MARGAO: Irate residents of Rivona laid siege to the loading point of a mining company in Sirsurem, Rivona, on Thursday morning, and stopped all operations protesting against the commencement of loading and transportation activities even before day-break.
Sources informed that the villagers were enraged to see serpentine lines of loaded mining trucks for over 3 km even before the first rays of the sun had hit the sleepy village. "There must have been at least some 150 trucks lined up. As this led to road blockades at several places, all these trucks were hardly able to make any way forward, thus disrupting general traffic," a resident said Moreover, the villagers were agitated as the school-going children were highly inconvenienced. "As the mining trucks are banned from coming on the roads before 8 a.m. as per a notification issued by the district authorities, this is clearly a violation," the residents said.
Hundreds of residents then marched to the weighbridge of the mining company at Sirsurem and forcibly stopped all trucks from being loaded.
They relented only after the contractor assured them that no loading operations would be carried out henceforth before 8am. Loading operations were disrupted for close to four hours. The residents have warned of coming out on the streets once again if the transportation guidelines are violated.
This shows the state of our Goa under corrupt and greedy congress rule. This is second time in the month , the people have to come on the road to highlight the hardships they face due to the transportation of mineral ores. As the chor congress government is pro mining, the people have to come on the street and take the law in their own hands. LONG LIVE PEOPLE OF CAVREM AND RIVONA.
ReplyDeleteI would like to ask the Transport Minister and the Director of Transport if it Is legal and if they have it in their rule book to block one lane of a two lane road (for example the road from Tilamol to Sanvordem) to facilitate the mining trucks and cause inconvience to the General public. Why should we be inconvienced so that someone else can make big bucks
ReplyDeleteWhen the majority of Goans are against mining why is this being forced on us? The consequences of mining are yet to be realized! The GREEDY mining companies will be long gone by then. Just like the River Princess, we will unable to collect, to fix the environmental damage done to Goa. Now they want to widen the roads destroying and displacing homes and lives to accommodate these mining companies trucks. They want to tear apart our beautiful quaint villages to increase the huge dirty polluting and noisy mining trucks on the road. Is this want we want??? At all costs we need to stop the widening of the roads. Delhi should not force us to work for the interest of corrupt India. We need to put Goa and our people first! Please continue with the agitation against the GREEDY mining companies. They are robbing us of OUR beautiful Goa. The environment legacy they leave us is going to be catastrophic!! Lets end this disastrous mining once and for all!!!!
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