Dear Diana: re: "First of all both of you seem to know peanuts about Goa . . "
That is a very arrogant assumption on your part. The rest of your e-mail is therefore irrelevant. Peace Tim de Mello ---------------------------------------- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:48:39 +0530 > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goans should oppose the MOPA land scam > > Hey Mervyn and Tim > > First of all both of you seem to know peanuts about Goa so cut out all the > supercilious advice and free unwanted consultancy services and leave us > country bumpkins to fend for ourselves. We are those who have stayed with > our land and have not gone off to seek greener pastures. > > About your Alice in Wonderland version of development, that pie in the sky > is what the Uttarakhandis bought and look at them today. So please pay us > the courtesy of believing that we know what we are doing and why we are > doing it or else do your homework properly and don't try to brainwash us > with your half baked versions of westernised transplanted development which > may work for you in your conditions wherever you are in the world God bless > you both. And for your kind information, Mopa is also at the foot of the > ecologically sensitive western ghat region, which needs to be preserved and > protected. The Mopa people, who are all Hindus by the way ,are fighting this > airport tooth and nail, even gone to court and have been coming all the way > from Mopa to Salcete to speak at the various public meetings that have been > held there. There is a huge and flourishing agricultural industry in Mopa > which is filling the people's stomachs very satisfactorily indeed. > > Why displace and disrupt people's lives and endanger the ecology of the > place when Dabolim which is already existing, is good enough for Goa' s > civil aviation needs forever. 36,800 square metres of land adjacent to the > airport was notified for parking and other airport expansion. Inexplicably > (well not really, we can all guess why), it was suddenly denotified and > given for commercial construction to a builder with connections in high > places. THere is no essential infrastructure available in Goa. Water, power > is a problem. Recently the government has publicly declared that it cannot > handle the garbage problem. Then why give NOCs for these mega projects when > you cannot provide the necessary services. Better to use the land for > Dabolim expansion rather than give it to a builder when it has already been > notified. And we have heard all the fairy tales about jobs for Goans, but > have yet to reach the "happily ever after" ending. > > Please understand that Goans are okay with development, but certainly not > rapacious molestation of the environment which is passed off as development. > Goa is not a prostitute to be used and abused to satisfy the lust and greed > of this generation only. We have to look at it from a long term perspective > of the generations to come. > Diana Pinto >
