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Nov 10, 2020#0183;#32;New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) The mining community of Goa mining workers, people employed in the logistics industry, barges, ports among others are hopeful that the current visit of Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to Delhi will resolve the deadlock put on the ironore mining activities in the state for over 30 months. Sawant []
Now, in most likelihood, taxpayers from the state of Goa will have to pay for the miningaffected people. Goa government''s supplementary demand for grants during the forthcoming Assembly session will include a special financial package for the people affected with
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The promotion of mining by terming 65% of the mining in Goa as quot;legalquot; and shedding crocodile tears over the dubious claim that 30,000 Goans depend on mining, is absurd.
Nov 10, 2020#0183;#32;New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) The mining community of Goa mining workers, people employed in the logistics industry, barges, ports among others are hopeful that the current visit of Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to Delhi will resolve the deadlock put on the ironore mining activities in the state for over 30 months.
Oct 18, 2020#0183;#32;The people have to realize that agriculture is here to stay, it was there before, during, and will be there after mining. Farmers from mining areas like Varad Samant and others is an example of how agriculture has come to the rescue of the mining affected people from the locales of CodliDabal, which were once the hotbeds of mining businesses.
Nov 09, 2020#0183;#32;New Delhi, Nov 9 (PTI) The Goa Barge Owners'' Association on Monday appealed to the government to help barge owners affected due to the mining ban
Nov 10, 2020#0183;#32;The Goa Barge Owners Association on Monday appealed to the government to help barge owners affected due to the mining ban in the state and prepare a congenial and debtfree atmosphere. It also urged the government to immediately resume mining activities in the state to revive the SME industry, which will protect livelihoods of mining.
Illegal mining in Goa is one of the biggest environmental disasters in Goa. Mining has caused irreversible damage to forests, agriculture, fisheries and water aquifers. An estimated 100,000 people living in the villages in four talukas in north and south Goa have lost their source of living with their farms destroyed by mining silt and water sources contaminated. The silt from mining has entered the fields which now
Goa Mining People''s Front (GMPF) Wednesday said quot;frustrationquot; is rising among the people affected by the closure of mining in the coastal state who might quot;resort to violencequot;. GMPF is an umbrella organisation of the people affected by the supreme court ban on mining activity.
Sep 23, 2020#0183;#32;Puti Gaonkar, president of Goa Mining Peoples Front, a union for mining dependents established in 2018 soon after mining was shut down in Goa, said their association has about 30,00035,000 members.
Oct 14, 2020#0183;#32;PANAJI: In a major relief for the mining industry in Goa, the Supreme Court on Tuesday granted mining companies time till end of January 2021 to
Now, in most likelihood, taxpayers from the state of Goa will have to pay for the miningaffected people. Goa government''s supplementary demand for grants during the forthcoming Assembly session will include a special financial package for the people affected with mining closure, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar
Nov 10, 2020#0183;#32;New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS): The mining community of Goa mining workers, people employed in the logistics industry, barges, ports among others are hopeful that the current visit of Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to Delhi will resolve the deadlock put on the ironore mining activities in the state for over 30 months. Sawant in his current visit to Delhi is supposed to meet Amit Sh, Union
In 2018, nearly 25,000 people whose livelihoods were affected after the ban on mining came together to form Goa Mining Peoples Front. Since then, the front has become a voice of the mine workers, truckers, mechanics, and small shop owners. Its president, Putti Gaonkar, said, The government filed a petition in the SC only this year.
Dec 24, 2009#0183;#32;It is known as Goa Federation of Mines Affected People (GOAMAP). GOAMAP has raised the issue of mining destroying Goa s ecology and livelihoods at number of forum. On September 22, it raised the issue with banks financing Vedanta mining company at a meeting organized by Bank Track from Netherlands and Urgewald from Germany held at Amnesty International Headquarters in London .
Costi is around 65 kilometres from the Goa capital Panaji. The village and its roads, previously full of lorries and trucks transporting the ore when mining was in full swing, now wear a forlorn look.
Jul 16, 2020#0183;#32;Stopping of mining operations in Goa has affected three lakh people in the state, as per industry estimates. quot;We appeal to the apex court to provide early relief for the resumption of mining in Goa during upcoming hearing,quot; said Rajaram Arjun
Sep 17, 2015#0183;#32;People are left with no means of earning their living, he says. Most of the mines in the state are concentrated in four talukasBicholim in north Goa, and Sattari, Sanguem and Quepem talukas in south Goa. Activists say that an estimated 100,000 people living in
May 18, 2010#0183;#32;Further more a representation from Goenchea Xetkarancho Ekvott (GXE), where peoples land are being converted for construction and mining purpose, Goa Federation of Mining Affected People (GOAMAP) a collective of people of Goa affected due to exploitative mining in our hinterland villages! Its the start of truly a peoples movement without any political, religious or caste biases !
Feb 24, 2019#0183;#32;Panaji: The Shiv Sena has extended its support to the daylong bandh called on Tuesday by people affected due to the suspension of mining activities in the coastal state. Shiv Senas Goa unit vice president Rakhi Prabhudesai Naik in a statement issued here on Sunday said the party will stand by mining dependents in their time of crisis.
The subsidy would be capped at Rs 15 lakh for truck owners, Rs 25 lakh for mining machinery owners and Rs 35 lakh for barge owners. Accroding to the government, the scheme would put a financial burden of Rs 330 crore on the exchequer, and will benefit about 8,000 people.
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