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WHEN: December 27, 2007 @ 4:30pm
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Please find below a set of instructions as well as 2 copies of the draft
Gram Sabha Resolution on scrapping of SEZs for your ready reference & use
on 19th December 2007.
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Instructions on how to use the copies of the draft Resolution on 19th Dec
2007
1. Please find enclosed copy of the draft resolution to be moved at the Gram
Sabha
of the 19th December 2007 and which has to be written on the Minutes /
Attendance
Register.
2. Please also find enclosed copy of the draft resolution along with
attendance list.
Please note that besides signing on the attendance register of the Village
Panchayat
those present are requested to also sign on the attendance list as
documentary proof
of resolution being passed and attendance of the people (please photo copy
attendance
list as per requirement as each page will accommodate 25 signatures)
In case the attendance register is not provided by Panchayat Secretary /
Sarpanch,
kindly photo copy the resolution and attendance list and give in entry in
the VP office
and take received signature with rubber stamp.
Send a copy of the resolution to GOA BACHAO ABHIYAN E-74, Campal, Panjim,
Goa 403 001 and to GOACAN Post Box 187, Margao 403 601
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*RESOLUTION*
(Passed at the Gram Sabha held on 19th December 2007, at the Village
Panchayat
of __________________________)
It is resolved by the Gram Sabha of _________________________Village
Panchayat
to place on record the views of the people of _____________________village
that the
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) set up in various parts of Goa be scrapped
forthwith
and no more permissions be granted for any more SEZs in Goa.
We are strongly against the setting up of SEZs for the following reasons:
The SEZ promoters do not have the responsibility of providing employment to
the local
people nor does the state of Goa have the required skilled and unskilled
manpower to
work in these SEZs.
The SEZ's are exempted from public hearings on Environment Impact
Assessment,
and more over the question of picking up industries to prevent polluting
industries into
the SEZs does not arise as every type of industry will find a place in the
SEZs.
The SEZ's are not in the interest of Goans as the type of jobs that would be
created in
SEZs and the type of exploitative conditions that would be prevalent in SEZ
would
find no takers in Goa.
The near 7-lakh jobs which will supposedly to be created with the setting up
of SEZs
cannot be filled by locals as the unemployed in Goa are only about 80,000.
We are strongly against the setting up SEZs as they will be a bane for Goans
as they
will cause the scarcity of land resources, loss of identity and culture,
loss of revenue
for the state as SEZs are exempted from all forms of taxes, pollution of the
environment,
land, air and water, depletion of ground water due to bore wells,
destruction of forest
land, mountain of garbage everywhere, disruption of law and order situation
and an
increase in crime.
We are strongly against the setting up SEZs as the state government will
lose the revenue
totally as the SEZs are tax free enclaves and neither the State nor the
Central Government
has any jurisdiction whatsoever on these zones.
Therefore this Gram Sabha also resolves that this Resolution be forwarded to
the Governor
of Goa, Raj Bhavan, Dona Paula, 403 004 Chief Minister of Goa, Secretariat,
Porvorim
403 521 Chief Secretary of Goa, Secretariat, Porvorim, 403 521 Chief Town
Planner,
Dempo Towers, EDC Complex, Patto, Panaji 403 001, Director of Panchayats, Junta
House, Panaji 403 001 and Block Development Officer (BDO) of the respective
Taluka.
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*RESOLUTION*
(Passed at the Gram Sabha held on 19th December 2007, at the Village
Panchayat
of __________________________)
It is resolved by the Gram Sabha of _________________________Village
Panchayat
to place on record the views of the people of _____________________village
that the
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) set up in various parts of Goa be scrapped
forthwith
and no more permissions be granted for any more SEZs in Goa.
We are strongly against the setting up of SEZs for the following reasons:
The SEZ promoters do not have the responsibility of providing employment to
the local
people nor does the state of Goa have the required skilled and unskilled
manpower to
work in these SEZs.
The SEZ's are exempted from public hearings on Environment Impact
Assessment,
and more over the question of picking up industries to prevent polluting
industries into
the SEZs does not arise as every type of industry will find a place in the
SEZs.
The SEZ's are not in the interest of Goans as the type of jobs that would be
created in
SEZs and the type of exploitative conditions that would be prevalent in SEZ
would
find no takers in Goa.
The near 7-lakh jobs which will supposedly to be created with the setting up
of SEZs
cannot be filled by locals as the unemployed in Goa are only about 80,000.
We are strongly against the setting up SEZs as they will be a bane for Goans
as they
will cause the scarcity of land resources, loss of identity and culture,
loss of revenue
for the state as SEZs are exempted from all forms of taxes, pollution of the
environment,
land, air and water, depletion of ground water due to bore wells,
destruction of forest
land, mountain of garbage everywhere, disruption of law and order situation
and an
increase in crime.
We are strongly against the setting up SEZs as the state government will
lose the revenue
totally as the SEZs are tax free enclaves and neither the State nor the
Central Government
has any jurisdiction whatsoever on these zones.
Therefore this Gram Sabha also resolves that this Resolution be forwarded to
the Governor
of Goa, Raj Bhavan, Dona Paula, 403 004 Chief Minister of Goa, Secretariat,
Porvorim
403 521Chief Secretary of Goa, Secretariat, Porvorim, 403 521Chief Town
Planner,
Dempo Towers, EDC Complex, Patto, Panaji 403 001, Director of Panchayats,
Junta
House, Panaji 403 001 and Block Development Officer (BDO) of the respective
Taluka.
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In witness thereof we have also affixed our signatures on this Attendance
List.
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*Signatures of those present at the Goa Liberation Day Gram Sabha held on *
*19th December 2007 **at the Village Panchayat of ________________________
*
*and in support of the Resolution for scrapping of the Special Economic
Zones *
*(SEZs) in Goa.*
*Sr. No.*
*Name*
**
*Vaddo*
**
*Signature*
**
1
2
*Page No. 1 *
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*
*Signatures of those present at the Goa Liberation Day Gram Sabha held on *
*19th December 2007 **at the Village Panchayat of **______________________
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*and in support of the Resolution for scrapping of the Special Economic
Zones *
*(SEZs) in Goa. *
***
*
*Sr. No.*
*Name*
**
*Vaddo*
**
*Signature*
**
**
* *
Page
No. ___________
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