This refers to the news appeared in the Goan dailies on
27.05.20 indicating that the “Train Service resumption saw 85% rise in Covid 19
…… This is terrible news to digest by
the Goans who have undergone so many sacrifices to keep the record of Goa
perfectly well to get Goa under Green Zone. Not a single member of Goa Cabinet
has undergone the sacrifices the way the common men have undergone. All the members of the
Cabinet by virtue of being the holders of Cabinet rank they enjoyed all the
facilities and privileges needing no sacrifice on their part the way commoner needed. And precisely because of this easy going
attitude of theirs, they eased for the resumption of Trains not only from the
Green Zone to Goa which was also in Green Zone but from the Red Zone to the
Green Zone of Goa thus infiltrating into Goa many of the virus infected
citizens from outside Goa. Who is
responsible to take this dangerous and
faulty step of allowing the Trains to bring in Goa the virus infested people
from Red Zone? Who advised the
government and especially the CM to restart the Train service from Red Zone to
Green Zone and thus destroy the very good atmosphere existing in Goa? It is not
enough to say that those people caught for carrying virus were outsiders
and it was the imported virus. Importd or exported it was found on Goan
soil. I fully hold reaponsble those who gave permission for the
Train service from Red Zone to Goa and if further disaster comes on Goa due to
the influx of Coronavirus, those responsible by owning the blame must surrender
from the responsible positions they are holding now.
It is not a joke to handle the current situation. Those who are handling this situation they must not act ignorant, those who got
better knowledge and better education to handle this problem alone should be
entrusted to take decisions on this. In
India our system is very defective. The Minister who is holding the portolio of
Health Ministry does not know anything of medical science and yet still he
becomes Health Minister. Our system is
so defective that even if you don’t know the ABC of the particular portfolio,
still you can be appointed the minister of that particular portfolio. When this is the Case, how we can acquire
efficiency and perfection? The Minister
who does not have the professional knowledge and proper qualification to hold
the particular portfolio he will finally make a mess of his ministry by acting
like a Ladru and Pedru. Most of our
responsible people are of this category only and for this reason we are as common men suffering.
Our elders told us how a century back the whole of Goa was protected by
the Portuguese government of Goa without even giving an inch of space for the
infiltrators to enter Goa from the neighbouring areas because of the Spanish
Flu which was called by those illiterate Goans as “Spanis Filu”.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
