This is in reference to
the news item in Herald dated 16.01.15 regarding officially bringing two
villages Candolim and Calangute under the North Goa Planning and Development
Authority. Though it was desired by many yet it was done not thru Indian
democratic method but thru Salazar’s
“Zulumshahi” method as it was happening during the Portuguese regime in Goa. It looks even Salazar would
not take this type of undemocratic step when the mandate was unanimous in both the villages
against the formation of PDF during the emergency Gram Sabah meetings called in
Candolim and Calangute.
With the formation of
PDF in my locality the biggest losers will be the local Panchayats where some
of the members are alleged to fleece the locals shamelessly while issuing the
Licenses for constructions of any sort
from the point of One Room Dwellings to Star Hotels. The bribe charged for permission was so
enormous that the bribe takers are become crorepotis by looting the innocent
locals. They demand bribe as if it is
their devine right and many of these rogues are given preferential treatment by
the local religeous authorities thereby even lowering the sanctity of the religious
places.
Thru the formation of
this PDA the brute power of some brute members of the local Panchayats will be
drastically curtailed where these brute members are known to act like Saddam
Hussein with the locals by being proud, arrogant and revengeful. Revenge for
these people is become their forte and most of their victims were innocently
weak persons. These revengeful and corrupt
members of the Panchayats forget that they are elected not to take revenge and
harass the locals but to serve the locals nicely. They think they are
omnipotent to do any damage to the locals with the little power they are
wielding which is just a temporary and not permanently.
Now when PDA starts functioning,
I feel the same corrupt and brute policies will
not be repeated by the PDA personnel otherwise Michael Lobo will jump from
Frying Pan to the fire because the next general election is around. Constituents in the locality have already
fired a salvo against Congress and in view of this Michael Lobo who is going to
head this PDA must make this PDA a Bribe Free and Revenge Free. Pride and arrogance should never exist in
this PDA personnel and they must serve the locals well.
Candolim, Goa.
Tel: 7507394349. 
