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Newspaper reading habits catching on in (parts of) Salcete   SOURCE:
Herald

By Herald Reporter  

MARGAO: A newspaper stand for public reading may not be a common sight
in Goa as yet, so to say.

But, welcome to the interiors of the Velim-Ambelim belt, where one Could
huddle around a small shed -- housing a newspaper stand -- to have a
glance at the daily news.

So far, about 10 such stands have come up across these villages and
plans are afoot to spread the movement in neighbouring Assolna village
as well.

Says the architect of the movement, Anthony D'Silva, a tutor by
profession, The idea is to inculcate a newspaper reading habit amongst
the locals during their idle time. My plan is to open newspaper stands
every two kilometres in these three villages.

And, if D'Silva is to be believed, the response for the novel concept is
fast catching up amongst the local populace. We found that people
literally wait for the morning newspaper on the stands, especially in
the Other Backward Communities (OBC) dominated areas, he said.

D'Silva hit on this novel idea after the local Chaplain, Fr Eusico,
asked him to do something to inculcate reading habits amongst the
younger generation.

This concept is being successfully put into practice in the Shiv Sena
shakas (centres) in Mumbai and I thought why not give it a try in my own
village, D'Silva maintained.

The whole prupose is simple: I give the people an opportunity to go
through the daily news at a place where they while away their time. Just
by standing near the public place, I am sure people will read news by
default.

According to him, the people, no doubt, can afford to buy a newspaper,
but either find no time to buy it or go through it at home.

But how long will this movement continue, especially when it requires
funds to keep it going? Says D'Silva: I have only provided the stands
and the sheds. While the cost of newspapers have been borne by some
individuals.

And, he says, he can continue with the concept at least for the next one
year, after which he intends to make the people contribute for the
facility. ENDS

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[GOANET NEWS BYTES * AUG 14 2005 * DATELINE GOA]

* Compiled in public interest by Frederick Noronha ***


Sunday, August 14, 2005
---

o Corporation of the City of Panjim today lifted 250 metric
  tonnes of garbage strewn around the city, and began
  back-filling of government land near the EDC Ground, behind
  the city Kadamba bus stand, under police protection. (NT)
o Danger of epidemic still lurks over Panjim. (NT)
o Police name BJP leaders for attack in Revora while officials
  were dumping garbage there. (NT)
o Solve garbage problem or face agitation, BJP warns govt. (H)
o Efforts on to drive away wild elephants from Goa's border,
  say officials. (NT)
o Some ex-Baina sex workers now operate from Margao. (N)
o Konkan railway trains diverted till August 17. (NT)
o Archbishop appeals to people to reflect on right attitude
  needed to deal with prisoners in jails. (NT)
o Tolleaband residents in Salcete demolish illegal scrap shed.H

Saturday, August 13, 2005
-

o Garbage tremors rock Revora. Senior officials bear the brunt
  of mob fury. Panjim's garbage was sought to be dumped in this
  quiet Bardez village. Mapusa deputy collector was attacked.
  SP Sawant pushed into roadside gutter. North Goa Collector
  manhandled, under siege. Police DIG, Bardez mamlatdar heckled
  by mob. (Herald) 
o Welfare pension for poor hiked to Rs 750 (instead of Rs 500)
  under the Dayanand Social Security Scheme. (H) 
o Panjim gets high court nod to dump garbage at Curca in
  'emergency'. (H)
o In Panjim, except for Don Bosco's, no other high school has
  a playground. (Gomantak Times) 

  Call-girl system comes up in lieu of Baina. The
  red-light area of Baina is no more. The cubicles of
  the commercial sex workers have been demolished. But
  the call-girl system is on the rise in the port town
  of Vasco. Arguments that bringing down the Baina sex
  cubicles would eradicate the flesh-trade from the port
  town proved wrong, and in fact the trade is now
  scattered all over Goa. (Sudesh Bhosale, NT)

  Mackerals laden with mature roe of upto three-inches
  in size, that would have been laid in a couple of
  days, were unloaded at jetties across Goa. Goans
  rushed to buy the first catch of mackerals, little
  knowing that most of them were not so ethically
  correct to consume, as they were females laden with
  fish roe. Each fish, said an experienced fisherman,
  would have yielded a trawler load of mackerals had
  she been left alone to take care of her roe.
  (Gasper D'Souza in NT. Send your comments on this
  story to [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

o Gomantak Times focuses on a little-known Moira lad, Rishad
  D'Cruz, whose 16-minute bagged the Special Jury Award
  (for newbie-made films) at the International Film Festival
  of India 2004 in Goa. He graduated from Xavier's Mapusa
  and then tried Mumbai, before working for an ad agency in
  London called Anigraphics Productions, which deals with
  Pakistani and Indian audiences there. (GT)
o Sunaparant shows nine photos of Panjimites holding their
  nose, as they go about a capital that has the stink of
  garbage dominate many localities. 

  Lorna, Goa's nightingale, turns 60 in August 2006.
  Zena Costa writes she's sixty and still on song. 
  Born on August 9, 1946 in Saligao, she says she is
  invigorated and raring to go after my concert to
  London, Paris, Canada and fulfilling a lifetime dream
  of 'Sodanch chintalim voitolim mhunnon hanv Lisboa'. 
  She teamed up with Christopher Pereira (Chris Perry)
  of Margao, who was in his mid-thirties, and was
  jazzing up the musical scene in Bombay, Calcutta
  and Goa besides pioneering Jazz and swing into
  Konkani music! (GT)

Friday, August 12, 2005