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Pontoon inauguration at Panaji

Pontoon inauguration at Panaji

PANAJI: Marinetek India in collaboration with Alcon (Anil Counto) Group has set up a project to manufacture floating concrete pontoons in Goa, under the Make-in-India scheme.

The pontoons are to be manufactured in Goa using state-of-the-art technology from Marinetek Corporation, which has manufacturing facilities in more than 12 countries. This ambitious venture will manufacture all-conrete heavy duty floating pontoons in Goa, for building environmentally friendly mooring facilities for boats in the inland water transport, tourism, fisheries and defence sectors.

Panaji MLA and vice chairperson of GSIDC Siddharth Kuncolienkar will launch the operations at the Alcon facility (construction site) near the Sewage Treatment Plant, Panaji, at 12.30 pm on July 18.

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Mhadei: Witness’ exit big setback for Goa

Goa’s case against diversion rests on a report prepared by Jyothiprakash who was the star witness

The Goan Network
Published Jul 18, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
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The Goan Special -------------------------------------PANAJI Even as Goa is poised for a major interim order on diversion of 7 TMC of water from the Mhadei river to the Malaprabha basin, the State appears to have suffered a major setback as its star witness, Professor V Jyothiprakash, who had headed a study of the estimated yield of the basin, sought leave from cross-questioning at the ongoing trial. Goa’s case against diversion of water to Karnataka and Maharashtra rests on…

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