-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VM de Malars anguish about the inaction in Goa is probably shared by all Goans who can see the pathetic state of affairs in our lovely state. Here are some everyday issues: 1. The garbage problems continue, especially in South Goa. No short or long term solution is forthcoming from any Govt. body. Whatever garbage bins which were in the panchayat areas, especially the beaches, have been removed, ostensibly as they cannot be cleared by the authorities. Meanwhile. every tourist walking along the beaches is forced to throw his garbage wherever he can. Our beautiful fields are now receptacles for garbage bags. 2. Since November, the shacks on the beaches have proliferated, more than 50% being unauthorised. The tourist dept., headed by an impotent old man, is in paralysis. The shacks are a law unto themselves, spreading their beds and tables upto the waterline and preventing pedestrians from strolling along the beach. 3. For the last 7 years, not a single lifeguard has stood on the lifeguard stand on benaulim beach. In the meantime, regular drowning deaths occur. Now, unsupervised watersports have added to the risk of drowning deaths. 4. The road accesses to the beaches have not been widened or tarred for the past 5 years. In fact there has not been a single initiative from the tourism dept. to improve tourism in south Goa for years. 5. the South Goa tourist taxi mafia has started flexing its muscles, in the face of an impotent police force and third rate Congress govt. in power. Now, its even difficult to pick up your own relatives from a starred hotel. If this isnt anarchy, what is?
regards, Gilbert Menezes > > Message: 12 > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:04:38 +0530 > From: Goanet Reader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Goanet] Goanet Reader: The power to say "No" > To: goanet@goanet.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > The power to say No > > by V. M. de Malar > > > We need a sophisticated tourism plan for Goa to help shape the ongoing > tourism tsunami in manner a that preserves what is special, but all we > have is unplanned anarchy and widespread illegality all the way up and > down our coastline. > > We need a modern infrastructure, we need a better road network, we need > to tackle this maddening garbage problem once and for all, but we get > nothing but inaction, irresponsibility, and meaningless platitudes.
