Today starting at 9.30 AM, at the Tinto in Calangute, the village lover Calangutcars joined in good number and organized a peaceful public meeting under the banner of Calangute Panchayat to raise the issue of very bad road currently existing in many areas of Calangute. Because of such a pathetic condition of the roads, many accidents are occurring in Calangute where tourists and locals are become victims even of the deaths. It looks everyone responsible is sleeping leaving the roads into the hands of the nature to act the way it deem fit. The tourism minister is the first culprit for ignoring this road when tourism is major income of Goa. He is unfit to take the responsibility of this sector and as such he should quit this position instead of holding PWD responsible.
Since PWD is directly responsible to maintain these roads properly, it has totally failed in its duty. It is useless to have PWD when it is sleeping.
Finally what about the local Panchayat role? According to my information it has no power to do anything for these roads because this segment is beyond their jurisdiction. Because of the apathy of the concerned authorities, Calangute roads are in very bad condition leading to the very bad image of tourism in Goa.
The meet was addressed by some of the prominent locals including by the strong man of Calangute Constituency and the dynamic leader of the locality Joseph Sequeira.In his speech, Sequeira warned the government machinery not to take the Congottkar for granted and went further saying that if these roads are not repaired by the end of this month, he will give a call for “Calangute Bond on 2nd October.
A.Veronica Fernandes.