The 17 nations responsible for 80 percent of carbon emissions blamed for global warming will seek to unblock stalled climate negotiations next week but analysts expect little progress.
Climate change focus shifts to “post-Cancun”: Ramesh
September 21, 2010 | Author: csjpgoa
Noting that “no major breakthrough” was possible at the climate change conference in Cancun, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said that the focus of the international community had now shifted to what measures needed to be taken “post-Cancun”.
Sustainable Planning of Municipalities-II
September 21, 2010 | Author: csjpgoa
BY NANDKUMAR KAMAT
BY April 2011, Goa would have urban population reaching 60 per cent with a projected 70 census towns. The trend of urbanisation in Goa has defied all predictions after liberation. Whereas the rest of the country showed a growth of urban population from 18 to 28 per cent between 1961 to 2001, the figures for the same period for Goa were 15 and 50.
Village groups call upon state, central govts to scrap anti-people policies
September 21, 2010 | Author: csjpgoa
Representatives of village groups which met at a meet organised by the Goenchea Xetkarancho Ekvott called upon the state and Union governments to immediately scrap all the anti-people policies with regard to mining, real estate, tourism and industries, which have been causing immense irreversible destruction within the tiny state of Goa.
Scheme to encourage farmers to grow local vegetables
September 21, 2010 | Author: csjpgoa
With support from the government, local farmers in selective places are given the opportunity to boost food security. They will be encouraged to cultivate vegetables for mass consumption.
Goa Agriculture Act opens up opportunities for farmers
September 21, 2010 | Author: csjpgoa
The Goa Agriculture Produce Marketing (Development and Regulation) Act 2007, (Goa Agriculture Act) which was passed three years ago but is yet to be implemented, has now been modified by the government with some attractive features. Read more »
By 2021, Indians will live 6 years more, says govt
September 18, 2010 | Author: csjpgoa
By 2021, an average Indian will live around six years more than he or she did in 2001. According to the Union health ministry’s latest projections, the life expectancy at birth (LEB)—the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year—of an Indian male will be 69.8 years, compared to 63.8 years in 2001 and 65.8 at present.
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India tops under-5 child mortality rate: Unicef
September 18, 2010 | Author: csjpgoa
New Delhi: This is another ranking that India would hate to top. Close on the heels of recording the largest number of women dying during child birth, the country now occupies another top spot. India holds the unenviable record of being home to the highest number of children who die before reaching their fifth birthday.
Govt bulldozing its way with land acquisitions!
September 18, 2010 | Author: csjpgoa
What’s common between the government proposals to acquire land for the multi-purpose utility project at Davorlim, fish meal project at Cutbona and the kabrastan at Sonsodo?
Perhaps for the first time in recent years, the government has literally kept the public in the dark over the specific purpose for which the land is sought to be acquired under the guise of public purpose.
CRZ notification a ploy to rob our land: fishermen
September 18, 2010 | Author: csjpgoa
The National Fish Workers’ Forum (NFF) has termed the new CRZ notification as mere eyewash and ploy to rob land of the traditional fishermen.
“Special consideration for Goa is an eye wash, as merely mapping fishing villages and khazan lands does not entail protection for fishermen or environment,” NFF acting Chairman Mathanhy Saldanha told Herald.