NAKSHA SURVEY: WHY GOANS ARE WARY
Rolled out in Panaji, Margao and Cuncolim, the NAKSHA Survey exercise aims to digitise urban land records using GIS, drones and geospatial tools. Officials say the project will deliver comprehensive property cards, reduce disputes, and streamline urban planning. But the promise of transparency has triggered unease. Citizens fear intrusion, fraud, and coercion under tight deadlines. The clash between the government's modernisation pitch and public apprehensions has turned NAKSHA into one of Goa’s most closely watched land governance experiments
ST RESERVATION: A NEW POLITICAL EQUATION
As Goa moves towards the 2027 Assembly elections, political reservation for Scheduled Tribes has emerged as one of the State's defining political issues. While Parliament has enacted the law, its implementation is awaited. The Goan examines the history, legal hurdles, political implications, constituency-level impact and the competing narratives shaping the debate over ST reservation in Goa
DROWNING DEATHS: A RECURRING PATTERN
Seventy-one drowning deaths in just six months have exposed a disturbing pattern across Goa's beaches, rivers and waterfalls, where ignored warnings, risky behaviour and hazardous monsoon conditions continue to claim lives. Despite an expanded rescue network and repeated awareness campaigns, preventable tragedies keep unfolding. The Goan delves into the recurring factors behind these avoidable tragedies and the challenges in preventing them
Behind the lull: El Niño and weak winds hold back Goa's monsoon
PANAJIThe southwest monsoon may have arrived in Goa, albeit four days after its scheduled date, but large parts of the State are witnessing one of the weakest starts to the rainy season in recent memory, with some regions receiving less than 100 mm of rainfall and the last three days...
WATER SECURITY: IS GOA PREPARED?
Falling dam levels expose deeper concerns over water management, unchecked development and the State's preparedness for a prolonged dry spell
