Appeal From The Elected Representatives.
While going through today’s news paper an appeal caught my eye, a so called appeal from the elected representatives of the village panchayat of Navelim to the Chief Minister of Goa. I presume that this is the Bardez, Navelim and not the Salcette one. It’s an impressive appeal, five of them pleading with joined hands, while the hands of the other three are out of sight most probably holding on to the booty given by the mine owners for their treachery. They called themselves elected representatives of the Village Panchayat, in more ways than one similar to the elected representatives of the Goa Legislative Assembly and most probably backed by the higher ruling elite authority and in all matters no better than them. They both seem to suffer from amnesia of convenience, they both promise to be faithful to their voters but once elected they seem to conveniently forget their promises and become slaves of their masters for the colour of greenbacks.
Today most of our elected representatives are well and truly infected by an incurable syndrome, even worse than AIDS, once transmitted, so far there is no cure and the medium of transmission in this case is money. Once their money is passed from hand to hand, you have it and once you have it, you are stuck with it for life, in its wake no doubt you become rich but then, you slowly but surely strip yourself of all your self-respect, sense of decorum, ethics, conscience, integrity, dignity, uprightness and does not leave around even a modicum pity and sympathy for yourself.
In this appeal too, it is very evident that the so called elected representatives of the Village Panchayat have sold their souls to the devil and are trying to woo and influence the very residents who are bogged down and buried under the atrocities of mining and miners, they are selling the very people that elected them and it surely shows their apathy and their lack of responsibility towards their own. May I ask, why are they only interested in the welfare of all the mines employed people and least interested in the welfare of all the mines affected people ? Why are they only interested in the economic viability of mines and least interested in the devastation of our environment and our ecology caused by incessant mining ?
Why are they only aware that mining unemployment could cause starvation and least interested in the damage that mining has caused to our rich fertile fields and to the water bodies that could lead to even a worst situation than starvation ? Why do they want zero buffer zones around wild life sanctuaries when protecting these sanctuaries should have been the need of the hour ? I am sure that more than fifty percent, if not all of these elected members, have no idea or even a clue of what the order of 27th September by the Mines Department is all about and that says it all.
The answer is very clear, they are certainly not interested in either the socioeconomic viability or welfare of the mines employed people nor the safety of the mines affected people, but are only interested in the economic viability of their own pathetic selves. This is just a ploy to appease their mining and senior political masters at their behest. Nothing more, nothing less ! Goans please beware of such pawns that our miners and politicians use against their own and then go on to call themselves elected representatives. Shame on you elected representatives of the village panchayat of Navelim, Bardez.
Freddy Agnelo Fernandes.
November 14, 2011
Assumcao D'Sa (Assumption) - Remembrance Mass
Assumcao D'Sa (Assumption) - Remembrance Mass
REMEMBRANCE MASS
A Remembrance Holy Mass will be offered for the repose of the soul of Assumcao D'Sa (Assumption), ex-employee of Yacoub Yousuf Behbehani–Kuwait and team manager of Goa Maroons (G.O.A–Kuwait) by the family members at the Holy Family Cathedral, Kuwait City, on 15th November 2011 (Tuesday) at 6:30 p.m.
Friends, kindly accept this as the only intimation.
The family members thanks all in advance all for your prayers.
Info source: G.O.A.
For all the Faithful in Kuwait, you may now email:
Holy Family Cathedral, Kuwait City - avona.hfc@gmail.com
Our Lady of Arabia Church, Ahmadi - avona.ola@gmail.comSt. Thérèse Church, Salmiya - avona.stc@gmail.com
St. Daniel Comboni Church, Jleeb Al Shuyoukh - avona.sdc@gmail.com
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- Forwarded by www.goa-world.com
November 13, 2011
ALEMAOS ARE LOOTING GOA.
By Nisser Dias. 10th Nov 2011
People living in glass houses should not throw stones at others.
As recently as last week newly appointed, inexperienced Congress party Goa unit spokesperson and a greenhorn in politics Valanka Alemao tried to make a show of grand standing by questioning BJP’s silence on alleged corruption by their former party president Bangaru Laxman and ended up exposing herself as an incompetent lawyer also.
Simply because one cannot comment when the case is sub-judice. If Valanka does not know this much of law, I doubt whether she will be an asset if at all elected to Goa Legislative Assembly. Without going into the merits of the case Congress wound up the Commission set-up by the NDA government to enquire into the allegation against Bangaru Laxman and handed the matter to the CBI in 2004 and the chargesheet came to be filed in 2006 during the regime of the Congress government. Could the spokeperson tell us why the Congress government is not pursuing the matter in earnest? It is simply because they want the law to take its own course and do not want to be seen as witch hunting or influencing the judiciary.
