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Politicians' drama of sweeping roads just election gimmicks


With elections around the corner, we see ministers in photos ops indicating they are sweeping the streets of Goa. 

I am not sure if the Goa ministers consider Goans so naive and gullible to fall for their gimmicks, or are they running out of ideas to cheaply promote themselves?   

If the Goa government actually did its job properly; used taxpayers money and government agencies to do the basics like cleaning, for the last so many years that they were in power, would there be so many dirty streets, for the ministers to do all their drama with professional camera and video personnel?


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Gift seized sand mining canoes in Amona, Siolim

SRIDHAR D’IYER, Caranzalem
Published Oct 3, 2021, 12:27 AM IST
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The High Court of Bombay at Goa has ordered those unregistered canoes parked below Amona Bridge and at Oxel-Siolim to be seized as these are either parked in government properties and/or used for illegal sand mining activity. The Advocate-General for Goa has assured the court that the such canoes would be impounded and destroyed. He further added that the confiscated suction pumps will be used by the government in departments such as sanitation, sewage treatment…

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