To Goanet - Refer to this link -
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulf-goans/message/19244 Amar J. Britto of Acron wrote: >Work on sites is purportedly being stopped due to the apprehensions >of the villagers as to the sufficiency of water, electricity, garbage >disposal, roads, etc. If every industry must provide the >infrastructure for the use of its products then why is only the >construction industry being singled out for this activism ? Why are >automobile showrooms not picketed – don't sell cars and bikes till >vehicle makers widen roads ? Why permit the sale of any more TV's and >fridge's till these manufacturers also generate electricity for us ? >Why allow more flights to land in Dabolim till the airlines expand >it !? Why allow consumer products companies to keep selling their >well packaged products unless they also operate garbage disposal >services ? I am responding in the hope that although the thoughts - if one may be bold enough to term them so - expressed above are pre-Kindergarten level, the author may file my response away so that when he grows up he may reflect on his silliness. Of course, there is no guarantee of anyone growing up, for as a wit once observed, some people never grow up, they only grow old. It is true that in India the word "planning" exists only in textbooks. However, the nuisance and/or the adverse effects wrought by cars and consumer products are in principle reversible in the near term. But what you do to the land - that will be here to stay for the next 100, 200, 500+ years. When you cut trees, fill fields, clear orchards, shave hills in order to pour your concrete - those scars will not evaporate. Not in your lifetime, not in the lifetime of the several generations you may spawn. When you and your cohorts embark on this orgy of construction and sell your apartments en bloc to outsiders, you are willfully re-fashioning the character & profile of this place. Not through a gradual organic process, but via a social shock wave. That will invite acute and unpleasant socio-economic consequences. All the builders have done incalculable damage to Goa. Enough is enough. If you have further questions, please ask. Warm regards, r
