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Flat for Sale: Mapuca, Goa (Ansabhat) - 10 min walk to Mapuca Market
2 Bedroom-Living-Dining-Kitchen-Bath-Balcony-Terrazo Floors
Great Investment - Winter Getaway
Asking Canadian $ 31,500/- or Indian Rs 10 lakhs
Contact Rosario Fernandes - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Recently it has become fashionable to get people to frame their requirements
and present them to the higher ups (as manifestos etc) instead of depending
on the latter to divine the real needs and "do the needful". In the latest
issue of Goa Plus (TOI supplement) there is an article titled "Doing away
with the destruction policy" by G.S.Potekar in which there is an example of
the output of such an exercise for Salvador do Mundo. Seven areas have been
identified viz road connectivity/public transport, water supply, sewerage
system, garbage disposal, electricity, telecommunication and ecology without
elaboration. This is fine for a start but has to be fleshed out particularly
in terms of what the villagers themselves need to do. For example, to take
care of the ecology they may have to be willing to be tree huggers and/or
whistle blowers against ecological damage in the village. They would have to
be water conservationists, energy conservationists, litter bug spotters, pot
hole fillers, electricity and phone line wachers etc. Everbody has to be
prepared to do this 24x7 (almost) by turns and freeriders may have to be
penalised. These are the kinds of plans which will have some meaning
especially if implemented enthusiastically and persistently and villages
will begin to be taken seriously.
