panaji most of the ministers in the state cabinet are of the view that panchayats should not opt for lockdown as it wont serve any purpose they said the state has come out of lockdown and hence it cannot have another one the ministers were reacting to the panchayats decision to undertake selfimposed lockdowns to curb the spread of covid19 in the villageschief minister pramod sawant and panchayats minister mauvin godinho have both opposed the selflockdown in villages panchayats in tiswadi sattari bardez and sanvordem had declared lockdowns when we get one positive case in a village what we can do is monitor the houses around that persons home if the village is under lockdown how will people access essential commodities lockdown means all essential commodities shops are closed and people have to remain indoors ports minister michael lobo said lobo said that lockdown of villages is not a solution that the state is looking at we can ask them to take precautions in one waddo where the positive patient is detected if this continues one day 50 of goa will be under lockdown the minister said he also said that people have to ensure the virus does not spread further health minister vishwajit rane said that the chief minister has made a statement that panchayats cannot lockdown villages we have not asked them to lockdown the villages people in view of their apprehensions have taken the decision to go for lockdown the government has already said that you cannot do it i am talking purely as far as sattari is concerned in usgao people forced the panchayat members to go for lockdown rane saidthe health minister said that the policy of the government is to continue with covid19 testing i am explaining to the people that let us test find out what is actually happening on the ground and accordingly we can create clusters people have panicked the chief minister has already said that panchayats cannot go for lockdown and even panchayats minister mauvin godinho has said it rane saidif a person wants to keep his shop shut then i cannot tell him to keep it open he said the cm has already made a statement on it and me making a parallel statement is not valid rane saidart and culture minister govind gaude said that the panchayats decision to go for selflockdown is completely wrong lockdown is not the solution we have to maintain social distancing wearing face masksthis is the way ahead gaude saidhe said that there is no need for lockdown there are some smart people in a village who are supported by few more people and they pressurise the panchayat to declare selflockdown for how many days can a panchayat undertake a lockdown gaude askedhowever pwd minister deepak pauskar continued to support the villages declaring selflockdown he said that the villages call for say a fourday lockdown so that people follow discipline