Goa Niwas (New Delhi) finally inaugurated on 11th June 2010 At the hands of Congress/UPA president Mrs Sonia Gandhi. Almost all cabinet minister and Congress MLAs and their aids & chamchas etc had gone to New Delhi (offcourse, by air and at our cost)
CM Digambar Kamat, PWD Minister Churchill Alemao, Speaker Rane, Home Minister Ravi, Tranport Ramkrishna Dhavilkar, Power Aleixo Siquera, Health Visvajit Rane, Dy.speaker Mauvin Godinho, MP Francis Sradinha, MP Shantaram Naik, Revenue Jose Filipe, Rajive Shukla, MLA Pandurang Madkaikar, Law commission Ramaknat Kalap. Cong President Subash Shirodkar, Congress Observer Luizinho Faleiro, Besides CS Sanjay Srivatava, CM’s Sec. Rajiv Yaduvanshi, Principal Engieer PWD Wacha Sunder, Chief Enginer PWD Rego, DI Menino Peres etc etc Contucted at the cost of 17 crore (original estimate was 9 crores) in the total area of 4195 sq mtr in the plot No. 14 Bir Tikendarjit Marg, Chanayakpuri New Delhi.. Ready/completed in 4 years Foudation stone was laid on 5th July 2006 by then Goa CM Rane. New Goa Niwas with ground plus 3 structure has 18 rooms 4 suits 4 dormitories Plus Conference hall, library, Gymkana, changing rooms, swimming pool, basement room, basement car parking etc ====== >From the archive: /2006 Goa Niwas (spacious new guest house coming up soon) Foundation Stone for new Goa Niwas at Chanakyapuri in New Delhi laid on July 5. CM Rane and PWD Minister Dhavlikar and Union Minister for Urban Development Jailpal Reddy etc were present -The main feature of the project will be it’s Goan architecture with Mangalore tiles roofing etc -The total area of the building is 4100sqmtrs including the basement. -It is of ground plus three structure building. -Ground floor with main entrance, lobby, shops, Gym and kitchen/dining and small swimming pool with landscape. -Basement with parking, generator, storage, laundry ec -First and second floor of the building with rooms with attached toilets and four dormitories. -Two of the four dormitories are of 60 sqmtrs each and the other two of 35sqmtr each. -The capacity of the dormitory is of 40 beds. -There are 20 rooms accommodating 40 beds on first and second floor -Third floor is exclusively for VVIPs consists of five suites comprising of living, dining and bedroom with attached toilets. -Total estimated cost of the project is Rs. 9 crore JoeSays: What is Goa Niwas or for that matter Goa Bhavan or Goa Sadan ? It is nothing but a hotel/guest house exclusively for Goans in other states of India. It is run and managed by Goa Government We have, at present, one in Bombay (near Juhu) and one in New Delhi near Lodi Gardens. How one can book accommodation there ? Before you leave Goa, you will have to book it though Under Secretary (Secretariat) by filling in the prescribed forms (Don’t know if this has changed now as we used to book about 15 years ago) They have a reservation chart there and book/reserve accordingly. One can book pvt. attached rooms or dormitory (as per the availability). Tariffs are generally low. When we booked pvt rooms in both Goa Sadan and Goa Bhavan, on arrival, we never got our pre-booked rooms and were give dormitory instead. When asked, we were told the pvt. rooms were taken by top Govt. officers (and this was not true most of the times) [email protected] for Goa & NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ For Goan Video Clips http://youtube.com/joeukgoa In Goa, Dial 1 0 8 For Hospital, Police, Fire etc
