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Ponda Businessmen & Prosessionals
Forum formed
Ponda- The Ponda
Businessmen and Professional Forum - an
umbrella organization
Ad hoc Forum President
Sanjay Fondekar
of businessmen from
Ponda will be holding
its first annual general
meeting at 10 am on
Sunday 22 March 2015
at Thrift Society Hall,
Ponda.
Over hundred Professionals and Businessmen
from Ponda have come
together to form ‘The
Ponda Businessmen and
professional Forum’ with
the objective of providing
a unification point to the
business and professional
class of Ponda. The forum
aims to carry out activities
to promote businesses
and professionals in the
Taluka while uniting them
to ensure that their interests are safeguarded. ‘The
Ponda Businessmen and
professional Forum’ has
been registered with the
registrar of co op societies
under the Reg No 74/
Goa/2015.
“The need for a common forum to represent
the businessmen and professionals was felt as there
is no organization at present which takes care of the
interests of this group,”
said Sanjay Fondekar the
ad hoc President of the
Forum.
“Our Forum intends to
be a uniting point and aims
to work towards assisting
the members to achieve
greater heights in their
respective fields, provide
help when necessary and
represent the group before
various authorities as and
when required,” he further
added .
“Presently we have
more than hundred members and our aims is to
include all the businessmen
and professionals in Ponda
Secretary of the forum,
Manoj Gaonkar.
in our endeavor,” said Secretary of the forum, Manoj
Gaonkar.
Gaonkar further said,
“We will strive to make
“The Ponda Businessmen
and professional Forum”
the voice of the professionals and businesses in
Ponda.”
The first general Body
meeting of the forum is
scheduled to be held on
22.03.2015, at 10.00am
Sunday at the Thrift society
hall, with the main agenda
being election of a managing committee to take care
of the affairs of the Forum
21 March 2015
Ponda Taluka records 65.45% voting
Ponda- Ponda recorded 65.45 percent voting
at the Zilla Panchayat
elections 2015. The 7
Zilla Panchayat seats in
Ponda were being contested by 27 candidates.
The voting percentage
in Ponda Taluka was in
tandem with the 66.43%
voting percentage registered at all Goa level.
Usgao-Ganje constituency which had four candidates in fray recorded
maximum i.e. 74.40 per
cent turnout whereas the
least voting percentage
of 58.52 was observed
at Veling-Priol constituency which had just two
candidates battling against
each other- one backed by
M.G. Party and other an
independent candidate.
The voting percentage
which had hardly crossed
30% mark by 1pm picked
up pace post lunch in the
166 polling stations in the
temple taluka.
Returning officer Johnson Fernandes said that
the election process was
held peacefully adding
that nearly one thousand
government staff were
deployed in the election
process in the taluka.
Of the 27 candidates
who were in fray for the
7 ZP seats , 20 were independent , 2 were backed by
BJP and 5 were M.G. Party
backed candidates.
Apart from a couple of
fringe incidents that occurred at some polling stations , the polling process
was by and large peaceful.
In the Shiroda constituency there was some issue
over ballot paper series. A
clash occurred at KaranjalParampai in Marcaim near
a polling booth between
two groups, but the police
said that it was not related
to the election process.A
minor incident was also reported at Usgao which was
resolved peacefully with
due police intervention.
Altogether 66.43 per
cent of the total 7.80 lakh
electorate exercised their
franchise across Goa to
elect total 50 members of
the two Zilla Panchayats in
the state.
ZP constituency wise
voting percentage in 7 Constituencies of Ponda taluka
is as follows
[1] Usgao-Ganje constituency 74.40 %
[2] Borim constituency
, 74.16 %,
[3] Shiroda constituency
, 68.24%
[4] Kavalem constituency
63.53 %
[5] Betqui-Khandola
constituency
63.34
%
[6] Curti Constituency
62.51 %
[7] Veling-Priol Constituency 58.52 %
Swacch Ponda Drive by POP
18th Sunday (22/03/2015), Swaccha Bharat
Nital Ponda Abhiyan by POP at 7am, opp. Rajiv
Kala Mandir, near hotel Kirti, Ponda... POP’s
every Sanday exercise of Awareness through
CLEANLINESS DRIVE...join POP .. & Be a part
of noble social cause ...
14 Ponda students excel at National Talent Search Examinations
Ponda- 14 students
from Ponda excelled at
the State Level National
Talent Search Examination 2015 for the students
of Std.X, at all taluka
centres in the State held
by the State Council of
Educational Research and
Training, Alto-Porvoim.
As per the quota al-
lotted to the State 27
students are qualified to
answer NTSE-2015 Examination at National
Level to be held on May
10, 2015.
The candidates
from Ponda who excelled
at the exam includes
Ashwin Bale-A.J.De Almeida High School, Pon-
da; Shriyash Naik-A.J.De
Almeida High School,
Ponda; Shriyal Prabhudesai-Vivekanand Vidyalay,
Borim, Ponda; Advait
Dhopeshwarkar-A.J.De
Almeida High School,
Ponda; Divya U. Prabhu-A.J.De Almeida High
School, Ponda; Aneesh
Vinayak Nayak¬-A.J.De
Almeida High School,
Ponda; Prajwal Vijay
Tubki Dessai-Dada Vaidya High School, Curti,
Ponda; Neha J. ShinkreA.J.De Almeida High
School, Ponda; Vageesh
Tendulkar-Smt. Indirabai
V. Bhat Dhavalikar High
School, Dhavali, Ponda; Adesh Naik-A.J.De
Almeida High School,
Ponda; Vedang GaonkarA.J.De Almeida High
School, Ponda; Medha
Gaonkar-Sharada English
High School, Marcela;
Aishwarya Gaude-Shri
Saraswati High School,
Kavale-Ponda and Digjay Gaude-V.D. and S.V.
Wagle High School,
Mangeshi, Ponda.The
guidance Programme of
10 Days will be held from
April 27, 2015 to May 8,
2015 from 10.00 a.m. to
5.00 p.m. , at Seminar
Hall (2nd Floor) State
Council of Educational
Research and Training,
Alto-Porvorim.
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