-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Wishing all Goanetters | | a Prosperous | | and | | Happy New Year - 2006 | | Goanet - http://www.goanet.org | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Future discussions on Goa's economy and tourism related issues should remember the following statistics as presented by Goa's governor at the recent NRI meeting. The unemployment statistics is only about "educated Goans". I assume this does not include the 40% of Goan school children who drop out of school before graduation. Kind Regards, GL
Inaugurating the two-day third ''Gomant Vishwa Sammelan (Worldwide Goans Convention)'' the Goa Governor's remarks: tackling the mounting unemployment problem with more than one lakh educated youth on the live registers of the employment exchange, he said. The Governor also called for diversifying into other sectors of tourism like the eco-tourism to the hinterland, cultural and heritage tourism to retain the inflow of tourists. The tourism sector on which 70 per cent of the population depends in Goa, was a temperamental industry based on the mother nature, and ''one stray communal incident or a natural tragedy was enough to kill our Golden Goose'', he said. So was the mining industry which was the second economic pillar of Goa, but with depleting resources. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Goa - 2005 Santosh Trophy Champions | | | | Support Soccer Activities at the grassroots in our villages | | Vacationing in Goa this year-end - Carry and distribute Soccer Balls | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
