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GBA Appeal against the RP-2011

GBA RELEASE 7th Dec ’07: 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 ancestral land, we plan to organise a massive public rally on December 18, 2006 at 3.00 pm at Azad Maidan 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.”

Goa Bachao Abhiyan
Dr. Oscar Rebello
Convenor.

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