Digital Goa, March 6- Goa government has decided to engage the services of 30 Goan social media influencers to project the right image of Goa to the world and promote awareness of government schemes and policies. The strategic engagement seeks to generate awareness of government initiatives, services, and schemes by leveraging the influencers’ reach through their social media handles. The selection committee has shortlisted 30 applications out of 46 applications who were found eligible as per the guidelines of the Empanelment / RFP floated for the Empanelment of Social Media Influencer(SMI). The government has made a budgetary allocation of Rs 2 crore for the initiative.
Shortlisted names are as follows
Prapti Tar, Viraj Phadte, Siya Shirwaikar, Mandar Gawas, Kushal Palekar, Ruben Rodrigues, Ashrafi Gaikwad, Amit Naik, Aishwarya Gaonkar, Prasad Parab, Kimberley Lobo, Akash Kambli, Anand Raikar, Aishwarya Chari, Rajesh Malgaonkar, Kevin Pinto, Ishra Mulla, Shristi Prabhu Desai, Manoj Panchal, Mitanshu Kawlekar, Vaishnavi Gaonkar, Akshay Amrut Volvoikar, Vandita Khandolkar, Shruti Simepurushkar, Sudesh Salgaonkar, Deepali Chodankar, Anish Bhati, Nishita Rivankar, Pooja Usapkar and Hanumant Naik.
