Ya-Ya- Mayem –Ya

Is a ditty that most goyankars are familiar with. It is a nursery rhyme describing the Mayem lake. With prolific mining ya-ya- mayem-ya ani copper bath gya is what is happening despite the government touting it as an major tourism attraction.
Even Rajendra Kerkar the poster boy of Goa’s environment movement hesitates to ask or intiate the momentum
· Compulsory nursery and preprimary education in local, that would impart folk knowledge as that is where the geography and the traditional habits are documented.
· The education system that creates the monster who needs to be fed, instead to nurturing the resources by training people to optimize it and harmonize with it, I mean where are the agriculture colleges? Where are the fishery colleges? Where are the forestry colleges?
· The advent of the ICAR has non Goan’s who are far away from sheeth-kadi and nusthe, their research is oriented to increase in crop production, the indigenous nutrition and flavor of the ethnic strains are gone.
· Honey farming, mushroom farming are also options that are neither touted nor encouraged.
· Starred hotels just throw their waste into the Zuari /Mandovi, no one talks of it.
· Mega construction companies have come up with buildings that are most empty, is this not waste of resource?
My pet peeve is that we kids of north Indian civil servants or business men who are born and brought up in Goa but do not speak Konkani.
The correspondent from Times of India speaks so disdainfully of agriculture; they are only interested in the gay tourists and the fall out tourism.
But we are so anglicized that we focus on the disease instead of the cure.