Nauxim Marina: Goa CM As Enemy Of Fishing Communities

Nauxim Marina: Why Goa CM Sawant has turned into an enemy of fishing communities of Goa?

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant functions totally in unscientific way even though he claims to be medical doctor. His irrational ways of functioning stands our clearly with regard to his repeated statements advocating Marina at Nauxim for the filthy rich in Zuari river inspite of its EIA report clearly stating that Marina will cause irreversible, long term, negative impact on Fisheries of Zuari river that provides jobs to hundreds of people.

And yet two days ago he has claimed that Marina is required at Nauxim to provide jobs to Goans.

Policies of Goa Government has taken over tribal lands for Goa University depriving local villagers of Cacra, Odxel, Nauxim from carrying on vegetable cultivation. People were promised Jobs then too. To get job in the University even of the lowest ranks one has to bribe heavily. As a result local Goans of these villages stands no chance of jobs. Even existing jobs are taken away and multi-tasking staff episode of Goa University is an excellent example. 

To add insult to the injury Goa Universty releases its sewerage into Cacra village and Zuari river by installing defective STP on the campus. All this is supervised by Goa Chief Minister who is also education Minister of Goa.

Release of sewerage into river waters has drastically changed marine environment for the worst. Goa Government through its acts is decidedly committed to destroy Goa's marine eco-systems. Casinos in Mandovi and disgusting activities there is what fetches funds to political parties and sewage into Mandovi. Goa is being gambled away and this must reverse.

Goa Medical College was set up at Bambolim with promises of Jobs for locals. Currently five kadamba buses ferry its staff from Sattari due to Vishwajit Rane's lopsided policies of allocating GMC jobs to his voters in Sattari.

Local people of Bambolim are deprived of their land and the jobs too.

Now the same con game is sought to be extended to take over direct possession of fishing spaces in Zuari river. To hand over this river for luxury tourism and deprive small-scale fishing communities of their self-employment. Depriving fishing communities of their livelihoods by installing marinas is a criminal act and this intention is occupying mind and heart of the Goa Chief Minister. 

One can only imagine as to how much he and his BJP must have been fueled up to utter regular mouthful of thrash saying Marina is needed to create jobs for Goans.

The culprit of this attempted derivation of fishing communities of Zuari river is Government of India through its Ministry of Shipping, National Waterways and Port under whose Jurisduction MPT/ MPA functions. It's MPT that has leased out Zuari river to Kargwal Constructions Private Limited for 30 years in 2010 and Goa Chief Minister by supporting Marina at Nauxim has evidentiary placed himself as an enemy of self-employed small-scale fishing communities of Goa.

It's upto Goa CM as to decide as to how long he wants to be in the enemy camp and foster upheaval and unrest in the troubled waters. Fishing communities will navigate through all the hurdles placed by Goa Chief Minister Sawant.

India's Ministry of Ports is destroying several coastal spaces in India- Mumbai though JNPT/JNPA, Vizhimgam through Adani in Kerala, Wadhvan in Maharashtra, Honnavar in Karnataka, Vishakapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and several more coastal places. Its flagship project Sagarmala is a Garland of costal destruction of ecology and economy of small-scale fishing communities. Destruction and disruption of Indian coast is being done through various agents. Goa's Chief Minister Sawant who advocates Marina at Nauxim and is one such destroyer of Goa's coast and our fishing based livelihoods.