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Goa News Clips
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New law mooted to
protect Goa's coastal areas
PANJIM, Nov 6: When
pressure on the environmentally-sensitive land is increasing
by the day, should Goa go in for Transfer of Development
Rights law? A suggestion to this effect was strongly made by
Botanical Society of Goa before the Task Force for Regional
Plan 2021 here today. Making the presentation, Botanical
Society of Goa president Miguel Braganza mooted the idea of
TDR for protection of areas under coastal coconut plantation,
sand dunes, private forest, mangroves, etc. He said transfer
of FAR/FSI (Floor Area Ratio/Floor Space Index) of such areas
would meaningfully compensate the owners of such lands without
cost to the state exchequer. The builders, Braganza said,
could buy these rights for additional construction in other
areas and appropriate entries made in the land documents of
the FSI being consumed by the one-time TDR.
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Waste Wise
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Vaz will hold a visual presentation on the topic "Waste Wise :
Converting Problems to Solutions with Waste Management in Goa"
at Xavier Centre of Historical Research at Alto Porvorim on
November 16, 5.30 pm. Waste Management is an issue that
plagues the whole world, not just Goa and India. If we are
willing to take un various issues such as environmental
education, river pollution and hospital waste and has been
invited to conduct talks in Delhi, Sweden, Switzerland,
Portugal and Nepal. After a three-year project with the
Corporation of the City of Panaji, Vaz works now to build
awareness with interactive presentations in Goan villages and
also by means of an ecotourism booklet directed towards
tourists that will be out by the end of November.
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Failure to tow away
casino boat raises eyebrows
MARGAO, Nov 6: Even as
Hotel Leela Goa has promised Chief Minister Digambar Kamat to
tow the controversial boat out of River Sal by November, the
Captain of Ports has till date has not received any
application seeking permission to move out the boat.
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Mapusa needs new fish
market
MAPUSA, Nov 6: Selling
fish for the 100 odd fishermen in the Mapusa fish market has
become a nightmare. In the monsoons the fish market roof leaks
and the market is full of rainwater. One can see large pieces
of cement plaster falling on the fisherwomen, and as a result
at least 4 fisherwomen were rushed to Asilo Hospital and had
stitches on their heads. [NT] |
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CORPORATOR ASSAULTED
OVER FISH ROW
 PANJIM:
The wholesale
and retail fish vendors' imbroglio at the Panjim fish market
took an ugly turn on November 4 morning, when a corporator was
assaulted. The unsavoury incident occurred at 8.30 am when
corporator Carolina Po was negotiating with some retail
vendors over their grievance that the wholesale vendors were
selling fish to cycle vendors, who were multiplying in number,
and taking away their business by selling door-to-door and
outside fish market. Po was assaulted and the vendors also
flung fish on her. Trouble also erupted earlier at around 6.30
am, when wholesale vendors from Dona Paula, Caranzalem, and
Marivel arrived at the fish market, but were restrained by the
retailers. Their baskets containing fish were snatched and
fish thrown in the gutter and the on the road.
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Goan MP may get bert in
Union cabinet
PANAJI, Nov 7: One of
the two Congress MPs, Mr Shantaram Naik and Mr Francisco
Sardinha, from the state could be accommodated in the Union
ministry at the time of reshuffle of the Union cabinet. Highly
placed sources in the party said the move to induct one of the
Goan MPs is to send a signal to the Goan electorate that the
Congress cared for them and was ready to help them. The move
is likely to be an effort by the party leadership to prepare
itself for facing the electorate during the mid-term elections
that could be held next year. [NT]
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Forced conversions
impossible: Vatican
ROME, Nov 5 (Reuters): The
Vatican told Indians on Monday that it was impossible to
forcibly convert anyone to another religion, amid accusations
by Hindu activists that missionaries are pressuring poor
Indians to adopt Christianity. The appeal comes as relations
between the two communities are strained by attacks on
Christians by Hindu activists in India seeking to stamp out
what they see as forced conversions.
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Cashew Concerns
Cashew production is on decline in Goa and this is certainly
not a good piece of news as cashew is a major cash crop for
the state. While the state government proposed to double the
production of raw cashew by 2010, the latest production
figures do not support the promise. While cashew production in
Goa was 32 tonnes in 2003, it was 26 tonnes in 2004 and 27
tonnes in 2005. [Edit, NT] |
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Parish priest for
periodical maintenance of Usgao bridge
PANAJI, Nov 7: Fr Felix
Lobo, the parish priest of St Joseph Church of Usgao, has
threatened to launch an agitation and block the roads in the
area if the authorities failed to carry out periodical
maintenance of the Usgao bridge and regulate the traffic.
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City gets high tech
water saving toilet
PANJIM: Panjim has got its
first hi-tech, water-saving toilet with Gurgaon-based company,
Pride Engineering and Contracting, completing the first demo
project before Diwali. [GT] |
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