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Goa
Court reins in Goa coast violations
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2010
THE High Court of Bombay in Goa has come down heavily on the state’s coastal village panchayats for structures built in violation of the coastal regulation zone (CRZ) notification 1991.
Ship erodes Goa beach
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2009
THE beach next to the famous tourists hotspots of Goa, like Club Titos and Mambos, is disappearing. The maximum erosion has occurred about 250 metres north of the 17th century Aguada Fort where 25 metres of beach disappeared in two years between 2004 and 2006, said a report by the National Institute of Oceanography (nio), submitted to the state chief secretary.
In Court
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2009
Mining Restraint:The Goa bench of Bombay High Court asked mining company Sesa Goa to stop extracting iron ore in Advalpal village.
The court was hearing a petition that said the village is left with no water sources and paddy fields are dry because of the mining operations.
Sesa Goa is dumping waste along the nullahs, choking and contaminating them. The petition was filed by a nine-year-old boy Akash Naik and
non-profit Goa Foundation.
Goa disbands panchayats
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2009
A RECENT decision of the Goa government
to amend the Panchayat Raj Act,
1993, has been opposed by civil society
groups. The Goa Panchayat Raj
(Amendment) Bill 2009 empowers the
panchayat secretary, a governmentappointed
official, to bypass the elected
sarpanch and members of the gram
sabha while executing government
orders. This contravenes the very purpose
of the law meant to devolve power
to the people, said the groups who
demanded the bill be withdrawn.
The bill, recommended by a committee
headed by minister for
Panchayati Raj, Babu Azgaonkar, was
Mines to be closed
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2009
Goa's environment ministry has ordered six mines operating close to the wildlife sanctuaries of Goa close operations. The list of mines to be
closed includes an iron ore mine owned by Sesa Goa. Two mines are owned by Shantilal Khushaldas Brothers at Rivona; these mines were
operating without the requisite clearances from the forest department. A mine owned by Damodar Mangalji is on land that has rock carvings said
to date back 9,000 years. This mine is not on the list of mines to be closed. The move to close the mines follows an assurance by the state
Goa continues to mine illegally
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2009
State government report stops short of taking action
Vedanta's steel plan
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2009
Mining giant Vedanta is all set to diversify into steel business. Sesa Goa Ltd in which Vedanta has the controlling share, has begun negotiations
with Japanese and European companies to set up a steel plant in India. Sesa Goa, an iron ore producer, recently acquired VS Dempo and Co
Ltd (another iron ore mining company in Goa) and has the capacity to produce 50 million tonnes iron ore. Anil Agarwal, chairman, Vedanta
Resources, said the ore could easily feed a 10-million-tonne steel plant.
It's the typos, stupid
Issue Date: May 31, 2009
No problems with Goa project, Environment Appellate Authority says
Five star emergency
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2009
Goa government issues ordinance to save resort
THE troubles faced by Goa's five star beach resort--Hotel Cidade de Goa--amount to a state emergency. At least one would think so from the Goa administration's decision to intervene in the hotel's interest. On March 2, the state governor, S S Sidhu, promulgated an ordinance amending a 114-year-old law. The amendment to the land acquisition act of 1894 has saved the hotel's illegal extensions from demolition for the time being.
News 360° - Briefs
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2009
labour
Provident fund feud
Goa's regional provident fund commissioner has initiated an investigation against the Salgaocar Mining Industries Pvt Ltd after employees complained that they were not enrolled under the provident fund (PF) scheme. More than 130 employees working with the mining company for the past 16 years filed the complaint on December 29, 2008.
