30.10.19 Goa (GoaPSC) Daily Current Affairs

GOA ‘Industrial estates to be alcohol-free zones’   The industries department has cleared a proposal to declare all the 32 industrial estates in Goa as alcohol-free zones.   No excise licenses will be granted for bars and alcohol retail stores within the industrial estates.   The move to declare the industrial estates as alcohol-free zones is aimed at improving … Read more 30.10.19 Goa (GoaPSC) Daily Current Affairs

25.10.19 Goa (GoaPSC) Daily Current Affairs

GOA Centre snubs Goa on Mhadei, allows Karnataka to divert water   The source of drinking water for 43% of Goa’s population, the Mhadei, runs the risk of being depleted after the Centre on Wednesday granted environmental clearance for Karnataka’s Kalasa-Bhandura drinking water project.   If the Mhadei is depleted, Goa’s biodiversity will take a major hit, as … Read more 25.10.19 Goa (GoaPSC) Daily Current Affairs

22.10.19 Goa (GoaPSC) Daily Current Affairs

GOA Naik to support production of sanitary pads   Union Ayush minister Shripad Naik said he would try to bring the project to produce sanitary pads for Goa’s villages under the Member of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme.   He said he would try to bring the project under the MPLAD scheme, to attempt to give every panchayat atleast one … Read more 22.10.19 Goa (GoaPSC) Daily Current Affairs

20-21.10.19 Goa (GoaPSC) Daily Current Affairs

GOA Goa: Private forests report gets 1,300 objections The three-member committee constituted by the state government to finalise and submit the report on private forest areas has received around 1,300 objections and suggestions from those whose properties have been identified as private forests. The committee, constituted in August, will also review the report submitted by two committees on private forests and … Read more 20-21.10.19 Goa (GoaPSC) Daily Current Affairs