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From: floriano
To: [email protected] ; [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 7:24 PM
Subject: Budget allocation in the budget 2012 for ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION
It is saddening to see that there is no mention of Environment Protection in
the Budget Speech 2012 nor any funds allocation.
Various budgetary allocations are made indirectly through GSPCB,
Municipalities, etc., but nothing directly related to Environment
Protection.
The least budgetary provision should have been made for Environment
Protection in the form of setting-up of an Environmental Degradation
Watch-Dog Cell ( apart from GSPCB - Goa State Pollution Control Board which
is found wanting) so that man-machinery and requisite infranstructure is
set-up to bring to book willful polluters ( like burning of
plastics/garbage, illegal felling of trees, hill-cutting, sand extraction,
to set-up environment-friendly projects such as solar, wind energy etc). A
budgetary allocation of Rs. 50-100 crores was absolutely necessary in order
to check the dangerous advances on damaging Goa's fragile Environment. Goa
Su-Raj Party would allocate more funds in this direction than the above
since Environment Protection is a mainstay for GOA.
Note: The above has been sent to TOI on request for their 'People Speak'
Secton for tomorrow's edition.
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