Goa is enveloped in sheer administrative chaos. The all-important Town & Country Planning department can be adjudged today as being the most Corrupt department in the State. It is now better known as the nucleus of Town & Country Destruction. It is little wonder that over the years it is one of the Ministerial portfolios keenly fought over by MLAs.
>From Pernem to Canacona the entire state is sadly witnessing rampant unauthorized hill cutting, illegal land filling and land use violations. The land mafia is having the last laugh with some of them ironically being advisors of the Government on the critical issue of Town & Country Planning. We now have a lot of Serial hill cutters, land fillers and land use violators. The future of Goa stands bleak as the Town & Country Planning department has thrown in the towel and has opted to be a mere spectator to the organized devastation and destruction of what remains of Goa. An environmental and ecological catastrophe is now on the cards with the silent or active blessing by officials of the TCP department. We need a TCP Department that is fit for purpose that is actively involved and take its statutory and advisory role seriously and transparently to protect our land and people’s needs ahead of the land sharks. Wendell Berry, a respected environmental activist warned ‘Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; It is flinging God’s gifts into his face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them’. Sorrowing lies our Goa once the pearl of the Orient by continually ignoring these warnings, all for the greed of the Rupee. Adv. Aires Rodrigues C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: [email protected] You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires www.airesrodrigues.in
