From: Siddarth Karapurkar Date: Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:22 PM
A public meeting was organised by the affected people of tulaskar wadi, dadachea wadi,nagzarim, cansarvonem belonging to pednem taluka at dadeshwar temple premises at nagzarim to protest against the acquisition of agricultural land along with part of their villages and houses. The road of width 160 mts and a approx length of 8 km is proposed to be acquired as approach road for the mopa airport . In a well attended meeting mr sandip kambli said that government should understand the relation between man and land before acquiring land for any project as for the farmers land is like part of their family and taking it away from them is like uprooting a tree from the ground.The land acquisition process for the airport is on hold as it is in high court then why acqyire land for the approach road, it is like putting the bullock before the cart . Till date nobody has informed the villagers of the amount of land to be acquired , nor they have asked them if they are willing to part with the land, but a notice is being issued directly to individuals stating that govt intends to take possesion of their land specified in the govt notification 22/22/2008rd dt 25/7/08, published in off gazzette sr 2 no 19 pages 437- 470og 6th aug 2009. The people are informedto give details of their land for compensation.The airpot is private built by GMR group and locals will not be benefited but their lands will be snatched away. The airport as per report submitted by govt states that for the airport to be profitable it needs the IT PARK, ICE city (for ice skating ), golf courses, numerous 5 star hotels, sports city and all other gizmos, individually the mopa airport cannot be profitable. which airport in india is making profits other than the metro city airports. Internationally only airports having a dedicated airline to park their fleets are making profits.We will not part with our dear land for any such project. A noted teacher Mr Ramesh Gawas spoke that farming community people have to protect their land for the future generations as without land they will become vagabonds as like the migrant labour that come from karnataka, who are exploited and will have no social standing in their own village. One has to rise up and protest against these unwanted projects which will not be of any help to the people. Who among you will travel in flights, all these projects are for the rich and giving land for these project is a waste instead we should develop agriculture and follow the footsteps of our forefathers who tilled these lands and grew all the fruit bearing trees which helped us economically.Our politicians should be pro people and not anti people as they get elected with the votes of the people .The govt should immediate drop the idea of making the people of pernem landless and instead promote agriculture which is more people freindly , and with global warming and receding rivers in the north goa can be a good place to promote agriculture which can then supply grains to the north india which may have drought as rivers like ganga, yamuna etc will disappear. Mr digamber Tulaskar mentioned that with road acquisition is done mentionong public purpose 160 mts wide road is no where in the world and only in goa . The land sharks will grab the land for personal projects like hotels, buildings,etc.The people will be paid rs 5 or 8/- and the govt in turn sell to bidders for lakhs as done in other places like GIDC, or margao market complex. At the end of the impressive meeting all voices echoed that no one is ready to part with the land. -- Please post your comments on my Blog: http://goanidentity.blogspot.com/ Please also see below: 1. Benaulim Village Action Committee: http://www.bvacbenaulim.blogspot.com/ 2. "Rape of Goa" : http://www.parrikar.com/blog/the-rape-of-goa/ 3. MAND - an adivasi-rights resource centre : http://mandgoa.blogspot.com/ 4. EVERY GOAN SHOULD SEE THIS VIDEO: http://infochangeindia.org/Infochange-documentary.html 5. For the Love of Konkani: http://www.radiogoa.net/ 6. Goa's Identity Movement website: http://www.goamag.net/gim 7. Official Government Site NRI Office (GOA): http://www.globalgoans.org.in/
