Dears, A copy of the regional plan is available at http://goagovt.nic.in/tcp/ . Also see www.savegoa.com Dr. Jenifer Lewis Kamat from Vasco, with a Ph.D in engineering from Birmingham-UK, is perhaps the most qualified Civil Engineer in Goa today. You bet, I am proud to know her and her engineer husband, Rotarian Bharat Kamat, personally. I do hope Mr. S.T. Puttaraju goes well prepared to answer how public roads have disappeared from DRP 2021 plans, how "Eco Sensitive Zone-1" paddy fields in Chicalim wetlands have been painted as "settlement zones", how non-convertible "Private Forests" have become convertible "Orchards" or directly as "industial estates" in the DRP-2021. May be it will be nice to invite the Margao based graphic artist, Mr. Ashok da Costa, to explain the "disrepencies" in the DRP 2021 plans which he reportedly "plotted" for the "Task Force on RP 2021" from which fortunately the Goa Bachao Abhiyan extricated itself before the final report fulfilling the prophesy of druze poet from Lebanon, Khalil Gibran, when he wrote thus in "The Prophet": "No Problem approaches a Man except with an Opportunity in its hands." We grabbed that Opportunity while the moon overshadowed the sun on 01 August, 2008, ...and have hugged her tight ever since. It is time to tell the Emperor [of Goa] that he is naked ... just as his name says it in Sanskrit and many other Indian languages. That is the naked Truth. After that, let Goa go to the Drawing Board ...village by 189 villages, taluka by taluka for North and South Goa Districts. Let the District Planning Committees [DPC] finalise their plans for each half of Goa ...and send it from their drawing boards to the TCP Board. That is what is called "Bottom-Up" Planning. [What we say at cocktail dinners is "BottomS-Up" ...and it is often unplanned.]. That is what the Article 243 of Constitution of India says .....and the Governments in India are sworn by the Constitution of India, not by the Regional Plans!! Since Civil Engineers know how to read "Plans", it is hoped they will expose the Renegades!! The Goa Bachao Abhiyan [GBA], the Ganv Ghor Rakhon Manch [GGRM], the Council for Social Justice & Peace, Utth Goenkara [minus Advocate-at-large], Aldona Bachao Abhiyan, Taleigao Bachao Abhiyan, the Village-level Civic and Consumer Forums of GOACAN, the Centre for Panchayati Raj [CPR], the Panchayat Mahila Shakti Abhiyan [PMSA], the Zilla Panchayats, the Village Gram Sabhas and others will be debating the DRP 2021 with the people of Goa. Those who do not debate and take the issue forward are heretics who do not bear witness to the Truth and , to borrow Dr. Oscar Rebelo's terminology, "anti-Goans" !! I do not know if anti-Goans who pervert the Constitution of India can be true Indians ...even if they get mistaken recognition as "leaders" like some smugglers who become Freedom Fighter pensioners by paying for a "co-prisoner" certificate in the 1970s as candidates pay for selection as PSI's or RTO inspectors now. How can one uphold the law with a stolen goose in hand or bank? Mog asundi. Miguel Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:50:04 -0500 From: "Jen Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet] Seminar-Symposium on RP 2021-16th Dec 2008-Hotel Nanutel Margao Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear all, Please find below an invitation from the Institution of Engineers (India) Goa local center to all its members, for a seminar/symposium on Goa Regional Plan 2021. The Government of Goa calls upon us as a body of Engineers to give our views on the Regional Plan. This seminar is meant to discuss and form our representation to the RP 2021. A copy of the regional plan is available at http://goagovt.nic.in/tcp/ . See you there, Regards, Dr.Jen ============ ========= ========= ========= == Seminar on Tuesday 16th December at Hotel Nanutel Margao from 3:30PM to 8PM. (1) Presentation of the RP2021 document by Shri. S.T. Puttaraju, Senior Town Planner and Member of Task Force. 2. Question Hour to clarify any doubts 3. Recording of suggestions/ objections from members for compilation of the submission document. The Seminar is open to all members of the Institution. The Seminar will conclude with cocktails and dinner. PRAKASH BORKAR (Chairman) MARIA PEREIRA (Hon. Secretary) P.G. KANTAK (Convener, Civil Engineering Division) E. MONIZ (Convener, Civil Engineering Division) THOMAS D'COSTA (Convener,Civil Engineering Division) ====================================================================== Get rid of Add-Ons in your email ID get [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sign up now! http://in.promos.yahoo.com/address
