HC issues notice on New Dump Policy
July 21, 2024 9:30 am Leave your thoughtsThe Bombay High Court comprising Justices M.S. Karnik and Valmiki Menezes issued notice to the Directorate of Mines & Geology,... View Article
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Goa Foundation to challenge new Section 39(A) of Town and Country Planning Act
June 8, 2024 3:45 am Leave your thoughtsThe Goa Foundation today announced plans to challenge the legality of Section 39(A) of the TCP Act before the Bombay... View Article
GF report to SC indicates Tamnar agency tree planting has mostly failed
May 17, 2024 3:03 am Leave your thoughtsThe Goa Foundation on 15th May 2024 submitted a report to the Supreme Court commissioned by it in respect of afforestation... View Article
HC stays Zoning Certificates of five Coastal Villages
February 14, 2024 1:06 pm Leave your thoughtsIn a damning order issued today (reserved yesterday), the Bombay High Court at Goa comprising Justice Mahesh Sonak and Justice... View Article
SC issues notice on Private Forest matter from Goa
February 9, 2024 11:46 am Leave your thoughtsA division bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan today issued notice to... View Article
Restart of mining demands implementation of 39 commitments by the DMG
December 12, 2023 5:50 am Leave your thoughtsThe Goa Foundation has written a detailed letter to the Director of Mines & Geology (DMG) on 4.12.2023, outlining 39... View Article
Viswajeet Rane withdraws illegal RTI orders
November 9, 2023 6:25 am Leave your thoughtsSwapnesh Sherlekar, Anthony de Souza and Claude Alvares, all RTI activists, filed a joint PIL writ petition to challenge the... View Article
Calangute Panchayat Orders Demolition of Amara by the Sea constructions
October 21, 2023 7:13 am Leave your thoughtsOn 16.10.2023, Panchayat of Calangute passed orders on a complaint filed by the Goa Foundation against illegal constructions raised by... View Article
Goa Foundation objects to charade of continuing mineral auctions
October 15, 2023 5:28 am Leave your thoughtsGOA FOUNDATION OBJECTS TO CHARADE OF CONTINUING MINERAL AUCTIONS/SAYS PRESENT AUCTIONS OUTSIDE AMBIT OF SUPREME COURT’S ORDERS AND SOURCE OF... View Article
High Court Issues Notices On Petitions Filed By Devi Lairai Deity And Sirigao Villagers Against Mining Block Auctions In Sirigao
October 6, 2023 3:05 pm Leave your thoughtsA division bench of the Bombay High Court at Goa today issued notice on a batch of three PILs challenging... View Article
High Court issues notice on Goa Foundation PIL (No.30/2023) on Calangute and Parra ODPs
October 3, 2023 11:38 am Leave your thoughtsA division bench of the Bombay High Court issued notices on 27.9.2023 to the Town and Country Planning department, Francis... View Article
The Goa Foundation’s Tiger Petition before the High Court
July 28, 2023 9:06 am Leave your thoughtsIn an extraordinary judgment which it declared on 26.7.2023, the Bombay High Court sitting at Goa, after hearing a petition... View Article
SC issues notice on Goa Foundation appeal in Rs.77 crore Tiracol Bridge, orders stay
July 11, 2023 2:00 pm Leave your thoughtsIn 2015, the Goa Foundation filed an application for stay of work on the Rs.77 crore “signature bridge” across the... View Article
PIL Challenging Section 17(2) of the Town & Country Planning Act, 1974
June 29, 2023 5:46 am Leave your thoughtsThe Bombay High Court at Goa on 27.6.2023 has issued notice on a fresh PIL writ petition challenging Section 17... View Article
Goa Foundation condemns zoning changes in favour of Gangareddy Infra at Morgim, Pednem, Goa
June 19, 2023 3:08 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Goa Foundation roundly condemns the Chief Town Planner (Planning), the Town & Country Planning department and the Goa government... View Article
Goa Foundation announces new public interest Citizens’ Support Hub inaugurated
June 5, 2023 6:16 pm Leave your thoughtsWorld Environment Day, June 5, 2023 More than 30 Goa NGOs had a meet-the-press to announce their stand on the... View Article
Statement of All Environmental, Planning and Other Civil Society Associations and Organizations from Goa on the occasion of World Environment Day, June 5, 2023
June 5, 2023 6:06 pm 1 CommentCivil society organizations from across the state of Goa have been anguished by the unprecedented changes and amendments to town... View Article
GOA FOUNDATION AND KARE COLLEGE OF LAW CONCLUDE POPULAR PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION COURSE
May 26, 2023 2:54 pm Leave your thoughtsToday (25 May 2023), being the final day of the PIL law course organized by the Goa Foundation and Kare... View Article
Goa Foundation protests police interference in railway dispute
January 14, 2023 11:15 am Leave your thoughtsThe Goa Foundation, with reference to the continuing mass agitation against the double tracking project at Velsao, has released the... View Article
Goa Govt withdraws Cabinet Decision permitting transport of pre-2007 minerals from mining leases
December 16, 2022 6:00 am Leave your thoughtsThe Bombay High Court today disposed of a PIL writ petition filed by the Goa Foundation after the State Government... View Article