Date: 21 October, 2012
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Sub: Goa Cabinet settles for 1 Kilometer Buffer-Zone for Protected Areas -
PRESS NOTE FOR KIND FAVOUR OF PUBLICATION.
The Goa Su-Raj Party is unhappy about the Goa Government's Cabinet decision
to settle for just ONE KILOMETER as the 'Buffer-Zone' for protected areas.
If the Minister for Environment and Forests, Ms Alina Saldanha is of the
opinion that the said Buffer-Zone should be TWO KILOMETERS instead of ONE,
this conviction of the Minister should have carried in the decision of the
Cabinet. It is puzzling that the Minister should voice her convictions after
all is said and done.
This Party feels that this is a MATCH-FIXING by the ever so shrewd and
calculating Chief Minister of Goa who is synonymous with U-Turns, where he
will be projected as ' ALL ACCOMMODATING CM , by later giving in to the
preferences of the Minister for Environment and Forests of TWO KILOMETER
Buffer-Zone, to further appease the hungry, so called 'Catholic Community'
of Goa. If this is not true, then this Party wants to know from Ms. Saldanha
if she actually hard-pressed for a 2 kilometer Buffer-Zone at the Cabinet
meeting and if her demand for the same was rejected by the Cabinet Members,
and which Members.
This Party is adamant that not 2 Kilometer but a 10 Kilometer Universal
Buffer-Zone is a MUST for Goa's protected areas, whether mining leases
shall be terminated or not. This Party is for a total BAN on mining activity
in Goa forever, after the incisive and indictive Shah Commission's Report
and the subsequent Supreme Court Order maintaining the Ban on mining in
Goa. Goa is capable of surviving on alternative measures to replace the
mining bonanza, which bonanza only benefitted the private mine owning
families, power-loading them to seat and unseat complying and
non-complying Governments in Goa to suit their purposes of looting and
plundering Goa, not forgetting the bonanza that GOA has offered to the
Central Government of India for the past 50 years compelling it to keep
Goa's demand for Special Status at bay, the INVASION OF GOA by armed
military action, notwithstanding, against all professed flowery promises to
GOANS by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the First Premier of India, of protecting
their land and their UNIQUE IDENTITY. If the EXPLOITATION of the rich
mineral resources of GOA, which resources are a Gift of Providence to Goa
and Goans, have not benefitted Goa and Goans in the past and are not going
to benefit them in the future, and instead, will snatch away the security
of GOA'S POSTERITY, then let these rich mineral resources lie where they
are, buried and untouched, whether the Goa Government or for that matter the
Central Government LIKES IT OR NOT.
for Goa Su-Raj Party-GSRP
Sd/-
Floriano Lobo
Gen. Secretary & Spokesperson
383A Pirazona Moira Bardez Goa-403 507
TeleFax:91 832 2470 223
Mobile: 9890470896 - 9422060347
Email: floriano.l...@gmail.com
website: www.goasu-raj.org
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Goa Su-Raj Party strongly believes that Parliamentary Elections must be
contested by National Parties only AND/OR by a Federation of State
Regional Parties.
with a reciprocating understanding by the National Parties that the 'State
Elections' shall be the prerogative of State Registered Political Parties
only. Even then, and in the absence of such a ruling by the Election
Commission of India, GSRP would want GOANS who are ERUDITE,
knowledgeable about India and its problems, as well as World affairs,
'STATESMEN/WOMEN' , to contest on it's 'TICKET' in the coming 2014
Parliamentary Elections. Let GOA endeavour to send two real Parliamentarians
to the House of the People in New Delhi for once.
