: About GITP  | GITP on
Social Network  | GITP Core Team
 | *Goa Skills Registry - GSR

[Goanet] [Press Note] GITP LAUDS DIRECTOR OF IT'S EFFORTS IN IMPROVING IT SCENARIO IN GOA

[Goa IT Professionals - GITP]

Dear members of Goan media,


Goa IT Professionals [GITP] lauds the efforts made by Mr. Ameya Abhyankar
IAS, who is currently the Director of IT among other portfolios; in setting
the ball rolling towards building the prospects of the IT industry in the
state. GITP feels that what he has achieved after assuming his office in
the IT department is truly remarkable. Given the track record of the
Department of IT prior to him assuming office, it was very much in need of
such a dynamic leadership.  Laying the roadmap for the Tuem ESDM park and
Chimbel IT park, efforts made for local interaction with the various
stakeholders, Partnerships/MoU with Google and Amazon, Development of
Incubation facilities in the State, exploring options like Google Loon to
counter internet bandwidth shortfall, spearheading Governments Outreach
program to the various IT majors are some of the milestones that Mr.
Abhyankar has achieved with his team.



Mr. Abhyankar has taken significant proactive steps that have not been
witnessed in the past. He is highly approachable, receptive to suggestions
and a go-getter in his approach. The IT community and the State of Goa at
large need more leaders like Mr. Abhyankar in the Administration.



GITP believes that there still a long way to go and that the vigour and
enthusiasm that Mr Abhyankar brings with him is needed to be sustained and
encouraged at all levels of governance, more particularly IT industry
development. Over the years, the lack of suitable IT infrastructure in the
state has driven away a lot of Goan youth to the neighbouring cities, and
thus causing the dilution of the Goan Identity.



GITP insists that Mr. Abhyankar be suitably recognized by the Government
for his efforts and ensure he is allowed to serve the State for another
term with ever increasing zeal and passion.

Regards,


*Goa IT Professionals – GITP *| www.goaitpro.org | goa...@gmail.com

*Important links: About GITP  | GITP on
Social Network  | GITP Core Team
 | *Goa Skills Registry - GSR

[Goanet] PRESS NOTE

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*SUSSEGADO COFFEE INDIA (GOA) LAUNCHES DEVI WENDELL RODRICKS "CATWALK"
GOURMET COFFEE*

DEVI Catawalk by Wendell Rodricks is a premium, shade grown Arabica coffee
from the hills of Coorg. Using traditional European drum roasters, the
coffee goes through a slow roasting process, this enables the coffee to
gradually open and reveal all the aromas and flavours. The roast level is
taken to medium, at this point this coffee offers the richest cup. After
grinding the roasted coffee beans to a medium fine size, the coffee is
seasoned with a pinch of finely ground cinnamon, together with the finest
Madagascar Vanilla. These spices elevate the character of DEVI Catwalk,
lending it a smooth and soothing finish.

DEVI Catwalk is a completely natural product, without preservatives or
artificial flavourings. Designer Wendell Rodricks says “I have just had my
first sip of DEVI Catwalk coffee and delighted that DEVI has created a
designer coffee rich in aromatic flavour and texture as smooth as silk with
the body of velvet on the palate. When I first met Laszlo, I knew we would
be a brand fit. Such a charming man with a love for the refined things in
life. (Besides curating the finest selection of Indian coffees, the
 Hungarian native harvest truffles in Europe). Later when I met his wife
Devika ( hence the brand name DEVI), I was floored by her natural Bengali
beauty, poise and grace. The result of our meeting is this designer gourmet
coffee. The flavour is better than a regular expresso with the refined
subtle under taste of cinnamon and Madagascar vanilla. When I designed the
label for this stylish coffee I immersed myself in a coffee that suits
modern tastes with a label that jumps out of the shelf like couture does. I
wanted colour, youth, bling. The label design creates a cultural identity
of its own. Indian yet international, just like the DEVI Wendell Rodricks
Catwalk gourmet coffee.”

The product is expected to be on the shelves across the country by the
first week of December, 2016. Godrej Natures Basket, Foodhall, Trent
Westside, Hyper City, are few of the chain retailers where customers will
find DEVI Catwalk, and by January 2017 many of the individual gourmet shops
across India will stock the product

DEVI Wendell Rodricks Catwalk Coffee will also be available online on
amazon.in, flipkart.com, snapdeal.com, giftease.com, tastebells.com and
many other gift and gourmet online portals.

For more information about Sussegado Coffee India and the DEVI brand please
visit www.sussegadocoffee.com

For further quotes or interviews, please contact  for:

Sussegado Coffee India las...@sussegadocoffee.com
Wendell Rodricks wendellrodri...@gmail.com



e-shop at www.wendellrodricks.com/eshop/

[Goanet] [PRESS NOTE] GITP DEMANDS LOW-COST REVIVAL OF DEAD GOAN SCHOOL COMPUTER LABS, PLANS TO APPROACH PMO TO FORCE RIGHT DECISIONS (30-SEP-2016)

[Goa IT Professionals - GITP]

**
*GITP DEMANDS LOW-COST REVIVAL OF DEAD GOAN SCHOOL COMPUTER LABS, PLANS TO
APPROACH PMO TO FORCE RIGHT DECISIONS*
In a meeting on 21-Sep-2016 with the Goa Chief Minister, Laxmikant
Parsekar, and his team comprising of heads from the Education and IT
departments, Goa IT Professionals (GITP) presented once again their
recommendations regarding revival of school-level Computer education
(curriculum as well as infrastructure) which has been in dilapidated
condition throughout the tenure of this government. GITP had earlier on
27-Jan-2016 met the Chief Minister and his team including Goa InfoTech
Corporation leaders on this same matter and have been following up
eversince for time-bound and judicious utilization of the Rs.25 crores
provisioned by the government for this purpose in the current financial
year.

With low cost, high durability and globally proven hardware options like
Raspberry Pi available today coupled with comprehensive Free Open-Source
Software (FOSS) covering all educational needs upto class 12th and beyond,
the nearly-dead school computer labs across Goa could be fully revived
within Rs. 2 crores while the rest could be utilized to provide schools
with solar-powered computer labs, smart-classrooms, funding for Tech Clubs,
inter-school Tech competitions, Tech camps during vacations, etc.

GITP expressed its disappointment to the Chief Minister about the recently
released Goa InfoTech Corp tender for procurement of 4468 conventional,
delicate, expensive and virus-prone computers for schools with Microsoft
Windows and Office software despite GITP’s demonstration of low cost and
efficient alternatives in 3 Goan schools since last academic year, findings
of which are with all relevant government departments for the past 8 months.

The bold initiative of Goa Board to revamp Computer education for classes
9-12 was explained to the Chief Minister along with the need for it to be
extended to lower classes to ensure early technology introduction as well
as seamless learning and teaching experience for the students and teachers
respectively. The revised curriculum is expected to come into effect from
the next academic year and is proposed by GITP to be carried out as a Goa
government and Goan IT community collaboration.

Chief Minister was impressed with the palm-sized Raspberry Pi device that
GITP team demonstrated in this meeting as well as its recommendations
regarding FOSS and full-fledged Computer education curriculum revision and
gave his nod for his teams to consider these and begin work on the same.
With elections on the Goan horizon, GITP expects the government to get
things done within the next couple months. It is also planning to approach
the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to ensure that the right things done for
effective Computer education in Goa without wastage of precious public
funds on the typical hardware and software scandals witnessed in Goa.
*<**ENGLISH PRESS NOTE END>*


**

*मृतप्राय झालेल्या गोव्यातील शाळांमधील संगणक कक्षांची कमी खर्चात
‎पुनरुज्जीवन करण्याची जी.आय. टी. पी. ची मागणी. योग्य निर्णय घेण्यास भाग
पाडण्यासाठी पंतप्रधान कार्यालयाशी संपर्क करण्याची योजना.*



दिनांक २१ सप्टेंबर २०१६ रोजी मुख्यमंत्री व त्यांचा शिक्षण व माहिती
तंत्रज्ञान खात्यांचे प्रमुख यांचा अंतर्भाव असलेल्या गटाबरोबर झालेल्या
चर्चेत जी.आय. टी. पी. ने शालेय स्तरावरील संगणक शिक्षण, जे सध्याच्या
सरकारच्या संपूर्ण कार्यकाळात अत्यंत हलाखीच्या स्थितीत आहे, त्या विषयी
आपल्या शिफारसी पुन्हा एकदा त्यांच्या समोर ठेवल्या. या आधी दिनांक २७
जानेवारी २०१६ रोजी जी.आय. टी. पी. ने मुख्यमंत्री व गोवा इन्फो टेक महामंडळचे
अधिकारी सामील असलेल्या गटासोबत भेटीत हाच विषय समोर ठेवला होता. सरकारने या
कामासाठी या वर्षासाठी निर्धारीत २५ कोटी रुपयांचा विनियोग समयबध्द व समंजसपणे
करण्यासाठी त्यानंतर निरंतर जी.आय. टी. पी. पाठपुरावा करीत आहे.



१२वी पर्यंतच्या आणी त्यापुढच्या सर्व प्रकारच्या शिक्षणाच्या गरजा, कमी
खर्चाचे, टिकावू व जागतीक स्तरावर मान्य झालेले सध्या उपलब्ध पर्याय जसे की
रासबेरी पाय आणी त्याला जोडून सर्वंकष मोफत ओपन सोर्स सोफ्टवेयर वापरून आता
जवळपास मृतपाय असलेले शाळांमधील संगणक कक्ष केवळ २ कोटी रुपयात पुनरज्जीवीत
करता येतील. यातील मग राहीलेली रक्कम शाळांना सौर उर्जेवर चालणारे संगणक कक्ष
पुरवीणे, स्मार्ट वर्ग बनवीणे, तंत्रज्ञान मंडळांना अर्थपुरवठा करणे,
आंतरशालेय तंत्रज्ञान स्पर्धा आयोजीत करणे, सुटीत तंत्रज्ञान शिबीरे आयोजीत
करणे, इ. कामांसाठी वापरता येतील.

मागील शालेय वर्षापासून जी.आय. टी. पी ने कमी खर्चात व कार्यक्षमरित्या
चालणऱ्या पर्यायांचे सादरीकरण ३ शाळात केले, ज्याबद्दलचे निष्कर्ष संबंधीत
सरकारी खात्यात गेल्या ८ महिन्यांपासून उपलब्ध आहेत, तरी सुध्दा ४४६८
पारंपारीक, नाजूक, महाग व संगणक विषाणूसंसर्गजन्य मायक्रोसोफ्ट विंडोज व अॉफिस
युक्त संगणक शाळांसाठी घेण्यासाठी हल्लीच सरकारने प्रस्तुत केलेल्या निविदे
विषयी जी.आय. टी. पी ने आपली नाराजी मुख्यंत्र्यांजवळ व्यक्त केली होती.



९वी-१२वी पर्यंतच्या संगणक अभ्यासक्रमाची सुधारणा करण्याचा जो गोवा बोर्डने
साहसी पुढाकार घेतला आहे तो मुख्यंत्र्यांना समजावून सांगितला गेला. त्याच
बरोबर निम्न स्तरावरील वर्गांपासून तंत्रज्ञान ओळख करण्याची गरज तसंच एकसंध
शिकण्याची तसेच 

[Goanet] Press Note - Cuncolim Block Congress Committee Meeting

[Gpccofficial Goa]

Dear Sir/Madam

Greetings from IT Cell Goa Pradesh Congress

Following is press Note to be released in newspaper daily received from
Cuncolim Block Congress Committee -

"The Congress block committee meeting was held on 22nd September at block
Congress office in Cuncolim to organise a public meeting at Cuncolim on
various issues being faced by people. The meeting date will be declared
soon.

Also, the block members have taken a decision that the Congress party
ticket for Cuncolim Constituency shall be given only to a person from
Cuncolim and they don't want any outsider as a Candidate for coming
assembly election."

Hope you will do the needful

Regards

Team IT

[Goanet] Press note for cancellation of Picture This! The annual art appreciation course at Gallery Gitanjali

[Gitanjali Gallery]

Dear Sir / Madam

Kindly note that Picture This! The annual art appreciation course at
Gallery Gitanjali , Fontainhas, which was to be conducted by noted Art
Historian and curator  Apurva Kulkarni, from 15th September 2016 to 10th
November 2016 will be cancelled and won't be conducted this year. Any
inconvinence caused is solely regretted.

Thanks & Regards
Varsha Pednekar
Gallery Gitanjali
E-212,31st January Road,
Fontainhas,Panjim,
Goa-403001
India
www.gallerygitanjali.com
00919158940495

[Goanet] Press Note

[Retreat N Style]

*WENDELL RODRICKS TRAPEZOID COLLECTION FOR LAKME FASHION WEEK,
WINTER/FESTIVE 2016.*



Opening show at 6Degrees Stage One at Lakme Fashion Week Winter/Festive
2016, Schulen Fernandes for Wendell Rodricks presented the Trapezoid
collection based on the Trapezoid shape that has been in use since ancient
times. The Incas and Egyptians used it for archways, doors and windows.
Wider at the base with a parallel narrow top with two lateral incline sides
reaching the summit. Indian temples also used this geometric form but in a
profusely decorative form for the famed gopurams; endowed with Gods and
animals. Indians also used the trapezoid for geometry, astronomy,
mathematics and algebra calculations.



Schulen Fernandes for Wendell Rodricks, explored the trapezoid in a fashion
collection that celebrates this ancient form rarely applied to fashion.
Using the form as is and in innovative isosceles and parallelogram styles,
garments take shape based on the trapezoid's various possibilities in
silhouette and style details.


