On Thursday, 22nd
of this month, a six member delegation of Candolim Senior Citizens Association
headed by its newly crowned President, Mr. A.Veronica Fernandes, met with Mr.
Azit Panchwadkar, the Director of Panchayat and discussed with him some points
with respect to the functioning of Candolim Panchayat under the current
Sarpanch who has got lot of deficiencies which require urgent action. To run
the affairs of the village like Candolim is not a joke where some of the
villagers during the Grahm Sabah meetings make the life of the Sarpanch
miserable. It is one of the Panchayats in Goa were alertness of the citizens is
high because they are knowledgeable. Precisely because of this alertness that
during the last Grahm Sabah Meet,
Candolim citizens as a mark of strong protest WALKED out of that Graham Sabah.
If you observe their
actions carefully, like any other Panchayat body, Candolim also gone into the
hands of wrong and proud members. The way some of them show their pride it looks to me
that they are coming from heaven.
Ironically, some of them are so poor intellectually and they dont even accept that they are there only temporarily. Once they are out from
the Panchayat, they are just like KOCHRO” exactly like the previous ones who are now like Fish
out of water. In fact most of them are the scum of our human society. They are not
visionary; they have no capacity to think what is good for our society. They lack educational background to know many
things. Very many of these Panchayat members are looters because they are looting
the Panchayats and filling their own pockets.
The looting activities of some Panchayats are so big that in one Panchayat
due to the lure of the bribe money they collect in their Panchayat that one person,
an employee of the Panchayat resigned from his job and contested the last election and won it.
Candolim Panchayat has
got history created by a few Sarpanches who were the real sons of this village
and not the settlers coming from the neighbouring areas. The first Sarpanch in our village Candolim
Mr. Pandu Bott was moving in the whole village not on Motorbike and four Wheelers
but on foot. He did not receive bribe for issuing licenses for the construction
of Bunglows, Builings, Hotels etc.
Precisely because of this he did not build for himself a bungalow or an
Hotel or a Restaurant. He did not flood
in Ghanttianchi Araddy in Cndolim the unwanted Ghanttis. Neither he boast of the Gangs under his
possession to act swiftly against anyone.
A.Veronica Fernandes.
