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Highway at Porvorim has become death trap

The editorial ' Neglected safety at Porvorim reeks of callousness' (TGE, Dec 2), has rightly highlighted the added risks  and dangers to life by driving on the dusty and badly battered track , where a steel rod from one of the columns  of the under construction elevated corridor went flying and pierced the wind screen of a car. The utter negligence of the contractor and supervisors needs to be condemned in the strongest possible terms and  those responsible penalised without further delay. Apparently, it is the first of its kind  in Goa which is not new to works of such importance and magnitude, involving highways and bridges. If corrective action is not taken in time , we may soon be required to wear a helmet in the car as well, to save our  precious lives. What a shame .




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Special assembly session on jobs-for-cash scam needed

ADELMO FERNANDES, Vasco
Published Dec 2, 2024, 7:46 PM IST
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It must be said that the jobs-for-cash scam is growing bigger by the day. More and more people involved in the job scam are falling in the police dragnet. Several people including the poor have fallen prey to the  scam and have lost lakhs of rupees. This is probably the biggest scam that has hit the state. The government had said that no elected representative is involved in the scam. However the opposition parties and activists have called for a judicial probe into the…

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