The Goa Provision of Water Supply (Draft Amendment) Act, 2022.

Whoever contravenes any provision of this Act or of any rules or orders made thereunder, shall, on conviction by a Judicial Magistrate be sentenced to pay a fine of, rupees ten thousand, if the conviction is relating to the user of piped water for domestic purpose, and rupees fifty thousand, if the conviction is relating to the user of piped water for commercial or industrial purpose.

The Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2022.

The Bill empowers the central government to specify a carbon credit trading scheme. Carbon credit implies a tradeable permit to produce a specified amount of carbon emissions. The central government or any authorised agency may issue carbon credit certificates to entities registered under and compliant with the scheme. The entities will be entitled to purchase or sell the certificate. Any other person may also purchase a carbon credit certificate on a voluntary basis.

DM North Goa directs establishments to be closed and ban gathering within 200 mts from polling station.

All Restaurants, Bars, Tea shops, Pan shops, Eateries and other Food shops/joints (Dhabas, Gaddas) etc., situated in Rural areas of Village Panchayat jurisdiction within 200 mtrs of the polling stationand Counting Centres of respective Talukas in North Goa District shall remain closed at aforesaid date and time and also ban any gathering or crowd comprising of more than 5 persons within 200 meters of any polling stations of respective Talukas in North Goa District.

The Registration (Goa Draft Amendment) Act, 2022.

Every person presenting any document at the proper registration office shall also upload digital photograph and digital finger prints of both the hands of each party to such document: Provided that in case where any document is uploaded under online registration system such digital photograph and digital fingerprints shall be obtained by the registering officer before admission of such document for registration.

The Goa Municipalities (Draft Amendment) Act, 2022.

The amendment under section 10 devolves the powers of delimitation and reservation to the State Election Commission in order to conduct the Municipal election in a free, fair and transparent manner and the amendment seeks to omit sections 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, and 136 of Goa Municipalities Act, 1968 which are related to octroi and toll in view of the enactment of the Goa Goods and Service Tax Act, 2017.

DOT extends the last date for submission of Applications for Design-led manufacturing under Production Linked Incentive Scheme for Promoting Telecom and Networking Products Manufacturing in India.

DOT notified the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme on 24th February 2021, with the objective to build a strong ecosystem for 5G, the Guidelines for the PLI Scheme for Telecom & Networking Products have been amended with effect from 1 st April 2022 to introduce Designled Manufacturing with additional one percent incentive rates.