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e-prisons! Goa still a click away from arranging visits

The State Government may boast about providing state-of-the-art facilities for prisoners in the State, but it is yet to provide an online facility for facilitating visits to prison inmates.


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Currently, as per Prisons Department officials, if any citizen has to visit an inmate, he has to manually submit an application either to the Inspector General of Prisons or to the respective prison superintendent. Following this, if the applicant does not have any relation with the inmate, the consent of the inmate to meet the applicant is sought. The entire process takes a minimum of four to eight days.  
eprisons.nic.in, a national prisons information portal created by National Informatics Centre (NIC) provides facilities to book visits to inmates and statistical information about prison population, daily admissions, release, visits, among others. There are several states like Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand which are using 
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Goa Against Coal warns against huge infrastructure projects in State

Goa Against Coal has warned that huge infrastructure projects, including expanded roads, superhighways and doubling railway tracks, across the length and breadth are being built at the cost of Goans but not for their benefit, but for the benefit of major corporate magnates.

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Published Jun 28, 2017, 3:58 AM IST
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Says the entire plan is to make Goa a coal hub to keep Adani’s interests  the goan I networkPANAJI  Addressing a press conference, in response to Union Minister for Road Transport and Highway and Ports and Shipping Nitin Gadkari’s statements that only a ‘minority’ are opposing the expansion projects of MPT in Goa, the group pointed out that at the public hearing in Vasco an overwhelming majority of people had opposed the projects. “At the public hearings, not…

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