The layered looks use sheer X-Ray effects to advantage, blending an ultra
feminine palette of pastels. Trapezoid shapes morph onto pin tucks, sewn
dotted lines and pattern pieces that create a unique newness on the Indian
female form. This shape is perfect for all Indian sizes who tend to have a
torso smaller than the hip. In a vast fabric array that uses linen, cotton,
light crepes, georgette, paper silk, jacquard and damask, Trapezoid uses
twelve weaves. It is the custom made fabrics at the core of the collection
that are most exciting. Natural Bemberg weave which is natural viscose that
feels like silk, striped Chanderi striped silk cotton, Kerala custom weave
cottons, natural dyed Bengal cotton weaves, Malkha cotton and Eco fabric
dyed with flowers from the Siddhivinayak temple in Mumbai.


The Trapezoid collection by Schulen Fernandes for Wendell Rodricks also
addressed lack of a uniform sizing standard in India. It pushed the
envelope to make clothes that are at times unisize, unisex and unique for
all India women. The collect is age neutral, proving that pastels are not
for a blushing teen or regal dowager. Walking the ramp were professionals
and students from various fields. Salome ROY Kapoor, ex model, mother of
actor Aditya Roy Kapoor and mother in law of Vidya Balan. Sharmilla Khanna,
ex model and choreographer. Suzanne Sablok Pillai, ex model, Miss India and
now shawl designer. Yvette Braganza, company assistant, theatre and choral
singer. Cher D'Cruz, eighteen year old student and leukemia survivor. Khloe
Lobo, 20 year old Goan student at St Xavier's Mapusa. Justine Rae
Mellocrasto, Mumbai based JEWELLERY designer and hair stylist.



The collection received immense applause for the regular ladies that walked
the ramp and effusive praise from the audience that comprised the big names
in fashion.  The fifteen minute presentation was the perfect opening of
6Degrees Stage one at Lakme Fashion Week for many reasons. A collection
meant for all women. The release of India's first standard sizing chart for
Indian women by Wendell Rodricks. At the show Wendell Rodricks handed over
his label to Schulen Fernandes who will design the label from now on.
Rodricks will continue to work and help in the studio but focus on the Moda
Goa Musuem, other design projects and steer the label to greater heights
with Schulen Fernandes.




e-shop at www.wendellrodricks.com/eshop/

[Goanet] Press Note - Workshop on Reservation provisions and its implementation in Goa State

[Ravindra Velip]

Dear all,
A group of community members from ST, SC and OBC have come together and
have formed a group 'V 4 Reservations' who are conducting a workshop on
Constitutional provisions of Reservations for community members of SC, ST
and OBC.

You are requested to give a publicity for this event through print media,
electronic media and other social media.

With regards

-- 
*Ravindra A. Velip*
Sadhana Helpdesk
F-09, Daasha Classic Bldg
Quepem - Goa
Mob. 9764078375, Off. (0832) 2663435
sadhanahelpd...@gmail.com
https://www.caurem.weebly.com

[Goanet] PRESS NOTE (30-Jun-2016): Calling Goan schools to nominate under Project GEIT this academic year

[Goa IT Professionals - GITP]

*BCC TO GOAN PRESS AND MEDIA: 170+ recipients*


Dear Members of the Media,


Project GEIT (Goans Empowered with Information Technology), the flagship
initiative of Goa IT Professionals (GITP), is the single most revolutionary
people-driven change happening in the Goan school education system
beginning last academic year.


This academic year Project GEIT is all set to reach out to as many Goan
village schools as possible with a nomination-cum-compliance based model.
We are sharing herewith details of the same. Kindly give the initiative
wide publicity through your esteemed print/electronic media  and oblige.


With regards,

Team Project GEIT





*PRESS NOTE (30-Jun-2016): Calling Goan schools to nominate under Project
GEIT this academic year*


Project GEIT (Goans Empowered with Information Technology), the flagship
initiative of Goa IT Professionals (GITP), is the single most revolutionary
people-driven change happening in the Goan school education system. It is a
voluntary community initiative planned, funded and organized by Goan
professionals and well-wishers by devoting their personal time, resources
and network for the sheer love of Goans in Goa. It is a strictly apolitical
people’s movement…of Goans, by Goans and for Goans to prosper in Goa
through technology!

Having successfully piloted our unique approach in 3 Goan village schools
(i.e. Gokuldem, Neura and Chorao) last year, Project GEIT is now open to
all schools of Goa on a nomination-cum-compliance basis. Project GEIT and
its activities are suitable and relevant for, and hence limited to,
students of Classes 4-9.  Preference will be given to village schools over
city schools given their disadvantageous scenario with respect to
Technological access.



*Every school as part of Project GEIT will benefit as follows:*



· A huge advantage to your students towards the latest global
technological advancements and their relevance in various aspects of human
life including the creative space through live demonstrations and
interactive sessions with experts from Goa and beyond.

· Free computer hardware donated by individuals and companies
through Project GEIT will be LEASED to the needy schools on returnable
basis limited to their Project GEIT tenure.

· Project GEIT will enable and facilitate benefits to its partner
schools from relevant government, corporate as well as private schemes and
initiatives.

· No costs to the participating schools for Project GEIT activities.

· Participating schools’ Computer Teachers will be trained for free
by Project GEIT on the necessary technologies.



*Project GEIT expects the following minimal commitments from each
participating school to initiate and maintain their partnership on a
bi-monthly basis:*



· The school MUST have a proactive and productive Computer Teacher
OR at least another staff member passionate about technology to
successfully lead the Project GEIT activities at the school. Otherwise they
must NOT apply for Project GEIT as it would waste precious time and
resources of our volunteers.

· Include computer programming using SCRATCH, a child friendly
computer programming platform from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT-USA), in your Computer curriculum over and above the regular
curriculum with guidance from Project GEIT. We are also working on getting
it formally included into the Goa state board curriculum.

· Ensure timely completion of the monthly SCRATCH assignments
published by Project GEIT and maintain a formal record of each student’s
progress on the same.

·Ensure the safety, security and appropriate usage of Project GEIT
leased hardware and make good any damages to or loss of such hardware to
Project GEIT within maximum 30 days.

·Submit overall progress and compliance report in the prescribed
electronic format towards bi-monthly audit which would determine the
school’s continuity under Project GEIT.

·Consent for the performance of the school to be judged on
pre-defined Project GEIT parameters per each half-year term and, the scores
and ranking of all Project GEIT schools to be publicly published. This is
to ensure productive outcomes, accountability, transparency and
competitiveness among the participating schools.





For any queries on Project GEIT kindly contact:

*Sangeeta Naik* +918805162600 / *Vincent Toscano* +919765410020 or
+918322239986

*Email:* projectg...@gmail.com

*Facebook*: www.facebook.com/GoansEmpoweredWithIT

*YouTube:* www.youtube.com/channel/UC2HnpZv_yj8lK4kM-U_MhLQ

*Viva Goa !!!*

Regards,


 | *Goa IT Professionals – GITP *| www.goaitpro.org | goa...@gmail.com

Note: If you haven't registered yourself on Goa Skills Registry as yet,
please do so at *skills.goaitpro.org *

*Important links: About GITP  | GITP on
Social Network  | GITP Core Team

[Goanet] PRESS NOTE (23-Jun-2016): GITP demands computer programming inclusion in Goan school curriculum

[Goa IT Professionals - GITP]

*BCC TO GOAN PRESS AND MEDIA: 170+ recipients*


Project GEIT (Goans Empowered with Information Technology), the flagship
initiative of Goa IT Professionals (GITP), is the single most revolutionary
people-driven change happening in the Goan school education system
beginning last academic year.


Project GEIT recently concluded its pilot year on a high note with a
successful 10-day Information Technology-centric Summer Camp 2016 during
May 2-13 at the Central Library (Patto, Panaji) attended by 84 school kids
from 28 locations across Goa and where 25 industry experts and leaders,
academicians, creative masters and tech-wizards presented and demonstrated
for free the use of Computers in a wide variety of applications relevant to
human life today like internet safety for children, movie-making,
animation, robotics, music, telecommunications, ship design, astronomy,
blogging, enablement for people with disabilities, mobile app design and
development (using App Inventor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
USA), networks, databases, agriculture, entrepreneurship, Indian language
computing, 3D printing, SCRATCH (i.e. a child-friendly computer programming
platform from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Hour of Code and
more. The children were left spell-bound and we have some great feedback
from them as well as their parents regarding this camp. The camp concluded
with a SCRATCH programming contest designed by a tech-wizard Class 8
student from Panaji who was also one of the presenters-cum-teachers at this
camp! All this was done for free with many parents voluntarily contributing
to cover all expenses of this camp while others donated a total of
Rs.26,515/- to 2 Goan charities through Project GEIT. Akin to our similar
Diwali2015 camp this proves again and beyond any doubt that Goans and their
well-wishers, guided in the right direction, are capable of revolutionising
our school education system all by themselves. We would much appreciate if
your publications can showcase this work in your weekend editions to create
wider awareness among Goans. We could provide you full details, photos and
quotes from people (i.e. students, parents, experts) on our various
activities till date.


*Project GEIT is now all set to reach out to as many Goan village schools
as possible this new academic year with a nomination-cum-compliance based
model. And demands inclusion of the child-friendly, open-source SCRATCH
into the Goa state board syllabus for school-level Computer Education from
this academic year itself. Our core team had met the Chief Minister in this
regard earlier and will pursue this matter again for its implementation.*


“A key observation from our work so far is that our Goan children have a
great hunger to learn the productive and creative use of IT and with the
right guidance and hands-on exposure they could beat even children from
advanced countries like USA, Japan etc. And this could revolutionize the
future of Goans in Goa,” said Sangeeta Naik, Co-Leader of Project GEIT and
Executive Member of GITP.


“Instead of teaching just clerical stuff like Microsoft Office to our
children and they whiling away so much of their time on computer games Goan
kids need to be formally introduced to computer programming in order to
reveal to them the true power of controlling a machine or device. For the
sake of our future Goan generations prospering right here in Goa, we demand
that the Goa government takes the bold step of introducing SCRATCH
programming in the school syllabus immediately. Project GEIT offers to
conduct a 2 day training program on SCRATCH for all Goan school Computer
teachers…for FREE!,” said Vincent Toscano, Co-Leader of Project GEIT and
Vice President of GITP.



Given below for your reference are excerpts from our minutes of meeting with*
GOA CHIEF MINISTER, LAXMIKANT PARSEKAR*, on 27-Jan-2016 regarding Project
GEIT on which you will hear regular updates from us in the months ahead as
we crank up our enablement-cum-pressure on the government to produce
results:

[START] Regarding our ProjectGEIT (Goans Empowered with IT) initiative
being piloted in 3 Goan village schools this academic year:

o   We shared with you our key objectives of using IT to develop scientific
thinking among children, making general subjects interesting through use of
existing free online resources, and, bringing the latest technological
exposure to our village children.

o   GEIT is a completely society driven initiative – by the people, for the
people – with volunteers giving their time and resources to make it happen.
We hope to take it to all Goa level in the next academic year.

o   We brought to your attention the sorry plight of Computer Labs in Goan
schools with barely 1-2 working PCs out of the original government provided
10 PCs which have run out of warranty with no repair service available.
Also most of these PCs have pirated Windows and Microsoft Office licences
which your government might want to 

[Goanet] Press Note for kind favour of Publication

[Florian Lobo]

Date: 18 June, 2016

*Press note for kind favour of publication*

The *Goa Su-Raj Party- GSRP* wants to come clear on the  issue  of
'floating Casinos' in the Mandovi River, which issue has been giving
sleepless nights to the well meaning and concerned citizens of Goa,  and
also,  on the issue of the current ongoing  national debate over the
'Offices of Profit' held by Elected Represented of the People.

With regards to the Floating Casinos in the Mandovi River is concerned,
this Party is concerned about the government clearing the way for the
floating casinos to be relocated into the Chapora River. The Central
Government is preparing to dredge Goa's sensitive rivers in the guise of
clearing the silt but the actual intention is to relocate the floating
casinos deeper inside the hinterland rivers, especially  in the Chapora
River, to make it easy for the tourists who will land at the future MOPA
Airport to descend on this exclusive entertainment enclave cut out into the
Chapora River. The Party is with the people of Chapora and the surrounding
areas who are agitating against such dredging and placement of floating
casinos at the mouth of the Chapora River. This Party's one point programme
on floating casinos is that these shall be shifted to off-shore locations
and Goa's rivers shall be freed from the curse of being polluted with
sewage generated by these floating citadels, as also hinder the free
movement of the normal river traffic, especially when this Party intends to
put up a qualified river transportation system in place to decongest the
road traffic on Goan roads.

With regards to the ongoing debate on the  Offices of Profits enjoyed by
Elected Representatives, this Party has deliberated on this issue
threadbare during its formation some 15 years ago when it emphatically
decided that no elected representative must hold any office of profit. The
result of these deliberations was the inclusion of Article 38 in the
Constitution of the Party which Article features in the Articles of the
Constitution which cannot be amended throughout to lifespan of the Party.
The Article 38 reads as follows:

Article 38: *APPOINTMENTS OF CHAIRPERSONS & DIRECTORS OF GOVT. CORPORATIONS
& INSTITUTIONS.*
*The members of the Party who are elected to the Legislative  Assembly as
MLAs and who are not included in the Cabinet shall be in-elligle to  be
appointed as Chairpersons and/or Directors of Government Corporations and
Institutions.*

If this very Article in the Constitution of this Party is not the
 'futuristic planning and foresight', then we do not know what futuristic
planning is all about. Today, the run is on the tax-payer's money. It must
be squandered on the maintenance of Government's line toting yesmen and
yeswomen,  to re-habilitate them in more ways than one, rather than seeing
to it that the tax-payer's get the benefit of their hard-earned money which
goes into paying their taxes.  In the future, tax-payers shall do well to
question the governments of the day on how their hard-earned money is used
and for what purpose.  Afterall, the RTI Act is a powerful tool at the
disposal of irked tax-payers.

