Amended noise action plan of Goa
Goa government has notified the ‘Amended Noise Action Plan’ to purportedly streamline the processes related to curbing noise pollution in the state, as specified before the High Court on April 30. The
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PCB decision on shacks flayed
MARGAO: Shack Owners Welfare Society has slammed the reported decision of the Goa State Pollution Control Board that shacks should not be allowed on the beaches unless there’s a solution to the garbage problem. Reacting to media reports, Society President Cruz Cardozo questioned the rationale behind the GSPCB decision, demanding to know whether the Pollution Board would order closure of all hotels along the coast pending a solution to the garbage issue.
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25 per cent of shoreline affected by sea erosion: water resources department
PANJIM: In an official admission of the gradual devastation of the Goa coastline, the Water Resources Department in its Performance Budget presented before the Goa legislative assembly has admitted that 25 per cent of state’s shoreline is affected with erosion caused by the sea. The document tabled on the floor of the House Tuesday has mentioned that 25.02 km shoreline is affected with sea erosion.
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Environment clearance must for exporting dumps: MoEF tells Goa
In order to halt the Goa Government’s move to allow handling of mining rejects, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has said that the environmental clearance (EC) is mandatory before allowing
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No Illegal Mining in Forest Areas of Goa
Minister PANAJI Goa on Monday told the assembly that there was no illegal mining in forest areas of the state and 26 mining leases were operating that were sanctioned after environmental clearance. State
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Cap Iron Ore Mining in Goa at 25 mt a Yr
A panel of experts has recommended capping iron ore mining in Goa to between 20 and 25 million tonnes a year for the next five years, nearly half of what the state produces and exports today. But the committee
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2445 HIV cases in 2009-11: Parsekar
PANJIM: The number of HIV cases registered between 2009 and 2011 in Goa are reported to be 2445 according to statistics furnished by Health minister Laxmikant Parsekar while replying to queries from Porvorim MLA Rohan Khaunte, at the Goa Assembly’s monsoon session. In 2009, 959 HIV cases were registered, whereas in 2010 and 2011 there was a declining trend in HIV registered cases from 821 to 665 cases. As far as the number of Goan affected by HIV are concerned, the figure was pegged at 1939 between 2009 and 2011.
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No illegal mining but ores extracted illegally: Goa govt
The Goa government on Monday admitted to "illegal extraction of ore" in the state but maintained that there is no illegal mining. "Mines operating in Goa are working legally but there are irregularities on those leases. The mining leases are legal but at times the extraction of ore is done illegally beyond permissible limits," Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar told the legislative assembly in response to a query.
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Land acquisition for Cutbona jetty to lapse in 20 days
MARGAO: Just 20 days to go for the controversial land acquisition proceedings to finally lapse, land acquisition officials are in a quandary whether to go ahead or allow the acquisition of land admeasuring 30,000 sqare meters for expansion of the Cutbona fishing jetty to lapse. Following outcry by Velim villagers over the acquisition of land for a fish meal plant cum jetty expansion, the government had on September 1, 2011 ordered to keep the land acquisition proceedings in abeyance.
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Non-availability of degraded land baffles Forest Dept
PANJIM: Even as forest department is bracing up to clear a backlog of afforesting 2300 hectares of degraded land pending since 2004 under Compensatory Afforestration Fund Management Authority (CAMPA), the non availability of degraded land has created impediment for the officials. Forest department officials said that the state has good forest cover making it difficult to get the degraded woods, which are essential for afforestration under CAMPA. Union government’s ambitious scheme seems to have been jinxed right from its announcement in the state. The Centre had held back the amount since 2004 till 2009-10 due the petition pending in the Supreme Court.
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Goa to ban smoking on its beaches next season
Panaji: In a bid to make Goa’s coastline tobacco-free, the tourism department is mulling a ban on its use on beaches from October, an official said today. "We are planning a law which will include beaches