PANJIM: The Goa State Pollution Control Board has declined to issue consent to operate under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 to two mining firms since the case in pending before the Supreme Court.

The Boards order comes on applications filed by M S Talaulikar and Sons Pvt Ltd and G N Agarwal Mining and Export of Mineral ore and further, directions from the Administrative Tribunal which asked the Board to reconsider the application after giving a hearing to the appellant.

The Comptroller and Auditor General has slammed the railways for the long delay and cost escalation in the strategically important Kashmir rail link.

PANJIM: Except for the public sector Sanjivani Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana, which has asked for financial support from State government, all other 15 companies, which were issued show cause notices by

The ban orders issued by the Sirsa district authorities against the burning of paddy straw appear to have disappeared in smoke as farmers have been burning paddy straw in their fields with impunity

State fails to implement laws to stop stubble burning, tillers say they don’t have option

PANJIM: Goa’s 16 major private and public sector companies in the field of power generation, steel production, liquor, fertilizers and pharmaceuticals were issued show cause notices on Thursday by Goa State Pollution Control Board for failing to install online stack emission, effluent and ambient air quality monitoring system.

GSPCB Member Secretary Levinson Martin who issued the notices, has asked the companies to reply within 15 days, failing which action would be taken to close the units. The Board has said that in letters dated April 21, 2011, August 8, 2011 and January 10, 2012 the companies were directed to take immediate measures for installation of the system by June 2012, but they failed to act.