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PANJIM: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has told TCP Minister not to consider the proposal of putting Old Goa in the Greater Panaji PDA (GPPDA) informed Minister Michael Lobo. “CM did not understand first what they were doing. When I told him, he immediately called up the TCP minister and told him not to do it,” said Michael. Including Old Goa in GPPDA will imply increasing the FAR to 200 to 250 wherein upto 12 storied building could come up in the area which is a UNESCO world heritage site added Michael. The site has to be protected, he asserted. Hinting…

Panaji: The Central Pollution Control Boars has asked fhe Goa State Pollution Control Board to submit a action taken report on the coal pollution in Mormugao. The CPCB direction came following complaint by one Damodar Divkar Vasco. “The Grievance was forwarded to Central Pollution Control Board by Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate change Govt. of India. It is requested that appropriate action be taken on the grievance and action taken report sent to the applicant under intimation to this office within 15 days,” the letter by M.K. Choudhury) AD & DH – PR Division, said. Divkar had written to…

Aam Aadmi Party has taken strong exception to the stage two sanction granted to Goa Tamnar Transmission Project Ltd., to convert 69.41 hectares of forest land to lay a high power transmission line from Xeldem to Mapusa even as there are protests taking place every day over conversion of forest land in Wild Life Sanctuary on the border of Goa with Karnataka. AAP spokespersons Adv Surel Tilve pointed out that the stage two sanction granted by Ministry of Environment and Forests is based on a report submitted by the Goa Forest Department on 5th November 2020 wherein it stated that…

Panaji – Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat today wrote a letter to Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant demanding that the 60th year of Goa’s Liberation must be celebrated by helping the needy with 100 Crores Economic Revival Package & involvement of local Artists, Groups and Institutions. He has also stated in his strongly worded letter that Government must focus on Visionary Plans for Betterment of Goa and refrain from incurring huge expenditure when the State is in bad financial condition and people are suffering due to Covid Pandemic. I object to the act of the Government to send the meeting…

Pernem: The people of Mopa and Dhargal are up in arms over the State government’s plans to acquire more land for the construction of highway from Dhargal to Mopa airport. The protesters including several NGOs have threatened to take extreme step of blocking the toads if the government does not scrap the land acquisition. The agitated locals said that the central government has recently approved the road from Sukekolan Dhargal to Mopa Airport as national highway. “Last week the officials visited forest areas for acquisition of additional land for highway construction. When we inquired we were shown letters of land…

BENAULIM: Former Benaulim MLA Francisco Xavier Pacheco today has filed a compliant Revolutionary Goans for Exploiting Children/Minors during the Padayatra rally from 27th November 2020 to 30th November 2020. “Revolutionary Goans are using children as “Captive Audience” in the Padayatra Rally. Children should in fact be protected under the Legal provisions of “Juvenile Justice Act”. Children should not be allowed to be roped in for any rallies. Participation in rallies by children in itself is a threat to the children’s safety” the complaint by Pacheco states He further said that the biggest violation by the Revolutionary Goans is the mobilization…

PANJIM: Goa Forward Party (GFP)today has decided to boycott the meeting convened by CM Dr Pramod Sawant to discuss on celebration to mark 60 years of liberation. GFP demands scrapping of the event calling it waste of money as Goa’s economy is in a shambles. GFP has decided to boycott the meeting convened by CM Dr Pramod Sawant to discuss on celebration to mark 60 years of liberation; we demand scrapping of the event as it is waste of money as Goa’s economy is in a shambles,” said GFP Working President Kiran Kandolkar GFP further demands to to use money…