- Special
law for protecting Goan land for Goans
- Health
services should reach the doorsteps of the people since they pay taxes
- Special
agriculture policy which will encourage the educated and less educated
youth to take up agrarian activities with lucrative benefits to them
making them self sufficient
- Re-invent
tourism policy to benefit the last person in the corner of the Goa’s
villages so that the benefits of tourism reach and percolate to all
sections
- Preserve
the culture, heritage, traditions, and language. Restore heritage, don’t
renovate it
- Better law
and order would ensure growth and prosperity
- Women
empowerment in all sectors
- Mechanism
to rehabilitate and shelter to the homeless, beggars
- Sex
education in schools is needed to make children aware and alert
- Analysis
of why youngsters tend to make Portuguese passports and migrate to
countries from whom we got liberated
- Roadmap
for economic revival and consistent growth of public and private sector
- Get new
faces elected who will work in the interest of Goa and Goans
- Nourish
traditional business rather than running in the race to get a government
job
- Goan must
be in peace and bliss humming his favourite caantar
- Stop fake
promises. Speak about the reality of situations
- Reform the
laws to save the land of Goa
- Find out
what the youth of Goa really want. Don’t give them a one size fits all
approach rather give them the cafeteria approach
- Frame
policy that no land can be acquired by outsiders. Original Goan must be
defined and rights of land must be transferred only to native Goans
- Natural
beauty, culture, and biodiversity must be protected for future generations
- Taxpayers’
money to be used judiciously for infrastructure and genuine welfare
schemes and not schemes to create vote banks
- Open up
avenues for Goans so that they can earn and make a living in their own
State, instead of migrating to other countries by cutting off their roots
here
- Special
laws to protect villages, which are unique
- Special
protection to rural Goa from urbanisation
- Maintain
features of our State that get recognition world over, and in turn fetch
us much-needed revenue through tourism
- Leaders
should commit themselves to working with sincerity and not being party to
destruction of Goa
- Much has
to be done for Konkani so that the identity of Goa is maintained forever.
Konkani, in all scripts, should be made compulsory in government offices
- Young
leaders must run the government, with innovative planning for the next
generation
- Life in
Goa must be more harmonious and peaceful. This could be possible if the
existing laws are implemented in the true spirit of delivering justice
without bias
- Adopt
advanced technologies with top care health care system
- Increase
start-ups so there are more entrepreneurial avenues
- Streamline
employment and growth opportunities for the youth in public and private
sectors
- Sustainable
development where we save nature with proper job security, human security
and more
- Heritage
and rights of native Goans be priority
- Prepare a Master Plan for space utilisation
- In every constituency encourage a citizen RTI
cell to check NOCs and other illegalities. Citizens for accountable
government. Get students in each taluka to set it up. Do online training
on RTI
- Create a public demand for a Master Plan. Goa had
such a plan in the 1960s
- Have a Master Plan for education. Educational
institutions are the best investment for the future
- Need human
development, create job givers or providers and so there is no dependency
on government jobs
- Preserve
and protect Goa for Goans. Preserve or conserve the uniqueness of Goa for
future generations
- Revive the
agriculture sector along with bringing more pollution-free industries for
job creation
- Develop
Goa as an educational hub, startup destination along with existing tourism
- Keep Goa
as Goa and don’t make it a Mumbai or Delhi
- Tourism marketing and branding to be handled by
professionals
- Course correction required in politics, where
strong measures of accountability for politicians are introduced. They
should either perform or perish
- More powers to the panchayats and municipalities
so governance gets diversified
- Effective public transport system that includes
rapid transit and also waterways development
- Infrastructure that serves the community and
supports the local community
- Make villages self reliant, self sufficient and
equitable communities through revival of community farming
- Allow world class educational institutes
- Curb corruption in government departments
- Set up one large parent company so that this can
be a base for other ancillary units run by local entrepreneurs to start
- High value profitable industries that focus on
knowledge and innovation must be promoted
- Revitalise agriculture, promote organic farming
under brand Goa
- Improve infrastructure for sports and increase
funding. Create a system to identify talent and nurture it
- Provide agriculture entrepreneurship mentoring,
develop agriculture incubators
- Improve capacity of panchayats to take decisions,
monitor and manage local development
- Create a Konkani thesaurus, which will enrich the
vocabulary of the people
- Make Konkani compulsory in all government
departments
- Create a think tank that will sift through
polices and guide the government in taking decisions
- Consult the people before taking forward any
major project that can affect the land and the people
Based on interviews with: Damodar
Mauzo, Agnes Pinto, Parshuram Sonurlekar, Capt Viriato Fernandes, Dattaprasad
Shirgurkar, Shalaka Kambli, Savio Correia, Suresh Naik, Lalji Pagi, Mukesh
Thali, Teja Lambor, Navanath Naik, Guadalupe Dias, Francisco D’Costa, Savio
Coutinho, Radha Kavlekar, Savio Dias, Suganda Naik, Poma Kerkar, Anjali
Pillammar, Gunaji Mandrekar, Ganesh Kalangutkar, Bhakti Raul, Dr Peter de
Souza, Pranali Shirvaikar, Devanand Nayak, Mark Fernandes, Shruti Kamat
