Read more about Goa govt making efforts to resume mining, says Governor Koshyari on Business Standard. The Goa government is making continuous efforts to resume mining in a systematic manner, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari said on Monday
Panaji: Goa Forward Party (GFP) president Vijai Sardesai on Sunday said that a united opposition will corner the state government during the assembly session for selling out Goa. Suggesting that Congress and GFP have arrived at some strategy for floor management, Sardesai said that BJP’s role in Goa’s destruction will be exposed on the floor of the House.
GFP also plans to introduce two private member’s bills during the session and asked BJP MLAs to support the bills which are in Goa’s interests. GFP plans to move a bill to provide 80% employment to locals in the private sector and a bill to strengthen the Goa Lokayukta Act.
Mahesh Singh Mehra was reunited with his mother on January 8
PANAJI: On January 8, when 20-year-old Mahesh Singh Mehra crossed the 12m-long ‘jhula’ over the Kali from Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh to Nepal with his mother Manmati at around 7pm, it was the end of a six-year-old search to reunite the mentally challenged youth with his family.
From the streets of Calangute, where Mahesh was abandoned by his alcoholic father in 2014, to Apna Ghar the state childcare home and then finally to Jhulaghat on the Indo-Nepal border early this month, it was the culmination of a long and arduous mission.
No one knows when Mahesh was brought to Goa by his father, nor was any missing complaint filed. And when Mahesh first entered Apna Ghar, he only spoke Nepali
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Panaji: Chowgule & Company Private Limited (CCPL) is all set to start commercial coal mining in the Shahpur (East) coal mine in Shahdol district, Madhya Pradesh after it signed an agreement with the Union ministry of coal, mines and parliamentary affairs.
The Goan conglomerate won the bid for the coal mine in the e-auctions conducted in November last year.
The company signed the agreement as a part of the Coal Unleashed event in the presence of Union home minister Amit Shah and minister of coal, mines & parliamentary affairs Prahlad Joshi.
“We are thrilled to be part of the country’s first ever commercial coal mining bid and to win the Sahahpur mine coal block,” said Padma Chowgule, chairman and managing director of the company. “The auction is a bold step by the government towards achieving the goal of Atmanirbhar Bharat. Meanwhile, our company’s diversification into the coal sector is a part of our strategy to achieve robust, sustainable growth in the years ahead.