Government all set to convert coconut groves into settlement zones
While reacting to the media statement by Goa Forward Party minister Vijai Sardesai that the State will import Coconuts from Sri Lanka to ease the soaring prices of the commodity smacks of a bigger conspiracy to convert entire Coconut Groves into settlement areas under proposed Regional Plan. Earlier On Tuesday, 9th Girish CHODANKAR had criticised rising prices of coconut and vegetables in Goa and had blamed Vijay Sardessai for neglecting Agricultural portfolio and focusing only on TCP and on same day Sardessai had made above statement. Chodankar said Sardesai and his mentor Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar are all set to convert vast tracts of beautiful land in Goa under proposed Regional Plan and extended PDAs. They will not spare even the Coconut Groves due to which the future-scarcity of Coconuts is staring at Goa. They are prepared to destroy Goa and this government is ready by making Three Chief Town Planners and introducing NOC for selling land. He said evil design to sell Goa is ready. It is condemnable that State government, instead of promoting the agriculture, is looking at importing Coconut. This is also in a stark contradiction to the melodrama played by Goa Forward Party in the State Legislative Assembly of announcing Coconut Tree as State Tree. It’s a mockery that we will have to import fruits of the State tree from the foreign country. Rather than giving fancy identity as State Tree for Coconut, State government should have worked out ways and means to protect and promote the trees. "The government which pledges and declares coconut tree as State tree and goes for import of coconuts is a cruel joke of Goemkarponn and coconut tree which is regarded as Goa's natural richness and identity" chodankar lamented. It will not be right on the part of the citizens to expect any pro-people stand from the current U turn & corrupt government which is fully cobbled on the one-point agenda to plunder the State and its rich resources. Girish Chodankar All India Congress Committee, Secretary Sent from my iPhone
