Panaji: Heritage Monuments and Goa Archaeological Sites Starting from Megalitical Caves and Window Panel Breeding Sites in Chicalim to ancient Temple and popular Old Goa Churches have been registered by activists to be included in the Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP).
The history of state-box boxes has left multi-layer sites in several villages and former capitals – caves, tunnels, monuments, and ruins.
“The state has prepared an environmental management plan for turtles, mangroves, dunes, but there are no plans for the inheritance management built,” Goa Heritage Action Group (GHAG) and Charles Correia Foundation stated in submission to the government.
Goa has a total of 422 legacy sites that are legally informed, including 75 protected by the state and central government.
“But only 13 sites found mention in the report, and only 12 were marked on the map,” said the inheritance group.
Some sites are very important, because they shape the history of the region.
“For example, the 500-year-old Rachol Church.
There is also an ancient tunnel and other ancient remains, which makes this village archeological site,” said Abhjijit Prabhudesai, a declared social activist.
Furniture details about other sites in Goa Coastal Zone Management (GCZMA) heard on Thursday, he said that sites in Quelossim, Carambolim and other places in the CRZ area need to be limited after the survey.
‘Of the 21 Old Goa protected structures, only two are shown in old cave, from 14 monuments that are centrally protected and seven are recruited, only the Church of Cajetan and Viceroy arches – marked.
“Demarcation of monuments and this protected site as part of the CRZ-1 is under the CZMP guidelines,” said Glean Cabral, an old activist based in Goa.
“Furthermore, at least four more need to be displayed, including Largo St.
Cajetan, St.
Peter Church, Bainguinium and Casa de Polvora, Panaturum,” said Cabral.
Chicalim, a village awaiting the tag of ‘Heritage Village’, boasts a layered history with natural assets and man-made.
“There are many historical and archaeological sites in Chicalim, Dabolim and St Jacinto Island.
The ruins of the 16th century St.
Bartholomew Church, Khazan landed with a unique irrigation system, thousands of years and ancient caves in Chicalim and Dabolim,” said a social activist , stated.
Some houses, underground tunnels and fortifications on Sao Jacinto Island and other sites have been included in the Chicalim list.
The Gulf of Chicalim is famous as one of the few site breeding heaps of window panels on the west coast.
“The National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula has stated this as a natural breeding site for endangered oysters, placuna placenta, locally known as ‘mendeos’, schedule IV protected species under EPA,” Fernandes said.