Goa needs to be on vigil permanently if it wants to save whatever is left of our pristine land now. After a strategic (?) retreat on the Unity Mall project (by the way, the Goa government has not communicated any formal objections to the Centre over the controversial ‘Pradhan Mantri Ekta Mall’), the State is adamant on pushing through a controversial fish meal plant in Cuncolim which would lead to severe air pollution, persistent foul odour and would have a deleterious effect on water sources; it would be a grave threat to public health and the environment at large.
Similarly, the sarkar has pushed through the dangerous Mirabag Bandara project sans transparency or local consent by misleading citizens that it would be beneficial to the surrounding villages. The BJP double-engined sarkar takes decision that are against its own people. It is heartening to note that there has been massive pushback from the niz Goenkars to this so-called ‘development and progress’. There are a million mutinies afoot in Goa right now; constant vigilance is the price we now have to pay to save ourselves from a marauding state.
