Cover Story
- Land sharks rising
CONTRARY to any claims made by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who is also the Minister for Town & Country Planning, the Regional Plan 2021 which was first notified on November 24, 2011 is still in force in the State of Goa. The Governor of Goa, in his address during the first session of the Legislative Assembly after the formation of the new government, did make a mention of the intention of the government to scrap the RP2021. However, the intention of the government, as articulated by the Governor in his address to the Legislative Assembly, has no legal sanction. So, Manohar Parrikar’s insistence that the RP2021 stands scrapped since the day the Governor, on behalf of the Government, announced that RP 2021 would be scrapped is not legally binding on either the Department of Town and Country Planning or the builders or anyone for that matter. There has been no gazette notification de-notifying RP 2021.
Stray Thoughts
- Salkar stumps Narvekar
And a few more stray thoughts and a few more observations for yet another Sunday. For the Sunday following the week when Dayanand Narvekar was finally removed as President of the Goa Cricket Association. For a Sunday following the week when the Congress does not seem to have learnt any lessons from the debacle it suffered in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of Goa. For a Sunday following the week when Manohar Parrikar admitted in an interaction with senior editorial staff of the Indian Express that Godhra had adversely affected the chances of the BJP in the 2002 elections. For the Sunday following the week when no action was taken against the caretakers in the remand home in Merces despite the Chief Minister clearing the file.
Short Story
- Taking for granted
A passenger in a bus takes a look at the people around her…
Life and Living
- There’s Honey in Goa!
- Make it a mangolicious season!
By Tara Narayan
CAN anything be as exquisitely beautiful as original pale gold wild honey? I’ve got a couple of bottles of fresh-from-the-beehive honey and this time around it is not my friend David Gower’s wild honey all the way from the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu! My honey is courtesy the Goa Forest Development Corporation […]
LOOKS LIKE the khaas aadmi of Goa has run away from Goa’s sweltering summer heat …gone to Thailand, gone to Vietnam, gone to Malaysia and Singapore, or may be Switzerland, Austria, New York, London, where they’re probably feasting on choice mangoes imported from India! Like we’re eating apples from New Zealand, Chile, South Africa, Washington and China, here in summer time in India when we should be eating our very own national fruit - the mango! Mangoes from Goa are more expensive than apples from New Zealand!
Tech Talk
- What is new & hot
Nokia Asha 201 (Coming soon)
The Nokia Asha 201 is a QWERTY phone that is built to suit your professional and personal needs efficiently. It runs on a Series 40 operating system and gives you smooth functions while using the phone.
A 2MP camera with a 4x zoom is loaded on this mobile. You can also record […]
Vox Populi
- Prudent move or political vendetta?
Is the 108 ambulance service necessary? Is the new Health Minister Laxmikant Parsekar’s statement that he could discontinue the EMRI 108 ambulance services in the state a move of political vendetta against former health minister Vishwajit Rane?
Opinion Poll
- The Anatomy of Victory
Contrary to expectations, Marathi school teachers imported into Goa in large numbers voted against merger because Union Territory salaries are higher than the scales in the states and Christian Gaudis and Kunbis voted for merger due to the land reforms promised by the first chief minister of Goa, Dayanand Bandodkar. The fact that a significant proportion of not only Hindu Brahmins but even members of the Bahujan Samaj voted against merger, is dramatised by the fact that the anti-mergerists won by a margin of over 30,000 votes. Considering that the Catholic population in 1967, the year of the Opinion Poll, comprised only 36% of the population; even if the entire minority community had voted against merger, the anti-merger forces could not have won without support from the majority community.
youth connect
- Incest? In Goa?!
There are an increasing number of cases of incest in the state. Goan youth appear to be oblivious.
Guns & Carnations
- When the Portuguese revolted against dictatorship…
GO Correspondent
The liberation of Goa, by the Indian Army, on December 19,1961, was primarily because of pressure from the Afro-Asian anti-colonial movement. The liberation of Goa led to disenchantment not only among the citizens of Portugal, but even in the Portuguese Armed Forces, against the dictatorship. Culminating in the Carnation revolution, when ordinary Portuguese citizens, holding Carnations joined the Army in the revolt against the dictatorship on April 25, 1974.
Uncensored
- Medium of Instruction
I AM writing with regard to the BJP’s statement that “Diocesan Society should resolve MOI issue”. It appears as if Dr Wilfred Mesquita is making a move to prompt the Diocesan Society to back off on their insistence on providing education in the English medium at the primary level. I would like to bring to his kind notice that Konkani was not even a compulsory subject when I passed my SSC in 1989.