Sd/-
Floriano Lobo
General Secretary & Spokesperson
Mob: 9890470896
Email: goasura...@gmail.com
Website: www.goasu-raj.com

http://www.goasu-raj.com/gen/display_commentsOnNews_data.asp?pg=3817

GOA ! YOU HAVE A DATE ON SUNDAY *3RD. JULY 2016* AT *MENEZES BRAGANZA HALL-
PANJIM  2.30 p.m. TO 6.00 P.M  FOR GOA SU-RAJ PARTY-GSRP OPEN CONVENTION*.
COME, UNDERSTAND GOA’S DECADE AND HALF OLD REGIONAL PARTY THAT IS READY TO
GIVE PEOPLE’S HIGH COMMAND IN GOA COME 2017 ELECTIONS WITH CLEAN N FRESH
FACES. LET US GO ‘REGIONAL’ FOR ONCE.  THANK YOU.

Re: [Goanet] Press note in detail ofDKA-s Wrieres conference

[Premanand Lotlikar]

 

On Friday, 27 May 2016 4:16 PM, Dalgado KonknniAkademi 
 wrote:
 

 
Ref. No. 29/DKA/2016-17 
   27th May 2016

 To,The Editor /In-Charge of News Desk PANAJI GOA Dear Sirs, Dalgado Konknni 
Akademi is organisingWriters Conference at Margao on 5th June 2016.   Kindly 
publish the following Press note inyour esteemed daily. Thanking you, Yours 
faithfully,For DALGADO KONKNNI AKADEMI  Vincy 
Quadros,Secretary 

Preparations in full swing for DKA’s Writers Conference


(Request to insert attached DKA logo in the news.)


Prepartions are in full swing for the Writers Conference organized by Dalgado 
Konknni Akademi (DKA), an institution which promotes Konknni written in the 
Roman script.Two important sessions will be the highlight of the conference. 
The subject of the first session is Romi Konknni Borovpiam mukha veleo 
oddchonni ani tankam vatt (Obstacles before the Romi Konknni writers and 
finding solutions). While Willy Goes will present the paper, those on the panel 
discussion include Alvaro Gomes, Brenda Menezes and Pio Esteves. Dr. Anselmo 
Fernandes will moderate the session. In the evening session, Pandharinath D. 
Lotlikar will present his paper on the subject, Romi Konknni Borovpiam mukha 
velim avhanam (Challenges before the Romi Konknni writers) where Alexinho 
Fernandes, William Fernandes and Ashok Chodankar will take part in the panel 
discussion. Tomazinho Cardozo will moderate the session.
 There will also be open discussion where writers will get an opportunity to 
express their point of view.
 A poetry session of humourous poetry presented by Daniel F. De Souza,  Sonia 
Gomes, Mathew D’ Costa, Sylvestrina Fernandes, Menino Almeida, Anie de colvale, 
Cirilo D Fernandes, Rena D’ Souza, J. P. Fernandes, Selza Lopes, Anthony 
Miranda and Guadalupe Dias has also been included in the day-long conference.

The Conference will take be held on Sunday, June 5, 2016 at Ravindra Bhavan’s 
Black Box, Margao from 9.30 am to 5.00 pm. As the presence of Romi Konknni 
writers is a must, DKA has appealed to the writers to keep this day exclusively 
reserved for the conference.
 The process of registration of names has already started. For more information 
about the conference, kindly contact DKA Office (0832-2221688) or Secretary 
Vincy Quadros (9822587498) or emaildkakad...@gmail.com and 
vincyquad...@gmail.com

-- 
Vincy QuadrosChittnisDalgado Konknni Akademi91 9822587498 (m) ; (0832) 2746025 

[Goanet] Press Note for kind favour of publicaiton

[Florian Lobo]

*Ordinance to legalise unauthorized structures: CM*
http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=20494=161521388==5/11/2016

11 May, 2016

To:
The Editor,
OHeraldo
Panjim-Goa.

Sir,

*Subject: Press note for kind favour of publication.*

Thanking you,
Yours truly,
Sd/-
Floriano Lobo
Gen. Secretary/Spokesperson
Goa Su-Raj Party-GSRP
M: 9890470896


PRESS NOTE:

The headline news in your esteemed daily captioned "ORDINANCE TO LEGALISE
AUTHORIZED STRUCTURES" makes an interesting reading. In the State of Goa
Ordinances have become 'dime a dozen' where any thing and every thing  that
the governments want to bull doze through, and which action would draw a
heavy flak from the public at large if  same was sought to be done through
proper channels, i.e. through the Legislative Assembly.  This draconian
piece of legislation is resorted to, which in fact is a window kept  for
bringing in legislation/s under extreme trying times when the
democratically elected governments of the day have no time to waste in the
deliberations to pass a Bill in the legislative assembly when an acute
emergency has truck or is likely to strike. Ex. earthquakes, Tsunamis
etc.where lives of hundreds and  thousands of citizens are likely to be in
danger with massive destruction and deaths.

The biggest joke is that this party [BJP] says that it is fulfilling its
election promise to regularize illegal structures. When  political parties
make such promises in their election manifestos, the citizens of the state
or the country must boot these parties out in the first place, because,
they are playing with the very law and order situation that they are
required to maintain. These type of promises are an open invitation
to anarchy resulting in increased corruption. And, on top of it they want
to hammer this legislation through an 'ordinance'.

As one of the points figuring in the 'RULES OF THE ROAD'  of this Party, it
is stated  that the Panchayat Raj Act, 1974, and the Municipalities Act of
the state shall be amended to hold Sarpanches and Chairpersons,
respectively, responsible and accountable to any and all illegalities,
direliction of duties, etc., with penalties specified which may lead to
even jail terms. It is also mentioned that special flying squads shall be
put in place to check illegal constructions, hill cutting, mud filling or
agricultural fields etc.  taking place with enough powers to proceed with
the demolition if documentation is not in proper order and power to arrest
the culprits right away. This will make sure that the 10 per cent or so of
the population who would indulge in illegalities will be discouraged at
source and the rest of 90 per cent population will relax knowing fully well
that the law and order in the state is safe and sound.  One hundred per
cent corruption takes place at the levels of the Panchayats and
Municipalities and the existing Laws protect these head honchos rather
than taking them to task.

The Goa Su-Raj Party is totally and completely against such
ORDINANCE, viewing it as  vote-bank politics which will demoralize the
psyche of the law abiding citizenry of this state. This Party shall
challenge this ORDINANCE  through a Writ Petition in the High Court and
shall not be averse to even take this matter to the Supreme Court if
necessary.

[Goanet] Press Note : FREE FLOATING REGIONAL PLAN : THE LATEST TOOL OF CORRUPTION

[GBA office]

*Goa Bachao Abhiyan*

C/o 77, Defence Colony, Alto Porvorim-Goa

goabachaoabhi...@gmail.com

*20th April 2016*


Our Government continues to prepare a new Regional Plan with disregard for
scientific planning through criteria, even as drought ridden Maharashtra
serves as a glaring example of poor land use policies and corrupt self
serving interests.

With no scientific data or criteria for inputs, the TCP minister keeps
making statements as per the daily whim. The RP2021  already has an
excessive increase of settlement of upto 30% over the old RP2001. With
Goa's falling birthrate it is a mockery to arbitrarily keep increasing
 settlement
cover for vested interests. This 'development' is clearly not for Goans.



*UNCONSTITUTIONAL IPB PROJECTS SHOULD NOT BE PLACED WITHOUT ENVIRONMENT
AUDIT*

All manner of projects passed by the unconstitutional Investment Promotion
Board Act are being included in the 'new plan' despite peoples protests
against this. Run by ministers and industrialists for ministers and
industrialists, this has overridden the Acts own criteria,  including
environmentally damaging 'Red category' industries in Sanguem to further
pollute our rivers, and violating CRZ rules in numerous cases.

*SLC MEMBERS REPRESENT GLARING CONFLICT OF INTEREST*

The composition of the State Level Steering Committee is purely one-sided
highlighting conflict of interest, comprising mainly of Government
officials and the odd architect. The committee has little credibility if
due representation is not given to stakeholders with skill and integrity.
Planning is not only about construction. During the making of the last
plan, changes were not only sought by ministers, small incentives to the
last drafts person to touch the plan sometimes included a few hundred sqm
here and there which was difficult to catch unless strict procedures for
sign off was followed. With such an understaffed and skewed committee, we
have little hope of anything called planning.

*PIMPING OF GOA - A PRE ELECTION OCCUPATION*

Worse still, is Goa's most public secret, with brokers allegedly citing a
price of Rs. 3,500/- per sqm of land use change. Despite the fraudulent
RP2011 allegedly peddled at Rs. 200/- per sqm 11 years ago, in places as
far off as Dubai, it is shocking that the present government still assumes
this kind of bartering can be forever be tolerated by the public as
planning.



All too many land owners have been approached peddling such offers and we
call on our TCP minister to explain this behavior to the public, including
what measures exactly, will be taken to prevent selling the plan piecemeal.

We call on all the people to rise against this ugliest form of corruption,
as the loss of green cover, water and air quality will be irreversible.

The GBA has sought an appointment with the TCP minister, and calls on this
government to desist from using the Regional Plan as a tool for corruption,
and come clean on its intentions immediately.





Sabina Martins - Convenor
 Reboni Saha -
Secretary

Re: [Goanet] Press Note - Caurem struggle for co-operative mining

[Ravindra Velip]

I forgot to mention the link where CM Parcekar says he will support mining
through co-operative

https://youtu.be/Vwej2BJ0N-g

Thanks and regards

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Ravindra Velip 
wrote:

> Dear all
> The State govt in connivance with mine owners had tried to destroy the
> movement of Caurem villagers but the villagers are standing strong over
> their demand.
>
> Also please go through the letter attached which was addressed to Shri
> Prasanna Acharya and despite knowing there are illegalities, he has issued
> transit permit to transport the ore. This letter was inwarded in his office
> on 11.01.2016. I have also attached the sheet of proposed lots, the
> bidsheet and screenshot of transit permit issued.
>
> Also please find the attached note.
>
> Regards​
>  MOV01794 (2).AVI
> 
> ​
>
> --
> *Ravindra A. Velip*
> Sadhana Helpdesk
> F-09, Daasha Classic Bldg
> Quepem - Goa
> Mob. 9404913435/9764078375, Off. (0832) 2663435
> sadhanahelpd...@gmail.com
> https://www.caurem.weebly.com
>
>


-- 
*Ravindra A. Velip*
Sadhana Helpdesk
F-09, Daasha Classic Bldg
Quepem - Goa
Mob. 9404913435/9764078375, Off. (0832) 2663435
sadhanahelpd...@gmail.com
https://www.caurem.weebly.com

[Goanet] Press Note

[Retreat N Style]

*FELICITATING JEANNIE NAOROJI*


The National  *Laadli *Media  & Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity,
which works towards GIRL CHILD empowerment, honours ladies from different
fields of life. This year, they will be felicitating one such person, among
others, a lady who has been one of the pioneering icons in the fashion
world, JEANNIE NAOROJI, Choreographer & Fashion Designer, the Godmother of
Indian Fashion Shows. The event is at the NCPA on 13th April, 2016.  To
make this moment special, Jeannie Naoroji's models of the 60s,70s & 80s,
coaxed her to  put up a mini fashion show at NCPA. The models who have come
together include Zeenat Aman, Salome Roy Kapoor, Nandini Kamdar ( Naqi
Jehan), Meher Castelino, Esther Daswani, Kavita Singh, Anna Bredmeyer,
Lubna Adam,  Nandini Sen, Phiroza Modi, Marianne Rao, Kiran Juneja Sippy;
the male models are Asgar Ali  and Deepak Prasher. Sam Kerawalla, who has
been managing back stage along with Ajit Shah on lights and Kaizad on music
(who represents his late father) who have been associated with Jeannie,
have come forward to make the evening in her honour. The designers who have
very gladly consented to provide the outfits are Wendell Rodricks  & Neeta
Lulla and Burlingtons.   Credit to the organization who has chosen Jeannie
for this Award in the field of Fashion & Choreography and Dolly Thakore who
is the person responsible for recommending her name.”


Wendell Rodricks Design Space
Campal, Panjim.
www.wendellrodricks.com

[Goanet] PRESS NOTE: ROMI KONKNNI CERTIFICATE COURSE IN VASCO

[Jose Fernandes]

*PRESS NOTE*

*ROMI KONKNNI COURSE*

*BY ST. ANDREW’S EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE, VASCO*



St. Andrew’s Educational Institute, Vasco will conduct a
Certificate Course in Romi Konknni for Beginners. The course will be held
from 18th April  to 17th  May, 2016 (both days inclusive) from 2.30 pm to
5.30 pm from Monday to Friday, at St. Andrew’s Educational Institute,
Vasco. Konknni writer and teacher Jose Salvador Fernandes will conduct the
course. This course is for those who do not know Konknni or know very
little of it and is based on modern linguistic methods of learning and
teaching a language. Speaking, reading and grammatical information will be
given great importance in this course.



