#goanewsEdiTweeT: LET GOVT DECLARE SCORCHED FORESTS AS NO-DEVELOPMENT ZONES

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Credit : TOI

In such cases, Govt-level Inquiries are time-consuming exercises, where culprits are finally given a clean chit.

The real issue is that the burnt-down forests should be allowed to be restored with similar biodiversity. If there is no vested interests involved, then @goacm @DrPramodPSawant & @visrane should come clean by declaring all the scorched belts as no-development zones for the next 50 years. No land conversion to settlement or eco-tourism projects.

Preserve them as ‘Devraiees’ (देवराई) like the ones in Sattari taluka, the sacred groves of the ecosystem.

 

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Credit : Times of India

 

Two demands:

1. Declare scorched forests as No-Development Zones for the next 50 years;

2. Preserve these belts as ‘Devraiee’, allowing them to restore the pre-fire biodiversity.

Nature-loving Goans can flood emails of

PM: <connect@mygov.nic.in>

Goa CM: <cm.goa@nic.in>

MOEF: <sahnk@cag.gov.in>

Goa Forest: <dcfhq-forest.goa@nic.in>

  1. Land mafia architecture includes owners; tenants; govt authorities with govt as enabler and facilitator. So now time to meekly watch the rivers and water bodies also being encroached. This started since 1962. Let us not cry but join the system.

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