Team Herald
MARGAO: The Government Printing Press has uploaded the official gazettes on its website after a span of 30 days, unusual for the department which uploads the gazettes on its website once a week. The last gazette was uploaded on December 14, 2018.
The department had not emailed the gazettes to its paid subscribers too during the last month.
Speaking to Herald, Deputy Director of Goa Printing Press said that there was some issue regarding the website, http://goaprintingpress.gov.in/. He informed that the service was stopped by the IT department. “Our staff is in the process of uploading all the gazettes and you will get it by (Monday) evening”, he said.
Absence of online copies of the gazette has caused inconvenience to the public. Activist have pointed that the notice regarding the communidade convention held on January 13 which was published in the Gazette dated January 10, was uploaded a day after the convention. Another much-awaited notice regarding land conversion issued by the TCP department was also accessible to public.
Sanjeev Raiturkar, a social activist, said that the TCP published the notification for land conversion only on two papers.
“I don’t buy those papers so I didn’t know about the notification. That too, the TCP published two different notifications which had two different lists of properties (for land conversion) on two different English papers. Point is we can’t rely on newspaper notices. The Gazettes are the only source of correct information. They should not delay like this. Once a gazette is issued it should be uploaded immediately and not at the end of the week”, he said
