MONDAY, 31 AUGUST 2026

Government acts only when tragedies occur

My deepest sympathies to the bereaved families who lost their dear ones at the Birch by Romeo Lane at Arpora.The blame game is on a few suspended officers who will be cleared from all wrong doings and they will get back their pay once declared not guilty.  The TCP, DoP, Fire, Health, FDA, Panchayat, GSPCB, Tourism, PWD, Electricity departments are all part of illegalities in Goa especially when it comes to running tourism establishments. It's big money and even the Sarpanch of Arpora has said it. The government acts only when deaths occur, words of sympathy followed by a meagre compensation and then the drama begins all over again. Citizens and NGOs are labelled as people who do not want development, only politicians from ruling party are patriotic and work for nation building, It's high time people decide to vote wisely for good governance and healthy opposition is best for democracy. It took 30 minutes for fire fighters to reach the scene and it took equally fast for Indigo to reschedule their flights to charter out the Luthra Brothers to Phuket , while the police should have alerted all the airports' security but nothing happened.



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Sudden halt to tracing of DSSS beneficiaries

SRIDHAR D'IYER, Caranzalem
Published Dec 10, 2025, 7:45 PM IST
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Thanks to Ajit Panchwadkar, the former Director of Social Welfare Department, in 2024 the beneficiaries of Dayanand Social Security Scheme (DSSS) were identified and grouped as ‘genuine,’ ‘doubtful,’ ‘expired,’ ‘house not traceable,’ and ‘migrated.’ During the first survey in Oct 2024, it was found that 4,000 of 26,000 beneficiaries aged 80 years and above, were either untraceable or dead, but continued to get the DSSS dole. During the 2nd phase, those between 75 and 80…

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