 Admissions will be given on first come first served basis. Those who are
in the age group of 17  to 70 will be given the preference. Admission forms
are available at St. Andrew’s Church Office during office hours. For more
details, kindly contact Jose Salvador Fernandes on cell no.9881810832.



Thanking you,

Jose Salvador Fernandes

76, Igramoll, Deao,

Kepem, Goa

Mob:9881810832

[Goanet] Press note for kind favour of publication.

[Florian Lobo]

The Goa Su-Raj Party-GSRP is deeply concerned about the grievious assault
on Cavrem Panch Member  Mr. Ravindra Velip in Sada sub jail, Vasco, where
he was detained with others for protesting against the transportation of
e-auctioned Fomento ore.

The police violence against the citizens of Goa afftected by the mining is
re-visiting us when a 80 year old Dora D'Souza was jailed at Aguada for
protesting against illegal mining and ore transportation some years ago.

The probe over this grievous assault on Ravindra Velip must be handed over
to a High Court retired judge for a thorough investigation and the culprit
jail attendant/s brought to book.

Goans shall not tolerated lawlessness at the hands of the government
authorities. Their raison d'etre is to protect the citizenry of Goa who
pays their taxes and have every right to voice their displeasure about the
non-functioning of the government machinery.

This Party is happy to note that OPA [Orixt Porjecho Awaz] of Naqueri
Betul's which is agitating against the DefExpo has joined the Cavrem locals
in their protest against illegal tranportation of mining ore.

floriano lobo
General Secretary/Spokesperson
Goa Su-Raj Party-GSRP
Email: goasura...@gmail.com
Mobile: 9890470896.

Thank you.

[Goanet] PRESS NOTE: Hockey 5's- One Day Tournament

[Peter Fernandes]

Pilar Fathers in collaboration with the Stars of Sattari Hockey Club,
Valpoi will be organizing a Hockey 5's tournament at Don Bosco Ground,
Panjim on Sunday 28th February 2016 from 9:30am onwards. Hockey 5's is
played under the rules and regulations of the FIH, the governing body of
Hockey in the world. The day long tournament will see the best of Hockey
players in Goa displaying their skills in the shorter and faster version of
the game. The tournament is conducted in association with Goans Hockey, the
governing body of the sport of Hockey in Goa and supported by Hockey
Heritage Group Goa, a group of individuals promoting Hockey.

-

Kind Regards,

Peter Fernandes
Goa, India
+91 8390 69 61 35

"There is no limit to the greatness a person can achieve if it does not
care who gets the credit"

[Goanet] Press Note : RP21 - No guidelines, guise to convert more land

[GBA office]

*Goa Bachao Abhiyan*

C/o 77, Defence Colony, Alto Porvorim-Goa

goabachaoabhi...@gmail.com



*16**th** Dec 2015*

Goa Bachao Abhiyan condemns the move to open the Regional Plan for *extra
suggestions* during Goa's peak festive season, that too without any public
guidelines or processing strategy. The three year public exercise of making
the Regional Plan 2021 has already attracted 8500 suggestions, most of
which were for change of personal land use to settlement.

*Without guidelines nor a committee of experts, on what basis will the TCP
favor one comment over another? It is clear that all 8500 suggestions plus
more cannot all be favored without damage to environment and incredibly,
trampling on our constitutional rights of all being equal.*

The Regional Plan is in public interest and needs a balanced committee of
experts in different fields to oversee a scientific approach to map water
run-off, tree cover and mangroves even more urgently today than ever.
Partisan attitudes and political interference in planning together with
climate change have already brought us disasters, the latest being Chennai.

The process of drafting of the Regional Plan includes people's aspirations,
processed through local meetings such as Gram Sabhas as per the 73rd
amendment to the Constitution. *The Regional Plan in its mandate is not for
private interests, rather a scientific overlaying of all the factors that
can sustain Goa and her population for the future. *The GBA understands
this move to open the plan now will include projects passed on eco-zones
under the Investment Promotion Board.

This act by our government shows disregard for peoples participation and is
likely to favor investors who bought into the fraudulent RP2011, as well as
new entrants wanting personal attention at any cost. The handful of people
who have used their authority and quietly colluded with the worst
illegalities will now process the suggestions on whims and fancies. The GBA
urges all to keep watch on their neighborhoods and villages, as it becomes
clear that people of Goa will not be part of the emerging plan.

*GBA demands 4 points to be held sacrosanct before any move to change the
Regional Plan -*

*1 - A committee representing a cross section of stakeholders, respected
professionals and trusted civil society members is constituted, as was the
case with the last Government.*

*2 - Guidelines for suggestions and comments be made public, clearly
informing against individual requests for change in land use, rather only
for rectification of errors and public interest.*

*3 - Protection of Eco zones and their areas should not be compromised
unless for the sake of accuracy and ground truth. Built-up allowance of FAR
per village should not be changed.*

*4 - Villages with issues of fraud and duplicate plans must be handled
together with the parties involved in drawing up the Plan, ie. the
Panchayat and the Village Level Committee.*

The TCP had started a process of meetings with the aggrieved parties to
rectify genuine errors, fraud and duplication of Village Maps, but this
process was cut short due to elections.

*The GBA has made an appeal through video urging people to write to the TCP
office for protection of Eco Zones in the RP21 as a matter of public
interest. We simply cannot wait by the sidelines anymore to be victims of
another disaster due to incompetent planning, as it happened in Chennai.*







Sabina Martins - Convenor Reboni
Saha - Secretary

[Goanet] Press note for kind favour of publication

[Florian Lobo]

THE GOA SU-RAJ PARTY-GSRP condoles the tragic passing away of its dear
colleague  Fr. Bismarque Dias in GOA's activism to save whatever is left of
Goa after its  loot and plunder by vested interest since 1961.

The Party shares the grief of his family members, near and dear ones, and
wishes them the courage to face this unparalled and excruciating tragedy.

The undersigned Party's executive member has been the signatory to the
'inquest panchanama' conducted on his body this morning by Dy. SP (Panjim)
Nelson Albuquerque and rules out suicidal/accidental death not ruling out
homicide. The Party hopes that the same will be reflected in the Post
Mortem report conducted at the GMC Morgue this afternoon and no stones
shall be spared to be turned to bring  Fr. Bismarque's assailants to
justice.

In Fr. Bismarque Dias, Goa has lost the most vocal, enterprising, honest,
good-hearted and compassionate son who did not care if there was dinner
waiting for him at the day's turn but would spend the last pie available to
him on the needy to fight for their injustices.

May his good  soul rest in eternal peace.
R.I.P.

Sd/-
Floriano Lobo
General Secretary GSRP, GEAG, GRA & convener PPS.

[Goanet] Press note on GITP's GEIT (Goans Empowered with IT) project roll out to the 3rd and final Goan Village School

[Goa IT Professionals]

*160+ recipients marked in Bcc from Goan Press and Media community*



*Project GEIT (Goans Empowered with IT) by GITP to promote IT Education in
Goan Village Schools reaches Dayanand Bandodkar High School, Gokuldem,
Paddi, Quepem*



*Organizers: *Jonathan Pereira 
(Co-Founder, Espressotive), Sudhir Shetty
 (Co-Founder, Espressotive),
Govt. Engineering College Farmagudi Computer stream final year students (Nihal
Prabhu Gaunkar ,  Seeya
Prabhumoni , Pooja Pai
), Pradeep Gaonkar
 (Goa Dept. of IT), Jervis A
Pereira  (Director, GITIC), Sangeeta
Naik  (Digital Goa), Vincent Paul
Toscano  (Industry Principal,
Infosys)



*Date: *12-Sep-2015

*Time: * 10.30am-1:30pm

*Location: *Dayanand Bandodkar High School, Gokulde, Padi, Quepem

*Event photos: *

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Goaitp/

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=pcb.878629172186290=1

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=pcb.878630365519504=1

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=pcb.878632242185983=1

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=pcb.878632408852633=1





*Details:*

Goa IT Professionals (GITP) group’s initiative, titled “Goans Empowered
with IT” (GEIT), to promote IT Education in Goan schools for better
employment in collaboration with the wider Goan IT and academic community
inducted the third and final rural school, Dayanand Bandodkar High School
(Gokuldem, Paddi, Quepem) into the program on 12th September.



The project actively supported by the StartupGoa, GITIC and other
well-wishers aims to expose every child in Goan schools, especially in the
villages, to the career opportunities galore in Computers and related
technologies positively affecting all spheres of human life today. Through
a series of sessions and courses on Computer Programming, App Development,
Robotics, Animation etc. the students will be introduced to this
fascinating world in fun and exciting ways to spark their interest for
further exploration through self-learning. Additionally, this initiative
also aims to help school teachers use IT to make regular subjects more
interesting, engaging and experiential to the students. In the first phase
this year GITP is working with 3 schools in Goa:

1. St. Bartholomew’s High School (Chorao, Tiswadi)

2. Azmane High School (Neura, Mandur, Tiswadi)

3. Dayanand Bandodkar High School (Gokulde, Padi, Quepem)

In subsequent phases of this initiative, GITP aims to reach out to these
charged school children, fuel their creativity and turn it into passion to
bring innovation and employment generation to the village level in Goa.



At the Gokulde school, situated at the foothills of the Western Ghats, many
students still walk 1-2 hours daily to reach their school and yet know
quite a lot about computers and IT in general. Their evident appetite to
grasp and learn new technologies was heartening to our GEIT team and holds
a clear promise to a people-driven economic upliftment of our Goan villages
while also preserving and documenting their local heritage and ancestral
knowledge for posterity.



Our GEIT Introductory session at this school began with a warm welcome by
the Headmaster, Mr. Velip followed by the President of their School Alumni
association, Mr. Pradeep Gaonkar, who is also part of our GEIT team, our
anchor for this school and is one of the most educated villagers from Padi
despite many hardships. From our team, Vincent ignited the minds of the 200
odd kids by talking to them about how IT can transform their lives. Then
Jonathan of Espressotive, supported by Sudhir, took the students on an
exciting ride with their presentation on IT, interesting videos and Google
Cardboard Virtual Reality 3D headset demos for 10 students and 2 teachers.
Subsequently Jervis spoke to the students about the way IT can help them
solve local problems around them.



Finally Nihal, Seeya and Pooja from GEC explained the students in simple
language how computers work similar to the human body and received a very
good response. We are grateful to their GEC Lecturer, Mr. Teslin Jacob, for
encouraging them to support Project GEIT. Even by themselves they now feel
that if they had been through an initiative like Project GEIT in their
school days then it would have made a big difference to their lives today.
And hence they want to give these village school kids what they missed.
Such conviction coming from today’s Goan youth fuels us all at Project GEIT.



Post this school student session, our team met with the school management
and staff. The Headmaster was very enthusiastic about the program and so
were the teachers. They were happy that 

[Goanet] Press note on GITP's GEIT (Goans Empowered with IT) project roll out to the 2nd Goan Village School

[Goa IT Professionals]

*160+ recipients marked in Bcc from Goan Press and Media community*


*Project GEIT (Goans Empowered with IT) by GITP to promote IT Education in
Goan Village Schools reaches Azmane High School, Neura, Mandur*



*Organizers: *Gajanan Nagarsekar (Kallows Engineering India Pvt. Ltd),
Sangeeta Naik (DigitalGoa), Vincent Toscano (Infosys)

*Date: *09-Sep-2015

*Time: * 10.30am-1:30pm

*Location: * *Azmane High School, Neura, Mandur*

*Event photos: *
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Goaitp/permalink/876441205738420/



*Details:*

Goa IT Professionals (GITP) group’s initiative, titled “Goans Empowered
with IT” (GEIT), to promote IT Education in Goan schools for better
employment in collaboration with the wider Goan IT and academic community
inducted the second rural , Azmane High School, Neura  in the program on 9th
September.

The project actively supported by the StartupGoa, GITIC and other
well-wishers aims to expose every child in Goan schools, especially in the
villages, to the career opportunities galore in Computers and related
technologies positively affecting all spheres of human life today. Through
a series of sessions and courses on Computer Programming, App Development,
Robotics, Animation  etc. the students will be introduced to this
fascinating world in fun and exciting ways to spark their interest for
further exploration through self-learning. In addition, the initiative also
aims to help school teachers use IT to make regular subjects more
interesting, engaging and experiential to the students. In the first phase
GITP plans to work with three schools in Goa – St. Bartholomew’s High
School (Chorao, Tiswadi), Dayanand Bandodkar School (Gokuldem, Paddi,
Quepem), and, Azmane High School (Neura-Mandur, Tiswadi).



The introductory session at the Azmane school was attended by around 200
students from standards 5th to 10th. The school Headmaster , Mr. S.P. Naik,
welcomed the GITP team at the outset and reassured them that all necessary
help will be extended to make the program a success. Gajanan Nagarsekar
 of Kallows Engineering India
Pvt. Ltd - Ponda was the presenter for the event. He kept the kids
engrossed while sharing his experiences with them. Mr. Nagarsekar left his
job with GE in US to come down and set up an IT firm in Ponda, Goa. GITP
feels that people like him are true brand ambassadors for  this project
which aims at letting the Goan youth comprehend that they need not move out
of Goa to make a fortune and realize their full potentials.  Vincent Paul
Toscano  showed an
interesting video put together by him on significance of IT, computer
programming, robotics etc. in real life and the way the concepts are taken
to children in other countries. Prof. Ramrao Wagh
 of Goa University is the contact
point at the school. His passion about the project was reflected in the way
the school authorities and teachers reacted to this flagship session.



