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Goa industry objects to hurried power rate revision

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Panaji: Hurried power rate revision would spell doom for the industry in Goa, a leading business association from the state has said.

It also requested the state government to take the major stakeholders into confidence before revising the power tariff.

In a petition submitted to Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Tuesday, the Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry expressed surprise at the “tearing hurry” at which the Goa State Electricity Department as well as Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) are trying to revise power rates.

“Power is an important part of manufacturing costs and any large and unreasonable variations can spell doom for the industrial consumers. Hence, it is important that the industry studies the Business Plan in detail and gives its balanced and constructive suggestions on the same,” GCCI deputy director R.S. Kamat has said in his petition to Parsekar, which is available with IANS.

“The industry is also at a loss to understand why the Goa State Electricity Department as well as JERC are in such a tearing hurry to push through major changes in power tariff without giving the consumers a reasonable opportunity to study the proposals,” Kamat said.

The industry in Goa over the last few years has been leveraging on successive state governments to keep the power tariff unchanged, complaining about insufficient as well as poor quality of power.

Now the alleged hurry by the state government for a revision of power rates from the JERC has raised the GCCI’s hackles. Kamat claims that the six working days’ window to put up suggestions or objections to the 150-page Business Plan Development submitted by the state electricity department to the JERC was “too short and it is unfair”.

A spokesperson for the Chief Minister’s Office said that Parsekar, state Power Minister Milind Naik and GCCI representatives were expected to meet later this week to resolve the issue.

“The concerns of the industry in Goa will be taken into consideration before submitting the request to the JERC for power rate revision,” the spokesperson said.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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May 5, 2022

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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