WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2024
ALFRED FERNANDES
SALGINI (Sanguem): Task over. Salgini has been connected to the rest of civilization as their only connecting road in the deep forests which ahd worn away during the monsoons has been restored. And your Herald played a small but significant part by highlighting the story
Gourish Velip is pleased “Delighted to see the newly done road to Salgini village which was totally in deplorable condition. We thank Herald for taking up the issue. We would have been totally lost and disconnected from other wards in the village during the monsoon if the road was not done on war footing”
Another villager Suhas Gaonkar explained the difficulties the villagers envisaged since last year on account of non motorable condition of the road to Salgini Village. “Now the villagers are at peace as they would now be able to use the road during monsoon”Villagers have now urged the PWD authorities to undertake hot mixing of the remaining portion of the road from Netravali to Salgini village which was done some eight years back. The road has developed potholes at many places and this needs to be repaired before the remaining portion of the road also gets washed away during monsoon season.:Locals in the village complain of the hurdles caused by the Forest Department in undertaking any development project in the hilly areas which come under the jurisdiction of Netrvali Wild Life Sanctuary. It is an irony that the Forest Department even objects and causes inordinate delays in clearing the development works in the villages. Government should come out with some solutions to the p roblems envisaged by the Forest Department while undertaking the necessary development works in the villages. We have been staying in these villages for decades yet we have to be live at the mercy of the Forest Department” lamented Gourish Velip.
But as they say, this story has had a happy ending with the “Voice of Goa” amplifying the demands and the distress of the villagers.
