Trancemedia, under it’s sister brands Heritage Jazz, Konkani Rocks and Goa ForGiving has been organizing Jazz Festivals in Goa over the past decade with the focus on a variety of topics and issues like peace, heritage, religious worship and so on.
This year the jazz festival’s limelight will cover Goa and its environment, which is a burning issue at present as garbage piles up and the government and bureaucrats pass the buck in the blame game over whose responsibility it is manage the waste. The environment is getting degraded over the years due to human carelessness and Panaji City, the capital of Goa, is a prime example of problems in this regard where waste keeps piling up with no place to dispose it.
The answer, however, lies in the use of efficient technology that is easily available, though at a cost. There are companies in Goa and around India who have such technologies that can be put to use in successfully dealing with the garbage and waste problems affecting Panaji and other areas of Goa. We believe It is time for these companies to come on board the environment bandwagon and highlight their technology/ products.
This year, Trancemedia is organizing [as part of the three day Festival entitled “Jazz for Goa” beginning February 12] an environment seminar on February 13, 2011 highlighting the major civic issues facing Panaji and their solutions. The major issues to be discussed include:
• Garbage (solid waste management) and Sewage (Panaji-Amersfoort canal cleanup)
• Transport (intercity) and traffic (parking and traffic jams).
• Heritage (heritage buildings and precincts)
Amersfoort city in Holland has succeeded cleaning up its environs -- including its canals – and maintaining that cleanliness. Prominent dignitaries from Amersfoort will be coming to Goa to share in the seminar their experience in overcoming different obstacles to keep their city clean and how that experience can be applied to Panaji city in Goa.
The seminar will witness debates on environmental issues -- affecting Panaji specially, and Goa broadly-- between prominent NGO representatives, researchers, environmentalists and even politicians.
The participants’ names are in the process of being finalized and we believe the seminar will be a newsworthy event covered by majority of the print and electronic media In Goa and other major cities of India, besides the news feed being transmitted by us to news media and television networks abroad.
