Carvalho wrote:
Anti-people and anti-environment projects?
RESPONSE: Else people would not have been seen on roads to protest. Grabbing
miles of land and deforesting it to build concrete jungle or any structure,
is that environment friendly?
>How do they know?
RESPONSE: Why only they? Everyone knows it. If you are unaware, Please
google search or read any Goan daily.
Have they vetted them financially and economically? Have they done a
feasibility study to
determine the cost of such projects to the environment?
RESPONSE: This question should have been asked for Digu Baab first who has
got the habbit of studying for the Exams after they are over.
Has someone done an opportunity-cost analysis? Has someone at the GMAS sat
down with a vast
cross section of Goa's population and asked for their opinion?
RESPONSE: No need to go for any opinion poll. Please walk out of your four
walls and ask them whether they are with SEZ or anti-SEZ movement. You will
get appropriate answer.
Has someone held town hall meetings to try to understand and pose
appropriate questions about these
projects? Indeed they don't even know what exactly these "projects" are
going to be and already we have
the hint of that stick being wielded. Why don't we just build a big wall
around Goa. See how well that worked out for China.
RESPONSE: Govt has no time to build a parallel bridge across river Zuari
which may hardly extend 500mts, and you are talking of BIG wall? yes they
might have to build one outside their own Bungalows now, starting with
Margao & Loutolim.
I have always maintained that Goa needs an economic think-tank, an
independent agency that properly vets
projects and then most importantly a good Public Relations Agency who will
explain the project and its benefits to the people.
RESPONSE: Two Agencies? may be, but at whose expense?
Now excuse me, while I go and blow on my poder's piluk. I need the
practice.
RESPONSE: Its too late now, by the time you learn to blow poder's piluk,
Digu's aam admi from monte hill & gandhi market will be masters of poderponn
& would probably get Special cycles under some govt scheme along with
electronic piluk.
DEV BOREM KORUM
Kamalaksh