From the media conference held by the probable candidate for Benaulim constituency it seems that she is testing the waters to face the press. That the presspersons attending the briefing did a shabby job of it is a different aspect. However it seems that they too were under influence of her father. Otherwise why did they not question her about the tenets of law, ‘innocent until proven guilty’
That apart, I would like to remind the immature spokesperson that she should not throw stones at others while living in glass house. There have been so many allegations of corruption against Valanka, her father and uncle, both of who are ministers in the current government and her answer to that is produce the proof.
Before going into allegations, I will first place facts against Valanka Alemao, recently she was disqualified as a candidate for the post of Youth Congress president and the reason being she used the chief minister Digambar Kamat and her influential father Churchill Alemao to canvas for her. This is also corruption as she is trying to lure youth to vote for her either through inducement or intimidation. The Alemao family tried to move heaven and hell to turn it around but nothing changed, they even threatened to topple the government but failed. This stigma that Valanka was disqualified in her first intra party election will also stick to her like her shadow.
More recently PWD minister Churchill Alemao made a statement at a public meeting in Benaulim that he is going to set-up a sewerage plant in the constituency only if his daughter is elected. This is also inducement to voters amounting to corruption.
Further there have been lot of times that PWD has taken up roads in Benaulim constituency. Propaganda is made in the locality that Valanka Alemao is building a road. How can a lay person or even a minister say that they have constructed a road? Every house has a right for an access by law, no minister is doing a favour nor digging into his personal wealth to construct a road, it is the exchequer’s money that is spent to construct a public road. Unfortunately most of the roads that are said to be constructed by Valanka have been washed away in less than three months and the reason, be best left at Government Rest House at Monte Dongor. Now this is also corruption as Valanka was using government money to promote herself as a social worker and candidate thereby luring voters to vote for her.
There are many allegations against the daughter of Churchill Alemao by PWD contractors but I will restrain from going into the details. But sticking to facts PWD minister has been humbled several times in the assembly by the Opposition. Charges were traded against him for corruption in the distribution of water tanks without approval from the cabinet and finance department. Fatorda MLA brought it to the notice of the assembly that PWD department had purchased 200 litres water tanks at the cost of Rs. 7000 each, when a 1000 litres want tank cost Rs. 5000 in the open market. Where did the difference disappear. Recently Opposition Leader cornered him on the Rs. 100 crores Japanese funded sewerage project and water augmentation project, wherein the PWD kept on hiking the estimate of the project report and the Japanese agency kept on rejecting it because they felt that the estimates prepared by PWD department were not realistic. One can easily draw conclusion why the estimates were being hiked every time by 40 percent instead of usual 15 percent.
Coming to roads constructed by the PWD during the tenure of Churchill Alemao most of which have been washed away during rains, Infact Leader of Opposition Manohar Parrikar took the minister on a whirlwind tour of the capital city which is the former’s constituency to show the latter the state of the roads. The reason for newly hotmixed roads to wash away in one rain is because the cream (read 15 percent of the cost of road in cash) is diverted into some account. Is this not corruption?
Coming to Urban Development minister Joaquim Alemao, Comptroller and Auditor General of India has exposed his heist in their audit report. They have uncovered his lapses purportedly committed to suit his pockets rather than for public benefit. 5 Sweeping machines bought at the cost of crores of rupees have not even been used once and are dumped in the yards of different Municipalities. Wastage of public money. Is this not corruption?
Goa State Urban Development Agency under Joaquim Alemao, tailor-made a tender to suit the needs of Hyquip Company and awarded the contract of treating garbage at Sonsoddo to this unknown company. Whooping Rs. 7.84 crores were flushed down the drains for this experiment. Is criminal waste of exchequer’s money not corruption, then what is?
As a minister also holding Fisheries portfolio, Joaquim Alemao poured crores of rupees in the pilot prawn hatchery project at Benaulim to oversee its demise.
Even High Court has rapped ministries under Joaquim Alemao on the knukles for wasteful expenditure. Infact High Court ordered sunbays built by GSUDA to be demolished and cost recovered from officials of GSUDA. All these are facts, which are recorded in the High Court and in the audit report. The question is why did the minister take up such projects, if it was only because of the huge amount of money involved than the answer is obvious.
And we have here an immature spokesperson of the Congress party pointing fingers at others when her house itself has to be set straight. In conclusion this reminds me of an old saying, “Washing and washing a crow never becomes a crane.”
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(Nisser Dias writes a regular column in GT every Thursday).
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People living in glass houses should not throw stones at others.
As recently as last week newly appointed, inexperienced Congress party Goa unit spokesperson and a greenhorn in politics Valanka Alemao tried to make a show of grand standing by questioning BJP’s silence on alleged corruption by their former party president Bangaru Laxman and ended up exposing herself as an incompetent lawyer also.