In subsequent phases of this initiative, GITP aims to reach out to these
charged minds, fuel their creativity and turn it into passion to bring
innovation and employment generation to the village level in Goa.



Post this session the GITP team met with the management and staff of the
school. The interaction with the teachers was fruitful. They were all
looking forward to being a part of the project. The issue of slow leaner’s
and the need to do something about them on priority preferably using IT was
raised by one of the teachers.

Concerns were also raised by the school staff about the state of IT
infrastructure at the school with reference to GBBN connectivity which
needs urgent attention of the Department of Education without which this
GITP initiative would be in jeopardy.  GITP Core Team has brought these
matters to the attention of the Goa government which is now considering a
couple funding schemes to address such matters and support this noble
initiative by GITP.



Presently underway at the Azmane school and Chorao School is a detailed
audit of its Basic, Science and IT infrastructure besides an Enrolment form
to be filled by parents to consent their wards to participate in Project
GEIT. Age-appropriate Aptitude Testing would follow in coming weeks to
identify the students to be specially coached in Computers and Robotics
under Project GEIT starting immediately after the Ganesh Chathurti festival.



Another rural school Dayanand Bandodkar High School, Gokulde , Paddi, Quepem
 will be inducted in the program on 12th September 2015. Jonathan Peréira
of Espressotive is the key
presenter at the Quepem School. GEC students Nihal Prabhugaonkar and two of
his team mates Seeya and Pooja will also take one session. This school will
also  follow similar pattern of activities as explained above.



GITP thanks the Goan press and media community in advance for spreading

[Goanet] Press note for publication

[Konkani Bhasha Mandal, Goem]

प्रसिद्धी पत्रक

कोंकणींतले एक फाकिवंत शिक्षक सर्गेस्त फेलिस्यु कार्दोज हांच्या जयंती निमतान कथा 
लेखकां खातीर कार्यशाळेचें आयोजन केलां. फादर फ्रेडी डिकोस्ता मॅमोरियल ट्रस्ट आनी 
कोंकणी भाशा मंडळाच्या जोडपालवान आयोजीत ही कार्यशाळा 30 ऑगस्ट 2015 दिसा जातली. 

ही कार्यशाळा रवींद्र भवन, मडगांवच्या ब्लॅक बॉक्सांत सकाळीं 9.30 ते 1 वरां मजगती 
जातली. 

नाटक आनी कथेच्या मळार नामना जोडील्ले साहित्य अकादेमी पुरस्कार प्राप्त कोंकणी 
लेखक आनी गोवा कोंकणी अकादेमीचे आदले अध्यक्ष पुंडलीक नायक ह्या शिबीराक 
मार्गदर्शक म्हणून हजर रावतले. कथा कशी फुलोवची ह्या विशयाचेर ते मार्गदर्शन 
करतले. 

ह्या शिबीराक सहभागी जावप्यांची संख्या मर्यादीत दवरपाचे आयोजकांनी थारायिल्ल्यान 
सहभागी जावंक सोदपी लेखकांनी 22 ऑगस्ट मेरेन 8390908218 (ग्वादालुप डायस) वा 
9422389290 (चेतन आचार्य) हांचे कडेन संपर्क सादचो अशें फादर फ्रेडी डिकोस्ता 
मॅमोरियल ट्रस्ट आनी कोंकणी भाशा मंडळ, गोंय हांणी वांगडाच उजवाडायिल्ल्या 
प्रसिद्धी पत्रकांत म्हणलां.

 

PRESS NOTE

 

A workshop has been organised for story writers on the occasion of birth 
anniversary of noted educationist Late Felicio Cardoz. The workshop has been 
jointly organised by Father Freddy D'Costa Memorial Trust and Konkani Bhasha 
Mandal. It will be held on 30th August 2015. 

The workshop will be held in the black box of Ravindra Bhavan, Margao between 
9.30am and 1 pm. 

Sahitya academy award winner writer and former president of Goa Konkani 
academy, Shri. Pundalik Naik will guide the participants of the workshop. 

Entry to the workshop is restricted to only limited participants. Story Writers 
who are interested in attending the workshop may register their names by 
calling 8390908218 (Guadalupe Dias) or 9422389290 (Chetan Acharya) says a press 
note issued jointly by Father Freddy D'Costa Memorial Trust and Konkani Bhasha 
Mandal.

  

 

[Goanet] Press Note for urgent publication

[Konkani Bhasha Mandal, Goem]

PRESS NOTE

The Konkani Bhasha Mandal and other organisations in Goa have strongly objected 
to the government decision of relaxing the clause of compulsory knowledge of 
Konkani in certain Government jobs.  In a press statement issued here today, 
the KBM has charged the government of giving backdoor entry to outsiders by 
giving relaxation in the clause. 

It may be noted that for super-specialty jobs, the clause was as it is relaxed 
and there was no need to further relax it. The KBM has expressed its fear that 
any government jobs could be termed as 'Super specialty' in view of the failure 
of the government to define 'Super specialty'. 

Citing the recent case of the Goa University wherein a non konkani speaking 
person was accommodated for one of the posts where several konkani speaking 
candidates were available, the KBM and other organisations have expressed its 
fear that this trend may be continued in other government organisations.

These organisations have urged the government to cancel the relaxation granted 
by a cabinet decision and take a decision on case to case basis while filling 
the vacancies. Even after filling such vacancies with a non konkani speaking 
candidate, such a candidate should be compelled to undergo training in konkani 
language during the probation period and the services may be regularized only 
after such training is certified by Official language department says the press 
note. 

Charging the government of cheating the Goan electorate first on the medium of 
instruction issue and now on the relaxation granted in jobs, these 
organisations have warned that the people of Goa will give this government a 
fitting reply in the ensuing elections if it fails to retract on its position. 

The Press note has been jointly released by Konkani Bhasha Mandal, Asmitay 
Prathisthan, Goa Rakhan Manch, Bardez Konkani Asmitay Kendr, Aami Pednekar, 
Cancon Konkani Kala Kendra, Antruj Ghudyo, Bandora, Curchorem Kala Sahitya 
Kendra and Divchal Konkani Seva Kendra.

प्रसिद्धी पत्रक

सरकारी नोकरेखातीर 'कोंकणी भाशेचे ज्ञान सक्तीचे' ह्या महत्वाच्या तरतुदीभितर सुट 
दिवपाचो मंत्रीमंडळान घेतील्ल्या निर्णयाचेर कोंकणी भाशा मंडळ आनी हेर संस्थांनी 
खर आक्षेप घेतला. कोंकणीचे ज्ञान नाशिल्ले बिगर गोंयकार उमेदवारांक फाटल्या दारान 
सरकारी सेवेंत घेवपाचो हो सरकारी कट आशिल्ल्याचो आरोप वयर दिल्ल्या संस्थांनी 
केला. 

खरें म्हळ्यार फाटले कितलीशींच वर्सां 'सुपर स्पेशटली' नोकऱ्यांखातीर सरकारान वयर 
दिल्ली तरतुद सदळ केल्ली. अशें आसतनाय मंत्रीमंडळ बैठकींत निर्णय घेवन सरकाराक 
वेगळें कितें सादोवपाचें आसा असो प्रस्न वयर दिल्ल्या संस्थांनी केला. हालींच गोंय 
विद्यापीठाच्या एका शिक्षकाच्या पदाच्या निवडींत पात्र कोंकणी भाशीक गोंयकार 
उमेदवारांक कुशीक दवरूंन बिगर कोंकणी भाशीक उमेदवार वेंचील्ले खातीरय ह्या 
संस्थांनी खर आक्षेप घेतला. विद्यापीठाच्या पावलार पावर दवरूंन हेर सरकारी संस्थाय 
बिगर गोंयकार उमेदवारांक फाटल्या दारान सरकारी नोकरेंत सरळ प्रवेश दितले असो भंय 
ह्या प्रसिद्ध पत्रकांत व्यक्त केला. 

सरकारान मंत्रीमंडळ निर्णयाद्वारा घेतिल्लो हो निर्णय फाटल्यान घेवन विशयानुरूप 
निर्णय घेवचो. तशेंच कोंकणी भाशीक उमेदवार मेळ्ळो ना जाल्यार घेतिल्ल्या उमेदवाराक 
प्रोबेशन काळांत कोंकणी भाशेचे ज्ञान घेवप सक्तीचें करून राजभास संचालनालयान 
प्रमाणीत केले उपरांतच सेवेंत कायम करचें अशें ह्या प्रसिद्धीपत्रकांत म्हळां. 

मुळाव्या शाळांतल्या माध्यम प्रस्नांचेर गोंयकारांक फटोवपी हे सरकार नोकऱ्यांच्या 
बाबतींतय बिगर गोंयकारांचे लाड करता. ह्या सरकारान गोंयची जनता येता त्या 
वेंचणूकेंत योग्य तो धडो शिकयतली असो विश्र्वास ह्या पत्रकांत निमणे व्यक्त केला.  

कोंकणी भाशा मंडळ, अस्मिताय प्रतिष्ठान, गोवा राखण मंच, बार्देस कोंकणी अस्मिताय 
केंद्र, आमी पेडणेंकार, काणकोण कोंकणी कला केंद्र, अंत्रुज घुडयो, बांदोडे, 
कुडचडें कला साहित्य केंद्र आनी दिवचल कोंकणी सेवा केंद्र ह्या संस्थानी मेळून हें 
प्रसिद्धीपत्रक प्रसिद्ध केलां. 

 

 

 

[Goanet] Press Note - Meet Bonaventure D’Pietro at TAG’s “Meet the Tiatr Artiste” on 28th May.

[Tiatr Academy Goa]

*PRESS NOTE*

IN FAVOUR OF PUBLICATION



*Meet Bonaventure D’Pietro at TAG’s “Meet the Tiatr Artiste” on 28th May.*



Every month Tiatr Academy of Goa invites artistes of repute to interact
with their fans/followers and other tiatr loving people. Such a meeting
helps the audience to know more in detail about the artiste. It also helps
TAG to create documentation for its library in order to preserve it for
posterity.



A well known tiatr writer, Bonaventure D’Pietro from Anjuna will be the
“Artiste of the Month” in this monthly programme to be held on Thursday, 28
th May 2015 at 4.00 p.m., at Conference Hall, Tiatr Academy of Goa, AS-1, 2
nd Floor, Campal Trade Centre, Campal, Panaji Goa.



*BONAVENTURE D’PIETRO*

Bonaventure Peter Fernandes, popularly known as Bonaventure D’Pietro is a
well known figure in the field of Konkani and Goan culture. He was born on
14th July 1943 in the village of Anjuna in Bardez. While pursuing his
primary education in Portuguese, he learnt to play violin and solfeggio
from a parochial music school.

At the age of 14, young Bonaventure, saw a *tiatr* for the first time in
his village Anjuna. This made him restless and there and then he made up
his mind to write his own *tiatr* thus aspiring to become a *tiatrist*. He
made several efforts to write a *tiatr* to his satisfaction and finally he
penned a *tiatr*, entitled *‘Birthday’* which was staged at Margao. In the
same year, 1961 he wrote his second *tiatr*, *‘Boro Gonvlli’* (Later
renamed as *‘Devachea Rajeant Tukai Apounnem Asa’*). After the liberation
of Goa, in 1962 he left for Mumbai to take up a job in a printing press,
where he came in contact with various writers and publishers.

Right from his childhood, D’Pietro was a keen observer of any happenings
that took place in the village or in his surroundings. He had the ability
to analyze the incidents and the capability to narrate them in a befitting
manner. It was this attitude which compelled his tender mind to write his
first novelette *‘Soitanacho Ghutt’* (The Mystery of Satan) at a very young
age of just 15 in 1958. Since then, he went on writing short stories and
novelettes but finally found his niche in writing novels. He has 14
publications to his credit which includes novels on various issues related
to our society viz, ‘*Kallea Vistidachi Choli’*, *‘Clara’*, *‘Mhojea
Paicho Fondd’*, *‘From Goa With Love’*, *‘Ek Bhett Mungllurachea Xharak’*,
*‘Jimmy’*, *‘Tichea Mornna Uprant’* and *‘Janya Celli’.*

His other literary work consists of short stories and novelettes namely: *‘13
Numbrachi Kottri’*, *‘Mog vo Patok’* and *‘Mhaka Jiyonk Zai’*. His books in
other category include *‘Gupi’* for children, *‘Nazaretkar’* on his
experiences and *‘Songit Doulot Goykaranchi’*, a research work on Goan
music. In this book he highlighted the rich heritage of Goan music for
posterity. His another book *‘Sankholl’* has been bestowed with Dalgado
Akademi Award this year.

This multifaceted artiste’s contribution to the field of *tiatr* is
noteworthy. On his return to Goa after spending 15 long years in Mumbai,
Bonaventure restarted writing *tiatrs*. He wrote and staged several *tiatrs*
then. His *tiatrs* like *‘Dhunvor’*, ‘*Chitrakar’*, *‘Patang’, ‘Rogtacho
Thembo’, ‘Girannacho Put’, ‘Sorgar Thavn Apounnem’, ‘Vatt Chuklelim
Suknnim’, ‘Faxi’ *(not released),* ‘Boroinnar-Director’, ‘Mhozo Podon To!’,
‘Amche Zomnintli Girestkai’, ‘Adeus Mhoje Maim’ *are well appreciated by
the audience. Besides this, he composed hundreds of *kantaram *and* mandos*.
He has also written many *Songit-khells* for All India Radio. *‘Tum Khoim
Tori Chuktai’* and *‘To Amger Ietolo’* are a few to name and participated
in its popular programmes, *Bolkanvar Gozali* and *Sahitya Jhelo* for many
years.

