To Goanet - Today's Panorama section of the Navhind Times carries a brilliant article "A Regional Plan for Future Generations" by Matanhy Saldanha. This is such a sublime piece of work that I couldn't believe it got printed in that ******* of a newspaper, The Navhind Times.
Every single Goan ought to read this magnificent document by Matanhy-bab. Dr. Oscar Rebello and his GBA troops will do well to commit every word in it to memory as they go about crafting the new Regional Plan. The NT website hasn't been updated yet so no links are available. Matanhy-bab has detailed clauses and guidelines for approaching the new Regional Plan. He has questioned the indiscriminate increase in settlement area in the last Plan - reading between the lines, it simply means that our planners have been planning not for Goans but for bhailes (outsiders). Too bad the supplement is soiled by an ******* from that useless Mario Cabral e Sa. Matanhy-bab, my dear old teacher at Don Bosco, hats off to you man. We knew even then, 30 years ago, the stuff you are made of. Warm regards, r
