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Study available on temples destroyed: Phaldesai

PANAJI: Minister for Archives and Archaeology Subhash Phaldesai said there is a substantial study available about temples which have been destroyed during the Portuguese rule.

When Fatorda MLA Vijay Sardesai insisted on a notified list of temples destroyed during the Portuguese rule and which the government intends to reconstruct, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant intervened and said the process to identify these temples was in progress.

“Once the process is complete, the list will be notified,” said Sawant.

The opposition has accused the State government of communalising the issue.


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Digitisation of old records to take 3 years: Minister

THE GOAN NETWORK
Published Jul 21, 2022, 11:51 PM IST
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PANAJIMinister for Archives and Archaeology Subhash Phaldesai on Thursday assured in the Assembly that the digitisation process of old land records and other archival documents would begin within 3 months, adding that the entire process may be completed in about three years.“The department will take up the digitisation of 4.5-6 crore pages of archival documents, some of which dates back to 1595,” said Phaldesai."If land ownership related documents were digitised before this,…

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