Bonaventure D’Pietro is not only a creative writer but also an excellent
musician who plays numerous wind instruments. When he was in Bombay, he had
formed bands *‘Bonaventures’* and *‘Bob Brown Combo’* (B.B.C.). After
returning back to Goa, he also formed a band named *‘Pietros’* which
comprises of his two sons. Occasionally he has also provided music to some
*tiatrs*.

He is also a regular contributor to numerous dailies, weeklies, monthlies
in Konkani in Roman script. He has also served as Assistant Editor of
various newspapers and magazines in Konkani Roman script.

He has several literary awards to his credit, the noteworthy among them
being of Kala Academy Goa, Konknni Bhasha Mandal, Thomas Stephen Konknni
Kendr and Lifetime Contribution to Literature Award by Dalgado Academy. He
was also felicitated by Kuwait Konknni Heritage and is the recipient of
prestigious State Cultural Award in the field of literature in the year
2008.



All the lovers of tiatr and fans of Bonaventure D’Pietro are invited to
attend the said programme and interact with him.



*Jose Alexandre Rodrigues*

Member Secretary

[Goanet] Press Note - Meet Mariano Almeida at TAG’s “Meet the Tiatr Artiste” on 29th April

[Tiatr Academy Goa]

*PRESS NOTE*

IN FAVOUR OF PUBLICATION


*Meet Mariano Almeida at TAG’s “Meet the Tiatr Artiste” on 29th April*


Every month Tiatr Academy of Goa invites artistes of repute to interact
with their fans/followers and other tiatr loving people. Such a meeting
helps the audience to know more in detail about the artiste. It also helps
TAG to create documentation for its library in order to preserve it for
posterity.

A well known tiatr artiste, Mariano Almeida from Curtorim will be the
“Artiste of the Month” in this monthly programme to be held on Wednesday, 29
th April 2015 at 4.00 p.m., at Black Box, Ravindra Bhavan-Margao, Fatorda
Goa.


*MARIANO ALMEIDA*

Born on 10th September 1951 at Curtorim, Mariano Leopoldo Almeida served
Konkani stage for almost 38 years. A retired school Headmaster by
profession, completed his Graduation in Science from Smt. Parvatibai
Chowgule College from Margao and B.ED from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

 Mariano had a liking for Tiatr right from the childhood. He reminisces how
he used to run to collect the handbills after the vehicles making
propaganda for the tiatr shows in the villages. He also used to do the
collection of photographs of professional tiatr artistes and never missed
any show of the tiatr staged in his village Curtorim.

His first stint to act in a tiatr was when he was in school. He acted in a
play titled, ‘Eka Kottak Lagon’ written and directed by Fr. Jose Antonio
Costa. Later he acted in almost all the tiatrs performed by the villagers.
By now Mariano had already learnt the ropes and tricks of tiatr and it
became very easy for him to walk on a professional stage in a tiatr
directed by well known writer and poet, Jess Fernandes. Later in the year
1977, he joined Ligorio Fernandes‘ troupe with whom he is serving till
today. He also acted in tiatrs of other directors like Premanand Sangodkar,
Pascoal Rodrigues, A.M.Pacheco and Star of Curtorim.

Besides *tiatr* he also contributed to Goan folklore. He is a member of
Goa’s famous *Mando* troupes, Curtorkar and Curtorechim Sallkam from
Curtorim, South Goa. He is a regular singer and dancer in these troupes. He
has also composed many *Mandos*. These *Mandos* of his can be heard in
Agostinho D’Cruz’s audio albums. Ligorio Fernandes uses his special voice
as a narrator in his devotional audio albums.

This talented actor won a number of prizes for his outstanding performances
which includes Agnel Borim’s tiatr ‘Oxem Ek Lhar’ in the Tiatr Competition
of Kala Academy Goa and recently organised Lenten Tiatr Competition by
Times Group. He has acted in two plays on VCDs like  ‘Choutho Vantto’ and
‘Jolinacho Ghutt’ and a video film, ‘Maim Dukhi Sasumai Sukhi’ written and
directed by Star of Curtorim.

All the lovers of tiatr and fans of Mariano are invited to attend the said
programme and interact with him.





*Jose Alexandre Rodrigues*

Member Secretary

[Goanet] Press Note - Orientation Course in Acting

[Tiatr Academy Goa]

*PRESS NOTE*

IN FAVOR OF PUBLICATION

*TAG to organise Orientation Course in Dramatics for youngsters in May*

In order inculcate acting amongst the younger generation,  Tiatr Academy of
Goa in collaboration with Clube Harmonia de Margao is organising a Course
in Acting for youngsters in the age group of 18 years to 40 years from 4th May
2015 to 29th May 2015 at Clube Harmonia, Margao Goa

Those born from 01-05-1975 to 01-05-1997 are eligible to participate in
this 12 days course wherein a total number of 25 applicants will be
permitted on first cum first serve basis. The classes will be held thrice a
week i.e. Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm.



The training will be of preliminary nature. Each participant will be
awarded a certificate on the successful completion of this course. Each
participant will be paid a stipend as admissible under this scheme for
attending the course. Shri. Domnic D’Costa, visiting lecturer  of Kala
Academy’s School of Drama will be the main resource person.



Interested person may apply in the prescribed application form available in
the office of

Tiatr Academy of Goa and duly filled forms should be submitted on or before
30th April

2015 during office hours.








*(Jose Alexandre Rodrigues)*

*Member Secretary*

[Goanet] Press Note from the Catholic Association of Goa

[Edwin/Diana Pinto]

__
PRESS RELEASE
THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION’S RESPONSE TO DHAVALIKAR’S VENOM!

The Catholic Association of Goa condemns the statements made by the Dhavalikars 
and reported in the Times of India dated 6  7 April, 2015.
To say the least, Lata Dhavalikar has joined the bandwagon of the likes of 
Mohan Bhagwat Giriraj Singh ---, who have now found a platform and the licence 
to publicly voice their rabid and fanatic views. Has she done her homework ? If 
we go by what she says, all women in the west should be victims of rape. How 
unfair to Indian men to suggest that they get titillated by tight fitting, 
scantily dressed and bikini clad women! Was Nirbhaya immodestly dressed?! Was 
the
2 of 2
71 year old nun scantily clad? Take our own little Angel from the Vasco School 
- (not convent) Was she raped because she was in a western outfit? Is a school 
uniform western? Lata should be advised to do her homework before making such 
outrageous and senseless statements.
Thankfully all thinking people of all faiths don’t subscribe to her right wing 
fringe element thinking. Our rich Indian culture is all embracing and 
inclusive. She has done the greatest injustice to Indian culture by limiting it 
to “tilak and kumkum”.
Convent schools over the years have kept their doors open to peoples of all 
faiths. These Institutions by their selfless service have given the country 
some of its greatest statesmen, administrators, professionals – men and women 
of character and caliber. Her clarion call to desist from sending children to 
convent schools will fall on deaf ears, save for those few who subscribe to her 
extremist doctrine. Pity the children of these misguided adults.
Evidence shows that it is those people who cry hoarse about convent and western 
education, who send their children to these very institutions of proven repute. 
If everything Western is taboo then why this exodus of children to western 
universities? No double standards please! Convent schools don’t have a hidden 
agenda and are completely transparent.
Referring to her deterrence against conversion of Hindus, may we remind her of 
our Constitution that is based on the non-negotiable human rights principle of 
freedom to practice and propagate one’s faith. If there is coercion she may 
please raise her voice.
We congratulate Shri Vijai Sardesai, the Fatorda MLA, for his bold, upright and 
objective stand. Let the Catholic BJP MLAs take a leaf from his book. Lata, her 
husband and their ilk better know that they cannot get away with their false 
propaganda.

Inez Cotta Carvalho
Catholic Association of Goa

[Goanet] Press Note - TAG to remember J. P. Souzalin, Dioginho D’Mello,

[Tiatr Academy Goa]

*PRESS NOTE*



FOR FAVOUR OF PUBLICATION



*TAG to remember J. P. Souzalin, Dioginho D’Mello, Anthony D’Sa, Aristides,
Greg…*



Tiatr Academy of Goa (TAG)  will organize its monthly programme *‘Somplolea
Tiatristancho Ugddas’ –* (Remembering Tiatr Artistes of Yester Years) on
Monday, 23rd March 2015 at 4:00 pm at the Conference Hall, Tiatr Academy
Goa, AS-1, 2nd Floor, Campal Trade Centre, Campal, Panaji Goa



The artistes of tiatr stage who were born in the month of March and who are
no more living will be remembered in the programme. These artistes are:-



   - *J. P. Souzalin* – a stalwart of Konkani stage who excelled in the
   staging of religious plays.
   - *Dioginho D’Mello* - a good composer, writer, director and singer who
   attracted the tiatr audience by singing songs in English and Konkani.
   - *Anthony D’Sa* – an excellent character actor who mesmerized the
   audience with his powerful performance.
   - *Aristides Dias* – an innovative writer, a good composer of songs and
   a playwright of excellence who always highlighted new issues through his
   tiatrs.
   - *Greg* – a versatile artiste who besides being a good comedian also
   performed female roles excellently.
   - *Bernard de Aldona* – a good singer whose songs are broadcast by All
   India Radio even today.
   - *Allen Costa* – contributed a lot to the Konkani Song with his
   melodious voice through All India Radio since Portuguese era.
   - *Cajdon D’Souza* – a prominent writer and director who has sincerely
   contributed towards the tiatr stage.
   - *Inacio de Canacona* – an excellent actor and singer who has also
   written and directed tiatrs.
   - *John Nazareth* – Has given his contribution to the tiatr stage as a
   writer and director besides being an actor.
   - *Patricio Pereira (Patrick Perry)* – has enriched the tiatr stage with
   his acting and singing abilities.
   - *Antonette de Calangute – *a good actor who played different roles
   with perfection and a singer with a melodious voice.
   - *Caetano Gomes – *a good writer, composer and singer. He also excelled
   in comedy roles.
   - *Anil Kumar – who passed away recently, was *a good writer, director,
   composer of lyrics whose contribution towards khell tiatr and tiatr cannot
   be forgotton.



All tiatr lovers are requested to attend the programme.







(Jose Alexandre Rodrigues)

Member Secretary

[Goanet] Press Note - ‘Viva Don Bosco’ bags TAG’s Best Konkani Audio Album of the Year Award.

[Tiatr Academy Goa]

*PRESS NOTE*



IN FAVOUR OF PUBLICATION



* ‘Viva Don Bosco’ bags TAG’s Best Konkani Audio Album of the Year Award.
Hema Sardessai gives away prizes.*

A lot of Konkani Audio Albums are produced every year in Goa by Konkani
music enthusiasts by investing substantial amount of money. In order to
encourage them to produce qualitative albums, every year Tiatr Academy of
Goa presents the Konkani Song and Music Awards. This year awards were
presented at a spectacular ceremony held on 9th March 2015 at Institute
Menezes Braganza. Panaji. Chief Guest, Hema Sardessai, renowned playback
singer, graced the occasion by giving away the prizes to the winners. Shri.
Jacob Fernandes (President), Shri Joe Rose (Vice-President) and Member
Secretary of TAG, Shri Jose Alexandre Rodrigues also presented awards to
the winners.

Jacob Fernandes, President of Tiatr Academy welcomed the Guests. Speaking
on the occasion, Chief Guest, Hema, who most of the time is pre occupied
and away in Mumbai, said this year, she made it a point to be present in
Goa for TAG’s Song and Music awards function at the behest of Prince Jacob,
President of TAG. She further said that she will always be there for the
cause of Konkani and ‘Gõykarponn’ and promised her full support and
patronage to TAG, who she said are doing a very good job in promoting tiatr
and its music. She also expressed that, although physically she might be
not in Goa, but her soul and a heart is always in Goa.

Fr. Glen D’Silva, reputed musician and composer and Shri. Peter V.
Fernandes, well known composer and singer judged the competition.

The following are the winners:

*Best Singer (Male):* Shirish Lawande

Song- Ami Gõykar

Album- Ottavoilim Gitam



*Best Singer (Female):* Archana Khandeparkar

Song- Git Mhojem Soimachem

Album- Ottavoilim Gitam



*Best Duet:* Aniceto  Sonia Sirsat

Song- Mogacher Zoit

Album- Niz Gõykar



*Best Duo:* Comedian Marcus  Comedian Cedric

Song- Novech Kazari

Album-  Pai



*Best Trio:* Felcy/Antonette de Maina/Tony de Ribandar

Song- Condisao

Album- Sot’tor Pavtti Sat



*Best Choral Song:* Ezilda/Dorothy/Livia/Glenis

Song- Xanti Magum-ia

Album- Viva Don Bosco



*Best Lyrics:* Milton De Taleigao

Song- Mar Hath Paiem

Album- Sot’tor Pavtti Sat



*Best Music:* Shirish Lawande

Song- Mog Tuzo Zai

Album- Ottavoilim Gitam



*Best Konkani Audio Album of the Year:* Viva Don Bosco


Producer: Nicholas Fernandes (Nikez Productions)



Popular Goan singers, Johnny B Gud with Bushka performed on the occasion.
Vice President, Shri Joe Rose gave Vote of Thanks. Pradeep Naik compered
while Programme In-charge, Shri. Jess Luz co-ordinated the function. A
house packed audience witnessed this spectacular ceremony.









