Nearly 1/3rd of Goa’s population require a ‘No Objection Certificate’ (NOC) from the landlord to build a toilet. Blame it on the age old practice of...
Speaking at an event in Goa’s capital Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar shared how small steps taken in our day-to-day lives can help in reducing the overall...
The tourism ministry had ordered the police to conduct crackdown on cooking in public by tourists as it results in garbage being strewed in public areas
As India is battling with growing crisis of plastic waste, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has set a deadline of 2020 to make the state plastic...
Make way, Sakhi, an eco-friendly sanitary napkin and solution to non-bio-degradable pads is here. Produced by the women in Goa, these pads are probably a small...
Swacch Bharat has good impact on health and tourism sector. When tourists find Goa clean they will come again to the state: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar
Under the National Water Quality Monitoring Programme, the Goa State Pollution Control Board assessed 52 major bodies in Goa from April 2016 to March 2017
Being the fifth largest producer of e-waste, India generates 18.5 lakh tonnes of electronic waste per year of which merely 1.5 per cent is treated
At a workshop on dealing with e-waste, Manufacturers Association for Information Technology (MAIT) suggested that scrap dealers should be imparted with training on how to deal...
To curb the usage of plastic in Goa, Chief Minister, Manohar Parrikar announced fine if people are found buying or selling plastics and made an appeal...
Last month, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had set a target to make the state garbage-free by 2020 and had banned the use of plastic bags...
The newly formed Goa State Waste Management Corporation has decided that the first step would be accurate data collection, as the government lacks data due to...
Once the WhatsApp number is circulated, citizens can click pictures or send details about areas which are unclean and send it across to the state tourism...
Goa’s new garbage treatment plant at Saligao processes and recycles around 120-180 tonnes of garbage on a daily basis and even provides generates its own compost...
The first step towards making the state garbage free is to ban the use of plastic bags below thickness of 40 microns, followed by banning all...