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Enescil, a Brazilian engineering firm requires Engineers, Architects
and Draftsmen, proficient in AutoCAD, for their new office in Goa
Those interested can email [email protected] by 15 November 2011
Selected candidates will be sent to Brazil for 2 months training
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THE PROBLEM of congestion on village roads is small and needs a simple
solution: one-way roads. We then need to link up as many one-way roads
so the traffic can move smoothly. Only in desperation should we opt for
a wider road.
The Goan village has a unique ambience and the narrow meandering roads
are part of its charm. If we widen every road, we will simply dismember
our villages and turn them into cities. Wide roads in a village, simply
put, are a way of laying the infrastructure for a township with a lower
standard of living. Air pollution, crowds, noise, garbage problems, and
all the evils of town and city life will soon haunt us. Land prices will
double and only the super rich will be able to afford real houses, as is
the case in Mumbai. Ten metre roads will bring in busloads of low-end
tourists, especially in the costal areas, who will descend in swarms in
search of a place to eat their tiffin lunches. Do we want our villages
and village beaches to resemble Chowpatti? All is not lost yet although
a few villages are already towns today and there is no turning back the
clock! Villages which are villages not only in name but in reality have
a future, but let us not forget it is in the hands of us villagers. It
is for us villagers to decide if we want our villages to be bequeathed
to our children the way they are now or not!
Joao Barros-Pereira,
Japan.
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