"The smaller the head, the bigger the dream"; so goes a saying. Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways recently laid the Foundation stone for a four-lane highway with dreams of a Coastal Highway on lines with Las Vegas-San Francisco Pacific Coastal Highway. It must be beyond his comprehension that Goa is just a small State with an area of 3.7 thousand sq.kms. And most of Goa is covered with villages, ancestral houses with unique architecture, agricultural land and NO barren stretches. Such a small area does NOT need broad highways dissecting through them and destroying not just the ecology, but the very identity of Goa. The BJP government is bulldozing projects of their whims in the name of development instead of leading the country to Progress.
Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.
