I was driving through some quaint villages in North Goa which seem so beautiful and simply amazing. It reminded of the stark similarities with some places I had visited in Europe ( particularly Italy). I was happy and surprised at the same, that these places seemed sort of off limits from the greed of commercial concretization/destruction we see in many parts of Goa, headed mainly by “wealthy/black money rich” individuals/companies from outside Goa and the partners in crime i.e ministers, MLAs, government officials etc; and I realized that it was the small narrow roads, which are actually a sort of deterrence against rampant real estate destruction priorities. Road widening normally should mean better for residents but as we now observe in Goa, specific politicians are “over enthusiastic” about road widening even without official orders, encouraging more real estate destruction mainly by “money bags” from outside Goa! And with it comes more pollution, cars, less water supply, sewage, power issues and social ills; all that come with stressing the places way beyond their carrying capacity. So I actually think that it’s better to have small roads in villages.
