{"id":9170,"date":"2023-04-19T05:27:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T23:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9170"},"modified":"2025-03-29T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:11:03","slug":"goa-tamnar-transmission-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/goa-tamnar-transmission-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Goa-Tamnar Transmission Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Goa-Tamnar Transmission Project:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>Inter State Transmission System project <\/strong>envisaged by the <strong>Ministry of Power<\/strong> in 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose<\/strong>: It was envisioned to create an <strong>additional source of power for the state of Goa<\/strong>, which is currently dependent on the Western grid for its growing power requirements.<\/li>\n<li>The project <strong>involves laying a 400 KV transmission line from Sangod in Goa to <\/strong>the <strong>Karnataka border <\/strong>to help meet Goa\u2019s peak electricity demand.<\/li>\n<li>This project is <strong>spread across the state of Goa, Karnataka and Chhattisgarh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It passes through <\/strong>the heavy dense forest of the <strong>Western Ghats in Goa &amp; Karnataka.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Implementin Agency: Goa Tamnar Transmission Project Limited (GTTPL<\/strong>), a special purpose vehicle (SPV) incorporated for the implementation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is the Forest (Conservation) Act 1980?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>act by the Parliament of India <\/strong>which ensures the conservation of forests and their resources.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Provisions<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>It <strong>prohibits the felling of forests for any \u201cnon-forestry<\/strong>\u201d use <strong>without prior clearance by the central government.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Central Government has the power to make rules <\/strong>for carrying out the provisions of this Act.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>Any person aggrieved <\/strong>may file an <strong>appeal to the National Green Tribunal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Offences made by Authorities or Government Departments are punishable<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Central Government may constitute an advisory committee <\/strong>to advise the government with regard to forest conservation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the National Green Tribunal (NGT)?<\/h3>\n<p>The National Green Tribunal, established in 2010, as per the National Green Tribunal Act is a specialised judicial body equipped with expertise solely for the purpose of adjudicating environmental cases in the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/bangalore\/karnataka-to-consider-impact-of-goa-tamnar-project-on-wildlife-ecology-8563494\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Karnataka to consider impact of Goa-Tamnar project on wildlife, ecology before seeking forest clearances: CEC<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa-Tamnar Transmission Project is an Inter State Transmission System project of Ministry of Power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}