Good Tourists come to Goa for exactly what they want to destroy. Bernice Pereira
Sent from my iPhone > On 16-Jul-2018, at 5:06 AM, armstrong augusto vaz <armstrong...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > what happened to this thereafter the followup? > will love to hear an update from you > 'Thanks Armstrong > >> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Sebastian <sebydesio...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> www.bharatmukti.blogspot.in/2016/09/goa-tourism-master- >> plan-2016-who-are.html >> >> Press release: Goa Tourism Master Plan >> >> This interim tourism Master Plan and Policy was put up on >> websitewww.goatourism.gov.in on 24th August 2016 >> >> Module 3 last date for comments was 4th September 2016. Objections were to >> be mailed to goatourismmasterp...@gmail.com >> >> Public was given 16 days for comments, pretty atrocious by any standards. >> >> Bharat Mukti Morcha objects following and shares here for public >> awareness purpose: >> >> 1. Page 15: Consider the entire State as tourism development area. >> Culture of Goa is fishing and agriculture. It must be protected from >> tourism at all costs. >> >> 2. Page 23: Fishermen Market and F&B Court at Britona, Siridao and >> Mobor. Captioned as Goa’s number one source of fresh sea food.” Domestic >> consumers of fish to be deprived as fish will be costly and with demands >> from tourism. >> >> 3. Page 24: High End music venue paired with luxury lifestyle resort >> in Baga, Calangute and Candolim Beach with biggest clubs in India in one of >> these three beaches. >> >> 4. Page 24: High end lifestyle beach club paired with luxury >> lifestyle resort at Cavelossim, Palolem, Arambol, Vagathor and Anjuna Beach >> with day and night atmosphere of music. >> >> 5. Page 25: Eco-beach (Resort): Pure Eco-beach and Eco Resorts at >> Querim, Mandrem, and Morjim in Pernem and Agonda, Patnem and Palolem, >> Talpona and Galgibag beach. Captioned as “Built in harmony with nature and >> hence with minor impact on environment.” >> >> 6. Page 25: Marinas in Mandovi river at Britonna, Nauxi Bay and >> Chicalim. Fishermen directly affected. There is already opposition to the >> same from 2010. >> >> 7. Page 31: Cultural Events, Music day and night atmosphere. Actually >> there will be drinks and food. This must not be allowed where St. Francis >> Xavier walked. Old Goa is a place of religious sanctity. This must be >> rejected, and Religious values must not be hurt. >> >> 8. Page 32: Goa Multicultural experience at Old Goa Church. Has >> office of the Archbishop of Goa endorsed this? Or is it another scam like >> Vanxim sale? For the said purpose the Archeology Survey of India has given >> permission? As it is place of complete sanctify of high religious values. >> >> 9. Page 36: Discovery River Cruises: Chapora River, Cumbharjua canal, >> Mandovi River and Zuari River. Tourism has already caused irreversible >> damage to Goa’s beaches. Fishermen are to be directly impacted through >> dredging as well as tourism through boat rides. >> >> 10. Page 37: Divar island along with eastern Goa has been demarcated for >> “Slow Movement Wellness centres”. There is already one such centre in Divar >> that releases its effluent in Mandovi river near Vanxim. Tourism Master >> Plan is silent on what is to be done with such cases. In module 2 page nos >> 47 & 48 in fact names this entity as Devaaya – Ayurveda and Nature Cure >> Centre. Can continues daily release of effluents in Mandovi river part of >> its ethics? Part of Tourism Department ethics? Daily release of effluents >> gives out obnoxious odor to people around as well as staff of Ferry >> services plying between Vanxim and Divar. >> >> 11. Page 37: Nature Sanctuaries to be opened up for tourism.This is >> disruption of wild life. The question about cordoning off access to forest >> for tribal people and blockade to through digging of trenches to prevent >> cattle grazing of tribal people has been kept under wraps. >> >> 12. Page 