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February 03, 2006

I just love Goa

For its beaches and heavenly holiday ambience of course, but also for its community activism. See the story below about the kids protesting against plastic last month. Scroll below or click on http://www.badlani.com/blog/comments.php?id=107_0_1_0_C

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I’m back in Ahmedabad after holidaying there with my family (that’s them in the photo) and just a month later I’m gratified to read that the Mormugao Municipal Council has banned plastic bags from its city. They’ve requested other panchayats (village councils) in the district also to follow suit and already the Chicalim village panchayat has today banned plastic carry-bags from its jurisdiction thus becoming the first panchayat in the state to do so.

This positions Goan administrations even at the village level as being way more aware and progressive than the city governments of so many larger Indian cities. Really something for Goans to be proud of.

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