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Note: This Press Note is ENDORSED/seconded by GOA SU-RAJ PARTY
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From: "Edwin Pinto"
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Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Press Note from Village Groups of Goa
> May 24th, 2010
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> PRESS NOTE
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> In a press statement released here today, VILLAGE GROUPS OF GOA said that
> although Chief Minister Digambar Kamat denies saying he doesn't need the
> votes of Goans, he and his government have taken no concrete action
> whatsoever to halt the transformation of our beautiful Goan villages and
> vaddos into ugly, dirty and polluted slum "nagars"which have now mushroomed
> all over the state thanks to the policies and sponsorship of the
> government. This in itself should serve as an eye opener to Goans as to whom
> Digambar Kamat and his government depend upon for their votes in our little
> state and whose interests they are actually serving. Consider the Digambar
> Kamat government's track record :
>
> Rampant mining in Sanguem and other interior areas of Goa resulting in heavy
> suspension of dust particles in the air, has struck lethally at the health
> of the people who now suffer from tuberculosis and other serious respiratory
> ailments. The fields and water bodies that sustain their livelihoods are
> being destroyed by ruthless mining companies in connivance with a heartless
> government. In the meantime, our Chief Minister remains lost in grandiose
> daydreams of a Vasco Dona Paula sea link that will presumably remain as a
> monument to his rule of elitism.
>
> In the midst of people's desperate cries for water in North Goa, Digambar
> Kamat's PWD Minister Churchill Alemao focuses his energies in making public
> statements on behalf of Raheja builders and ensuring them a smooth and
> hassle free passage for their mega project in Carmona village, even at the
> cost of the identity and interests of the local Goan villagers.
>
> When Digambar Kamat's predecessor Pratapsing Rane acquired huge tracts of
> Goan community land for favoured moneybags in the shape of SEZs, despite
> written objections from the people and Comunidades of the area, it was the
> ordinary Goan citizen who was compelled to step forward and put a stop to
> this scam which the CAG Report later confirmed. Till today, our CM has
> failed to push adequately his own Congress government at the Centre for
> reversion of SEZ land back to the original owners. And the GIDC continues to
> go on the rampage, acquiring scarce and precious land of the community and
> the people for expansion of the Verna Industrial Estate even though they
> have conclusively failed to provide adequate infrastructure to the existing
> industries in the shape of water and power.
>
> What does it say about a Government's attitude to the aam aadmi when it
> constructs a huge Collectorate and District Hospital on prime, cultivable
> agricultural land in Margao?
>
> When ordinary Goan villagers approach the Chief Minister, who also holds the
> TCP portfolio to question his Government's inaction on issues close to the
> hearts of Goans that have been brought to their attention by the people time
> and again, disproportionate and uncalled for force was used against them.
> The TCP Minister Mr. Digambar Kamat should inform the people of Goa what
> action has been taken against the Chief Town and Country Planner, whose TCP
> Department conveniently lost the file pertaining to the controversial
> "Aldeia de Goa" project.
>
> All over Goa, there is a complete breakdown of the law and order machinery.
> Government departments turn a nelson's eye to blatant hill cutting, filling
> of fields and other violations that contravene the laws of the land and the
> laws of mother nature. The vacuum created by the non functioning of this
> government has necessitated the stepping in of the people who are trying in
> vain to establish the rule of law in Goa.
>
> The functioning of this Government in the past year unfortunately, certainly
> does not give the slightest indication that Digambar Kamat and his Congress
> party feel any need for Goans or their votes. In the meantime, the
> destruction of Goa carries on unabatedly and irreversibly.
>
> For VILLAGE GROUPS OF GOA
> Edwin PInto
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