The Goa government does not operate on emotions, but it exploits emotions when needed. Governance is not about creative writing and TV soaps though governance can inspire such writings and TV serials. The government is guided by the letter of the law.
So, who changed whose Regional Plan? The RP in Goa is the product of the Goa Town and Country Planning Act of 1975. The Chief Town Planner is responsible to prepare a RP every 10 years and present it to the government. So, what do we mean when we say ' who changed our RP'? The CTP has all authority to revise the draft RP after inviting comments from the public. So, what do we mean by " the final RP2021 has deviated from the draft RP-2021'? The law does not state about the need to invite further comments if any modifications get incorporated once the comments have already been invited from the public by the CTP. So, what is this talk about putting the final RP-2021 out for public scrutiny before notification? Someone seems to be taking everyone for a ride. Someone is playing to the galleries and exploiting the emotions of the goan people. Accusations of contradictions in any statutory process needs to be backed up by relevant citations from the laws. Statutory processes cannot be left to demands based on fiction of the imagination of creative writers and accidental activists. Let us stop bull shitting and admit that the activists have lost the case for the people, and that the gullible goan is equally responsible for allowing this to happen even despite repeated warnings. What we now see is just noise for the sake of noise. At the most when options run out the matter will be conveniently dumped in court and rendered sub-judice. The gullible public will be kept anticipating a favourable court verdict and activists will always point to the courts and claim that they can do nothing more. That would be the end of yet another story of negligence and deceit from liberated Goa by 'hacktivists' to the benefit of real estate and mining industry in Goa. Just add an 'h' to 'Save Goa' and it becomes 'Shave Goa'. Together we can definitely acheive more by ensuring that all the eggs are secured in one basket making it easier for hactivists to control opinion in favour of real estate and mining intetrests. Unity of goans assures control but division makes the propsects of hacktivists a little uncertain. The question every goan must ask is - who were these mid-wives that facilitated the delivery of such a treacherous RP-2021 once again? Even the draft RP-2021 was definitely not our RP. -Soter
