Team Herald
MARGAO: The Chandor Cavorim gram sabha on Sunday besides constituting various committees including the Standing Committees also resolved to oppose to not only the State Highway passing through their village but even to heavy traffic plying in the village.
The villagers pointed out that by virtue of being the oldest capita of Goa there were heritage monuments and heritage houses in the village which would be demoslished for road widening and further would not be able to withstand the vibrations caused by heavy vehicles plying on these wide roads.
In order to protect the heritage monuments and the heritage houses including the house where the father of Goa’s freedom movement T B Cunha was born, the villagers resolved that the existing roads in the village should not be widened to prevent heavy traffic from plying through the village.
Expressing fears that heavy traffic will ply through the village if the bridge over the railway track is constructed to connect the village to Sao Jose de Areal, the villagers demanded that the construction of this bridge be also dropped.
It would be pertinent to point out that the villagers have been agitating to demand the dropping of the State Highway passing through the village for quite some time and have approached Town and Country Planning Minister Vijai Sardessai and even Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar with this issue.
At the gram sabha today, the three standing committees namely, Amenities Committee, Social Welfare Committee and Production Committees were constituted. Besides, the Village Child Development Committee and the Garbage Management Committee were constituted.
Mr. John Douglas Coutinho who was the chairman of the earlier Garbage Management Committee was elected as chairman once again and at his insistence Beatrice Fernandes was elected the secretary.
A villager Agnelo Fernandes raised the issue of water not being released in the Paroda canal as yet but was asked to take up the matter through the Production Committee to which he was elected.
