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Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: Goa minister Vishwajit Rane said the state government will challenge in the Supreme Court Monday’s Bombay High Court order to notify Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary and its surrounding areas as a tiger reserve. The division bench of Justices M S Sonak and Bharat Deshpande directed the state government to take necessary steps to prepare a tiger conservation plan as contemplated by the Wildlife Protection Act and to forward the same to the National Tiger Conservation Authority within three months from notifying Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary and other areas as a tiger reserve. Local NGO Goa Foundation had filed a…

Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: Poreim MLA Dr Deviya Rane today said that the notification of Tiger Reserve will affect thousands of people living in this sanctuary. “We have to save Tiger and Mhadei, but who will save thousands of people, the notification of Tiger Reserve will affect thousands of people living in this sanctuary,” said Dr Deviya. She said that there is no doubt that we should save tigers and Mhadei, but “who will save those thousands of people.” Rane said that the state government will save Mhadei through other methods. High Court of Bombay at Goa on Monday directed the…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Goa government will study Kerala’s disaster management mechanism, state minister Atanasio Monserratte said in the Assembly on Monday. Speaking during demands for grants of the revenue department, Monserratte said a state disaster management authority had been formed in Goa. “We will be sending our team to Kerala to study their disaster management model. Kerala has a good disaster management plan,” he said in response to Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao, who had sought an efficient disaster management plan for Goa. Monserratte also informed the House that his department had recently cleared 190 claims amounting to Rs…

Goemkarponn de PANAJI: Five beaches in Goa are facing soil erosion, state environment minister Nilesh Cabral said on Monday. Responding to a question tabled by Independent MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco in the Assembly, he said these were Keri in Pernem taluka, Majorda and coastal area between Mobor to Betul in Salcete, Betalbatim in Salcete, Kanagini in Quepem and Coco beach in Bardez. “The Water Resources Department had entrusted the study of Goa coast for its behaviour, erosion pediment transportation etc to National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) in the 2021 under the World Bank funded National Hydrology Project,” he said.…

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawan, while speaking in the state assembly, said that his government will not give permission to any more offshore casinos. Goemkarponn desk PORVORIM: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said his government will not give permission to any more offshore casinos. He was responding to the demands for grants of the Home Department in the Assembly. The state has six casinos which operate from vessels on the Mandovi River. Sawant also refuted claims by Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao that a jetty was coming up along the Chapora River to facilitate the operation of a casino. Jetties…

Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: Meri Mati Mera Desh Program On Sapling Plantation and Soil Testing was organized by Government College of Commerce and Economics Borda Margao Salcete Goa with its NSS Unit in Association with the Village Panchayat of Cana Benaulim, Lions Club of Salcete and Leo Club of Salcete supported by the Forest Department South Goa at Margao. The various 210 Fruit Bearing, Medicinal Plants and Flower Bearing Saplings ranging from Grafted Mango ( Mankurad ), Guava, Jackfruit, Custard Apple, Ram Fal, Cinnamon ( Tikki ), Crotons, Noni, Bayo, Almond, Teak, Insulin, Apto, Taman, Zarambo, and much more were been…

Decision to be implemented within three months from today State to determine and settle the rights and claims of the Scheduled Tribes and other forest dwellers following the law as expeditiously as possible and preferably within 12 months from today. Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Ten days after Goa’s state wildlife board rejected a proposal to set up a tiger reserve in the state, the High Court of Bombay at Goa on Monday directed Goa Government to notify Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary as Tiger Reserve within three months from today. The HC directions came following a petition filed by the NGO Goa Foundation…