Baina Beach illegal slums demolition 11.7.2014, 26.9.2015

Update 28.9.2015
Video - II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuegBxvCJ0o

Pics

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This part of the beach not affected

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Update: 26.9.2015
About 157 illegal structures demolished today after giving them 15 days notice
157 hutments bulldozed at Baina for violating CRZ norms, demolition under protection of 300 policemen.
Acting on orders from the Goa coastal zone management authority (GCZMA), state government machinery carried out the demolition drive.
Started 7.30 am with 6 / 8 JCBs and the work completed by 9am
Almost all houses were vacant (people took away with them their belongings)

Pics and video

Video - Part I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hun0NAWASbs

Video Part II (Extended)
Coming here soon
 
Some Pics

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Religious structure existed here

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Ealier...
74 Baina residents given 48 hours to vacate

In view of the hostile sea conditions at Baina, South Goa district collector Venancio Furtado issued an order on Tuesday asking the residents of 74 hutments at Kattem, Baina, to move out within 48 hours. The collector added that alternative arrangements had been made and that this was just a "precautionary measure" keeping in mind the safety of the people.

The collector told disaster management authority (DMA) officials to see that the residents are shifted to Tilak Maidan in Vasco, the Chicalim sports complex and the civic supply godown at Cortalim, where makeshift quarters have been created and food and water will be provided. TOI
Note: No one took the alternate arrangement, temporary shelter





Demolition started 9.40am
11th July 2014
Baina Beach
Vasco da Gama, Goa

See updates below..

 Illegal slums Demolition
within CRZ and HTL
(Coastal Regulatory Zone, High Tide Line)
also demolished on safety grounds due to rising sea level

There were about  74 illegal hutments / Shanties with about 377 people
8 huts spared due to last-minute Court's stay order
Update: 17/7/14
Court Stay order lifted as the petitioner withdrew his application


Update: 21.07.14
Remaining 4 huts demolished today
(see pics below)

The Police, security force, IRB, Demolition squad arrived at the site at 8.35am

Electricity connections disconnected 9.10 am

Demolition started 9.40 am and must have ended just after 1pm
We left fully wet at 11.15

There were 2-3 JCBs, bulldozers

Video - Photo show

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUGMbucPHuE

there are 106 photos

Here are some links
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Electrical connections, Sky TV etc
Huts right on the sea shore, during monsoon, waves break at their doorsteps
All this time or for the last 10 years or so , Govt did nothing and allowed them to grow illegally.
Many even had electrical connections (see pics), don't know how they got it without even taken into account health and safety issue. Who gave them NOCs, who made money on them?
Shame on MMC and local MLAs / Ministers.
74 huts, about 377 people..
All they want is  their votes
A lady was shouting ' Ministers only come for votes but not to rescue them'
Watch videos

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Last minute Salvage

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Squad arrives - Goa Police, PWD workers, IRB (Indian Reserve Battalion),
Electricity dept workers with steps ladder etc

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Electricity cut-off

What’s happening??
Dogs watching in distress

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Video 1: Photo Slide show
http://youtu.be/TUGMbucPHuE






Video 2 : Main -
A tour before Demolition, police force /Squad arrival - Demolitions


http://youtu.be/tkw9ulvOTb8






Update: 16/7/14
Not a safe place to live

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Notice

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Video 3 - 16.7.2014 - Dangerous place to live

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyEZbPS1e2M

Demolitions Phase II

21.7.2014

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Demolition

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From the remaining section

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24hrs a day business as usual
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 Watch this coconut tree falling down

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Coconut tree pushed down

Rush for tender coconuts etc
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clearing of debris

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View from the beach, Ravindra Bhavan

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Bat Island

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JCB pushing truck

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 a puppy

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Video

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This is little further, same beach / stretch - Beach Erosion

Baina Katem, near sewerage plant etc

21.7.2014

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Video clips - Baina Katem erosion 21.7.14

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Update: 3rd Sept 2014

Baina beach huts demolition Phase II

Goa Govt. served  eviction & demolition notices to 205 illegal slums at Baina beach

To be vacated by 5^th Sept.

Protest  in the City at MMC, 3rd Sept 2014  (3^rd day)

I thought notices were served for their dwellings are illegal and for their own safety.

I was shocked to listen to the protestors’ slogans as young as 5 saying..
Goa Govt Come to your senses (Goa Sarkar Hosh meim aaho..). 
Cholchina re cholchina, dadagiri cholchina.
Soddchena re soddchena, jikle bhogor soddchena

 Don’t know what to say..

Humari billi humko myaao?
Or
Am I missing something?

