NEW DELHI, Jan. 23 -- Intensive agitations have only brought about interim solutions to the problems plaguing Goa. Appeasing tactics employed by successive governments to mollify the protesters have often denied the state practical solutions to long pending issues.

Today, SAVE MHADEI, SAVE GOA as the clarion call of Goa and Goans at large serves to be a public backlash for the procrastinating ways of the elected governments which have miserably failed to safeguard the interests of the region and is bound to rock the government of the day.

"Inter-state water disputes are a continuing challenge to federal water governance in India. Rooted in constitutional, geographical and institutional ambiguities, they tend to become prolonged conflic...