---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vivian D'Souza <[email protected]> Date: 12 April 2012 14:00 Subject: Re: [SALIGAONET] 2 Google Maps: 500 mts. Around The Tower. To: muriel&mario <[email protected]>
I am sorry that so many Saligaokars are going through so much angst, when alternative solutions are available and the body of evidence from other countries shows that the safety of teletowers is very much suspect. I hope goodsense prevails, but it seems that the almighty buck trumps all? Vivian *From:* muriel&mario <[email protected]> *To:* [email protected] *Sent:* Thursday, April 12, 2012 3:07 AM *Subject:* Re: [SALIGAONET] 2 Google Maps: 500 mts. Around The Tower. Dear Blaise, On 11 April 2012 09:08, Blaise Costabir <[email protected]> wrote: Now I can suggest you make iterations to find a circle where in no one lives within the 500 mts radius and this can be a possible new site. The following is cut and pasted from our post dtd. 3 March 2012: << Quote: 1. Proposed way back on 12 Feb *{exactly 2 months ago!}*... We had heard of his offer, so we went and met *Austin Fernandes*, owner of Saligao Super Market. His plot is located, north of the village, out in the fields between the residential area of Saligao and Monte de Guirim, where Austin had a poultry farm, some time ago. Survey numbers are 261/10, 11, 12, 13 and are even shown as 'Settlement' in the latest RP21!" He has TCP clearance and conversion done. Status: willing to negotiate immediately. 2. Plot owned by *Austin DaGama*. Far away from residential areas. We forgot to ask the location. It was bought by him, to rent out to BSNL, when they were looking to install a tower in the village. The BSNL technical team visited the plot and liked it very much as a tower there could service 5 villages, reports Austin, but the deal fell through, because the terms and conditions were not satisfactory to him. Contact: 9271692686. Status: willing to negotiate immediately. 3. Plot owned by *Patrick Silveira* of Salmona. Hill side plot, somewhere in the direction of Sangolda. Contact: 9822154656 / 9326103483. Status: willing to negotiate immediately. 4. The evergreen, ever buzzing, Saligao grapevine had it at one time, that the Panchayat was also searching for a site in the fields, around the Saligao-Guirim border. There even was a proposal to build a road to connect to the main Saligao-Para road. This is also an option that can still be explored. Contact Sarpanch, Lucas Remedios: 9765907385 Since we were never associated with the search party, we have no information on the outcome of these proposals. We hope that even at this late stage, these possibilities can be explored and the tower shifted. Unquote.>> The attached pics (A - in yellow) are of Austin Fernandes' plot. Unfortunately, the south-western edge of the 500 mts. circumference, has a few houses. So that is out. Except for this edge, the rest of the circle does not have a single house. The (B) pics are of Austin Gama's (B - in green) plot and most fortunately it does not have any houses! Surveyed under No. is 249/11 of Saligao village, it is also located, north of the village, out in the fields between the residential area of Saligao and Monte de Guirim, but further north from Austy Fernandes' plot. We spoke to Austy Gama, yesterday and he says that no one has approached him yet. The location was liked immensely by BSNL engineers, who said that a tower there would cater to 5 villages. However the deal fell through, because BSNL was offering only Rs. 3,000/- a month and wanted a 20-year lease without any increase in the rent! Austy told them to get back with better figures. He is still waiting! The Delaney plot (red) is also attached for comparison of residential density. The first pic is of all 3 sites with their respective 500 mt. circles. As you can see, the community co-operated with the Tower Team in proactively searching for and suggesting alternate sites. Patrick and Diago even went around on alternate site visits with Cyril. Then, residents saw that despite requests to halt work, while this dialogue and joint search was going on, work on site continued. They saw this as a serious breach of trust and called off the joint search. However last night, the situation reached flash point at the tower site in the Delaney front yard and had the police not arrived in time, there is no telling what could have transpired. After the court dismissed the community's case on a very technical point, residents got the police to stop work as the Tower Team still did not have a Construction Licence from the Panchayat, making the tower illegal. However, work carried on with around 5-7 labourers on site. At about 8.45 pm, around 40-50 residents gathered at the site and heated exchanges ensued. The entire Tower Team of Ashley Delaney, Cyril DeMello and Venas Cordeiro was on site. Gerard Delaney made a brief appearance, but returned indoors when community members shouted to him to come and join the proceedings. He politely declined and told the residents that he would talk to them only at their homes. Cyril and Venas maintained that they were only sorting out steel members for another site, as material for 2 towers had arrived at this one. Things quietened down only when the police officer in charge later came and took the labourers to the police station. Residents followed and an agreement was reached to stop work for the night. In view of the militant mood of a very, very angry community and whose numbers swelled quite fast, it is quite evident that the tower will not be allowed to be erected...as was predicted from day one. It is unfortunate that things have to reach this pass, when from day one, the community requested, appealed, pleaded and begged for the tower to be shifted to a safe place away from all residential areas of the village. The major verbal attack was on the Delaneys who have always been seen by the community as the prime movers who invited the rest of the team in and leased the land to Cyril. They were told time and time again that they had destroyed the peace of their immediate vaddos. Our take is that It is stil not too late to shift the tower to a safe location, outside the village, away from residential areas. Austy Gama's site seems ideal. He is waiting to be approached. Gerard had personally told us that money was not the issue. All he would want was for the pit to be filled - which it is - and for the stretch of wall to be rebuilt. And as someone suggested, the foundation can be used for a nice little office for Ashley! Blaise, since you asked for a circle where no one lives within 500 mts., we have one now. Request the Tower Team to negotiate with Austy Gama. We suggested it again, last night. It seems a great option. The Tower Team should seek wiser counsel than they are getting so plentifully now, keep ego issues and 'jabardasti' attitudes aside, and peacefully relocate. The village will love them for it. Else, bitterness and hate seem the only legacy staring us all in the face. We hope you can succeed. Warm regards and solidarity in a mission we have failed in so miserably, over the last 10 weeks! M&M. -- *"We did not inherit Abreu Vaddo/Saligao/Goa/the Earth from our ancestors, we merely borrowed it from our children." - *Indigenous Wisdom ................................................................ there *is* anOTHERgoa at <http://www.anothergoa.blogspot.in> & <http://www.youtube.com/anothergoa> ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' muriel & mario, c/o FULKAR, 6/22, sonarbhatt, saligao. bardez. goa. 403511. tel: 0832-2278276 / 2409999 <anothergoa AT gmail.com> '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected]
