Goa Not A Coal Hub

Goa Not A Coal Hub

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23 December 2020
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Government Of Goa and
Signatures: 124Next Goal: 200
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Started by Anushri Dessai

The central government along with the Government of Goa has approved the following projects in Goa:
1.Doubling of railway line from Castle Rock to Kulem and stretch of South western railways from Kalay to Margao.

2.Laying of a 400 KV transmission line in the village of Xeldem, Goa.
3. Four laning of existing NH4A in Anmod- Mollem region.
This will lead to a large scale destruction of wildlife of Mollem National Park & Mahaveer Wildlife Sanctuary and will also affect Goa's waterways. 

Under the Sagarmala Master Plan 2016 coal transported to Marmugoa Port Trust will be transported by rail and the capacity coal transportation will be increased with the laying of a second track. Also, coal will be transported by road and a new national highway is being proposed NH4A.  In addition Goa’s 6 rivers have been nationalised in preparation for the coal transportation, the rivers will be dredged and through a series of ports along the rivers both in the South and North of Goa coal will transported.  And a Transmission Line is also being planned from Karnataka to Mapusa.
 
If this plan is implemented the whole of Goa will be devastated. People will loose their houses, fields, our river life will be destroyed and most of all Bhagwan Mahavir National Park through which all three projects will pass will loose some of the pristine forest, a vital tiger corridor of the Western Ghats will be cut off.

This will cause permanent damage to the tiger's habitat, as path of the project was already marked as tiger reserve by National Tiger Conservation Authority. In this region other than trees, there are 5000 flowering plant species, 139 mammal species, 508 bird species, 179 amphibian species and 325 globally threatened species of wildlife reside here. The doubling of railway lines project is set up for coal transport across states and in order to connect with the Marmugao port which will bring out a lot of pollution. The project work of setting up of electric transmission lines has already been started. Around 50,000 trees are marked to be felled in order to set up these projects.If these projects are set up then along with the wildlife the name of ' Green Goa' will be completely lost.  

In future, Goans will have to face the drawbacks. To prevent further destruction of our beautiful state, we need to protect our wildlife, get united, raise our voice in unity and save 'Green Goa'! We need to stop this injustice to the endemic wildlife of Western Ghats.

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