All Goans want development but not with ghanti type of development that we are seeing. BC
George Pinto wrote: If one supports MOPA, that means they support the following: >1. The MOPA land scam, supported by both political parties who will make a lot >of illegal money in the various transactions. >2. The effective merger of Goa into Maharashtra. >3. A continued increase of migrants in Goa to work on illegal projects >(mega-projects, MOPA, etc.). >4. The Navy's illegal land grab at Dabolim, including using eminent domain to >confiscate Goan land to build private Naval facilities like swimming pools and >private parking, etc. while depriving native Goans of their ancestral land. >Also an influx of naval officers to retire in Goa. >5. The end of civilian flights at Dabolim. >6. Further big increases in Goa's land prices making it unaffordable for Goans >to buy land while illegal money from Mumbai and Delhi is whitewashed by >migrants in Goa. ------------ George, The choice for Goa is either it remains the backwater state that it has been for the past 50 years or it marches into the 21st century. The choice is, to either depend on the calibre of Goan politicians that have been elected there for the past 50 years allowing it to remain in the stagnant water classification, or to embrace 21st century infrastructure upgrades that are vital to any emerging economy. Once again, the choice is for change. There are those who are adamant that they like things exactly the way things are.? The way things are in Goa, to this Canadian resident, is that the educated are forced to leave Goa to earn a decent living while the uneducated are flooding into the state. People will/have made money on Mopa. The idea here is to look forward. The idea is to be able to harness the energy of Mopa to develop the economy of Goa and its neighbours.? This idea of us v/s them is what sends everyone backwards. The idea of cooperating with your neighbour is what sends the economy forward. Look all around you. The economies that are expanding are those that embrace change.?
