House lauds TOI staffer for global photo award

Panaji: The Goa legislative assembly on Friday congratulated Times of India, Goa edition’s chief photographer Rajtilak Naik for winning the prestigious Global Photographic Union medal in photojournalism at the 64th Photography Society of Sri Lanka’s annual international photography competition and exhibition.
The House also congratulated former speaker and former minister Rajendra Arlekar for being appointed the governor of Himachal Pradesh.
Mauvin Godinho was congratulated on his appointment on the group of ministers (GoM) on revenue analysis on the GST Council, on another GoM on boosting of real estate and on the GoM on deciding the quantum of taxation of the gambling industry which includes casinos, online gaming, horse-racing, etc.
The House also congratulated weightlifter Mirabai Chanu who bagged the silver medal in the women’s 49kg category at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics, Yash Prahar Sanvordekar for being selected as one of the National Bravery awardees for 2020, Purti Savardekar and Akshay Parvatkar for producing a Goan movie that has won multiple Filmfare awards, Sanjana Prabhugaonkar for bringing home four gold medals and one silver medal at the first swimming community performance championship held at Dubai, Lenny da Gama for being appointed by the Boxing Task Force as the only Asian technical official at the Olympics boxing competition in Tokyo and Padma Shri Vinayak Khedekar and artiste Kanta Gawade for winning the prestigious Dr Kamal Kothari Smruti Lifetime Achievement Award.