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Herald (Panjim)

• 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

• Govt notifies Panjim Bill

  The City of Panjim Corporation Bill 2002 which was assented to by the Governor of Goa on January 23 has been notified and published in an extraordinary official gazette of the government of Goa

  • 30/01/2003

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Economy

• Over-exploitation of marine resources will spell doom, warns MPEDA chief

  Chairman of the Marine Products Export Development Authority(MPEDA) K Jose Cyriac, in a note of caution today said that unless the Central and State governments took drastic steps to prevent

  • 07/02/2003

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Fisheries

• Govt. to re-launch mid-day meals schemes from June

  The Goa state government, undeterred by the complaints about quality of food items has decided to re-launch the mid-day meals scheme for government primary schools from the coming academic year with

  • 11/02/2003

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Health

• Govt. urged to relax ban on pan masala

  The All-Goa Merchants Federation (AGMF) has sought Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's intervention in the controversy regarding the sale or distribution of sweet supari and allied products, which are

  • 12/02/2003

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Health

• Illegally felled timber to be auctioned at Sanguem

  The truckloads of timber which were seized in the illegal tree felling case in Sanguem, Goa, from the government property, allegedly by Forest Department officials, are to be auctioned at Forest

  • 09/02/2003

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Forests

• Congress to demand exclusion of houses from Madei Sanctuary

  Former chief minister and Poriem MLA Pratapsing Rane has assured farmers that Congress party would demand that the Goa state government exempt or exclude cultivated land or houses from the

  • 10/02/2003

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Wildlife

• Rachol breaths stench due to govt decision on khazan lands

  When the Agriculture director wrote a letter to taluka mamlatdars in September last to ensure that saline water is not allowed into khazan lands for pissiculture, the avowed aim was to curb rising

  • 13/02/2003

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Agriculture

• Goa may soon have to grapple with growing HIV-positive orphans

  In the next five years, Goa is likely to encounter yet another horrifying aspect of AIDS as it would then have to take care of a large number of HIV positive orphan children whose number is rising by

  • 17/02/2003

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Health

• Panjim civic body proposes biodegradable garbage bags

  The Panjim Municipal Council (PMC) is now planning to enter the third phase of its garbage collection and management by introducing biodegradable garbage bags for a more convenient collection and

  • 19/02/2003

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Environment

• Timber smuggling: forest officials visit Makadshew-Polem

  Deputy Conservator of Forest R K Singh and V T Thomas made a spot visit on Monday afternoon to the coast of Makadshew-Polem in Canacona, to get a first hand knowledge of the alleged plunder of the

  • 19/02/2003

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Forests