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Cong gears up for its organisational elections

The Goa Pradesh Congress Committee has constituted list of observers to oversee its membership drives as part of the process of organisational elections which will be held in August this year.


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The order issued by GPCC president Luizinho Faleiro appointing the observers on Sunday includes several sitting MLAs besides other office bearers of GPCC.   
Organisational elections of the Congress party will be held booth wise with members of each booth electing a delegate to the block Congress committee and president, vice president, treasurer and executive committee members of the booth.   
In Pernem sitting MLA Dayanand Sopte has been named the observer while Nilkanth Halarnkar has been given charge of Mapusa and Filipe Neri Rodrigues of Nuvem.   
Others named as observers include Agnelo Fernandes (given charge of Saligao), Dharmesh Saglani (Priol), Amarnath Panjikar (Porvorim) and Sankalp Amonkar who is given charge of Dabolim.   
Others appointed observers include Dr Pramod Salgaocar for Mandrem, Narayan Redkar for Bicholim, Vaman Chodankar for Tivim, Babi Bagkar for Siolim, Sunil Kawthankar for Calangute, Mario Pinto for Aldona, Atanasio Monteiro for Panaji, Ezilda Sapeco for Taleigao, Nilkanth Gauns for Santa Cruz, Kishore Narvekar for San André, Vijay Pai for Cumbarjua, Manohar Shirodkar for Maem, Swati Kerkar for Sanquelim, Yatish Naik for Poriem and Saifullah Khan for Valpoi.   
In South Goa, the other observers include Ramchandra Martins for Ponda, Janardhan Bhandari for Shiroda, Joseph Vaz for Marcaim, Pratima Coutinho for Mormugão, Everson Vales for Vasco da Gama, Vishal Naik for Cortalim, Vithoba Dessai for Curtorim, Mahadeo Dessai for Fatorda, Atul Verlekar for Margao, Pradip Naik for Benaulim, Avinash Tavares for Navelim, Franky Pires for Cuncolim, Subhash Faldesai for Velim, Peter Gomes for Quepem, Nanu Gaonkar for Curchorem, Shankar Kirlapalkar for Sanvorem, António Souza for Sanguem, and Kushali Velip for Canacona.   
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Steady rise in production of State fish, ‘Shevto’

Remarkable increase in catch with total of 447 tonnes in 2016

the goan I network
Published May 22, 2017, 5:05 AM IST
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PANAJI  Shevto, that was only last year classified as the State fish has since seen a remarkable rise in catch with a total of 447 tonnes for the year 2016 alone. This is an 18 tonne increase in its catch and sale.   The steep rise in the inland fish production of shevto came in 2015 when it went up by around 200 tonnes from 230 tonnes in 2014 to 429 tonnes. Among inland fish for 2016, however, prawns was the highest catch with a total of 770 tonnes consisting…

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