Mining Problems in Goa
                                           By Navita Kandolkar

  

Goa is one of the beautiful tourist destination in the world. Goa is loosing its beauty, pure air, and its water sources. Mining is posing grave threat in the state of Goa. There is tremendous pressure on land, water, housing, quality of air, agriculture, fisheries and forest cover due to mining industry.

Mining rewards us with collective misery and death. Mining is creating a disaster that is irreversible. Air pollution is rampant in Goa's mining belt. Health of people including women and children is badly affected. there is high level of lung diseases. prevalent in the mining belt. Due to blasting, flooding, mine collapse and expansion of mining area people's habitat has received severe blow. Large number of houses are affected and many people are living under constant risks. For past few decades agriculture has been badly shattered by the mining industry due to large amount of silt deposited in the cultivable paddy fields.

By Navita Kandolkar