WHERE IS THE LOKAYUKTA?
By Aires Rodrigues
It was Mr. Manohar Parrikar’s election promise that the much needed Lokayukta would be functional in 100 days. Instead of fulfilling this one very important promise the Chief Minister as predicted by many has been focused on safronising the administration on a priority.
As per the Goa Lokayukta Act, the Lokayukta would be empowered to investigate all complaints of corruption and mal-administration too. The people of Goa did hope that this government would be different. But under the new regime, the only Parviratan is that the brokers and beneficiaries of corruption and nepotism have changed with Chief Minister Parrikar standing exposed of his double standards on his so called mantra of zero tolerance to Corruption.
While the Lokayukta should be speedily appointed, Chief Minister Parrikar should stay way from the process of selecting the Goa Lokayukta. It would be appropriate that the selection be done by the Goa Governor in consultation with the Bombay High Court. The Goa Lokayukta needs be a person of caliber, character, moral strength and conviction to remedy the rampant corruption and maladministration that Goa continues to find itself enveloped in. The setting up of the Goa Lokayukta should not be intentionally delayed.
It should also be the Goa Lokayukta itself that should screen and select the entire team of officers and staff that will work under him, so as to prevent persons with political connections from infiltrating into the Lokayukta machinery, which ought to be of impeccable integrity and extra-ordinary ability.
The Government has rightly decided to have the seat of the Goa Lokayukta at Ribandar which was earlier known as “Rai bandar”, the port where kings and rulers use to dock in splendour. Significantly today’s rulers both present and past will now be made to stand at Ribandar in the dock and be tried for their dark deeds by the Lokayukta.
Politicians have to be taken to task and penalized for all their misdeeds and Manohar Parrikar in the last four months in office has committed many. A fully documented complaint will be filed against the Chief Minister on the very day the Lokayukta is inaugurated
By Aires Rodrigues
It was Mr. Manohar Parrikar’s election promise that the much needed Lokayukta would be functional in 100 days. Instead of fulfilling this one very important promise the Chief Minister as predicted by many has been focused on safronising the administration on a priority.
As per the Goa Lokayukta Act, the Lokayukta would be empowered to investigate all complaints of corruption and mal-administration too. The people of Goa did hope that this government would be different. But under the new regime, the only Parviratan is that the brokers and beneficiaries of corruption and nepotism have changed with Chief Minister Parrikar standing exposed of his double standards on his so called mantra of zero tolerance to Corruption.
While the Lokayukta should be speedily appointed, Chief Minister Parrikar should stay way from the process of selecting the Goa Lokayukta. It would be appropriate that the selection be done by the Goa Governor in consultation with the Bombay High Court. The Goa Lokayukta needs be a person of caliber, character, moral strength and conviction to remedy the rampant corruption and maladministration that Goa continues to find itself enveloped in. The setting up of the Goa Lokayukta should not be intentionally delayed.
It should also be the Goa Lokayukta itself that should screen and select the entire team of officers and staff that will work under him, so as to prevent persons with political connections from infiltrating into the Lokayukta machinery, which ought to be of impeccable integrity and extra-ordinary ability.
The Government has rightly decided to have the seat of the Goa Lokayukta at Ribandar which was earlier known as “Rai bandar”, the port where kings and rulers use to dock in splendour. Significantly today’s rulers both present and past will now be made to stand at Ribandar in the dock and be tried for their dark deeds by the Lokayukta.
Politicians have to be taken to task and penalized for all their misdeeds and Manohar Parrikar in the last four months in office has committed many. A fully documented complaint will be filed against the Chief Minister on the very day the Lokayukta is inaugurated
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