THURSDAY, 27 AUGUST 2026

PCB indifference to rumbler disturbance

The residents of Dandeavaddo approached the Pollution Control board for assistance. They requested for measuring the unprecedented  noise generated by  rumbler nuisance at Dandeavaddo.

The affected residents have also  the protection of noise pollution act by vehicular sources after 10 pm; but this unbearable nuisance is24x7. We assured to bear the costs if need be. The request by email was sent  3 months ago but not even a courtesy response was received.The PCB was contacted many times but each time the answer was about checking on the complaint.

Does PCB exist to attend  to the genuine grievances of the citizens or is it an 'ornamental'  dept rushing expeditiously only at dance music venues? Why such callous indifference to repeated reminders? Is it not our right to expect a response from a public funded govt dept?


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Increase in smuggling of Goan liquor as K'taka elections loom

ADELMO FERNANDES, Vasco
Published Mar 28, 2023, 8:29 PM IST
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It is learnt that a team of Excise department officials raided a private sleeper luxury bus at Anmod check-post on Goa-Karnataka border and seized 319 litres of Goa-made liquor worth Rs 34 lakh hidden in cartoons. This incidentally is the second such seizure in 12 days of liquor being transported illegally from Goa. Karnataka excise officials reportedly seized around 158 litres of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) at Anmod check-post near the Goa-Karnataka border recently.…

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