August 2021

GOA Goa CM Pramod Sawant pitches for skill education, points to 50% jobless graduates   Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday made a strong pitch for skill-based education when he pointed out that at least 50% of students remain unemployed upon completing their graduation. He also said the new National Education Policy (NEP) would be implemented in the state … Read more 12.08.21 Daily GPSC Current Affairs

GOA   Only Rs 16 crore of Rs 608.4 crore plan spent by Panaji Smart City Marred by delay in allocation of funds and faulty prioritisation of projects, the Centre’s ambitious Smart City Mission appears to have floundered in Goa. Five years after Panaji was put on the fast track to smartness on the basis of a Rs 608.4 … Read more 11.08.21 Daily GPSC Current Affairs

GOA Plastic flows through Goa’s tap water: NIO   People in Goa may be ingesting microplastics along with their drinking water, a new study by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) and Delhi-based advocacy group Toxics Link has found. The study—Clean Drinking Water: A Pipe Dream?—assessed Goa’s tap water and found that the potable water supplied to homes … Read more 10.08.21 Daily GPSC Current Affairs

GOA Goa top state in country in education infra, says CM Pramod Sawant   Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday said that Goa is the number one state in India with regards to infrastructure in the education sector and human resource in the primary, secondary, higher secondary and higher education levels.   Sawant, who was speaking after … Read more 08-09.08.21 Daily GPSC Current Affairs

GOA   Reduce VAT on natural gas from 12.5% to 3%, says Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry   Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has written to chief minister Pramod Sawant asking for value-added tax (VAT) on piped natural gas (PNG) for industrial use to be reduced from 12.5% to 3%. GCCI president Ralph De Sousa said the … Read more 07.08.21 Daily GPSC Current Affairs

GOA Postal department’s heritage building to be home to India’s second philately museum The Goa philatelic museum is set to be inaugurated this year in the erstwhile premises of the department of posts in Panaji, a centuries-old heritage building that overlooks the Latin quarter on one side and river Mandovi on the other. This will be the second museum in … Read more 17.08.21 Daily GPSC Current Affairs

GOA   A portal for self-help groups to sell their products   Aiming at empowering rural women, chief minister Pramod Sawant on Sunday launched www.goabazaar.org that would provide an online platform for self-help groups (SHGs) to sell their homemade products. Sawant said that state government will provide land at public places to set up stalls to sell products made by SHGs. … Read more 15-16.08.21 Daily GPSC Current Affairs

GOA Goa draws up plans for phase-wise implementation of smart power meters   The electricity department will replace all existing meters with smart meters under the government of India’s smart meter national programme. A trial run of 250 smart meters, which provide real time data to the department for better planning, is complete. The meters were placed across Goa … Read more 06.08.21 Daily GPSC Current Affairs.

GOA Steps, funds needed to contain cattle dying in road accidents   Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) state general secretary Janardhan S Bhandari demanded that the government release funds for the cattle management scheme and also called for a legislation to contain the killing of bovines by vehicles along national highway 66. He was referring … Read more 05.08.21 Daily GPSC Current Affairs.

GOA Goa’s ecological balance needs community-based governance Wild pigs and monkeys are the talk of the day. Goa’s CM is pondering on declaring wild pigs as vermin, while orchard owners are asserting that monkeys too are a pest. These are two of the many animals involved in the humongous human-wildlife conflict haunting the Indian countryside, … Read more 04.08.21 Daily GPSC Current Affairs.