The Lockdown from March 25 announced across the country including Goa seems to have had a significant impact on the environment of the State. As per the Report on Impact of Lockdown due to COVID19 pandemic on Ambient Air quality of Goa, by the Goa State Pollution Control Board, the air pollution has decreased considerably. “The ambient Air Quality during the lockdown has shown significant improvement in the State of Goa as is indicated by the data from the NAMP stations which may be attributed to very low vehicular density and industrial activities prevailing during lockdown period,” says the report…
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The youth as well as the old in the small village of Melauli, in Sattari taluka are up in arms over the government decision to hand over 10 lakh square meter of government land to the IIT Goa. The villagers are upset that for decades they have been demanding from successive governments to transfer the land in their names as they have been the custodians for decades since the erstwhile Portuguese regime. The villagers feel that the government has failed the citizens overlooking their livelihood for bigger institutions. Not only they question, why an institution like IIT requires 10,00,000 to…
Following the guidelines issued by the Centre, the State government has issued the Standard Operating Procedure for asymptomatic patients willing to undergo home quarantine instead of the government COVID Care Centre. The DHS order states that the SOPs have been issued based on guidelines issued by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare dated 02/07/2020. * As per the SOP asymptomatic person desiring to be under home isolation will make a request to the Collector/Dy.Collector concerned to permit him/her to be in home isolation through email on the official email ID. * The undertaking on self isolation as per the annexure…
Stating that the State Government has initiated steps and embarked upon a mission to rejuvenate the functioning of Government Departments Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant today emphasized the need to expedite the efforts by the Government Officers to make the administration responsive to the peoples needs and deliver prompt, transparent and efficient Governance to the people of the State. Addressing at a workshop on the theme Vision 2020-2025 organized by CMO for the Officers/Officials of the Department of Information and Publicity in the city today the Chief Minister directed the DIP to prepare its action plan incorporating short term and…
District Superintendent of Police, North Goa has promulgated the order to be in force in the jurisdiction of Police Station, Porvorim and Panaji from July 27, 2020 till 12th Session of the Seventh Legislative Assembly of the State of Goa gets over. As per the order no person or class of person shall convene or collect as an assembly, take out any procession or stage any demonstration on the road, street or thorough fare shall hold public meetings except under and in accordance with the terms and conditions of license issued in this behalf by the District Superintendent of Police, North and requires that…
The Supreme Court of India on Thursday considering the importance of the Goa mining case has decided to hear on August 18 in open court. Advocate General Devidas Pangam informed goemkarponn.com that in the virtual hearing the State urged the court to allow early resumption of mines. “We have pleaded to allow mining as the tourism sector is also declined considerably during COVID19 pandemic,” AG said. He said the Apex court said that it would hear the case open court tentatively on August 18. “The court said it cannot hold virtual hearing in such important case and hence decided to…
Cortalim Primary health Centre and Vasco Urban Health Centre continued to lead the chart as Goa registered 174 more case on Thursday with 114 recoveries. A 71 year old male from Mangor hill, Vasco admitted in ESI COVID hospital with co-morbid conditions became the 29th victim of COVID19 in the State. On Wednesday late night, a death of a beggar near Cine Lata at Margao caused a wave of panic in Margao as the are is thickly populated with slums. The State so far has registered 4350 cases with 2655 recoveries. The active cases now are 1666. The condition in…