[Goanet] GBA AWARENESS MEETING AT ARAMBOL EXPOSES DELTIN TOWN AT PERNEM

[GBA office]

*GOA BACHAO ABHIYAN*

goabachaoabhi...@gmail.com



1st May 2024



*AS PART OF GBA’s CONTINUED LAND-USE PLANNING AWARENESS OUTREACH TO
CITIZENS AND VILLAGES, A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE GATHERED AT ARAMBOL FOR A
MEETING EXPLAINING HOW THE TOWN  & COUNTRY PLANNING DEPARTMENT CONTINUES TO
WORK AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF GOA, HER ENVIRONMENT AND FUTURE. *

*SPEAKERS FROM ECOXIM, SALCETE, PERNEM, BHOMA AND OLD GOA ELABORATED ON
RESULTS OF RECKLESS CONVERSIONS ALREADY HAPPENING, WHICH LEVEL HILLS,
FORESTS AND FIELDS.*

*UNSCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT WILL LEAD TO WATER SHORTAGES AND MISERY FOR GOA’s
RESIDENTS, THE RESULTS OF WHICH WILL BE SEEN WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.*

Town & Country Planning (TCP) amendments and (IPB) Industrial Promotion
Board laws blatantly favour private and real estate interests. When
development is not for the local residents and furthers real
estate/business interests, it will soon make local residents voiceless and
a minority in their own land. The environment is the first to be destroyed.

*In just one example, an Entertainment and Gaming Zone of 100 acres is
being set up in the village of Dhargal on cultivable land under the
Irrigation Command Area. The Irrigation Command Area is a ‘No Development
Zone’ for scientific reasons but it has been ignored. The construction
density of ‘Deltin Town’ is so much so that it will dwarf the local
population by 900%, and use 18% of the entire Pernem taluka’s water
requirements. *

The trend of planning by amendments for private interests is wrong and
dangerous because it breaks a system of checks and balances, is in direct
conflict with public interest and people’s rights to environment. All
stakeholders must be involved in a process of holistic planning, that is
why a Regional Plan takes years to make.

Amendments 17(2), 17D, 39A to the Town & Country Planning Act allow
piece-meal changes with no process of people’s participation. Amended
farmhouse regulations contradict the definition of farmhouses for farmers
and allow 1000sqm built up units, buildings the size of Margao Municipal
Council. The Chief Town Planner, an officer on public duty, and whose job
it is to guide planning continued issuing clearances on the suspended
Outline Development Plans of Calangute-Candolim and Arpora-Parra- Nagoa in
a clear act of dereliction of duty. The flood of Amendments and changes to
the Act continues, undermining the Regional Plan in force and signalling
the collapse of governance.



The GBA demands a better future for the people through –



i)   *Immediate revocation of the amendments 17(2), 39A, 17D,*
and all the conversions made under them. Planning and Zoning areas such as
ODP’s ( Outline Development Plans ) must follow from one master plan in
force and adhere to its criteria.





ii) *Regional Planning compulsorily with people’s participation*
as per our Constitutional rights and current environmental protections as
per the international Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), of which India
is signatory to.





iii)   *Revocation of the extension of chief town planner Rajesh
Naik’s tenure*, his immediate suspension and an inquiry into dereliction of
duty including corruption whilst in public office.







Sabina Martins
 Reboni Saha

Convenor
Secretary

[Goanet] In Goa, a glaring disconnect between people’s concerns and political narrative

[Dr. Vivek Pinto]

Source:
https://frontline.thehindu.com/politics/goa-politics-bjp-congress-lok-sabha-2024/article68093562.ece
frontline.thehindu.com

In Goa, a glaring disconnect between people’s concerns and political
narrative
Amey Tirodkar
April 30, 2024

--

Taxi driver stories during elections are no longer taken seriously. People
call them out as entirely made up. In Goa, however, the taxi driver’s story
is very much a part of the electoral narrative this time.

The story is simple. Goa recently got a second international airport in the
district of North Goa. When the local people opposed the project, the
government assured them that they would get 80 per cent of the jobs that
would be created, including those in the taxi sector. In fact, the BJP
government in the State even said that the airport area would have a quota
for local taxi drivers.

Almost a year and a half after the airport’s inauguration, that promise has
not been kept. Vishwanath Rawool, 36, a taxi driver in North Goa, is
disappointed. He said: “I have never voted any other party in my life. We
have voted for Shripad *bhau *[five-term BJP MP who is contesting this time
too] all these years. But when the time came, the outsiders took the major
share. This is cheating.” Asked if that meant he would not vote for the BJP
this time, Vishwanath said: “We will have to talk to our community [caste]
members and act as per the the decision of the community.”
Unemployment to the fore

According to data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), Goa
has the second highest unemployment rate in the country. Anywhere you go in
Goa, people talk about jobs. “Aamche chedu bekar bashlele asaat maare” (Our
children are sitting unemployed) is the sentence that starts every
political conversation.

