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• 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

  • 24/07/2019

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Goa
    • Coastal Regulations
    • State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
    • National Green Tribunal (NGT)
    • Environment

• Government axes 850 trees in pernem taluka

  About 850 huge and old trees along the 8 kilometer long stretch of Mandrem-Chopdem road, in Pernem taluka, were felled in the last two months by contractors employed by the PWD in one of the largest

  • 19/04/2002

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Forests

• Goa to get new plant to tackle plastic waste

  Goa will shortly get a Plasma Pyrolysis Plant from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, for safe incineration of plastic waste in the

  • 17/04/2002

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Environment

• Industries make Colvale communidade land a garbage dumping ground

  After forcing the Mapusa municipality to stop dumping garbage in its land last year, the village of Colvale in Goa finds itself being turned into a waste dump yet again. This time though, some

  • 20/04/2002

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Environment

• Raia P' yat to oppose garbage dumping in acquired land

  The village panchayat of Raia has cautioned that any attempts made by the Margao Municipal Council, Goa to dump garbage in the acquired area, opposite the Sonsodo dump yard, falling in its

  • 28/04/2002

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Environment

• MMC dragged to court over toxic conditions at Sonsodo

  The Margao Municipal Council's(MMC), Goa cup of woes seems to be up to the brim on the unsanitary and unhygienic conditions prevailing at the Sonsodo dumping yard. While, on the one hand, the civic

  • 24/04/2002

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Environment

• Sonsodo: a multi-garbage dumping yard

  Sonsodo, Margao's dumping yard, over the last five decades, where Goa city's tonnes of unsorted municipal garbage gets offloaded everyday. Mixed with the garbage is a bio-medical waste and the

  • 27/04/2002

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Environment

• PMC advocates new concept for garbage disposal

  Gardens instead of dustbins? This will be the appearance of Panjim if the idea of wet garbage disposal advocated by the Panjim Municipal Council(PMC) catches on. This was the main theme of the

  • 01/05/2002

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Environment

• Solution to Sonsodo garbage disposal problem eludes MMC

  A solution on the vexed garbage disposal problem at Sonsodo eluded the Margao Municipal Council(MMC) in Goa on Tuesday but the civic body authorised the Chief Officer to take all necessary measures

  • 01/05/2002

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Environment

• Environment has received rough deal from politicos

  The will to implement a gamut of environment related legislation passed by the Goa Legislative Assembly in the last few months and years has been merely superficial and cosmetic. Plastics, garbage,

  • 04/05/2002

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Environment

• Animal testing: Right or wrong?

  Many reputed scientists and medical researchers in India have expressed fear that the new regulations on the use of animals for research work will pose a major setback to the emerging areas of

  • 06/05/2002

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Wildlife