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Panaji: A day after Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant announced that the State has three options before it to restart mining, Goa Mining People`s Front (GMPF) said that it is not bothered which route the government takes but the mining has to restart at the earliest. GMPF Chief Puti Gaonkar said in a statement that they are not bothered whether the government takes auction or new corporation route. “Our issue is the government needs to restart mining. The government also has to see that the new option is not stuck in a legal tangle,” he said. Gaonkar also questioned the…

Madkai: MGP MLA Ramkrishna Dhavalikar has urged the Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant to refrain from wasteful expenditure on the 60th Liberation Day Celebration of Goa. Dhavalikar in a video message urged Sawant to use the ₹100 cr grant judiciously during COVID pandemic. “We have small businesses and self employed people suffering due to the pandemic. The Chief Minister and the government could do well if the money is utilised or their well-being,” he said. The former Dy Chief Minister also said that the real tribute for the freedom fighters in the 60th year is to make youth understand their…

Panaji: Dy Chief Minister Babu Kavlekar said that the decision to scrap proposal to bring Old Goa under GPPDA was taken fiollowing religious sentiments. He said TCP department has studied in detail the proposal sent by Se Old Goa Viilage Panchayat of including some area of it under the Greater Panaji PDA. “I have also taken into consideration the sentiments expressed by religious bodies. I have discussed the issue with Hon’ble CM and in order to maintain the sanctity of Shrine, came to conclusion that proposal of further extending the Kadamba Planning area need to be scrapped,” he said. “The…

PANJIM: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and TCP minister Chandrakant Babu Kavalekar today decided to scrap controversial proposal to include Old Goa area into Greater Panaji PDA. The decision came following criticism from politician parties and public, who feared that the move would convert Old Goa heritage complex into concrete jungle. “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 Lobo after meeting CM Sawant Including Old Goa in GPPDA will imply increasing the FAR to 200 to 250 wherein upto 12…

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…