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Monday, 18 December 2006 11:12 |
GOA BACHAO ABHIYAN
"Save Goa Campaign"
Opp. Kala Academy, E-74, Campal, Panaji, Goa - 403001,
Tel: 9822160493, 2225493
Email:
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As Convenor of the "Save Goa Campaign", I fervently appeal, with utmost
humility and sincerity to each and everyone of you and your conscience.
Goa, today is at the crossroads of her very existence. Her soul; Her
identity and Her beauty is being mercilessly sold off, all for the petty
gains of a petty few, in the guise of the monstrous, evasive and
sinister: Goa Regional Plan 2011.
Besides the calamitous destruction of Goa's natural beauty, her culture
and her heritage, we are set to witness an unprecedented social disaster
if mega 5 star projects like townships, condominiums, golf courses,
resorts, etc. take root in our precious land.
Besides, being greedily resource intensive, all these megalomaniac
projects envisaged in the "Regional Plan 2011" will trigger of a wealthy
and powerful new wave of migrant influx who have the potential to
relegate indigenous and already settled Goans into a politically
irrelevant minority in their own land. Also Goa's already over-burdened
infrastructure, garbage and sewerage disposal and law and order
situation will collapse if this plan comes into effect.
The "Regional Plan 2011" must not be seen as merely a dishonour to our
mother Goa or a desecration of our ancestral land or the defilement of
Parshuram's legendary arrow struck across the Sahyadris. These views are
benignly romantic. It must be seen for what it truly is. THE SAVAGE &
BRUTAL ASSAULT, RAPE & MURDER OF OUR DAUGHTER. And if we do not have the
guts to protect our daughters, we really will have no soil left to bury
our heads in shame.
To register our horrified indignation and loudly declare our protest at
this agonizing destruction of our land, we plan to organise a massive
public rally on December 18, 2006 at 3.00 pm at Azad Maidan, Panjim to
liberate ourselves and free Goa from this tyrannical "Regional Plan
2011."
I implore and beseech all organizations - social and religious; all
political parties, student unions, tiatrists and various samajs from Goa
(Kerala, Bengal, A.P., Gujarat, etc.), artists, activists, the media,
the GCCI, indeed every single "Niz Goenkar" to lend your helping hand
and desperately required moral support to this urgent cause.
The war cry that must resonate in every single village of Goa must be
"AAMCHEM GOEM AMKA PARAT ZAI"
GIVE BACK OUR GREEN GOA.
Dr. Oscar Rebello
(Convenor)
visit www.savegoa.com and get connected.
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