Simply because one cannot comment when the case is sub-judice. If Valanka does not know this much of law, I doubt whether she will be an asset if at all elected to Goa Legislative Assembly. Without going into the merits of the case Congress wound up the Commission set-up by the NDA government to enquire into the allegation against Bangaru Laxman and handed the matter to the CBI in 2004 and the chargesheet came to be filed in 2006 during the regime of the Congress government. Could the spokeperson tell us why the Congress government is not pursuing the matter in earnest? It is simply because they want the law to take its own course and do not want to be seen as witch hunting or influencing the judiciary.
From the media conference held by the probable candidate for Benaulim constituency it seems that she is testing the waters to face the press. That the presspersons attending the briefing did a shabby job of it is a different aspect. However it seems that they too were under influence of her father. Otherwise why did they not question her about the tenets of law, ‘innocent until proven guilty’
That apart, I would like to remind the immature spokesperson that she should not throw stones at others while living in glass house. There have been so many allegations of corruption against Valanka, her father and uncle, both of who are ministers in the current government and her answer to that is produce the proof.
Before going into allegations, I will first place facts against Valanka Alemao, recently she was disqualified as a candidate for the post of Youth Congress president and the reason being she used the chief minister Digambar Kamat and her influential father Churchill Alemao to canvas for her. This is also corruption as she is trying to lure youth to vote for her either through inducement or intimidation. The Alemao family tried to move heaven and hell to turn it around but nothing changed, they even threatened to topple the government but failed. This stigma that Valanka was disqualified in her first intra party election will also stick to her like her shadow.
More recently PWD minister Churchill Alemao made a statement at a public meeting in Benaulim that he is going to set-up a sewerage plant in the constituency only if his daughter is elected. This is also inducement to voters amounting to corruption.
Further there have been lot of times that PWD has taken up roads in Benaulim constituency. Propaganda is made in the locality that Valanka Alemao is building a road. How can a lay person or even a minister say that they have constructed a road? Every house has a right for an access by law, no minister is doing a favour nor digging into his personal wealth to construct a road, it is the exchequer’s money that is spent to construct a public road. Unfortunately most of the roads that are said to be constructed by Valanka have been washed away in less than three months and the reason, be best left at Government Rest House at Monte Dongor. Now this is also corruption as Valanka was using government money to promote herself as a social worker and candidate thereby luring voters to vote for her.
There are many allegations against the daughter of Churchill Alemao by PWD contractors but I will restrain from going into the details. But sticking to facts PWD minister has been humbled several times in the assembly by the Opposition. Charges were traded against him for corruption in the distribution of water tanks without approval from the cabinet and finance department. Fatorda MLA brought it to the notice of the assembly that PWD department had purchased 200 litres water tanks at the cost of Rs. 7000 each, when a 1000 litres want tank cost Rs. 5000 in the open market. Where did the difference disappear. Recently Opposition Leader cornered him on the Rs. 100 crores Japanese funded sewerage project and water augmentation project, wherein the PWD kept on hiking the estimate of the project report and the Japanese agency kept on rejecting it because they felt that the estimates prepared by PWD department were not realistic. One can easily draw conclusion why the estimates were being hiked every time by 40 percent instead of usual 15 percent.
Coming to roads constructed by the PWD during the tenure of Churchill Alemao most of which have been washed away during rains, Infact Leader of Opposition Manohar Parrikar took the minister on a whirlwind tour of the capital city which is the former’s constituency to show the latter the state of the roads. The reason for newly hotmixed roads to wash away in one rain is because the cream (read 15 percent of the cost of road in cash) is diverted into some account. Is this not corruption?
Coming to Urban Development minister Joaquim Alemao, Comptroller and Auditor General of India has exposed his heist in their audit report. They have uncovered his lapses purportedly committed to suit his pockets rather than for public benefit. 5 Sweeping machines bought at the cost of crores of rupees have not even been used once and are dumped in the yards of different Municipalities. Wastage of public money. Is this not corruption?
Goa State Urban Development Agency under Joaquim Alemao, tailor-made a tender to suit the needs of Hyquip Company and awarded the contract of treating garbage at Sonsoddo to this unknown company. Whooping Rs. 7.84 crores were flushed down the drains for this experiment. Is criminal waste of exchequer’s money not corruption, then what is?
As a minister also holding Fisheries portfolio, Joaquim Alemao poured crores of rupees in the pilot prawn hatchery project at Benaulim to oversee its demise.
Even High Court has rapped ministries under Joaquim Alemao on the knukles for wasteful expenditure. Infact High Court ordered sunbays built by GSUDA to be demolished and cost recovered from officials of GSUDA. All these are facts, which are recorded in the High Court and in the audit report. The question is why did the minister take up such projects, if it was only because of the huge amount of money involved than the answer is obvious.
And we have here an immature spokesperson of the Congress party pointing fingers at others when her house itself has to be set straight. In conclusion this reminds me of an old saying, “Washing and washing a crow never becomes a crane.”
Send your comments/reactions to nisserdias@gmail.com or SMS 9422437029)
(Nisser Dias writes a regular column in GT every Thursday).
For Goa News Log on to WWW.nizgoenkar.net
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