Protecting Our Land Donnemoll
Under the now scrapped Goa Regional Plan 2011, the hill at Mullem which is on the border of Cavorim was cut to construct a road. Even as the case is pending in the court against this illegality, the owner of that land constructed two huge tanks on the top of the hill at the edge. There was a fear that these tanks could lead to destabilization of the hill due to the accumulated water and its percolation which could cause landslides. Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott took up the matter with the authorities and finally the two tanks were buried before the onset of the 2008 monsoons
Read MoreImproving Our Land Ghotli in Cavorim
Even before Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott was registered, we had started working for the betterment of the village. One of the first projects to be undertaken was changing the desolate spot at Ghotli in Cavorim from where in earlier times a canoe service used to operate to take people across the river. The aim is to make it a picnic spot for the village. Government had acquired the land to construct a bridge which subsequently was shifted to another site. The land was totally engulfed with wildgrowth which was cleared and steps were constructed leading to the river. The summer of 2008 saw a lot of people from Chandor, Cotta and Guirdolim visiting the spot and it truly turned into a picnic spot. Surprisingly some young boys who live in the vicinity saw the river for the...
Read MoreFarmers Camp Chandor
Farmers from Chandor in one voice urged the HDFC Bank to either modify their loan schemes or come up with new schemes which they can avail as the present loan pattern of the bank is not applicable to farmers from Goa. At a farmers camp organized jointly by Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott and HDFC bank, the bank officer William Fernandes pointed out that the bank can provide agricultural loans only to farmers having minimum 5,000 square metres of land. The around 100 farmers present for the camp pointed out that by virtue of being tenants of the Communidade their holding was 1,000 square metres and hence they would not be eligible for the loans. The farmers suggested that the bank comes up with a loan facility for farmers having 1,000 square metres of land or with a loan...
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