42: Waterfront Promenades (dancing floors on land at water’s >> edge) at Old Goa, Chapora, Panjim, Mayem lake and Colva beach. This is a >> must to stop as it would cause lot of social damage to everyone especially >> the youth. >> >> 13. Page 42: Family Entertainment District inclusive of Themed Park. >> Entire Pernem Taluka is marked with pointer towards proposed Mopa Airport >> and termed as “District”. Goa already has two districts. Is Pernem going to >> be third district? Are People of Goa taken in confidence on declaring >> Pernem Taluka as third district? Captioned as “A leisure and entertainment >> hub for the family offering a themed park, F&B, shopping, and >> accommodation.” Pernem already has Golf Course proposal in Tiracol along >> with luxury hotel of Leading Hotels. Mopa airport EIA records plans for >> Golf Course in Mopa itself. Luxury hotels are shown in beaches of Pernem a >> Querim, Mandrem, and Morjim. >> >> 14. Page 43: Chapora Bay and Chicalim Bay has been proposed asGaming >> districts. This means Panjim off shore casinos will be shifted at these two >> venues. Two areas will be marked exclusively for casinos and this is direct >> blow to fishing allied activities. >> >> 15. Page 43: Up-gradation of nightlife across Goa. People of Goa must be >> prepared to go without sleep. Night life must be stopped completely as it >> is destruction of Youth. Many Youth are hooked on drugs due to such night >> life parties. Even school students are attracted to this menace. >> >> 16. Page 44: Golf Course at Mopa. There is already opposition to Golf >> Courses in Tiracol and Vanxim. Water requirement for maintaining of Golf >> Course is not mentioned. >> >> 17. Page 48: Mass Events at Vagator beach, Candolim beach and Shyma >> Prasad Indoor Stadium. Are local people consulted before making this >> proposal public? We object such mass events. >> >> 18. Page 55: Mode of Transport through water is in direct confrontation >> with fishermen. Cruise Terminal at MPT is mentioned as attracting >> international cruise travelers. MPT is also causing harm to local fishermen >> at Khariavaddo. Then Sea based inter-state transportation of tourists is >> proposed at Tiracol Fort, Chapora River Basin, Fort Aguada, Dona Paula/ >> Panjim-Old Goa, Mormugao Port, Colva beach, Mobor Beach/ River Sal/ >> Cabo-de-Rama, River Talpona/ Polem. Jetties are proposed to be built in >> these venues. These Jetties then can support Ferry Services, Catamaran >> Ferry, Sea Buses, Speed boats and Sea Planes to ferry tourists. >> >> 19. Page 55: Mopa Aiport is expected to handle 13.1 million passengers by >> 2036 with focus on Free Independent Travellers (FITs). Mopa airport is not >> needed when Dabolim serve Goa well. >> >> 20. Page 75 of module 2 proposes State subsidy for Hotels as well as >> single window clearances. It is using public funds for public ruin. BMM >> opposes the same. >> >> Goa government tourism department believes that people of Goa are >> incapable to plan their own future and needs Swiss agency to draw up the >> Tourism master plan and policy for Goa. Goa is fully equipped with >> qualified personalities do to the required success oriented requirements to >> up lift Goa’s Development as required by Goans. >> >> The nomenclature used is “Tourism Master Plan” One such Tourism Master >> Plan was opposed chiefly by students and youth in 1987. Now after 29 years >> another one is proposed. >> Who is a master? Who is a Slave? If there is a master plan there has to >> somebody who is to be enslaved. Needlessly this nomenclature of “Master >> Plan” does not fit. And target of enslavement are People of Goa, Land of >> Goa and Ecology of Goa. >> >> We call upon the People of Goa to read, study & we need to move fast and >> decisively to object the Tourism Master Plan 2016. It is mentioned in that >> it’s a draft which could be final – So lets go for it as committed Goans, >> for us & our future Generations. >> >> Sd/- >> >> Maggie Silveira >> President >> >> Goa State Unit