Goa Tourism and IT Minister Rohan Khaunte spoke at a district-level Goa Liberation Day function at the DY Collector office in Mhapusa.
Kashi Math has devotees all over the Konkan belt including Mumbai, Goa, Udupi, Mangalore, Kochi, and parts of Karnataka and Kerala.
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and IT, Tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte, and chairman ITG Dr Chandrakant Shetye gave the cheques to the startups at an event.
Khaunte spoke in the presence of representatives of several IT firms at the India International Trade Fair in New Delhi.
Khaunte tourism in Goa changed for the better in the 1990s and since then, it has replaced mining as Goa's main contributor to the GSDP.