From newly married couples to grandparents, people took to the tracks in Velsao to protest against noise pollution
Velsao: A divine first night wedding experience turned into a nightmare for a Velsao couple. Thanks to those overloaded trains that pass through your city and create noise, dust and foul smell day and night.
Frieda, a newly married woman, spent her first day in her husband’s house full of dust, lots of coal, and a lot of noise. The bus stop on trains passing through Velsao village is not forgiving even to old people. Young and old, weak and sick people have faced problems due to goods trains passing through Velsao’s railway tracks.
Most affected are elderly people living around the villages of Velsao, Pel and Issorsim along the railway route. Describing his experience, Anthony De Silva said: “The smell is unbearable, the garbage coming from the train, the carbon coming from our front and back yards and is anyone listening?” He said.
Velsao residents complained that in addition to losing land, they also lost their peaceful way of life. “Many people met and appealed to the authorities so that people around them do not face any problem. However, they are the ones that bother me the least”, said D’Silva.
“Industrial shops at night in quiet residential villages are the order of the day in Pale,” he said.
Residents said that even after stopping the trains and asking the operators about the problem, the problem of noise coming from the trains still persists.
Orville Dorado Rodrigues de Goencho Aquot reported that about ten wagons loaded with carbon passed through the city destroying all peace and tranquility of the city. “Despite reaching the Superior Tribunal, NGT and appeals at the highest level, there is no end in sight to the hue and cry. Are we not citizens of India? “Why are we subject to a condition that will lead us to premature death?” -Pregunto Dorado.
“With single track, the situation is very bad. Imagine what the situation will be after adding one more track”, he said.
Olencio Simões, general secretary of Goenchiya Ramponkarancho Ekvot, said: “The railway system has been modernized all over India. Why do we follow old customs in Velsao? “The health of neighbors has been affected due to pollution and pollution caused by trains,” he said.
Littering and emission of dust and carbon in the village continues without any respite. The villagers have now come to the conclusion that the ferrocarrils probably want to be displaced so that they can continue on their way.
