Tensions flared up once again in Velsao village in South Goa on Friday as the team of government officials scheduled to carry out a site inspection for the ongoing sidetracking work for a 260-m long track by the Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) skipped the meeting with the residents.
Angered by this, residents marched to another site of RVNL construction to stop the ongoing work and even attempted to fill up a pit before police intervened and threatened them with arrest for interfering with official work.
Earlier, at 11am, at least 200 residents from homes along the existing railway track connecting Vasco Da Gama with the Central Railways gathered at the site of the construction along with residents of neighbouring village of Cansaulim, and Fatorda near Margaon in South Goa.
