🖌 HEADLINES
🔹 5,000 postal ballots may play a key role in S Goa poll outcome
🔹 HC: Seal restaurant and resort on paddy fields at Canacona
🔹 DHS kicks off checks for dengue, malaria
🔹 ‘ Like for film shoots, have one point clearance for events ‘
🔹 Goa’s aqua farmers rue lack of government support
🔹 Evironmentalists, villagers join hands to protect Oxel’s medicinal spring
🔹 Water shortage looms as levels at dams decrease
NEWS IN DETAIL
📰 THE TIMES OF INDIA
🔸 5,000 postal ballots may play a key role in S Goa poll outcome
A high turnout of over 76% on May 7 for the two Lok Sabha seats has bolstered both BJP and Congress, but it has also thrown up a possibility of a tighter contest for South Goa. It is here that the around 5,000 postal ballots that have been polled in South Goa may play a key role. In all, 5,437 postal ballots were issued for South Goa, of which 4,982 or 91.6% were polled. Postal votes are generally cast by special voters, service voters, those on election duty and those under preventive detention. (THE TIMES OF INDIA)
🔸 HC: Seal restaurant and resort on paddy fields at Canacona
The high court of Bombay at Goa has directed the Canacona Municipal Council’s chief officer and the South Goa deputy collector to seal the restaurant and resort operating on paddy fields at Nagorcem, Palolem, within the next two days.
The division bench comprising justices Mahesh Sonak and Valmiki S A Menezes told the deputy collector to inspect the site since there is a complaint about the lack of a conversion sanad. (THE TIMES OF INDIA)
🔸 DHS kicks off checks for dengue, malaria
The directorate of health services (DHS) has asked chief medical officers (CMOs) of health centres across the state to take all required measures to prevent and control vector-borne diseases like dengue and malaria. The DHS’ instruction comes as it accelerates efforts to address vector-borne diseases ahead of the monsoon’s arrival in a little over a month. (THE TIMES OF INDIA)
📰 THE NAVHIND TIMES
🔸 ‘ Like for film shoots, have one point clearance for events ‘
The Travel and Tourism Association of Goa (TTAG) on Thursday flagged the difficulties faced by the state’s event organisers in getting permissions for holding weddings and Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) events. TTAG, approaching Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on the issue, has sought for the entire process of seeking permissions for weddings and MICE events to be moved online to an app, with the ESG as the nodal body, as is done for film shootings.(THE NAVHIND TIMES)
📰 HERALD
🔸 Goa’s aqua farmers rue lack of government support
Goa’s aqua farmers, primarily those involved in shrimp farming, have been left in a difficult situation as the concerned authorities of the State government have been unable to provide them with the much-needed support. The number of shrimp farmers is dwindling with each passing day, as they encounter increasingly challenging circumstances that hinder their ability to sustain their occupation. (HERALD)
🔸 Evironmentalists, villagers join hands to protect Oxel’s medicinal spring
Apprehensive of a mega project cropping up in close proximity of the natural medicinal spring in the Oxel, locals and environmentalists from the area, Siolim and other parts of the State held a candle light protest where many speakers vociferously opposed concretised structures in the area and demanded that the spring be demarcated and declared as a heritage site. (HERALD)
📰 THE GOAN
🔸 Water shortage looms as levels at dams decrease
As the extreme summer heat continues to play havoc, the dwindling water levels in the State’s dams have once again raised concerns. According to the latest data, all reservoirs are experiencing significantly low water reserves, despite which the Water Resources Department downplayed concerns stating these dams have sufficient water to cater to the population even if the monsoon is delayed. (THE GOAN)
