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This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Respected Sir... This article contains my views about the Regional Plan and Student participation... I slightly had to modify the article I had sent you yesterday, so here it is... Please publish it at your discretion... I would humbly request you to refrain from editing it... If you find it too long, please inform me and I'll cut down on a few points... P.S: This article is from a students point of view... I'm studying TYBSc in Computer Science in St.Xavier's, Mapusa. Thanking You Your Faithfully Nigel Britto Peace and Love... Regional Plan and Student participation I've lived here all my life. So this is a place I call home. This is a place we all call home. So when you mess around with our home, you have us to deal with. If the government comes up with outrageous plans that threaten to destroy our very identity, and they still think we're going to keep quiet, that just goes on to prove their stupidity, which we all know about. The plans the government come up with should be for the upliftment of the people, not for the builders who pay them the crores. The first step in preserving Goa's identity would logically be to chuck all former and present builders and real estate developers out of the government. I don't think in my lifetime has Goa ever had such a poor crop of MLA's. Their actions and decisions make it all but obvious that they are only out to strike deals and take off with the loot, so much so that it isn't that great a loss to them if they later have to resign... First of all they came up with possibly the worst Regional Plan in the history of Goa... Then they refuse to scrap the plan even as the people of Goa, led by the Goa Bachao Abhiyan united like never before to protest against their grotesque desires. It was only when the Catholic Church and the Bahujan Samaj openly backed the Goa Bachao Abhiyan that the realization came upon the Congress that unless they scrapped the plan, they would lose their minority vote bank which they depend so heavily on. So even when the government decided to de-notify it, the honorable CM used the word non-retrospective, which he assumed would be beyond the realm of understanding of the Goan people. That meant the permissions already granted would stay. So I have one question for the government. Did they de-notify the plan just to fool the people..?? Whom are they trying to fool..? The people are not dumb. This has gotten to such a stage where-in the people, especially the youth no longer feel they can trust the government. It's high time that the MLA's realize that their greed of money is slowly but steadily leading to the downfall of Goa. Ministers, MLA's, TCP dept, this is for you: Only when the last fish dies and the last tree is cut, will you realize that money cannot be eaten. Then you'll look at the crores you made and wonder where things went wrong. The man who changed the world, Jesus Christ wasn't lying when He said that it is virtually impossible for the rich and the wicked to enter Paradise. Your greed is destroying the paradise we've all known. If you think you're setting up your life and that of your 40 future generations with stolen money, you can't be more wrong. They'll turn up as bad, if not worse, than you are. We already see it happening... On the positive note, the Youth have opened their eyes, but not yet woken up. We the youth, who were previously living in a make-believe world of screwed up delusions, now realize that the government no longer holds to any values. Sacrilege and heresy have been left behind. When the youth wake up, it's time for the government to take notice. If you ignore us, we ignore you. My sincere appeal. For the forthcoming elections, PLEASE let integrity and honesty be your criteria for selecting your candidate. Not bikes, cars, washing machines, etc. These are just things bought with stolen money, and if you accept these, in exchange for your vote, you're playing a major role in destroying Goa. Please fight your ignorance, and you'll win the battle... As Dr.Oscar put it, we have already won the war against our own fear. Now we're united. And we're unstoppable...