[Goanet]Re: Fw: Sinquerim Beach in Goa
Dear Friend, I have received ( the original one again) Your concern is realistic, but nature is mighty and sometimes cruel. My wife and I have started a programme to provided new cotton garments to 1000 children at the devastated villages of Tamil Nadu eastcoast. We shall start loading the children garments from 15th January, at the knit city Tirupur in Tamil Nadu. In case any of your friends want to join us, then please contact on email:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Thanks. regards Sat Mehra Austria Hallo, Sorry, I am late in reply, but we are planning our next village Beaches field work in Kerala, for women children hygiene sanitation education programme. Thanks for the devastating photos. Can you explain, as to how these big 5 star hotels responsible for all that. We want Kerala to achieve prosperity through clean-beach-tourism. What we are trying to find is the mastakes made in Goa and other countries, to unstablise the ecology. Please let me have your study of information on the subject. Thanks We have visited many eastern countries like Malaysia, Thailand etc. with clean-beach-tourism. 20 years back, they were less developed than India. Today, their total economy is greatly dependant on clean-beach-tourism. Against Kerala's total foreign earnings (2003) of USD 220.- million, their earnings are over USD 6 BILLION ( 27 times that of Kerala. Same is the case in a conservative Oriental country - Turkey We made a list of precautions they have taken to protact their envirnment. The most important was, that they use sea sand mining, to take the sand from the sea and keep throwing on the beaches, and leveling those, from time to time.Unless there is a very severe harricane, their beaches are alright. If because of such a hazard, some demmage is there, then they immediately they repair with sea sand mining. We in India has a problem. Because of less clean-beach-tourism, there is much less money for such measures. Some of Kerala's coastal villagers, even today earn Rs. 1.000.- per month. Many have no toilets of their own and have to use the beaches, thereby scaring the foreign tourists away. The British had started Kovalum exclusively for their officers to spend beach holidays. Upto today, that is the only fuctional beach inm Kerala, where foreign tourists come. It is really a pity that we Indians can't find compromise between ecology and economy. There is plenty of place in Kerala, where small tourist bungalows can be made, hidden behind the millions of coconut trees, all around the beach as well as Backwater areas. Kerala has more to offer than any other asian beach destination, but because of bad management and planning, the Kerala youth with university degrees, go to Gulf countries, leaving young wives and small children at home, to take even meagre jobs, living 4 - 6 youngmen in small rooms and forgoing home comfort. This is an appeal to all Goans, to come forward with suggestions and voluntary work, to find ways and means to improve our environment, and teach coatal villagers the methods to improve clean-beach-tourism, without sacrificing our coastal ecology. Regrads, Sat Mehra Austria - Original Message - From: diogo monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: goanet@goanet.org Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 9:02 PM Subject: Sinquerim Beach in Goa Hi there, I was in Goa for few days visiting my family and I visited one of my friend in Sinquerim who has a small hotel and restaurant just next to Taj Village Beach Resort. I could'nt belive the destruction of the this beautifull beach by the high waves due to the cause of construction of restaurants just 50 meters away from the beach. If we don't take any precaution in the future to protect this beach and if we don't stop constructing hotels and restaurants, Goa might face ecological problems due to our own negligence and greed to make money by destroying our environment. Kind regards Diogo Monteiro _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- GMX ProMail mit bestem Virenschutz http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail +++ Empfehlung der Redaktion +++ Internet Professionell 10/04 +++ -- +++ Sparen Sie mit GMX DSL +++ http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl AKTION für Wechsler: DSL-Tarife ab 3,99 EUR/Monat + Startguthaben
[Goanet]Re: Fw: Sinquerim Beach in Goa
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## Hello Mehra, I wish you all the success in your project to educate people of Kerala how to protect their beaches by keeping them clean and safe. The photos which I sent to you earlier are quiet distressing and Goans might not even really care. The Government of Goa will not even care to check the environment problem as a matter of fact that these Hotels are owned by Taj Group of Hotels. Let me explain you why damages were done by the high waves during the monsoon season. Earlier or even few years ago, Sinquerim beach was protected by small plants and bushes with roots firmly spread everywhere on the upper level of the beach. The winds are extremely strong during the time of monsoon and causes high waves which comes in such a strength that it takes away the sand from the upper part of the beach. Approximately, just 75 metres away from the main beach, the area was fully covered by many types of plants, small tree, bushes, and off course coconut trees. All these plants and bushes used to protect the sand being taken away by the high waves during monsoon season. Their roots were firmly spread in such a way that the strength of these waves were cut by the time it could reach the upper level of the beach. More and more tourists started coming to Goa as a result more pressure on land to build hotels, appartments, restaurants, and shacks serving cheap food and drinks on the beaches to accomodate or serve them. Destruction in were made in the form of uprooting of coconut trees, cutting small plants, and bushes to pave way to build new hotels, restaurants, and water sports just 50 to 75 metres away from the beach to satisfy ever growing