On whether this will affect the BJP’s electoral performance, Chief Minister
Pramod Sawant said: “It is compulsory to be registered at the employment
exchange centre for a government job, so all Goan girls and boys register
here. Even after they get a private job or go abroad or study further, they
do not deregister. This is why we see swollen data of unemployment.”

Voting for both constituencies in Goa is on May 7. In North Goa, the battle
is between Shripad Naik of the BJP and Ramakant Khalap of the Congress. In
South Goa, it is Viriato Fernandes of the Congress against Pallavi Dhempe
of the BJP. In 2019, both parties won a seat each. In 2014, the BJP took
both seats, and it is keen on repeating that performance.

North Goa is understood to be a BJP bastion. Shripad Naik was a Minister of
State in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government of 1999-2004 and has been one
since 2014, in both Modi governments. He is contesting from the seat for
the sixth time.

On the possibility of voter fatigue, Naik said: “I have never asked for the
party ticket. Our workers want me to contest. They are happy to see me as
their MP.”

Naik became an MLA in Goa in 1994, when the BJP contested 4 of the 40 seats
in alliance with the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), which was led by
Ramakant Khalap, an advocate. Khalap was Naik’s main supporter then. A
veteran Goan politician, Khalap left the MGP and joined the Congress 25
years ago. In 1999, Naik defeated Khalap to become an MP for the first
time. Now, 30 years later, Khalap, who was out of power and active politics
for 20 years, returns to face Naik yet again.

Avit Bagle, chief reporter od the daily *Gomantak*, said: “In a way, this
is fresh start for Ramakant Khalap. Almost a generation has passed since he
ceased to be an active politician. In Shripad Naik’s case, he has been
there for five terms. So, people might think of a change. It is for Khalap
and the Congress to seize the opportunity.”
South Goa poised for exciting battle

In South Goa, the BJP candidate, Pallavi Dhempe, belongs to one of Goa’s
richest families, which was once engaged in mining. Chief Minister Pramod
Sawant sought to downplay her background by stating that she was given the
ticket for her social work. He said: “She has been active in football
clubs, in women’s various programmes. Her husband, Shrinivas, is also
active in Goan social life; he is a supporter of RSS’ many organisations.”

The Congress has fielded Navy veteran Captain Viriato Fernandes, a social
activist who has been raising environmental issues in Goa for over a
decade. He tried his luck in the 2022 Assembly election on the Congress
ticket but lost by just 700 votes. His strength is his image of being a
voice for Goan environment and culture.

Pramod Acharya, editor of Prudent Media, said: “The South Goa fight will be
fierce. The BJP candidate has a lot of resources compared to the Congress,
whose stronghold it traditionally is. The BJP will have to convince voters
that Pallavi can truly represent their issues, while Viriato will have to
use his limited resources smartly 

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Pope's Intercessions


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Saibinnichi Ruzai - Uzvaddache Mister


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Jesus the Truth -Sr Lissy Kurian


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Regina Caeli (English)


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Senior Citizens Exercises - 17


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Re: [Goanet] Fr. MARDEN PEREIRA prefect at GAHS Curchorem

[Wilson Soares]

I know Fr Marden during my time in Guardian Angel in 1973 onwards. I would like 
to visit him but I'm only coming down in November. God have Mercy on him and 
keep him longer then my visit to Goa.

Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer 
 
  On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 9:06 p.m., Nelson Lopes 
wrote:   Rev Fr. MARDEN PEREIRA. Prefect at GAHS  Curchorem.  Served many 
fruitful
years in Northen India
He was a very  good soccer player  and drinbler of repute.An outstanding
social trait  was that he visited his students residences  , whenever he
was in Goa . This unique gesture  won him affection of  lasting friends.It
was indeed and exercise of love ,interest and concern. It is a very  rare
exercise  of keeping in touch with past students just to keep relations
WARM.I  know not of  any teacher ,who enjoyed this laborious exercise of
home visits  by public bus service
Now he is immobilized  due to advancing age at home in Pilar.He is losing
his memory but otherwise hale and hearty  as ever.It is now our turn to
visit him and give him the comfort and joy  of being wanted  and worthy of
being remembered. Do it before it is too late Tomorrow  is another  day His
interests in students and home visits is phenomenal

Nelson Lopes
Chinchinim
https://lopesnelsonnat.wordpress.com
  

[Goanet] FOOD FOR THOUGHT

[Aires Rodrigues]

The Indulgence of Wild Boar meat consumption, in Goa known as RDX, is a
forbidden delicacy.



Over the last six weeks, while in Europe, I have witnessed this meat being
on open sale and have had the opportunity to savour this and other
delicacies like quail, frog legs and rabbit.



Maybe our Goa should take a cue from the West in legalizing the forbidden
delicacy by way of controlled and seasonal licensed hunting, encouraging
breeding and thus not leading the animals to be endangered or extinct.



This is in no way being critical of people’s food preferences, be
it vegetarian, vegan, or pescatarian, which is a lifestyle choice.