Panaji: Women and child development minister Vishwajit Rane said recently that the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) is constructing 18 modern anganwadi buildings in Sattari and Dharbandora talukas. In the next five years, the department plans to replicate similar modern anganwadi buildings across the state, the minister said. “We have 1,172 anganwadis in all. We have already taken up construction of a few new anganwadis under GSIDC at Sattari and Dharbandora. We are constructing these 18 anganwadis as modern anganwadis. We will see in the next five years how we can replicate this model in the rest of the state,” Rane said. He said that construction of these 18 buildings had already been taken up, but the work had slowed down for the lack of permissions from the town and country planning, etc, during the last two years of the pandemic. “We have taken the required permissions now and expedited the work. In cases where anganwadis were functioning from dilapidated premises, we have already shifted them by taking up space in 270 school premises,” the minister said.
Staff ReporterMargaoMargao MLA and former chief minister Digambar Kamat on Tuesday said it is important to build the state on the seven pillars like the seven arrows of Lord Parshuram as depicted in the Goa Vision 2035 plan.“It is the need of the hour to build on topmost priority the seven pillars reflecting seven arrows of Lord Parshuram emphasised in Goa Vision 2035 Document prepared by Goa Golden Jubilee Development Council under the chairmanship of eminent Goan Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar,” said Kamat while extending his greetings on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya and Eid-ul-Fitr which also coincided with Lord Parshuram Jayanti.He appealed to everyone to work together to build a Suramya, Susanskrut, Santulit, Suvidya, Samrudha, Sushasit and Swanandi Goa.“It is very much significant that the Goa Vision 2035 Document prepared by luminaries in various fields had the illustration on its cover page of ‘Lord Parshuram’ done by a Canada-based Goan Mel D’Souza in Fr. Nascimento Mascarenhas’ book. As Goa commemorated 50 years of Liberation in 2011, I got an opportunity to constitute the Goa Golden Jubilee Development Council comprising of experts like Dr. Ragunath Mashelkar, Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, Dr. Anil Kakodkar, architect Charles Correia, Prof. Madhav Gadgil, Dr. Ligia Noronha, Ashank Dessai, Dr. Vijay Kelkar, Prof. Errol D’Souza, Prof. Vithal Sukhtankar, Dr. P. S. Ramani, Prof. Dilip Deobagkar, Dr. Satish Shetye, Raj Paroda and others to prepare a roadmap for Goa,” said Kamat.The focus and essence of the vision document, Kamat added was the multicultural, peaceful, contended-yet-adventurous spirit and to work in unison to transform the state into a serene, beautiful, cultured, balanced, knowledge-centric and enlightened, affluent, well-governed, happy Goa.
