Agriculture Dept Meeting Chandor
Agriculture Dept Meeting in Chandor 29-June-2012 Mrs. Janice Alphonso, Agriculture Officer attached to Zonal Agriculture Office, Margao of Agriculture Department, Government of Goa, conducted a meeting of farmers in the Chandor-Cavorim Panchayat hall on 29th June 2012. In a talk that lasted for over 60 minutes, she went through all the schemes available with the department in detail. Mrs. Alphonso very lucidly explained the various schemes to promote paddy cultivation ranging from preparing the field, sowing the seed, maintaining the crop with applications of manure, micro nutrients and pesticides and harvesting. She also listed out the various schemes available for horticulture plantations of mango, banana, coconut, areca nut, chickoos and other plants. Besides,...
Read MoreNew Managing Committee Chandor Guirdolim Cavorim
Mr. John Douglas Coutinho was unanimously elected the President of Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott while outgoing president Rui da Silva along with Joe Antao were elected the Vice Presidents. At the General Body meeting held on 14th April 2012, Julio D’Silva was elected as General Secretary for a second term and Ashley Antao was elected as the Joint Secretary while Darwin Cardozo was elected as the Treasurer. The following were elected as managing committee members: Anthony Pereira, Remy Furtado, Alzira Fernandes, Benedito Fernandes, Irene Antao, Tony Dias and Sita Antao. The General Body meeting commenced by observing one minute’s silence as a mark of respect to late Matanhy Saldanha. The General Secretary’s report was unanimously adopted with a standing ovation. As...
Read MoreGram Sabha Chandor Cavorim 25-March-2012
The Chandor Cavorim Gram Sabha on Sunday condoled the death of Tourism Minister Matanhy Saldanha and also urged the new Panchayat body that will be elected not to rotate the chair of the Sarpanch between them for a certain period of time. Breaking the convention, the Gram Sabha began with the motion of condolence which was adopted unanimously following which a minute’s silence was observed as a mark of respect to Matanhy Saldanha for the social activist that he was. The Gram Sabha also adopted congratulatory motions congratulating the new Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and also the new MLA for the village Subhash alias Rajan Naik. While the villagers expressed hope that the new Chief Minister will fulfill people’s aspirations they urged the new MLA to visit...
Read MoreNew MLA for Cuncolim 07-March-2012
Cuncolim constituency voters for the third time in history went against the normal trend of voting for the Congress or its erstwhile avatar of United Goans candidate and elected Subhash alias Rajan Naik as its MLA much against expectations and giving a great shock to the establishment. For the record, in 1977 when the Congress was facing a strong resentment following the emergency, at the Assembly elections held in Goa, Cuncolim elected then Advocate and now retired High Court Justice Ferdino Rebello who was the Janata Party candidate. Then again in 1994, the United Goans Democratic Party candidate Arecio D’Souza was elected from Cuncolim constituency polling 39.71 per cent of the total votes. However, subsequently Arecio D’Souza joined the Indian National...
Read MoreHow Joaquim Alemao Lost Cuncolim constituency
The Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Subhash alias Rajan Naik emerged victorious from Cuncolim only on the strength of the votes that he polled in the Cuncolim Municipal Council and Balli Village Panchayat areas. While he trailed at third position in four panchayat areas and was in the second position at one, he swept the Balli Panchayat area. In the three booths of Macasana where the BJP polled only 84 votes, it was positioned fourth with Independent candidate John Monteiro leading with 630 votes followed by Joaquim Alemao who polled 410 and Independent candidate Milagres Gonsalves was in the third position with 92 votes. Of the total votes polled in this village, while John Monteiro got 49.45 per cent, Joaquim Alemao got 32.18 per cent followed by Milagres...
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