As the government of India issued a report which confirms these problems, UK tour operators can no longer dismiss these concerns as unfounded."Roger Heape said that none of the hotels cited in the report was used by British Airways Holidays but he suggested that tourism in Goa should be subjected to an environmental audit.Ms Barnett praised British Airways Holidays for being "positive and even- handed" but said that most operators, despite "clapping furiously" at the annual BA Holidays' "Tourism For Tomorrow" awards, held last week, did not recognise that they had any responsibility for environmentally friendly holidays.. The report says this "defies all logic and common sense".Among hotels mentioned in the report are the Goa Renaissance, the Cidade De Goa, Goa Penta, Leela Beach Resort, and the Dalmia Taj Village and Whispering Palms complexes.Other claims examined in Friday's programme are that villagers have been "intimidated" out of their homes by hotel owners and hotels are using water from dams built to irrigate paddy fields.Tricia Barnett, Tourism Concern's co-ordinator, said: "For several years Tourism Concern has been telling tour operators of Goan environmental groups' concerns about the continuing violation of local environmental regulations and people's rights. Sewage is being discharged on to beaches or leaking into paddy fields.The report says motorised water scooters are "shattering the tranquillity" of beaches, and scores of illegal and ramshackle cafes and shops are being erected. It accuses the state of condoning "indiscriminate" large- scale commercial development.The Goan government has got round the regulation which forbids building near the high tide line by redefining beaches as rivers. Tourist buses have been pelted with rotten fish and cow dung.A report by the Goa Foundation, a local pressure group, accused the state government of overloading the Goan eco-system "with a stunningly large number of tourists whose extravagant demands may only be met by compromising the basic needs and rights" of native people.Among the findings of the Indian national government report are that hotels have been sited illegally on the beach, beaches have been closed to locals, threatened mangrove and wetland areas have been reclaimed in breach of the law, sand has been quarried from beaches, trees felled, and dunes levelled to make artificial lawns. Its director of tourism sees the holiday industry as the "backbone of the Goan economy". Dozens of four- and five-star hotels and complexes are being built.Local opponents of tourism, such as the Goan Vigilante Army, claim it has brought drugs, raves and child prostitution, and has raised food prices beyond the reach of residents.

somewhere like Euro Disney."With a rich mixture of Portuguese and Indian culture, and 105km of coastline - two-thirds of it sandy beaches fringed with coconut palms - Goa is expecting five million tourists by the end of the century. We should find somewhere else to go to, with a culture that is not so fragile and with very little of value that can actually be damaged. Many claim to have espoused "green" tourism.In "Our Man In Goa", part of a new series on "troubled paradises", Clive Anderson says that in 10 years' time Goa will be "just one long strip of hotels and development indistinguishible from Thailand, Miami Beach or Benidorm" He suggests that "not too many of us should visit Goa. It has asked operators to ensure that the hotels they use "do not contribute to the environmental degradation of Goa".Nearly 20 British operators send holidaymakers to Goa. One reason has been the increased capacity in Goa's main airport, Dabolim, resulting from a runway extension.Tourism Concern, which bases its charges on a new report from the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests listing widespread and "flagrant" breaches of environmental laws by hotels and holiday complexes, blames British tour operators which use the hotels responsible. Roger Heape, managing director of British Airways Holidays, says: "The major impact on Goa and environmental issues has been the direct charter operation from the UK."Officials estimate that the number of tourists visiting Goa has increased from 10,000 in 1972 to well over a million in the early Nineties. Goa, "discovered" by hippies in the Sixties and now depicted in tourist brochures as an archetypal unspoilt paradise, is being "poisoned" by mass tourism, according to the pressure group Tourism Concern. The group says Goa's "fragile ecology and unique culture are being systematically destroyed by hotel owners eager to cash in on the growing influx of tourists".The allegations will be reinforced by Clive Anderson, the TV presenter and barrister, who, in a series starting on BBC2 on Friday, examines the local hostility to tourism in Goa - and advises Britons not to go there.Britons in particular have been involved in tourism's impact.

WESTERN package tourism is threatening to turn the Indian state of Goa, one of the newest and most exotic locations targeted by the holiday industry, into a 65km strip of concrete-lined beach "indistinguishable from Benidorm", it will be claimed this week. All I do is to try to produce the education here that I firmly believe in and which hopefully benefits the children It depends on management - that's the key to it.". The average class size is 14.7.Parents range from the very wealthy to those who struggle with fees, but the only problem children here are the over-indulged, Mr Riley says.He feels Emscote Lawn is a good school to compare with a state school because it does not have charitable status and so has none of the tax advantages."It's no good feeling guilty. Original works of art by nationally and internationally known artists hang on the walls.Children start French at three and Latin at nine, and there is a fully equipped language lab.More than half last year's leavers won scholarships to major independent

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schools.The school pays its teachers on national scales and has budgeted for a 3 per cent rise this year.Its day fees for the over-sevens are £4,287 per year, including meals but not textbooks. Its classrooms, built around an old country house, provide standards which most state secondary schools would envy.There are two computer rooms, separate and fully equipped biology, physics and chemistry labs, a music block with recording studio, an art centre and an indoor swimming pool.Games facilities include Astro-turf pitches, space for football, rugby and netball, and old grass tennis courts.The library is fully stocked but there are also book collections in each department - children receive specialist teaching in all subjects.

"We will have the same number of children and the same standard costs for the building. So where do we make another £30,000 cut next year?" Mr McDonald asked.Emscote Lawn also has good reason to be proud of its facilities. "You can't make those savings by turning the lights off."Bigger classes are also out of the question with the type of children the school caters for. Unemployment in Camp Hill, a former Coal Board estate, runs at more than 40 per cent.Things are bad but they will be even worse next year when the school will take a further cut because a reorganisation will change its age range from 8-12 to 7-11, and younger children bring in less money. In 1993-94 it spent £26,000 on books and equipment; in 1994-95, £14,000. In 1995-96 it will have £7,000 to spend.Mr McDonald's colleagues in other schools and at County Hall have told him he simply cannot take on a class himself, but he sees no alternative. The French teacher spends more than half her time helping children with special needs.The school has £1,576 to spend per child per year, including extra help for children with learning or behavioural difficulties.