Diana Pinto
It is heartening to know that the Chief Minister and his government have
decided to adopt two villages in Uttarakhand. This is perfectly in
consonance with the Goa government’s recent trend of opening its generous
heart to adopt casino moghuls in the Mandovi river and hotel moghuls in
remote Terekhol not to mention the various real estate developers who are
having a field day with the Regional Plan being kept in limbo. Now may I
suggest that the government also consider enlarging its heart even further
to accommodate its “biological” children who have elected it into power with
a clear majority in the first place. Perhaps the people of Cuncolim whose
lives have been devastated by the ill considered projects of the government’s
very own GSIDC would be glad to be adopted by their generous government as
well as the people of Mopa who are screaming to be rescued from the
impending ravages of rapacious development that is sought to be rushed into
by this government, and which may perhaps ironically turn Goa into another
Uttarakhand. Maybe it is time for all of us Goans to sit and ponder upon the
wisdom of the old adage “Charity begins at home”.
