I'd been to the Salmona spring the day before yesterday with Bindu Vaz scouting for a trek destination for the kids and was horrified to see the foundation dug for a big construction barely 25-30 mtrs. from the spout (pipe in the wall). Around the depression in front of the wall are ghastly looking shelters for the labourers built of bamboo and black plastic sheeting. Wasn't there some restriction on construction in that area? Remember some hullabaloo in that regard but was sailing in those days so don't know the details. I had some great times in the pristine surroundings and proudly took my Mumbai / sailor friends there. Every one of them admired the atmosphere.
Of late we have garbage sorting in the fields, water tankers dribbling all along the road from dawn to well past dusk, boundary walls along the CHOGM road used as hoardings, traffic jams at Samrat restaurant caused by buses and other vehicles parking on both sides of the road leaving barely enough space for up/down traffic to squeeze through one way at a time, while the drivers enjoy Xacuti and same problem outside the temple both at Muddavaddi. I shifted here because I felt it was a healthier environment for the kids compared to the polluted ugly concrete jungle called Mumbai but Saligao seems to be heading down the same drain. My first reaction was 'There goes the neighbourhood'. But, on second thought can we get together to stop such desecration of our beautiful village? Can we together do something to preserve the Saligao we've lived in, so future generations can enjoy what we had and not just talk about how nice Saligao was in 'the good old days' and then migrate! Any solutions? Effective ones, legislation perhaps, not just a flash in the pan like the fiasco to stop sale of water from the well near A. Clotil / U. Peter Vaz's house in Donvaddo which I witnessed when on leave years back. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--W-E-B--S-I-T-E--=-=-=-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from Saligaonet | http://www.goacom.com/saligao_tinto/ ============================================================================ * Send e=mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT saligaonet@goacom.com) * Leave SUBJECT blank <--- Commom Mistake !! * On first line of the BODY of your message, type: subscribe saligaonet YOUR.EMAIL OR unsubscribe saligaonet YOUR.EMAIL Questions/Problems? Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
