Subject: Tourist Cooking Areas 

It was interesting to hear the Goa Governments solution, to the major issue of tourist visitors to the state cooking in public places particularly on roads. 

I wonder if there is any proper thinking/planning to what the Goa Government says or does in Goa. For instance on this particular point:

1) Has the Govt does any cost benefit analysis to see the returns of his new proposed plan?

2) Yes, there are such things in other countries but they have already planning in their revenue benefits coming from Visas, Flight Tickets, Confirmed Hotel rooms etc. What is the revenue the Goa Government planning to get from yet another freebee other, than these type of tourists just buying alcohol at very low prices and the littering all over the places and treating Goa like an open toilet.  

3) Will this new plan mean more of our green areas/fields will be acquired for concretization? 

4) Will the Govt provide free water which will also  be also wasted ?

5) As clearly this plan will not deliver profit revenue, will these places be taken good care of ? We already see how badly the Government takes care of Goa which is a good revenue earner with respect to its size; as compared to many other places in India    

6) Will this free charity tourism not clog our roads and give another excuse to destroy fields/forests and make bigger wider roads in small Goa ?

7) Is this type of unwanted tourism not affecting the quality tourism by decent tourists who would actually give good revenue to the state and keep our state clean.  

8) Can we not see that this is Damaging Goa’s reputation and even causing Goans to leave the state/migrate in the light of Goa getting filthy by the day?

9) Is all this filth not destroying our beaches and polluting our waters, air and sea food. Has this been taken into account ?  What is the Goa State Pollution Control Board doing? 

10) Can the Goa Government really not come up with a proper plan to discourage such time of unwanted tourism?

Goa has generally a high literacy rate. How is this useful if we allow the Government to make and even get away with such plans?