 One fellow was claiming that he has Portuguese documents such as birth certificate

He even says, if I have heard it right,  Parrikar came to them (Beach) during elections..
Watch video

 

Video - Latest footage of Baina beach area also added in the end  3.9.14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zs7rHXiflY

 

Some pics

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/14942561917/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/15128773642/in/photostream/
 Kids special
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/15129123705/in/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/15126121421/in/photostream

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/14942553498/in/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/14942558688/in/photostream/

 https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/14942581318/in/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/15106155206/in/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/14942589917/in/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/15106162496/in/photostream/

Media etc

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/15106135196/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/14942435199/in/photostream/

 MMC

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/14942440479/in/photostream/

Extra:

Related, Must watch videos (from archive)

 
Video 1: A month ago: June 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZEbG7nXJ1c

 Video 2: A year ago (July 2013) – Beach side, HTL, waves etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNdEAxXrqfM

 

Video 3: 3 years ago (123 huts demolished in June 2011, seaside view, HTL etc)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYP3xqgTuu4

 

Video 4: 4 years ago (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO9E9q-GA8Q

Video 5:  7 years ago (April 2007)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3JGvRogVRg


Update:

School corporal punishment of our time

School corporal punishment of my time

Well, besides hard hitting with stick or wooden ruler (Regr or régua ), hard pinching 'Chimtte'

was very common, some teachers were notorious for this. I still remember one Lucy Teacher (RIP 29.3.16) who pinched us till the skin peels off usually on the arm or on the ear.

This song made made to go back to my past
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rdf5QcXJWE

Beating Ruler or Wooden Regr

Not only hitting on its flat side but also vertically. Usually, on our hand Palm but sometime on the wrist and also on the leg.

 

Beating Sticks:

Most common stick was ‘lingttea boddi’ of ‘Lingtto’ plant.(see what’s lingtto pic)

‘Peri boddi’ Guava stick, ‘Kavllea-dolle’ (plant) sticks were also used  (see pic)

‘Panddam eisor martale’ till the body bore swollen torture marks

Our headmaster had his own tailor-made stick, striped colour painted and he proudly call it

‘Kerala stick’ for he was a Keralite (Kerala, a state of India).

I must confess, I did get a lot of beating from the headmaster for coming late to school say by 5 minutes or so. He used to be at the school compound gate with his Kerala stick.

I got two hard strikes, one each on my palm.

So, why I was late habitually?

Well, I never missed Wednesdays ‘Perpet Socor’ novenas at the church, besides I was a regular church goer be it on Sunday or Monday. Not all the times masses got over on time.

But our Head Master didn’t want to know such excuses ‘I got beatings because I am late like everybody else’. I was at high school then (e.g. Std VIII/IX)

I could easily label him as ‘racist’ for he was a Muslim but no,  I knew he was doing his duty (to discipline us).  Some Teachers also referred students to Head Master for his public beatings.

 

Our Church 'Pad Vigar' (Parish Priest) beat us on our heads 'tokule' not by his fist bones but striking with the Church door key (Heavy metal 'Chavi' weighing about half a kilogram). Each stike means we got one 'gundd' on our head. This was at the time we attended 'dotorn' or Catechetical classes
 

Oh my god!  I get goosebumps to narrate this.. (Lonv ubi zata..)

As a punishment, we were made to form a human chair ‘Kodel’ where one is made to come out and bend or lower himself in a chair position throughout the 30-40 minute period often right infront of the whole class.

It’s like sitting on a chair except there is no chair

Kneeling down was common too but have you ever heard of kneeling down on stones?

How about kneeling down on ‘nachonne’ Ragi /Nachini / Millets (see pic)?

I witnessed all these during my school time (Primary Section).

 

Once I asked my mother (a school drop-out)
Tuvem iskol kiteak soddlem ghe 'Why did you leave school?'
She replied: Eka disa Mestrin maka borench marlem ani te meren haven iskoluch naka munttlem
' On day our Teacher (Master) beat me severely and I decided never to go to school again).
My mother learnt to sign her name not at school but at home 16 years after her marriage and that too from her own children.
 

Corporal punishment practice was going on even in 80s and beyond, I think it is banned around 2000
 

Watch this video: Which inspired me to go back to my past

Taking advantage of the situation, a school boy lying to his parents saying teacher beat him..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rdf5QcXJWE

Note: Average age of Primary section at our time was say 10-14 (Std I-IV)  and passing of SSC or Metric was 20.5 (which is now I think 15.5). I passed at 19 but I was a repeater in STD III.
Those day school joining age was around 8, again, there was KG1, KG2 KG3 before join Std I.
Now kids join school at 4

Some related pics

Lingtto

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk1/2612470451/

ruler
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/14669869863/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/14646711571/in/photostream/

Kavllea Dolle

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk40/5793836701/

Nachonne / Gondde/millets

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/10605793546/

Guava tree
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk70/8642842395/