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Pollution Control board Chairman Shetgaonkar Speaks In Cuncolim Cuncolim Chieftain’s Memorial Committee #pollution #environment #climatechange #nature #zerowaste #earth #plastic #savetheplanet #recycle #sustainability #waste #ocean #plasticpollution #recycling #ecofriendly #plasticfree #globalwarming #airpollution #reuse #green #water #trash #eco #climate #environnement #inquinamento #bhfyp #gogreen #air #bhfyp The Goa State Pollution Control Board was reconstituted on 15/12/2017 under the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act 1974, with a mandate to plan a comprehensive programme for the prevention, control and abatement of Water and Air pollution in the State of Goa. The Board advices, State Government on matters concerning prevention, control and abatement of Water Act. Also implements the Hazardous and other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules 2016, Biomedical Waste Management Rule 2016, Noise Pollution (Regulation and

The seasonal fishing ban will go on for 61 days, ending on July 31. The annual monsoon trawling ban in  Goa  will come into effect from June 1. The ban will go on for 61 days, ending on July 31. The seasonal fishing holiday is meant to facilitate breeding of fish during the season. The State Fisheries Department has issued an order banning trawling through mechanised boats during the period. However, the registered motorised canoes using gill nets have been exempted. Nearly 1,500 trawlers in the coastal State would be anchored till July 31 as the annual trawling ban will be implemented along the western coast in Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka. A notification from the State asserts that the government of Goa prohibits fishing by vessels fitted with mechanical means of propulsion and by means of trawl-net and purse-seine net. “Except fishing by the registered motorised canoes using only gill nets and fitted with outboard or inboard motors of up to 10HP capacity, as a m

Music is his passion and farming as a hobby give him kicks. He is all but eighty-one years in age, but yet not given up on the things he was most of fond of in life- cultivating his paddy field and rearing his she buffaloes for milk.  1 of 4  A decade back, his paddy fields yielded two crops in a season. But with the adjoining paddy fields converted into a housing project only one crop is possible per season now – a death knell for farming in the Indian state of Goa. For the umpteen time Joao Santan Rebello cast his vote last month, to elect his representative to the 15th Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian parliament, since Goa got liberated from the Portuguese in 1962. Much has changed over the years with modernization in the tourist-resort state, the small state of India which welcomes some four millions foreign tourists every year. In the race to build mega housing projects to cater to the tourists many a paddy fields have fallen prey. People like Rebello who hails from coast

Peek into Goa’s oyster-shell windows Windows have several significant roles to play. Primarily, they help in filtering air and sunlight provide a passageway for them, however they remain an artistically explored part of Goan Architecture. In some Goan houses the window screens are fashioned out of nacre they remain characteristic of the traditional upper - classes. It is unclear where or when exactly these type of windows originated. However, thenacre of the mother-of-pearl shell was preferred over glass as it allowed for a subdued filtered light to come into rooms of a house while affording privacy. This gave windows in Goan homes a warm, translucent look from the outside while cutting off the light's glare on the inside. While superior quality timber was often reserved for the production of altars and fine pieces of furniture in Goan houses, the timber used for windows was inferior in comparison. The nacre of the mother-of-pearl, which is otherwise a waste material, was

Windows have several significant roles to play. Primarily, they help in filtering air and sunlight provide a passageway for them, however they remain an artistically explored part of Goan Architecture. In some Goan houses the window screens are fashioned out of nacre they remain characteristic of the traditional upper - classes. It is unclear where or when exactly these type of windows originated. However, thenacre of the mother-of-pearl shell was preferred over glass as it allowed for a subdued filtered light to come into rooms of a house while affording privacy. This gave windows in Goan homes a warm, translucent look from the outside while cutting off the light's glare on the inside. While superior quality timber was often reserved for the production of altars and fine pieces of furniture in Goan houses, the timber used for windows was inferior in comparison. The nacre of the mother-of-pearl, which is otherwise a waste material, was then cut into lozenge shapes and slid int

Peek into Goa’s oyster-shell windows  A common feature in Indo-Portuguese homes is wooden windows fitted with oyster shells, or nacre. The shells are sourced from riverside beaches. The flatter ones were cleaned, polished, shaped, and slipped between the windows’ grooved wooden battens; this kept the rooms cool while allowing a warm, filtered light to pass through and shielding the home from prying eyes. There are still a few houses in Goa that sport these windows. Take a walk through the old Latin quarter in Panjim, Fontainhas, whose narrow streets are dotted with colored homes that preserve their Indo-Portuguese architecture. Begin at the Fundação Oriente on Filipe Neri Xavier Road. The white bungalow has yellow skirting and long oyster-shell windows on both floors. Head out, walk north on Rua 31 de Janeiro past the graffiti-stained walls of Old Quarter Hostel, admiring the grill windows and the bougainvillea-framed balconies. Stop at the renovated Panjim Inn, with its dull brown

Window-pane Oysters on the verge of extinction in Goa   Harvesting window-pane oysters has been a traditional livelihood for the fishing community in Zuari river estuary in Goa.  Besides a livelihood source, window-pane oysters were the basis of a thriving cottage industry. Today due to indiscriminate marine infrastructure, water pollution, overfishing and changing natural habitat, this precious marine resource has almost become extinct in most of its traditional habitat areas, except in a single bay at Chicalim, where indiscriminate exploitation is threatening its very brooding stock. Besides being a livelihood source for innumerable families of the fishing community, window-pane oysters were the basis of a thriving cottage industry in Goa.  For more than 400 years during Portuguese in Goa, window-pane oyster shells were exported to Brazil.  The oyster shells were extensively used in Goa as window-panes at a time when glass was not yet popularly used. Later houses of aristo