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Delay in panchayat polls will impact village development

The Panchayat Minister Mauvin Godinho has appointed administrators to govern the panchayats but what powers are handed to them is not very clear. The monsoon issues of drain cleaning and bush cuttings need financial approval from the BDO office. Will the BDO office sanction funds for the administrator to utilise them from the respective panchayats, wherein the Sarpanch and VP Secretary were the bank signatories? The important GPDP files need to be approved. Such delay in elections will cost the village development to be stalled till the election process is completed. Thanks to the judges of the Bombay High Court at Goa for passing the order to hold elections at the earliest. 



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Churches in State can give big boost to agriculture

ADELMO FERNANDES, Vasco
Published Jul 3, 2022, 7:29 PM IST
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Priests, seminarians and the lay people joined hands at the Rachol Seminary on Sunday to maintain a rich tradition of cultivating the sprawling paddy field, even as Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao reportedly underscored the need to protect and preserve nature as one's second home. The Archbishop reminded that the ancestors had protected nature and the environment as part of the rich tradition. It is pertinent to note youth belonging to the St Francis Xavier Church at Chicalim…

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