Re: [Goanet] FW: Fw: Agacaim byepass would be an environmental disaster frommonsoon 2010
Floriano! Bravo, bravissimo!! Your claim to Justice 'Bombay High Court at Goa' is an emblematic stand of e genuine Goan versus political power. Goa needs people like you irrespective of religious affiliation. Did you call me 'Don Corleone' ? And are you Tancredo ? I did read Lampedusa's Gatopardo in a Portuguese translation in Goa, before 1969. If I'm wrong , 'bogoss maka, saiba' ! Leopoldo From: floriano To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Sent: Mon, December 28, 2009 11:32:18 AM Subject: [Goanet] FW: Fw: Agacaim byepass would be an environmental disaster frommonsoon 2010 My below not so pleasant outburst has brought in a very understanding private post by Dr. Kamat where in, among many other things, he wants to know the contents of my letter that to the Justices of the HC of Bombay at Goa which prompted the Suo Moto PIL 02 of 2006. I have sent this letter to the HC to all internet distribution lists as well as to all the newspapers in Goa at that time, but I am posting it again on goanet because of its relevance to public spirited fights with the all powerful authorities. Hopefully it will be published, and for which I thank goanet in advance. Cheers floriano goasuraj 9890470896 www.goasu-raj.org PS: I shall be responding to Dr. Kamat subsequently. PPS: Goa's Need of the Hour. What's zat??? *** December 28, 2005 To, The Justices of the Honourable Bombay High Court at Goa, High Court Complex, Altinho, Panjim-Goa. Your Lordships, Subject: Willful Ecological Destruction of Low-Lying Calapur Salt-Pans and Mangroves for Commercial Gains: I am writing to your Lordships as a concerned citizen of Goa, who fails to comprehend as to how a people's Government in a democratic set-up can take decisions that will harm Goa's ecological balance, thereby exposing the populace to the un-thoughtful, man induced calamities. I firmly believe that a Government of the people must be the conscience-keeper of the State. If this very conscience-keeper seeks to harm the people of the State through its faulty decision making processes in order to exploit its position of power for personal gains by subverting the rule of law, then the appeal authority is the highest and the superior conscience-keeper which is the judiciary. Hence this appeal. The case in point is the surreptitious development coming up on the low-lying mangrove filled Calapur salt-pans and natural ponds in the Santa Cruz Assembly Constituency, where a huge commercial cum residential housing complex is proposed to be built with utter contempt for the existing rules and regulations governing the non development of such low-lying areas for any purpose other than what these are meant for, viz. to cultivate salt, agriculture, pisci-culture and more generally to act as a natural buffer/sponge in case of excessive flooding. The proposed development will, in time to come, if allowed to proceed unchecked, cause many more complex problems such as sanitation and hygiene, apart from being prone to flooding. As a lay person, I am not able to go into the lengthy details of hazardous ill-effects of this malafide project, but there are eminent personalities and qualified nature-lovers in Goa who will amply agree with my concerns. I take the liberty of attaching herewith, for your kind information, sections from the weekly newspaper 'The Goan Observer' covering this proposed project which is self-explanatory, along with a letter written to the Chief Town Planner, Mr. Morad Ahmed, pointing out various inconsistencies in the proposed Town & Country Regional Paln-2011. I take the liberty to also bring to your Lordship's kind attention a letter received from the NGO "Echo Goa" concerned about the above cited Calapur salt-pan development, which has been attached to the letter to Mr. Morad Ahmed along with its enclosures. To conclude my appeal to your Lordships, I beg to say that however much a conscientious citizen may play his/her part in protecting the bounty of mature, he/she cannot compete with the powerful and manipulative elected Government which is hell bent on doing otherwise, as there is only so much that a responsible citizen can do. I have found it fit to appeal to the Justices of the High Court before on more than one occasion with positive responses for which I am extremely grateful. In my perseverance to protect nature, I shall not be deterred from doing so again and again, believing that I will only be discharging my duties as a responsible citizen of Goa who has neither the mean nor the resources to fight this plague of Governmental irresponsibility. With deepest respect and good wishes for the Season and the New Year, I remain, Yours faithfully, Sd/- Floriano C. Lobo 383A, Pirazona, Moira Bardez Goa-
[Goanet] FW: Fw: Agacaim byepass would be an environmental disaster frommonsoon 2010
