Goa government will reduce coal handling at Mormugao Port Trust
PANAJI: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday said the coal handling at the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) would be brought down by 50 per cent within a year. The CM’s remarks came against the backdrop of protests against proposed expansion of the national highway linking Goa to Karnataka and double-tracking of the South Western […]
Examining RORO services, ropeways for coal handling: Goa Chief Minister
NEW DELHI: RORO services and ropeway transportation systems could soon reduce the dependency on handling of coal at Goa’s only major port, the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT), Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Sunday. Sawant said that if the two projects are cleared by a special committee appointed by the Union Minister of State for […]
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to chair meeting next week to resolve mining deadlock
NEW DELHI: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant will next week chair a meeting with Chief Secretary Parimal Rai and representatives of the Goa Mining People’s Front, a collective of workers, truck and barge operators dependent on the iron ore mining industry, to discuss ways to resolve the deadlock in the non functional mining sector. This […]
Goa to develop a parallel city on lines of Mumbai’s Navi Mumbai township
PANAJI: The Goa government is planning to develop a parallel city at a short distance from Panaji, on the lines of Mumbai’s Navi Mumbai township, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Wednesday. Speaking at a function organised by the state government-run Economic Development Corporation, Sawant also said that the parallel city will be developed in […]
Pramod Sawant meets Narendra Modi, discusses mining among other issues
NEW DELHI: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and discussed various issues, including resumption of mining in the coastal state. The iron ore extraction industry in Goa came to a halt in 2018 after the Supreme Court quashed the renewal of 88 mining leases. Sawant left […]