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From: floriano
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Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: Lords of the Beaches - NT Edit [22.10.09] - Comments
Lords of the Beaches
The Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (CGZMA) has decided to allow 48
more shacks on the Candolim-Calangute beach stretch, and we can't tell
clearly whether it is accommodation to politicians' demands or has anything
to do with protection of coastal environment. As far as the coastal
environment is concerned, it is already overcrowded with businesses and
constructions. The resources in the area are under extreme burden of
population demands. A government does need to create self-employment and
employment opportunities for people but it should not do it at the cost of
environment. It is silly to say that shacks being temporary constructions do
not create any pressure on local ecology. What they do is no cheering story:
they do not follow any laws; they cover the beaches with their tables,
chairs and beds and umbrellas; they divide a beach into portions among
themselves, making tourists and local visitors to the beach feel like
trespassers and intruders. The policy they follow to visitors is: Welcome if
you are our customer; don't come near if you are not. The GCZMA would do Goa
some good if it moves all shack business out of the beaches, because if you
allow one shack, you will have to allow a hundred; and if you have them, you
will have no beaches.
COMMENTS
The Goa Su-Raj Party welcomes this edit and agrees that Goa's golden beaches
have become the milching cows for the powers that be.
In our ROAD MAP FOR GOA - which is the party's permanent MANIFESTO - issued
in the year 2005 we have voiced our concern towards Goa's golden beaches in
Chapter XVII - Tourism-Norms-Projects & Development: sub section 6-
Beaches.(Page 72)
Excerpts " The policy of placement of shacks on the beaches shall be
reviewed to protect the beaches from being cluttered"
What it means is that no shacks will be allowed to be placed on the beaches.
Period.
The successive governments have been setting dangerous precedents - all for
the love of money with no thought given for the preservation of Goa's most
appreciated and loved heritage.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
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