with the 11monthold mining ban hitting employment levels many of the 5000 residents of the sevenward sancorda village panchayat have their hopes pinned squarely on a proposed industrial estate at satpal albeit with conditions locals say they are awarefrom experiences of residents in other villagesthat industrial estates over the years tend to affect the peace cleanliness greenery and ethnicity of a village with the work culture noisewaterair pollutions garbage disposal issues heavy influx of migrant workers and rise in crime giving the example of villages around the verna industrial estate locals in sancorda worry that the industries at satpal too may someday pollute their groundwater resources which is why we want that the satpal industrial estate should have nonpolluting units said vijaykumar dessai a resident of deulwada pointing out that the panchayat lies close to the bondla wildlife sanctuary and the western ghats he opined that any polluting units would have a diverse impact on the ecology his view is echoed by udalsheresident prashant gaonkar we will certainly welcome and support an industrial estate in our village but only if it has nonpolluting units and benefits locals if not we will not hesitate to oppose it with our full strength stating that a bit of compromise is at times required in the pursuit of development local resident harish bhandari would however like the government to enact and implement some legislation so that locals right to employment at the estate is protected in most cases we have seen several companies come to the state employ locals initially and after about six months throw out the locals and absorb dailywage workers from other states claimed bhandari a solution to ensure permanent jobs to goans he opined was the abolition of the contract labour system agreeing with bhandari dessai added some industries set up shop in goa work for some years till they get the tax and other benefits and once the schemes end shut shop such practices should not be allowed to repeat at satpal gaonkar alleged that several factories keep sons of the soil out by advertising for jobs for which locals are not qualified and then claiming that skilled labour is not locally available he suggested a factory takes around two years to set up in that time the government must make a list of what qualifications the industries are looking for in their workforce and should immediately start providing such educational opportunities to the local youngsters so that they are ready to be hired by the time the industries start operations local mla ganesh gaonkar who has an institute at dharbandora barely 10km away from the proposed industrial estate site can provide local youngsters with courses that will correspond with industries needs gaonkar added acknowledging that employment opportunities have been hit hard by the ban on mining sarpanch shirish desai said our village panchayat had resolved a long time ago to demand that the government set up an industrial estate here but nothing materialized with the closure of mining