Shantaram adopts Rachol under central scheme

Rajya Sabha MP Shantaram Naik has adopted Rachol village of Salcete under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) that was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month. This was announced by the South Goa district collector, Venancio Furtado, on Wednesday in the collectorate building, in the presence of Curtorim MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco and Rachol sarpanch Joseph Vaz. A resolution to this effect will soon be taken at the Rachol gram sabha and the works to be taken up under the scheme will be identified, it was informed.Rachol has a population of 2,085 of which nearly 80% belong to scheduled tribes.
“The village will be developed into a model village by March 2016,” Furtado said, adding that health, education and sanitation will be the key focus areas of the scheme for Rachol. On completion of the Rachol project, two more villages will be taken up by the MP under the scheme, one at a time, to ensure that altogether three villages get covered under the scheme by 2019.
Now, Bhandari Samaj against tenancy bill:
The Gomantak Bhandari Samaj, an association representing the Bhandari community in Goa, has raised its voice against the Goa Agricultural Tenancy (amendment) Bill, on grounds it is against the welfare of the community members—many of whom are tenants.
Association president Anil Hoble claimed the amendment, which allows contract farming and for cases to be moved to civil courts if they are pending with mamlatdars for three years, is detrimental to tenants. “It simply means affected tenants will have to spend more on lawyers’ fees.” He added that the association has moved a memorandum has been submitted to chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar and deputy CM Francis D’Souza.
Congress accuses KTC of holding workers’ money: The Congress party in Goa has accused the Kadamba transport corporation (KTC) of holding deductions made from employees’ salaries towards repayment of loans to their credit cooperative society and not remitting the amount to the cooperative society.
Briefing mediapersons, Congress spokesperson Sunil Kawthankar said that the corporation has held back an accumulated amount of over 3.5 crore of employees’ money for the last four months. Kawthankar has demanded that the
corporation immediately remit the money to the employees’ credit cooperative society. He also warned the corporation not to victimize any of the striking employees by suspending them or taking any kind of action against them.
He accused the BJP-led
government of neglecting the plight of 1,800 KTC
employees, a section of whom have now launched a hunger strike.
The Congress spokesperson said that the corporation’s act amounts to misappropriation of funds and
criminal breach of trust
and warned that the Congress party would not
tolerate this.
UK woman’s bag snatched at Candolim:
A British woman Helen Lovatt has complained to the Calangute police that a rider snatched away her bag, while she was walking by the roadside in Candolim, at 12.30 in the night on Tuesday. Her bag contained her camera, mobile, sunglasses, 18 carat gold and diamond rings and cash, all worth 1.95 lakh, she has stated in her complaint.