GOA

Chief ministerPramod Sawantassured Cuncolim locals that the newmedical dispensaryand emergency care centre would be functional within a month.

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The facility, consisting of two halls of 10 rooms each, was built under the golden jubilee funds allotted to every by the State Government. Each municipality had received Rs

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2 crore under the scheme of which the CMC spent Rs 1 crore for the emergency centre.

Almost 90% of Goa’s old water supply pipes yet to be replaced

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Goa is facing the issue of 38% non-revenue water or loss of water from the supply chain due to old pipelines. The state has been vying for central government assistance in replacing the entire water supply pipeline Network in Goa with a new one. Over Rs 300 crore will be needed to complete the task.

Goa was the first state in the country to be declared to have achieved 100%

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water supply connections to households under the Har Ghar Jal mission. Yet, Goa is facing a shortage of around 85MLD of treated water as against its demand.

Goa: Get ecology report for Delta project nod, Green body

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The Goa State Environment Impact AssessmentAuthority(Goa-SEIAA) has received an application for environment clearance for setting up of the Deltin Town project atDhargalimin Pernem.

The Goa-SEIAA deliberated on the proposal earlier this month and has set terms of

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reference, based on which the environment clearance can be sought.

The project proponent has been asked to carry out ECOLOGY and studies of the area. The project, the Authority has said, should have an energy plan as per environment clearance standards. This means that at least part of the project should make use of RENEWABLE ENERGY sources like solar power.

The project is proposed to include three hotels, a convention centre, a multiplex cinema, a retail

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area, a water park, banquet facilities and a childrens entertainment area.

Goa: With entertainment village, Mandrem set to get biggest tourism project

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Goatourismdevelopment corporation (GTDC) plans to set up a mega entertainmentvillagespread over 1.5 lakh sqm inMandrem. The foundation stone for the proposedprojectis likely to be laid in

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the next six months, prior to the assembly .

While the required land is currently in possession of the revenue department, formalities to transfer it to

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GTDC will be done shortly. It will be built on public-private PARTNERSHIP (PPP) mode, but all required permission will be facilitated through GTDC.

12-17% multi-drug resistant tuberculosis cases seen in Goa yearly

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Annually, 1,000- 1,500 TB cases are reported in Goa with 12% to 17% of them being multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Though the numbers dont look alarming, MDR-TB cases are still a cause of concern as the recovery rate is 50% or sometimes lesser.

MDR-TB is seen among patients who fail to adhere fully to the treatment regime and consequently, develop resistance to anti-microbial drugs. Close contacts of a patient who develops MDRTB are exposed to the same infection.

The majority may develop MDR-TB for not following the drug regime in toto, but there will be few who may get the disease through a close family contact or in another set-up, where he/she may have been sharing a space with a carrier in a closed Environment. The incidence of MDR-TB

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in patients who have been detected having TB for the first time, is about 3%.

Goa biodiversity board helping local communities sell local produce

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In many casesbiodiversityconservation efforts tend to be viewed as being in conflict with economic interests. Turning this belief on its head, theGoa State Board(GSBB) has taken the first step to becoming the only

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government body in the country to begin production, along withlocalcommunities, of products derived from local bio-Resources.

Theboardis planning to set up five other centres mainly in the mining belt in Goa.

While a part of the income derived from the sales

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will be paid back to locals involved in the processing unit, the rest of the amount will go back into conservation of the local biodiversity and into funding other sustainability efforts.

Only sustainably harvested bio-resources are being utilized to make the products which are set to be marketed under GSBB brand name GoVan.

Agriculture land to be out of bounds for non-Goan non-farmers

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Amid unbridled demand for land by out-of-state buyers, the cabinet initiated crucial steps to protect Goa’s agricultural land by approving a bill that will effectively ban the sale of such land to non-farmers from outside the state. The bill is also expected to restrict the

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conversion of paddy fields to settlement land.

Goa has a little over 40,000 hectares of agricultural land, of which 28,000 hectares are cultivable and around 15,000 hectares are fallow.

Need to reduce post-harvest losses while handling foodgrains

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Lossesfrompost-harvesthandling of foodgrains should be minimised through value-addition and processing. This issue was discussed during an event on processing and storage of foodgrains and pulses, organised by the ICAR central coastal agricultural research institute (CCARI) and Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK),

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North Goa.

In the technical session attended by 35 farmers and Women working on farms, senior scientist and head of the institute HR Chidananda Prabhu delivered a lecture on processing and storage of foodgrains and pulses.

A national-level training programme on cashew, recent advances in

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cashew production, processing and post-harvest management was also organised at the institute. Director at the directorate of cashew nut and cocoa development, Cochin, Kerala Dr Venkatesh N Hubballi spoke about the status of cashew production in the country and its scope for improvement.

Goa Posthas released a special cover onKhola chilli, making it the second geographical indication (GI) special cover to be released.

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The first one, oncashew feni, was released earlier in August.

AGI tagis a sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin.

The GI tag and its publicity through these special covers will increase awareness among the common man and will also fetch a decent

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price for the farmers, Goa Philately and Numismatics Society president Ramesh Kumar said.

Soon, 170 services at your doorstep: Goa CM Pramod Sawant

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The has announced that 170 Services across 27 departments will now be provided through citizen service centres and village-level entrepreneurs (VLEs). CMPramod Sawantsaid that in the coming months,government serviceswould be available at the doorstep through gramin mitras under the Digital Goa campaign.

Meanwhile, during the empowered committee meeting, benefits to the tune of Rs 1.07 crore were disbursed to startups under the Goa startup policy, and Rs 37.4 lakh to IT companies under the IT policy, 2018. Khaunte said that the department

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has registered 186 startups since 2018, and 93 of these startups have availed of various subsidies and grants worth around Rs 2.7 crore.