Rupert Coutinho <[email protected]> wrote: Parrikar’s assurance to settle the issue of regularising the houses at Indira Nagar in Chimbel is cheap, disgraceful and is a mind of frustration of a desperate and disillusioned CM-in-waiting. Can Goans accept that their land be taken away and given free of cost to outsiders? These acts are more worst than even the prostitution and murders. The areas will only be another breeding ground for slums, thrash and crimes to flourish in the social environment.
Dear Mr. Coutinho, Whether one agrees with his present politics or not, I write to show my strong disapproval at the your characterization of Mr. Manohar Parrikar's I'd add the following: 1: Unless you were present when Mr. Parrikar spoke, you might be relying exclusively on the reporting of his statement. Needless to say, Goa-based patracars are not necessarily accurate. 2: Regularization of shanty towns in most countries, is a legal process. It is best done in a structured fashion. Good structure leads to better control. 3: And while 'regularization' may encourage new settlements, unregulated new settlements are happening anyway. 4: As far as I am concerned, courtesy of the naivety and/or negligence of the real Freedom Fighters + the 'private interests' of the Bogus ones in 1961, and the vote-bank and other banking interests of the Politicians e Policia who have ruled Goa since 1963, there is NO effective method of preventing the shantification of Goa. The process has begun .....and is on target to continue uninhibited. Have you not been reading Mr. Rajan Parrikar's posts? jc
