Who is responsible for the Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) Fiasco? A dangling question which is similar to a balloon blowing an ill wind and is flying high above the sacred red soil of Goa.
And, no doubt, is asking the all-important question: Who is responsible for the Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) fiasco? Can you conceive of a more incompetent agency than the one allotted to plan the CZMP? Two of Goa's rivers are missing from the plan and also a whole beach is missing! Do we have to pay for this kind of shoddy work? You will find hundreds of mistakes, such as, houses are not shown on the plan, dunes are shown where there are no sand dunes, and dunes are also shown in the wrong location. The fishermen and fishing community might as well be declared as extinct as the dinosaur! Who is responsible for giving the agency the job? One or several people? They should resign first, then the mistakes in the plan can be corrected! How much was paid to this incompetent company for making a plan which is full of mega mistakes? Now, this so-called plan will not only affect the future of lakhs of people who are living in the state today but also future generations. The plans have gone to the various panchayats but a lot of them have been moving slower than a tortoise! The government has given the stakeholders not enough time to discuss the issue, and worse, correct the blinding errors! The people of Goa are united in their objective of persevering the environment! And, so it is a waste of government time and money to try and pull the wool over the public's eye at this stage. Isn't anyone going to take responsibility for the unconscionable behavior and waste of tax payers money? I ask once again: Who is responsible for giving the job to this incompetent Chennai company? No one? Then I guess it is God who is responsible, and the people of Goa can do nothing about it!