My below not so pleasant outburst has brought in a very understanding private post by Dr. Kamat where in, among many other things, he wants to know the contents of my letter that to the Justices of the HC of Bombay at Goa which prompted the Suo Moto PIL 02 of 2006. I have sent this letter to the HC to all internet distribution lists as well as to all the newspapers in Goa at that time, but I am posting it again on goanet because of its relevance to public spirited fights with the all powerful authorities. Hopefully it will be published, and for which I thank goanet in advance. Cheers floriano goasuraj 9890470896 www.goasu-raj.org PS: I shall be responding to Dr. Kamat subsequently. PPS: Goa's Need of the Hour. What's zat??? *** December 28, 2005 To, The Justices of the Honourable Bombay High Court at Goa, High Court Complex, Altinho, Panjim-Goa. Your Lordships, Subject: Willful Ecological Destruction of Low-Lying Calapur Salt-Pans and Mangroves for Commercial Gains: I am writing to your Lordships as a concerned citizen of Goa, who fails to comprehend as to how a people's Government in a democratic set-up can take decisions that will harm Goa's ecological balance, thereby exposing the populace to the un-thoughtful, man induced calamities. I firmly believe that a Government of the people must be the conscience-keeper of the State. If this very conscience-keeper seeks to harm the people of the State through its faulty decision making processes in order to exploit its position of power for personal gains by subverting the rule of law, then the appeal authority is the highest and the superior conscience-keeper which is the judiciary. Hence this appeal. The case in point is the surreptitious development coming up on the low-lying mangrove filled Calapur salt-pans and natural ponds in the Santa Cruz Assembly Constituency, where a huge commercial cum residential housing complex is proposed to be built with utter contempt for the existing rules and regulations governing the non development of such low-lying areas for any purpose other than what these are meant for, viz. to cultivate salt, agriculture, pisci-culture and more generally to act as a natural buffer/sponge in case of excessive flooding. The proposed development will, in time to come, if allowed to proceed unchecked, cause many more complex problems such as sanitation and hygiene, apart from being prone to flooding. As a lay person, I am not able to go into the lengthy details of hazardous ill-effects of this malafide project, but there are eminent personalities and qualified nature-lovers in Goa who will amply agree with my concerns. I take the liberty of attaching herewith, for your kind information, sections from the weekly newspaper 'The Goan Observer' covering this proposed project which is self-explanatory, along with a letter written to the Chief Town Planner, Mr. Morad Ahmed, pointing out various inconsistencies in the proposed Town & Country Regional Paln-2011. I take the liberty to also bring to your Lordship's kind attention a letter received from the NGO "Echo Goa" concerned about the above cited Calapur salt-pan development, which has been attached to the letter to Mr. Morad Ahmed along with its enclosures. To conclude my appeal to your Lordships, I beg to say that however much a conscientious citizen may play his/her part in protecting the bounty of mature, he/she cannot compete with the powerful and manipulative elected Government which is hell bent on doing otherwise, as there is only so much that a responsible citizen can do. I have found it fit to appeal to the Justices of the High Court before on more than one occasion with positive responses for which I am extremely grateful. In my perseverance to protect nature, I shall not be deterred from doing so again and again, believing that I will only be discharging my duties as a responsible citizen of Goa who has neither the mean nor the resources to fight this plague of Governmental irresponsibility. With deepest respect and good wishes for the Season and the New Year, I remain, Yours faithfully, Sd/- Floriano C. Lobo 383A, Pirazona, Moira Bardez Goa-403507 PH: 2470223 - (m) 9422060347 Attached: (1) Two copies of the letter to Chief Town Planner, Mr. Morad Ahmed with attachments. (2) Two copies of sections of the 'Goan Observer' coverin - Original Message - From: "floriano" To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2009 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Agacaim byepass would be an environmental disaster frommonsoon 2010 Good work, Dr. Kamat. However, cautioning the MLA and the CM is enough from your end as an environmentalist?? Last time, with Hara proposing to build 7- storeyed shopping complex at Calapur salt pans, you people made a lot of noise, showed yourselves in the Cable TV et al and promptly w
