01 Dec 2021  |   04:32am IST

Luizinho Faleiro says Goans faced with calamity of 3 Linear projects in first Rajya Sabha Speech

Making his first speech in #RajyaSabha

, on the second day of the Winter Session of #Parliament

, #TMC

MP Luizinho Faleiro said the Double-tracking of the railway line from #Mormugao

#Port

to #Karnataka

; Expansion of the Panaji-Belgavi national highway through immense destruction of ecology, and the #Tamnar

Power Transmission Project are three cardinal sins. He also raised other issues of serious concern to Goans viz. the transfer of river Mandovi waters from #Mhadei

river basin to Malaprabha river in Karnataka; the grant of Special Status to Goa under #Article371

of the #Constitution

; restarting of legal #mining

and stopping #coal

transportation in #Goa

which will seriously affect the #health

and livelihoods of the people of Goa.

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