Govt assures a new CZMP with people’s views
Plan to be drafted by Environment Department in consultation with CZMA, GSPCB, scientists PORVORIM: In a major victory to the people, the State government on Tuesday announced it woud draft a fresh
Herald (Panjim)
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What is judicious use of water?
PWD strongly believes that `wastage
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Mining woes: Bhamai school wards, parents block road
The Parents Teachers Association members of Shrimati Tarabai Dalvi High School, Bhamai-Pale, on Monday blocked the road protesting over rising dust pollution and alleged failure on the part of authorities to control truck transportation in the area. The road blockade agitation angered the truck owners, which ended in verbal clashes between the two groups.
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VPs do not attend to hill-cutting complaints
While the State Government is in the process of drafting a policy/legislation to have a proper check on illegal hill-cutting
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Chowgules get nod for SEZ in Ratnagiri
A Free Trade Warehousing Zone (FTWZ) proposed by Messrs Arshiya International Limited at Bori village in Nagpur district is among three special economic zones (SEZ) getting the formal nod of the Board of Approval on Thursday, two others being in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
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Dog too sniffed clues in cracking tiger case
Even as state forest department officials can be credited for cracking the tiger killing case at Keri after prolonged laborious investigations, the role of a Goa police sniffer dog was equally important.
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Missing the forest for the trees
By named environmentalist Rajendra Kerkar as an abettor in the killing of the tiger that was poached in Keri last year, the Forest Department has revealed that its intentions in the case are not entirely honourable. It was Kerkar who had first reported the incident and published a photograph in a Goa newspaper in April 2009.
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CRZ violation: CVPs finally comply with HC directives
After receiving a dressing down from the High Court for inaction against CRZ violations in No Development Zone (NDZ), the Coastal Village Panchayats (CVPs) have finally started demolishing illegal structures that came to be built post February 19, 1991 CRZ notification.
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NGO pressurising Centre to declare Mhadei sanctuary as tiger habitat
As the death of a tiger in Keri was confirmed through forensic findings, the non government organisations in the State have now started mounting pressure on the Centre to declare Goa
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Candolim, Calangute panchayats in dock over CRZ violations
Two coastal panchayats and the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) came under heavy fire from the High Court on Tuesday for non-compliance of Court orders pertaining to CRZ violations.
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Forest Dept ready to postpone hearing on Chorao bird sanctuary
Bowing to the demands of gram sabha, State Forest Department has conceded to postpone the hearing to declare Chorao