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Panaji – Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat has said that it is the duty and responsibility of Government to hear every voice at Public Hearing on Draft Coastal Zone Management Plan scheduled on Sunday 7th March 2021 in North and South Goa. “I demand intervention of the Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant to ensure that each & every Citizen who is concerned about protecting Identity of Goa and Environment gets an opportunity to express their views,” stated Kamat. He said it is shocking that despite many Village Panchayats and concerned Citizens raising objections to the Draft CZMP and demanding for…

Goemkaponn Desk VASCO: Vasco Police have arrested 3 accused involved in a robbery. The police have also recovered the stolen article’s. As per the Police on 5th March 2021 around 1400 hrs a phone call was recieved from Mrs Dessai r/o Fatima colony Dabolim Goa, informing that her husband had been tied down in his house by a gang of four persons and they are committing theft in their house. Immediately the patrolling staff was alerted and rushed to the said house at Fatima colony. The staff which reached the spot with the help of public, detained one person namely…

Gaurang Prabhu Malkarnekar NAVELIM:  AAP’s Matilda D’Silva alongwith her enthusiastic supporters seems to gaining the ground with every passing day as the March 20 approaches, the day for Zilla Parishad bypoll. Matilda has made her priorities quite clear while canvassing for her candidature. Her assurances are simple yet the most important things in life for the citizens. She wants her constituency to be developed and at the same time also promises to protect the environment. The Aam Aadmi Party candidate from Navelim is braving the hot sun with her supporters during the door to door campaigning and sensitising the people as…

Goemkarponn desk SANCOALE: The Gramsbha members of Sancoale Village Panchayat on Saturday unanimously resolved to reject the Draft Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP ) for the Village. The decision was taken during a Special Gramsabha meeting of V. P. Sancoale held on Saturday under the Chairmanship of Sarpanch Ramakant Borkar in the presence of Sancoale Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC) Chairman Navin Jha and others. While having discussions on draft CZMP the Gramsabha members noticed that the plan which was earlier prepared/drafted by the Sancoale BMC involving various stake holders from the vllage and was submitted before state administration is not…

Goemkaponn Desk PANAJI: The much delayed public hearing to finalise the draft Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) for Goa will be finally held on Sunday. The public hearing to finalise the CZMP, for the entire coastal stretch of the State of Goa in terms of CRZ notification 2011, has been scheduled on Sunday in North and South Goa While in North Goa the hearing will be held in Kala Academy, in South Goa the same is scheduled at Ravindra Bhavan, between 10.00am to 5.00pm. The first CZMP of Goa was prepared in 1996 and was used as a base plan…

Goemkaponn Desk MARGAO: As the nominations are set to end today, a group of 5 under the banner of Shadow Council have filed the nominations for the Margao Municipality Elections. Shadow Council Convenor Savio Coutinho said that the time and again they have exposed the ruling council and opens different scams done by the ruling councils right from labour scam to floating of tenders. He further said that their focus will be on giving good and clean administration, improving financial condition and solving garbage issue of Margao city. When asked how only 5 candidate can form panel Savio said number…

Goemkaponn Desk PANAJI: Goa University (GU) today has launched two new interlinked Masters Programme in Environmental Science, starting from the coming academic year 2021-22. The new courses have been announced under the Goa University’s School of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science (SEOAS). As per GU the the main objective to produce trained post-graduates to deal with various aspects of the environment and its impact, both at the State and National level. Led by SEOAS, the programme is being launched in partnership with faculty of Life Science, Social Science, Goa Business School, the Manohar Parrikar School of Law, Governance and Public…