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South Asian Film Festival in Goa from Fri (June 27) to Mon (June 30)
At Kala Academy, and ESG, Panaji, Goa
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-June/076384.html
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Just jotting down links for future reference:
http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=6202&cid=2
<Chief Secretary J P Singh said the Finance Commission appreciated the fact
that Goa's performance has been excellent in various sectors. He said in the
presentations, the State has tried to impress upon the Commission how Goa
has been a victim of the present formula used by the Centre for the Central
funding to States. Singh told Herald that Goa, like other small and more
developed States, needs to get a far higher allocation of funds from the
Centre. Goa's contribution to the central kitty is around Rs 10,000 crore by
way of foreign exchange earnings, royalty, Central excise, etc. There needs
to be a new mechanism for Central fund allocation to small and performing
States, he said adding that Goa has asked for 1 per cent of the total
allocation .. (up) from the present 0.2 per cent.>
http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=39860
<Shri Vijay Kelkar in his reply, Congratulated Goa for the improvements in
revenue performance. He noted that the trend growth rate of Goa's own
revenue receipts was well above the national average for all States of 11.5
per cent for 1999-06 which indicates the good revenue efforts made by the
State. He commended the State Government for its successful introduction and
implementation of VAT which improved the own revenue performance of Goa on
both buoyancy and revenue growth. Making particular reference to the
implementation of the State FRBM Act, Shri Kelkar complimented the State for
a revenue surplus and a near zero primary deficit>