*Jose Alexandre Rodrigues*

(Member Secretary)





*Attached: Photographs*

[Goanet] Press Note - Result of TAG’s 5th Konkani Kantaram Singing Competition

[Tiatr Academy Goa]

*PRESS NOTE*

IN FAVOUR OF PUBLICATION



*Result of TAG’s 5th Konkani Kantaram Singing Competition*

In order to preserve the traditional concept of Duets/Duos/Trios/Quartets
and Choral Songs, Tiatr Academy of Goa organises Konkani Kantaram Singing
Competition every year. This year the competition was held on 3rd March
2015 at 3:00 p.m. at the Black Box, Kala Academy, Panjim in two categories
i.e. (a) Below 18 Years and (b) 18 years  Above in the following
categories:

(a)   Best Duet

(b)   Best Duo

(c)Best Trio

(d)   Best Quartet

(e)   Best Choral Song

(f) Best Lyrics



*The following are the winners:*



*Below 18 years Category:*



*Best Duet*:   1st Prize   - Joshua Anthony Dias  Shayna Wilma
Brito

(Song - Fashion)

2nd Prize   - Kevin Tyron Albuquerque  Kerryann Valerie
Albuquerque

(Song - Komblo)

*Best Duo:*Merit Certificate – Joan Andrea D’Souza  Marissa Steffi
Dias

(Song – To Tuzo Kaido)



*Best Quartet:* Merit Certificate – Gian Vaz, Simran Rodrigues,
Kreesha Rodrigues 

Juwel Pereira

(Song – Pontteo Gharacheo)



*Best Choral Song:* 1st Prize- Leander Mascarenhas, Yulene De Souza,
Divina Fernandes, Joann Sequeira, Josiah Rebello  Magris D’Souza

(Song – Goa)

   2nd Prize- Raisa Mariette Pinto, Krislyn
Shalome D’Souza

(Song – Ami Konnachim)



*Best Lyrics: *1st Prize   - Doel Dias

(Song - Goa)

2nd Prize   - Joseph Fernandes

(Song – Hanv Vhodd Zatole)









*18 years  Above Category:*



*Best Duet:   *1st Prize   - Valency D’Souza  Edel Rebello

(Song – Ghovachem Ghor)

2nd Prize   - Evaristo Rodrigues  Ofelia D’Souza

(Song – Azilan Vochon)



*Best Duo:*1st Prize   - Ofelia D’Souza  Reza Fernandes

(Song – Ghoracho Vantto Zai)

2nd Prize   - Agnelo Fernandes  Antonio Xavier Correia

(Song - Tarvotti)



*Best Trio:*1st Prize   - Swetha Colaco, Rayna Azavedo 
Rancy Colaco

(Song - Ekvott)

2nd Prize- Luis Xavier Mascarenhas, Priscilla
Mascarenhas  Menino Sequeira

(Song – Xikop)





*Best Choral Song: *  1st Prize  - Chrisanne Valanka Mendes  Chriselle
Margaret Mendes

(Song – Zhaddam Ani Follam)

 2nd Prize  - Swetha Colaco  Rayna Azavedo

(Song – Adhar Diyat)



*Best Lyrics*: 1st Prize   - Domnic Lobo

(Song – Ghovachem Ghor)

2nd Prize   - Swetha Colaco

(Song – Adhar Diyat)



The competition was judged by eminent Tiatr personalities Shri. Jose Xavier
Gomes (Xavier Gomes) and Smt. Ana Maria Apolonia Rebello D’Cruz (Aplon).
Cash prizes and certificates were awarded to the winners at the hands of
Shri Jacob Fernandes, President of Tiatr Academy of Goa, Shri. Joe Rose,
Vice President of TAG and Smt. Aplon in presence of Shri. Jose Alexandre
Rodrigues, Member Secretary of TAG. The function was compered by Shri. Jess
Luz, Programme Incharge, TAG.







*(Jose Alexandre Rodrigues)*

Member Secretary

[Goanet] Press Note - India Post releases Special Postal Cover on Anthony De Sa on his Birth Centenary

[Tiatr Academy Goa]

*PRESS NOTE*

*IN FAVOUR OF PUBLICATION*



*India Post releases Special Postal Cover on Anthony De Sa on his Birth
Centenary*



The Birth Centenary of a famous Cuncolim born Tiatrist Anthony De Sa was
celebrated in a grand way by Tiatr Academy of Goa in collaboration with
Cuncolim Municipal Council at Cuncolim on 1st March, 2015.  On this
occasion, Indian Post released a Special Postal Cover on Anthony De Sa,
which was sponsored by TAG at a glittering function held at CMC Hall,
Cuncolim,  at the hands of Post Master General, Goa Region Shri Charles
Lobo in the presence of Chief Guest Rev. Fr. Manuel Fernandes, Parish
Priest of Cuncolim, Guest of Honour Shri Landry Mascarenhas, Chairperson,
Cuncolim Municipal Council, President TAG, Prince Jacob,  Vice President
TAG, Joe Rose, and Member Secretary TAG, Jose Alexandre Rodrigues.



Prince Jacob welcomed the Guests.  The Chief Guest Mr. Charles Lobo who
himself is a big Tiatr enthusiast, addressed the gathering and also
promised to release such covers after the names of more such Tiatrists in
future, provided he remains in Goa.  Fr. Manuel also spoke on the occasion
and said he knew the priest brother of Anthony De Sa who was a powerful
orator of Sermons.  Mr. Landry in his address said he was very proud to
name the road after Anthony De Sa during his tenure as a Chairperson of CMC
as he too hails from the same ward of Anthony De Sa i.e Dandora.  Vice
President Joe Rose who is also a famous Tiatr personality, while giving
Vote Of Thanks recollected his association with Anthony De Sa when he first
stepped on the Tiatr Stage as a youngster.



This function was followed by unveiling of Plaque naming the road leading
to Anthony De Sa’s house at Dandora, Cuncolim as *“Anthony De Sa Rosto”.*
Fr. Manuel and Mr. Landry along with Prince Jacob garlanded the plaque in
the presence of other TAG members, dignitaries, Tiatrists and a large
number of well-wishers and family members of Anthony De Sa.  In the evening
session, a Lenten Tiatr “Tumchim Monam Bodlat” written and directed by
Ligorio Fernandes was staged by TAG at CMC Hall, Cuncolim, which was well
attended.







*(Jose Alexandre Rodrigues)*

Member Secretary



*Attached: 2 photographs*

[Goanet] press Note - Hema Sardessai to give away TAG'’s Konkani Song and Music Awards.

[Tiatr Academy Goa]

*PRESS NOTE*



IN FAVOUR OF PUBLICATION



*Hema Sardessai to give away Tiatr Academy Goa’s Konkani Song and Music
Awards on 9th March 2015.*

A lot of Konkani Audio Albums are produced every year in Goa by Konkani
music enthusiasts by investing substantial amount of money. In order to
encourage them to produce qualitative albums, every year Tiatr Academy of
Goa presents the Konkani Song and Music Awards. The awards are given in the
following categories:

a)  Male Singer of the year

b)  Female Singer of the year

c)  Duet of the year

d)  Duo of the year

e)  Trio of the year

f)   Choral Song of the year

g)  Lyricist of the year

h)  Music Composer of the year

i)Best Konkani Audio Album of the year



The awards will be presented to the winners on 9th March 2015 at 6.30 p.m
at Institute Menezes Braganza Auditorium, Panaji. Reputed Playback Singer,
Hema Sardessai has consented to be the Chief Guest. Popular Goan singer,
Johnny B Gud with Bushka will perform on the occasion. All tiatr and music
lovers are invited to witness this spectacular ceremony.







*Jose Alexandre Rodrigues*

Member Secretary

[Goanet] Press Note - Yuv-Sanjivani bags 1st Prize

[Tiatr Academy Goa]

*Press Note*

*For Favour of Publication*





*Yuv-Sanjivani bags 1st Prize*



The dance group – Yuv-Sanjivani from Margao led by Sitaram Gadekar won the 1
st prize at the 4th Choreographic Group Dance Competition on Konkani Songs
organized by Tiatr Academy of Goa in collaboration with Institute Menezes
Braganza on 25th February 2015 at Institute Menezes Braganza, Panjim.



Snaden Shawn Dance Academy, Navelim Margao won the 2nd prize while St.
Michael’s Convent High School, Anjuna bagged the 3rd prize. Venkatesh
Deasing of St. Michaels Convent High School, Anjuna bagged the Best
Choreographer award.



1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes consisted of cash amount of Rs. 7000/-, Rs. 5000/-
and Rs. 3000/- respectively along with mementos and certificates. The Best
Choreographer prize consisted of Rs. 2000/-, a memento and a certificate.



In all 7 dance troupes from all over Goa participated in the competition
and showcased an excellent performance of variety of dances on different
Konkani songs.



Shri. Sanjay Harmalkar, a well-known artiste and Chairman of Institute
Menezes Braganza was the Chief Guest and gave away the awards to the
winners. Speaking on the occasion, he said Goa produced top class
choreographers, musicians like Anthony Gonsalves, Sebastiao D’Souza and
famous artiste like Francis Newton D’Souza and he sees good potentials in
these new talents to emerge to reach greater heights.



The competition was judged by well-known choreographers Shri. Ashish Sonar
and Shri. Osler Furtado.



Earlier Shri. Jacob Fernandes, President of TAG welcomed the Chief Guest
and the audience and said that the purpose of organizing this choreographic
dance competition on Konkani Songs was to make Konkani songs popular among
the masses particularly the youth.



Shri. Joe Rose, Vice President of TAG proposed a vote of thanks. Shri. Jose
Alexandre Rodrigues, Member Secretary of TAG was also present. The function
was compered by Shri. Jess Luz, Programme In-charge of Tiatr Academy.







*Jose Alexandre Rodrigues*

Member Secretary

[Goanet] Press Note - ‘Pai’ emerges victorious at TAG’s 6th Popular Tiatr Festival

[Tiatr Academy Goa]

*Press Note*

*For Favor of Publication*



*‘Pai’ emerges victorious at TAG’s 6th Popular Tiatr Festival*

In the recently concluded 6th Popular Tiatr Festival, organised by the
Tiatr Academy of Goa in collaboration with Ravindra Bhavan, Curchorem, the
tiatr ‘Pai’ written and directed by Comedian Agostinho bagged the 1st place
for performance while the tiatrs, ‘Eke Fottik Xembhor Fotti’ by Shri Mario
Menezes and Elvis Sequeira’s ‘Girest Bhikari’ bagged the second and third
places respectively.

The awards were presented at the hands of Shri. Nilesh Cabral, Hon’ble MLA
and Chairman of Ravindra Bhavan, Curchorem who was the Chief Guest, Shri.
Abdonio a reputed musician (Drummer), who was the Guest of Honour, TAG
President and Vice President, Jacob Fernandes and Joe Rose respectively at
the specially organised Awards Presentation Ceremony  on 23rd February at
Ravindra Bhavan, Curchorem. The festival was judged by a panel of three
judges namely C. D’Silva, Bonifacio Pereira (Bonny) and Shri Vasant Sawant.
Some of the awards were also presented through the hands of these stage
personalities and Shri. William Fernandes, Executive Council Member of TAG
in the presence of Shri. Jose Alexandre Rodrigues, Member Secretary (TAG).

Shri. Jacob Fernandes, President of TAG welcomed the Guests. Speaking on
the occasion Shri. Nilesh Cabral congratulated the winners and participants
and also thanked Tiatr Academy of Goa for holding this Popular Tiatr
Festival in Curchorem.

The participants who bagged the other awards individually are:-

*BEST DIRECTION*

1st Prize   -   Comedian Agostinho for
‘Pai’

2nd Prize   -   Elvis Sequeira for ‘Girest Bhikari’

3rd Prize   -   Mario Menezes for ‘Eke Fottik Xembhor Fotti’



*BEST LYRICS*

1st Prize   -   Connie M, *Song*: ‘Ostori’, *Tiatr*:
‘Family Day’

2nd Prize   -   Marcus Vaz, *Song*: ‘Jib’, *Tiatr*: ‘Pai’



*BEST SCRIPT*

1st Prize   -   *Tiatr*: ‘Pai’, Comedian Agostinho

2nd Prize   -   *Tiatr*: ‘Facebook’, Alexin de Morjim



*Best Actor Male - 1st Prize*-   Pradeep Naik
(Lucas), *Tiatr*: ‘Pai’

*Best Actor Male - 2nd Prize*-   Peter Fernandes
(Frank), *Tiatr*: ‘Family Day’



*Best Actor Female - 1st Prize *-   Roshan Fernandes
(Brenda), *Tiatr*: ‘Family Day’

*Best Actor Female - 2nd Prize*-   Olga Vaz
(Renuka), *Tiatr*: ‘Tela Pontti Tela Vinnem’



*Best Comedian Male *-   Selvy Correia
(Alle Santan), *Tiatr*: ‘Pai’

*Best Comedian Female*  -   Janet Almeida
(Ashmusao), *Tiatr*: ‘Pai’



*Best Up-coming Artiste Male   *-   Joel
Cardozo (Pisso), Tiatr: ‘Facebook’

*Best Up-coming Artiste Female*-   Nazima Rodrigues
(Nazima), Tiatr: ‘Facebook’



*Best Actor in Negative Role Male*-   Cajiton Fernandes (Deva),
*Tiatr*: ‘Tiatr’

*Best Actor in Negative Role Female*-   Ophelia
(Ophelia), *Tiatr*: ‘Mai’



*Best Child Artiste Male* -   Rozbert (Tinu),
*Tiatr*: ‘Mai’

