Author: Albertina Almeida

Popular Essays

Coal route: The New SEZ

By ALBERTINA ALMEIDA

As we know SEZs are, by the Government’s definition, supposed to be foreign countries within the country, for the purposes of trade operations and duties and tariffs, with special rules for facilitating foreign direct investment. This means that the Panchayats or Municipalities in whose jurisdiction the areas covered by the SEZs lie cannot take a call with respective to any approvals within those areas. In 2008 Goa awoke to what was called a New Year gift, that SEZs would be scrapped. Rather the SEZ policy would be scrapped to imply that there would be no SEZs. However, SEZ-like set ups continued to exist in Goa. Information Technology Parks and Biotechnology parks continued to be possibilities as the IT Policy and the Biotechnology Policy , which make these possible, as they speak of SEZ like parks, were not scrapped. (more…)

Interventions, Webinars

Albertina Almeida: “Highlights of CBCI Guidelines relating to Sexual Harassment of Children by Clerics and in Church Institutions”

Albertina Almeida participated in a webinar on the occasion of International Girl Child Day (October 11) organised by the Women’s Commission of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman, where she spoke on “Highlights of CBCI Guidelines relating to Sexual Harassment of Children by Clerics and in Church Institutions”. See the flier below:

Albertina Almeida sexual herrassment

Popular Essays

A New Normal of Citizenship with COVID-19

By ALBERTINA ALMEIDA

To feel citizenship is to feel belonged, to be able to take part in the decision making processes that shape that society. It means one should be able to leave and return to the country/ies of citizenship. From this lens of citizenship, if one looks at how the Government of Goa has treated its citizenry through actions taken statedly to address the COVID 19 pandemic, then it has left in its trail much to be desired. The pandemic struck, shortly after the people of Goa (and India as a whole) were up in arms against the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, the National Population Register and the National Register of Citizens (CAA-NPR-NRC). (more…)