{"id":104417,"date":"2025-07-25T19:53:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=104417"},"modified":"2025-07-25T19:53:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:23:33","slug":"mla-viresh-borkar-highlights-delays-in-welfare-schemes-mismanagement-and-heritage-neglect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=104417","title":{"rendered":"MLA Viresh Borkar highlights delays in Welfare Schemes, mismanagement, and heritage neglect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Goa Khabar : St. Andre MLA Viresh Borkar has raised serious concerns about delays and mismanagement in Goa\u2019s welfare schemes. He revealed that under the Gagan Bharari Scheme alone, 46 applications from Dhangar students, 14 from SC students, 286 from OBC students, 289 post-matric ST\/OBC applications, and 463 under Saral Vidya Sahay Yojana remain pending. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cA total of 4,375 applications under Viksit Bharat and Swayampurna Goa are still waiting. What are the Swayampurna Mitras doing? They must update Dayanand Social Security Scheme data through proper surveys,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">He pointed to unutilised budgets for 2024\u201325, including \u20b950 lakh for pre-matric SC scholarships, \u20b9104.08 lakh for SC scholarships, \u20b997.83 lakh for senior citizens, \u20b911,885.11 lakh for Freedom from Hunger, and \u20b9610 lakh for Ambedkar Bhavan, calling it shocking that these were dismissed as \u201cchillar\u201d by the Minister.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Borkar also questioned ROC penalties of \u20b982.77 lakh due to non-filing of AOC-4 and MGT-7 forms and criticised the non-functioning Goa State Minority Finance &amp; Development Corporation, where politically appointed directors hold posts without proper expertise.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">He demanded action on poor-quality Ro-Ro ferries and flagged chronic under-utilisation of Archives Department funds, which have seen utilisation rates as low as 11% in 2021\u201322 despite a current allocation of \u20b925.63 crore.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">On heritage, Borkar urged immediate notification and protection of Rajbid, Gopakapattana Port, St. Anna\u2019s Church, Moula\u2013Curca caves, and King Saundekar\u2019s Palace. \u201cThese historical sites are part of Goa\u2019s identity. Neglecting them means losing our heritage,\u201d he warned, calling on the government to act swiftly and responsibly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Khabar : St. Andre MLA Viresh Borkar has raised serious concerns about delays and mismanagement in Goa\u2019s welfare schemes. He revealed that under the Gagan Bharari Scheme alone, 46 applications from Dhangar students, 14 from SC students, 286 from OBC students, 289 post-matric ST\/OBC applications, and 463 under Saral Vidya Sahay Yojana remain pending. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":104418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-104417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104419,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104417\/revisions\/104419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}