*Best Child Artiste Female*  -   Ashbel (Comedy
Mai), *Tiatr*: ‘Joker’



*Best Stage Setting* -   Kapil Chari,
*Tiatr*: ‘Facebook’



*Best Light Effects   *-   Ratnakar
Salgaonkar, *Tiatr*: ‘Pai’



*Best Music (Live Band)*  -Dexter Furtado,
*Tiatr*: ‘Eke Fottik Xembhor Fotti’



*Best Make-up *-   Shaqeef
Shaikh, *Tiatr*: ‘Akantvadi Goeant Naka’



*Best Costumes*   -   Shaqeef
Shaikh, *Tiatr*: ‘Akantvadi Goeant Naka’



*Best Background Music*-   Norman Cardozo,
*Tiatr*: ‘Girest Bhikari’



*Best Singer Male - 1st Prize*   -  Tony de Ribandar
(Ostori), *Tiatr*: ‘Eke Fottik Xembhor Fotti’

*Best Singer Male - 2nd Prize*   -   Marcus (Jib),
*Tiatr*: ‘Pai’



*Best Singer Female-1st Prize  *-   Jolliza Fernandes
(Ektthaim Ravchim),

*Tiatr*: ‘Akantvadi Goeant Naka’

*Best Singer Female - 2nd Prize*   -   Rosy
Alvares, (Ebola)

*Tiatr*: ‘Eke Fottik Xembhor Fotti’



*Best Child Singer Male*  -Maythan, (Mhoji
Kanni) *Tiatr*: ‘Eke Fottik Xembhor Fotti’

*Best Child Singer Female*  - Rioma Menezes (Maim Paicho
Sangat), *Tiatr*: ‘Eke Fottik Xembhor Fotti’



*Best Duet*-   Alias /
Felcy (Show Must Go On)

*Tiatr*: ‘Tela Pontti Tela Vinnem’



*Best Duo *-   Joe /
Willy (Old Age Home)


*Tiatr*: ‘Pai’



*Best Trio * 

[Goanet] Press Note - TAG’s 4th Festival of Khells – ‘Desvoponn Asa Punn Munisponn Nam’ bags 1st Prize

[Tiatr Academy Goa]

*Press Note*

*For Favour of Publication*



*TAG’s 4th Festival of Khells – ‘Desvoponn Asa Punn Munisponn Nam’ bags 1st
Prize*



In order to preserve and promote the traditional Goan Zomnivoilo Khell
which is usually held during the Carnival, every year Tiatr Academy of Goa
organizes Festival of Khells. This year the festival was held at the
Kadamba Bus Stand, Curchorem in collaboration with Ravindra Bhavan
Curchorem on 21st  22nd February 2015.



Altogether 6 Khells written and directed by well-known Khell directors Jose
de Velim, Ivone Fernandes, Jack Rodson, Luis Xavier Mascarenhas, Luis
Minguel Reis Azavedo and Coly-Col-de Velim participated at this festival.



The Chief Guest for the inaugural function Shri. Nilesh Cabral, Hon’ble MLA
and Chairman of Ravindra Bhavan, Curchorem inaugurated the festival by
lighting the traditional lamp along with Prince Jacob, President of TAG and
Shri Jose Alexandre Rodrigues, Member Secretary of TAG. While addressing
the audience he appreciated the efforts of TAG for promoting this festival
in Curchorem for the first time.



The Khells which bagged prizes at this festival are as follows:-

1st Prize - ‘Devosponn Asa Punn Munisponn Nam’ by Luis Xavier Mascarenhas
and troupe

2nd Prize – ‘Sangath’ by Ivone Fernandes and troupe

3rd Prize – ‘Chuk Mhoji’ by Jack Rodson and troupe



The competition was judged by well-known tiatr personalities Shri. Menino
de Bandar and Smt. Angela Moraes. On the concluding day Prince Jacob,
President of TAG, Shri. Abdonio Rodrigues well-known veteran music maestro
and Shri. Eddie Mascarenhas, senior tiatr artiste presented the awards and
certificates to the winners in the presence of Member Secretary Shri. Jose
Alexandre Rodrigues.



All the participating troupes were provided financial assistance of Rs.
15000/- each.



The festival had a good response from the audience. The programme was
compered by Shri. William Fernandes, Executive Council Member of TAG. Shri.
Jess Luz, Programme In-charge co-ordinated the programme.









*(Jose Alexandre Rodrigues)*

Member Secretary

[Goanet] Press Note - Veteran Tiatr Artistes to be remembered

[Tiatr Academy Goa]

*PRESS NOTE*



*FOR FAVOUR OF PUBLICATION*

*Veteran Tiatr Artistes to be remembered*



Every month Tiatr Academy of Goa organizes a special programme ‘*Somplolea
Tiatristancho Ugddas’* to remember the late Tiatr artistes and their
contribution in the field of tiatr who were born in a particular month and
are no more with us today.



This month the programme will be held on Friday, 27th February 2015 at 4:00
p.m. at the Black Box, Ravindra Bhavan, Margao.



The artistes born in the month of February and are not living who will be
remembered in the programme are:



*Kid Boxer*

Kid Boxer was a writer, director, singer and actor who have contributed a
lot to the development of tiatr in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. His songs full
of pun and sarcasm are still alive in the minds of tiatr goers.



*Miss Mohana*

Miss Mohana was a courageous female artiste who stepped on the tiatr stage
in spite of numerous social hurdles. She was an excellent actress and a
singer too. She inspired many girls to come on the tiatr stage to serve the
tiatr. She acted in Hindi movies too.



*Rom Tony*

Rom Tony is another good composer of songs of the tiatr stage. He was also
a good writer and director of tiatrs. He was a member of Rom-Rem-Rod trio
which mesmerized the tiatr audience with their meaningful songs in the
1960s and 70s.



*Vincent Florencio Fernandes alias Star of Curtorim*

He wrote, directed and staged many hit tiatrs including 'Ismol',
‘Kantteantlem Ful’, ‘Jevnnachi Buti’, ‘Padri’, ‘Mhozo Sonvsar’, 'Put Mhozo
Bekar', 'Nirmilolem Jivit', ‘Seza Pai’, etc. His family drama, ‘Maim Dukhi
Sasumaim Sukhi’ staged in 2009 had a successful run all over Goa



Well known tiatr personality, Michael Gracias will speak on the lives and
contribution of these late artistes on the occasion.



All tiatr lovers are requested to attend this programme.







*(Jose Alexandre Rodrigues)*

Member Secretary

[Goanet] Press note - Condolence Meet on 19th february

[Tiatr Academy Goa]

*PRESS NOTE*

IN FAVOUR OF PUBLICATION

*TAG to hold Condolence Meet for late Comedian X. Almeida, Anil Kumar and
Zeferino de Calangute on 19th February 2015 at Margao*

Veteran tiatr artistes Francis Xavier Almeida, popularly known as Comedian
X. Almeida, Anil C. Devulkar (Anil Kumar) and Hilario Zeferino Silveira
(Zeferin de Calangute, prominent tiatr personalities recently passed away.
They will be paid tributes by the Tiatr Academy of Goa in a Condolence Meet
to be held on 19th February 2015 at 4:00 pm at Black Box, Ravindra Bhavan,
Margao, Fatorda Goa.



*F.X. Almeida: *

F.X. first stepped on tiatr stage at the age of 10. He excelled as a
comedian and singer. He made his debut in Casiano D'Costa's Tiatr, ‘Ti
Mhoji Zau’. He acted in more than 100 tiatrs of directors like Fr. Planton
Faria (Kallokhantlo Suria), Fr. Caetano D’Costa (Kitem Hanvem Kelem?),
Roseferns, Ligorio Fernandes, Premanand A. Lotlikar, Patrick Dourado, M.
Boyer, Jacinto Vaz, Rosario Rodrigues, Menino de Bandar, Pascoal Rodrigues,
Anthony San, Jose Mascarenhas (‘Krim Kedinch Bhogsona’, ‘Dev Dotor Duddu’,
‘Vaitt Yeta Boreak’), C. D. Silva, John Claro, Mike Mehta, Anil Kumar and
many more.

He had directed and produced his very own comedy video film entitled ‘Time
Pass’. He had also acted in Konkani film ‘Girestkai’. State Government had
bestowed upon him Kala Gaurav Puraskar for his outstanding contribution to
the field of tiatr.



*Anil Kumar: *

Anil Kumar one of the most versatile actors who enthralled the audience
with his acting abilities was born on 12th March 1951 at Chandor Goa. He
made his entry on the tiatr stage through Khell-Tiatrs and rose to become
one of the topmost tiatr artistes of Konkani stage. He worked and brushed
shoulders with professional Khell-Tiatr producers, writers, directors
like *Patrick
Dourado, Rosario Rodrigues, A. M. Pacheco, Minino De Bandar, Vitorino
Pereira, Ligorio Fernandes, C. D. Silva, John D’Silva, Prince Jacob,
Pascoal Rodrigues,* etc. As a born artiste Anil Kumar’s brilliant acting in
Khell-Tiatrs helped the popular directors of Khell-Tiatrs to take the
standard and quality of Khell-Tiatr in Goa to greater heights and also
spread the popularity of Khell-Tiatr to Mumbai and other cities like Pune
and Mangalore which otherwise was only catering to professional Tiatrs.

He made his debut on professional tiatr stage in 1980 in the tiatr
entitled *‘Ordhi
Bhakri’* written, produced and directed by Prem Kumar. Later on he worked
with stalwarts like *M. Boyer, C. Alvares, Chris Perry, Remmie Colaco,
Jacinto Vaz, Nelson Alfonso, Kamat de Assolna, Shalini Mardolkar, John
Claro, Alfred Rose, Mike Mehta, Joe Rose, Paul Romy, Rodhill, Seby D’Souza,
Fr. Freddy, Fr. Planton Faria,* etc. One of the most important qualities in
Anil Kumar was that he studied his roles with depth and perfection made
efforts to portray it in the best possible manner.

He was a good writer too. He has written tiatrs on various issues that
exist in our society. The scripts of his tiatrs, proved that Anil Kumar’s
writing was full of rich contents which helped him to highlight the issue
in an effective manner. Till now he penned tiatrs like *‘Otmo’, ‘Bhirant’,
‘Saulli’, ‘Divea Pondak’, ‘Dev Podvedar’, ‘Dennem Devachem’, Noxib’,
‘Axechi Bhuk’, ‘Maim What is This?’ *to name a few. He himself directed all
his tiatrs which were very much received by the audience. Some of his
tiatrs are also published in book forms. Besides this, it has been revealed
that he has also been a *‘ghost writer’* for many a tiatr writers/
directors.

He is a recipient of State Cultural Award from Government of Goa and was
also felicitated by various institutions including Tiatr Academy of Goa for
his Lifetime Contribution to the field of Tiatr.



*Zeferino Silveira:*

Hilario Joao Zeferino Silveira, popularly known as Zeferino de Calangute
was very fond of singing and acting right from his childhood. At the early
age of 5 he captured the art of singing and gained popularity among the
villagers. Then he got an opportunity to participate in *zagors *a very
popular traditional form of folk dance/drama. Soon he started writing his
own scripts for *zagors* and became very popular all over Bardez.

Later he left for Bombay for taking employment. He wrote his first tiatr
entitled ‘Bhurgeanchi Durdoxea’ with a professional cast which won the
hearts of tiatr lovers. Encouraged by his success, Zeferino further wrote
many more tiatrs. Other tiatr directors also invited him to sing and act in
their tiatrs.

When Zeferino came down to Goa, he produced a tiatr, ‘Duddvankar’ with the
youths of Calangute, encouraged the young talent in his village. For some
time while he was in Karachi, there too he staged some tiatrs. He also
staged some tiatrs in Delhi where he worked for some time. Then he moved
over to Gulf countries and then to London and never gave up of performing
tiatrs in those countries too.

Zeferino had written nearly 30 tiatrs during his career. ‘Bhurgeanchi

[Goanet] Press Note - Entries are invited for TAG’s 4th Choreographic Group Dance Competition on Konkani Songs.

[Tiatr Academy Goa]

*PRESS NOTE*



IN FAVOUR OF PUBLICATION





*Entries are invited for TAG’s 4th Choreographic Group Dance Competition on
Konkani Songs.*



The songs in other languages have shown tremendous improvement as far as
attracting the audience is concerned. Good music, lyrics, singing and
showmanship have helped the song to reach at a higher level. In the modern
times, choreography with meaningful dancing has made songs in other
languages very popular. Konkani song (Kantar) does lack in this aspect.

In order to promote Konkani songs with choreography Tiatr Academy of Goa in
collaboration with Institute Menezes Braganza is organising a competition
to present choreographic dancing with the help of recorded Konkani songs on
25th February 2015 at 9:30 am at Institute Menezes Braganza Auditorium,
Panjim.



Each participating group should not be of less than 6 participants and more
than 10 participants. Each participating group will be paid travelling
allowance as fixed by the Academy and the following prizes will be awarded:-



1)Best Performance- 1st Prize - Rs. 7000/- plus memento and certificate;

2nd Prize - Rs. 5000/- plus memento and certificate;

3rd Prize - Rs. 3000/- plus memento and certificate,

2)Prize for the Best Choreographer Rs. 2000/- plus memento and
certificate.

Entry forms are available at the office of Tiatr Academy Goa, AS-1, 2nd
Floor, Campal Trade Centre, Campal, Panaji.  Duly filled application forms
will be accepted on or before 23rd February 2015 during office hours.





*(Jose Alexandre Rodrigues)*

Member Secretary