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| Highlights of Budget
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| * 50 per cent subsidy to teachers for buying laptops.
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* Computer laboratories with all infrastructure facilities in all the high
schools and higher secondary schools.
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| * High-tech number plates / licences to be introduced.
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| * Rs 100 cess on foreign tourist arrivals.
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| * Lottery revived - exempt from paying output tax.
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| * Plans to develop hinterland.
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| * Conversion of land process simplified.
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| * Moratorium on the purchase of new tourist vehicles.
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* New bus stands at Margao, Mapusa, Quepem, Shiroda, Valpoi, Pernem and
Sanguem.
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| KONKANI
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| * Development of Konkani software.
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| * Translating of Central and State Acts into Konkani language.
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| SPORTS
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| * Eighteen-hole golf course proposed.
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| *State-of-the-art cricket stadium at Tivim.
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| * 400mt athletic track and Astroturf at Peddem, Mapusa.
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| * Swimming pools at Ponda, Curchorem, Canacona and Chicalim.
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| HEALTH
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| * Health checks of entire population through mobile laboratories
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| * Fees for patients at GMC who are not residents of Goa.
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| * Free implants for trauma patients at GMC.
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| * District hospitals to get state-of-the-art facilities.
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| DISABLED
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| * Free transport facility.
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| * Award amount hiked for marrying disabled.
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| * New high secondary school.
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| * Hike in scholarship.
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| WHAT'S NEW
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| * Bachapan scheme: To provide social security to orphan children under the umbrella of DSS with financial assistance of Rs 750. In addition children will be provided free textbooks, notebooks, school bags, raincoats and uniforms up to Std 12.
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| * Kanya Dhan Scheme: To deposit Rs 25,000 in fixed deposits in the name of the girl student who takes admission in Std XI.
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| * Scheme Sahara: Providing insurance cover for workers in unorganized sector like motorcycle pilots, drivers, cleaners toddy-tapers, coconut pluckers, construction workers, fish vendors etc. Through LIC over 30,000 people will be covered by the scheme.
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| * Goa Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: On the lines of the national scheme which guarantees 100 days of minimum employment.
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* Rajiv Awas Yojana Scheme: To cover all sections with a financial
assistance of Rs 25,000 for construction of new house and Rs 12,500 for
house repairs.
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| * Ummid Scheme: For starting day care homes for senior citizens. |
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