tourist industry at the expense of the nature. The most important thing before you start your project in Kerala is to visit Goa and make a small study, and then implement your project in such a way that people in Kerala on the costal side are aware of the long-term effects on their beaches. We can make more money in a short-run by destroying our beautifull beaches but people have to be made aware that more money could be made if we help to keep clean and less destructive. No man can play with the nature even today. Effects of global warming are causing problems everywhere. We cannot build concrete barriers like in Maldives to protect our land from the enormous force of nature. What we can do is to protect what we have right now by educating our people to protect the nature and reap the benefits in the long-run. Off course, we need tourists, but at whose expense. Have we not realised that there are always new places tourists can go when they see that our places are not clean and safe anymore. Mehra, hope that you will be successful in your project. It takes lots of efforts to educate people and make them aware that destroying our beaches will be a loss in the long-run. If you are successful in your project in Kerala maybe it could be even implemented in Goa. One important thing you have to know is that in Goa there are thousand and thousands of Indian tourists that comes everyday creating more and more problems with the ton and tons of papers, plastic bags, and left-over food which are left over by them. There is not even an awareness programe set up by the Tourist Department of Goa at the entry points or borders of Goa that garbage has to be disposed in a safe way. Most of the tourists land in Goa with a little knowlegde Goan culture or traditions but more knowledge that Goa is the land with lots of Booze, free, lots of entertainment and off course do what ever they can which is not allowed in their states. Anyway, I cannot go on and on with so many problems and less resources to solve. What I can do is to lend you some help in your project if you like, to create more awareness to keep the beaches more clean and safe. Regards Diogo Monteiro From: quot;Clean Kerala Beachesquot; lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 13:21:02 +0200 (MEST) Hallo, Sorry, I am late in reply, but we are planning our next village Beaches field work in Kerala, for women amp; children hygiene sanitation education programme.
[Goanet]Re: Fw: Sinquerim Beach in Goa
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## Hallo, Sorry, I am late in reply, but we are planning our next village Beaches field work in Kerala, for women children hygiene sanitation education programme. Thanks for the devastating photos. Can you explain, as to how these big 5 star hotels responsible for all that. We want Kerala to achieve prosperity through clean-beach-tourism. What we are trying to find is the mastakes made in Goa and other countries, to unstablise the ecology. Please let me have your study of information on the subject. Thanks We have visited many eastern countries like Malaysia, Thailand etc. with clean-beach-tourism. 20 years back, they were less developed than India. Today, their total economy is greatly dependant on clean-beach-tourism. Against Kerala's total foreign earnings (2003) of USD 220.- million, their earnings are over USD 6 BILLION ( 27 times that of Kerala. Same is the case in a conservative Oriental country - Turkey We made a list of precautions they have taken to protact their envirnment. The most important was, that they use sea sand mining, to take the sand from the sea and keep throwing on the beaches, and leveling those, from time to time.Unless there is a very severe harricane, their beaches are alright. If because of such a hazard, some demmage is there, then they immediately they repair with sea sand mining. We in India has a problem. Because of less clean-beach-tourism, there is much less money for such measures. Some of Kerala's coastal villagers, even today earn Rs. 1.000.- per month. Many have no toilets of their own and have to use the beaches, thereby scaring the foreign tourists away. The British had started Kovalum exclusively for their officers to spend beach holidays. Upto today, that is the only fuctional beach inm Kerala, where foreign tourists come. It is really a pity that we Indians can't find compromise between ecology and economy. There is plenty of place in Kerala, where small tourist bungalows can be made, hidden behind the millions of coconut trees, all around the beach as well as Backwater areas. Kerala has more to offer than any other asian beach destination, but because of bad management and planning, the Kerala youth with university degrees, go to Gulf countries, leaving young wives and small children at home, to take even meagre jobs, living 4 - 6 youngmen in small rooms and forgoing home comfort. This is an appeal to all Goans, to come forward with suggestions and voluntary work, to find ways and means to improve our environment, and teach coatal villagers the methods to improve clean-beach-tourism, without sacrificing our coastal ecology. Regrads, Sat Mehra Austria - Original Message - From: diogo monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 9:02 PM Subject: Sinquerim Beach in Goa Hi there, I was in Goa for few days visiting my family and I visited one of my friend in Sinquerim who has a small hotel and restaurant just next to Taj Village Beach Resort. I could'nt belive the destruction of the this beautifull beach by the high waves due to the cause of construction of restaurants just 50 meters away from the beach. If we don't take any precaution in the future to protect this beach and if we don't stop constructing hotels and restaurants, Goa might face ecological problems due to our own negligence and greed to make money by destroying our environment. Kind regards Diogo Monteiro _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- GMX ProMail mit bestem Virenschutz http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail +++ Empfehlung der Redaktion +++ Internet Professionell 10/04 +++
