Vasco: The hearing held on Monday at the Vasco deputy collector’s office on the land acquisition for the South Western Railway (SRW) double-tracking project faced many objections by villagers affected by the project.
The land acquisition officer and deputy collector Mormugao, Sachin Desai received a delegation of Goencho Ekvott urging the to scrap land acquisition from Kalem to Vasco town for the special project namely Hospet-Hubli-Tinaighat-Vasco-da-Gama doubling.
The Goencho Ekvott assisted all the villagers who had raised objections to the land acquisition of their ancestral properties. Senior advocate Carlos Alvares Ferreira and his team along with Goa Foundation led by Claude Alvares represented the villagers and argued their case before the competent authority that the land acquisition notification had lapsed quoting various sections of the railway and other applicable Acts.
GFP president Vijai Sardesai said the NDA had “miserably failed” to protect Goa’s interests.
PANAJI: The Goa Forward Party (GFP) quit the National Democratic Alliance on Tuesday saying that it is time to shake off the divisiveness and despair that the BJP-led government has created in Goa.
In a letter to NDA national chairperson Amit Shah, the GFP president Vijai Sardesai said the NDA had “miserably failed” to protect Goa’s interests.
The decision to quit the NDA was taken by the party’s state executive committee which met at the party headquarters on Gudi Padva, which is celebrated as the new year by Hindus.
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PANAJI: A solar energy model has been proposed for the second phase of the renovations at the astronomical observatory in Panaji.
“The second phase of renovation which will be taken up later will involve making the premises self-sufficient with clean solar energy. We have proposed a solar energy museum, a sundial garden, a weather forecasting station, a scale solar system and more,” said president of the Association of Friends of Astronomy (AFA), Satish Nayak.
There will also be an installation of the latitude and longitude of Panaji for visitors to observe from the meridian of the city. The observatory will also have a