MARGAO
Congress MLA Reginaldo Lourenco has made a plea to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to play the role of a saviour by getting the controversial projects, including double-tracking of SWR from Vasco to Hospet in Karnataka; the four-lane Panaji-Belgaum national highway NH 4-A, and power transmission line (high-tension line) scrapped.
Referring to the Chief Minister’s reluctance to scrap the projects financed by the Centre during his interaction with the children on Sunday, Reginaldo said he failed to understand why the double- tracking cannot be stopped.
“The Chief Minister has vowed during the same interaction with the children to get the present level of coal transportation from Goa to the thermal and steel plants of Karnataka reduced by more than half of the existing level within a year,” he said.
Why does Goa require double-tracking of SWR line if you are planning to reduce the transportation of coal by 50 percent within a year? he questioned.
He reminded the CM that all the three Centrally financed infrastructural development projects would be passing through Mollem National Park, an abode of biodiversity.
“Please listen to the children and scrap these three environmentally disastrous projects because the arrogant Centre would never listen to the voice of Goemkars as it is dictated by crony capitalist like Adani,” he said.
