where have all the GOAN Gone?

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This above titled article is written by Mr. Wendell who alike his other friends are making a strong point towards the migrant influx and how the Goan populace is reducing to a minority, according to NT (dated 12.05.08) out off 13 lakhs Goans 20 % could be the migrant community who has made Goa their home for all the unsruplous reasons. Our land has been sold to the outsiders by the greedy Goans wthout any second tought of keeping Goa for the Goans . In villages we find scores of Goans staying in rented rooms some having owned big and small properties. There is this case of a garder's family who migrated from the north of India to find a job and a rented room in Candolim. They have been working for the last few years with no change in profession but have managed to lure the landlady in selling them her small plot and not only that but have obtained loan and constructed rooms to let for foreigners .They have elevated from the profession of a garderner to a landlord and a hotelier . Howz that for a Goan tenant of the same land lady whose fate has not still changed only thing that has changed for him is that now he has got a new outsider as a batkar.
Things are changing in our small beautiful Goa and unless we start a movement of awareness about the core issues of Land for the Goans and stop the influx of migrants into GOa, we will see a time when a ghanti will call himself a Goan and the minority Goan will have to vote a migrant as a MP , a Chief minister, a local panch and so on( mind you we already have some yallapas as sarpanchas in a few panchayats.
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keep land for our future Goans

As Mr Rajan Parrikar has highlighted the migrant danger (herald dated 5th May) these are issues where in if not dealt with now, will have a greater impact on our future generations. What are we preserving and keeping for our future generations? The Rich money bags that has decended on our small Goa will eat into each and every property of our anchestors leaving the middle class man with a no land to call his and to pass on to the next generations. Our money power in no thing compared to the outsiders who have manupulated the process of land deals and are inturn are responsible for the sky rocketing of the land prices in Goa. If one sees it on a broader perpective barring a few shippy goans and NRI's the average goan does not have the capacity to buy a flat or a peice of land to call it his to pass it on to his next generation. If the politicians who are the main cause of this debuncle are not sounded now and a law passed to keep goan land for the goans we will regret the delay in the future when our comming generatiosn will ask what we have kept for them to continue as Goans in Goa densly invaded by the outsiders. appeared on herald newpaper