Alcohol bottle waste: A transparent problem on Goa’s beaches
Goa’s position as a year-long tourism hotspot has uncorked a notoriously jagged problem: alcohol bottles, carelessly tossed or dangerously smashed on beaches, highways and tourist spots. As the number of domestic visitors has gone up almost four times in a decade (2 million in 2008…
Community farming in Goa emerges as a tool against land conversion
Many villagers in Goa have banded together to revive rice cultivation through collective mechanised sowing and transplanting. The success in several villages has now become a catalyst for others, particularly for those who want to resist real estate development. The acreage under paddy cultivation has…
Goa mining languishes as revival attempts remain in limbo
The brakes have been put on the once-flourishing mining sector in Goa, following litigation on illegal mining of iron ore and manganese in the state. Plans to revive the sector has so far yielded no results and the fate of 6,000 workers hangs in the…
Uncertainty continues in Goa over mining judgment
The February 7 judgment of the Supreme Court cancelled 88 iron ore mining leases that were renewed by the Goa Government in 2015, to avoid the amendment to the mineral use legislation that directed auctioning of mines. While the judgment brought hope that there could…