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Sawant wants five Sakhali pool staffers suspended for dereliction of duty

Speaker and Sakhali MLA Dr Pramod Sawant has asked authorities to suspend five staff after noticing a number of employees absent during a surprise visit to the swimming pool in Sakhali.


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Expressing concern over mass absenteeism of employees, Dr Sawant also regretted the sorry state of affairs at the Sakhali swimming pool.  
Dr Sawant decided to pay a surprise visit to the Sakhali swimming pool after receiving complaints from public that the pool had not been functioning properly since the last few days.  
During his visit, Dr Sawant found that nine of the 28 employees were not present at work. Further inquiries revealed that five employees were absent, while two of them came in late and two groundsmen had gone to some other place for work.  
Taking strong note of their dereliction of duty, Dr Sawant instructed the administrative officials to direct the sports department to suspend the five absent employees.  
Later speaking to media persons, Dr Sawant said, “I have decided to pay sudden visits in order to bring about transparency in work.”  
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Surrogacy bill: Call for debate before making law

Chairperson of Law Commission of India, Justice Dr Balbir Singh Chauhan expressed the need to create the atmosphere of acceptability among the people before transforming the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 into a law.

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Published Apr 9, 2017, 7:09 PM IST
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the goan I networkPANAJI  He was speaking on ‘Surrogacy: Ethical, legal and socio-economic issues’ at the annual Justice G D Kamat memorial lecture at Panaji.   “Enforcement of a law depends on acceptability by society as such. If common masses don’t accept a law, it cannot be enforced. Before making a law, create awareness among the people of how their rights will be affected. Debate first and then make the law,” Justice Chauhan urged while adding that the…

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