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There is an urgent need for Goa to be saved. The land of sun sea and song is currently really hanging on the benefits of a select few NGO's whose members have spent special time and efforts to ensure that the nefarious designs of all those who think they can do what they wish with Goa is going being fought with the might of the love that they have for Goa.
Goa the beautiful land that is so close to my heart is being ravaged from all sides and if the current dispensation of politicians and bureaucr
ats do not pay heed, we will soon have this beautiful land turn into a gory concrete jungle which will be dificult to recognise within another 10 years.
We once had lush springs with gurgling waters, our wells were fresh and the water was indeed mineral full. We never boiled it or subjected it to any kind of osmosis processes. We never sieved it nor worried about its travel into our stomachs. We just allowed ourselves to be quenched by its ever willing flow.
All that has changed for the worst. Water in Goa cannot be trusted like before. We cant think of drinking it even in boiled condition. It better be filtered and processed. It has been subjected to the worst kind of torture which our politicians have unwittingly unleashed on it. The rampant concretisation and haphazard development with no management of garbage and sewage of increasing inhabitation has made the waters in our springs, rivers and seas corrupted and unfit for direct consumption. What a tragedy.
Our hills have been eaten and are being converted into settlement zones. Our lakes and rivers are being paraded as settlement areas on their banks. The beach fronts are not spared either with CRZ norms being continuosly flouted and efforts made to help those flouting them. Fields and orchards which are the mainstay of Goan greenery are being illegally converted and sold rampantly for ugly settlements. Regional plan 2011 which threatened to rip Goa apart was therefore opposed tooth and nail much to the dissapointment of many babus and many stubborn political bigwigs.
However despite the opposition, the rogues gallery that it is, they are devising new ways and means to bypass the processes of law to ensure that their crooked bent of mind gets processed to allow the deprivation of Goa at the earliest. Village panchayats in goa have raised a cry in almost every village with villagers in Goa willing to scrutinise every detail of hapahazard development much to the detriment of the local politician whose booty seems to be getting affected with the oppositions to development of all sizes and colours which is leading Goa to its doom
Added to that is the spectre of selling Goan land to all and sundry from any part of the world. Goa is full of Russians who have bought our prime land for a song a the behest of our Politicians and places like Morjim have been transformed into a mini-Russia with statues of Communist leaders and communist flags greeeting you once you enter there. Also people who do not care about Goa's beauty or civic sense are invading Goa and transforming it into a den of garbage. Their only ulterior motive is to make money out of this prime land.
It is therefore time to join hands with the GBA ( Goa Bachao Abhiyan) and other such organisations to fight for our survival. To give back to our land what it has so kindly bestowed on us. It is time to save our land from land sharks and urge , or rather coerce the government of Goa into pushing for a special status for Goa on the lines of Himachal Pradesh where land cannot be sold blatantly to anybody. Goans needs to stand up. And stand up quick. But will we?
Goa the beautiful land that is so close to my heart is being ravaged from all sides and if the current dispensation of politicians and bureaucr
ats do not pay heed, we will soon have this beautiful land turn into a gory concrete jungle which will be dificult to recognise within another 10 years.We once had lush springs with gurgling waters, our wells were fresh and the water was indeed mineral full. We never boiled it or subjected it to any kind of osmosis processes. We never sieved it nor worried about its travel into our stomachs. We just allowed ourselves to be quenched by its ever willing flow.
All that has changed for the worst. Water in Goa cannot be trusted like before. We cant think of drinking it even in boiled condition. It better be filtered and processed. It has been subjected to the worst kind of torture which our politicians have unwittingly unleashed on it. The rampant concretisation and haphazard development with no management of garbage and sewage of increasing inhabitation has made the waters in our springs, rivers and seas corrupted and unfit for direct consumption. What a tragedy.
Our hills have been eaten and are being converted into settlement zones. Our lakes and rivers are being paraded as settlement areas on their banks. The beach fronts are not spared either with CRZ norms being continuosly flouted and efforts made to help those flouting them. Fields and orchards which are the mainstay of Goan greenery are being illegally converted and sold rampantly for ugly settlements. Regional plan 2011 which threatened to rip Goa apart was therefore opposed tooth and nail much to the dissapointment of many babus and many stubborn political bigwigs.
However despite the opposition, the rogues gallery that it is, they are devising new ways and means to bypass the processes of law to ensure that their crooked bent of mind gets processed to allow the deprivation of Goa at the earliest. Village panchayats in goa have raised a cry in almost every village with villagers in Goa willing to scrutinise every detail of hapahazard development much to the detriment of the local politician whose booty seems to be getting affected with the oppositions to development of all sizes and colours which is leading Goa to its doom
Added to that is the spectre of selling Goan land to all and sundry from any part of the world. Goa is full of Russians who have bought our prime land for a song a the behest of our Politicians and places like Morjim have been transformed into a mini-Russia with statues of Communist leaders and communist flags greeeting you once you enter there. Also people who do not care about Goa's beauty or civic sense are invading Goa and transforming it into a den of garbage. Their only ulterior motive is to make money out of this prime land.
It is therefore time to join hands with the GBA ( Goa Bachao Abhiyan) and other such organisations to fight for our survival. To give back to our land what it has so kindly bestowed on us. It is time to save our land from land sharks and urge , or rather coerce the government of Goa into pushing for a special status for Goa on the lines of Himachal Pradesh where land cannot be sold blatantly to anybody. Goans needs to stand up. And stand up quick. But will we?