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Aparant Maand in Ponda from Mar 12

The Goan NetworkPublished Feb 24, 2016, 12:00 AM IST

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PANAJI: The GHRSSIDC is organizing Aparant Maand-2016, a handicrafts exhibition at Aguiar ground, Ponda, from March 12 to 21. It is decided to set up 100 stalls for sale and display of handicrafts items of Goan artisans.

Various entertainment programmes will be held during the duration of the Aparant Maand from 10 am to 8 pm everyday.

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Gone with the wind: pvt forests!

the goan I network

Published Feb 23, 2016, 5:40 AM IST

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PANAJIHow do you make private forests disappear? You simply hack them off and reclassify them. At least that is what seems to have been done in the case of 226 hectares of survey numbers of private forests marked as such by the Karapurkar forest committee.A RTI reply to activist Manguesh Kuttikar on Monday states that the survey numbers are no longer marked as private forest, after a large scale deforestation took place there a couple of years back.Survey Nos 99/0, 106/1,…