GOA

The will soon start issuing digital marriage certificates with QR codes and will phase out certificates in the physical format.
The state law department has issued a notification stating that digital marriage certificates with aQR codewill be considered “authentic and the only type of certificate issued by the office of civil registrars-cum-sub-registrars”.

TheGoa governmentintroduced digitally-signed marriage certificates in 2020 as part of the ongoing digital reforms.

The QR code will ensure security and can be used for authentication of the marriage certificate. Citizens and authorities can verify the document’s authenticity by

Minimum temperature has started falling from October 27 as per the India meteorological department (IMD) and was one degree Celsius below its normal value on Thursday. This will continue to persist for another 24 hours, theIMDsaid.

The minimum temperature recorded inPanajion Thursday was 21C which was 2.6C below its normal value. The maximum temperature, which has been on the higher side at 33C, has increased to 34C. This will persist for three to four more days, IMD said.
Gradually, as the northerly components reduce and it will be mostly easterlies in the lower levels, the minimum temperature will rise to its normal value, IMD said.

In order to ascertain the Unemployment rate in Goa, the government has commenced a survey to find out how manyGoansand non-Goans have been employed in various sectors in the state.

The survey, which is expected to go on for a month, is being carried out by officials of the department of labour and EMPLOYMENT, who will visit industries, hotels, showrooms, supermarkets, general stores, pharmacies, garment stores, hospitals, clinics, and even kiosks.

In its annual report for 2020-21, theUnion ministry of statisticsand programme implementation (MoSPI) had said that Goa had the third highest joblessness rate in the country during that period.

Data from the independent think tank, Centre for Monitoring of Indian economy (CMIE), in May revealed that approximately nine lakh of Goa’s Population is in the employable age bracket of 20-59 years, which would suggest that around 1.4 lakh Goans remain unemployed. One of the main reasons for unemployment is the inability to attract new industrial units to the state, the data had indicated.

The federation also requested the government to formulate a special scheme under the tribal sub-plan to provide android phones to ST students and that Wi-Fi towers be set up so that online Education is not hampered.

In a letter to Sawant, GCCI said that it is willing to support and collaborate with the government in the relief efforts. The body has identified short-term measures as well as long-term measures to prevent similar instances from recurring.

GCCI has also urged the State Government to set up local Disaster Management cells across all red zones. The cells should comprise members who can actively monitor climactic changes and the resultant impact along Goas riverfront and rainwater catchment areas around Dams.

Goa will introduce a legislation making it mandatory for manufacturers selling packaged goods in the state to implement a deposit refundable system (DRS).

Environment minister Nilesh Cabral said that, under the system, manufacturers will add a small additional cost to their products sold within Goa. Once the product is consumed, the consumer will be able to get the additional cost paid or deposit back on returning the packaging of plastic or glass bottle to retailers at certain predesignated spots.

The relaxations announced in the Goa mariculture policy will pave the way for non-Goan investors to set up cage fishing in Goa, which will be detrimental to Goan ramponkars and traditional fishermen, said Goa Forward Party (GFP) in a memorandum to the Directorate of .

The concern of the ramponkars is that big investors from outside Goa will take over the coastal waters in the name of cage fishing and will stop local fishermen from fishing in the waters. Large scale commercial cage fishing activity will cause a lot of pollution due to chemicals, antibiotics used to protect the fish and the waste generated by the fish. This will keep wild fish away from the waters where traditional fishermen venture to catch fish

Transport minister Mauvin Godinhosaid that theGoa Taxi app, which was launched with much fanfare, has evoked a poor response due to the high rates.

The Goa Taxi app, unfortunately, has comparatively high rates, and people are not willing to join it.

However, despite the difference in pricing, Godinho said that the rates cannot be lowered. When there is an audit objection to why rates were lowered despite government regulations, we cannot be found flouting norms, he said.

The Government of India has approved the construction of two concrete floating jetties on the River Mondovi (NW-68) to connect Old Goa and Panjim.

This is the second floating jetty to be built.

The first jetty, located at Captain of , Panjim, Goa, was inaugurated in Panjim in February 2020.

Chief minister Pramod Sawant said on Tuesday that the has decided to install a20MTliquid oxygentankat Goa Medical College (GMC) within eight days, and that moreoxygencylinders would be made available at the hospital.

He also said that the government has asked Scoop Oxygen, which has been contracted to supply the gas to the states public hospitals, to rope in their staff to load and unload oxygen cylinders.