CANDOLIM GRAMSABAH MEETING.

Candolim Panchayat held its Gramsabah Meeting on Sunday, 16^th of this month in the morning starting at 11.00 while scheduled time was 10.30 AM. After my return to Goa it was a rare opportunity for me to witness such a meet which looked more like a Fish Market where there was no system nor was discipline, the Sarpanch was unable to maintain her control over the proceedings.  It looked she finds this job very hard and as time goes it will be more tedious. She was relying more on her colleague rather on her own knowledge.

Surprisingly, the defeated ex - MLA Agnelo Fernandes yet again allowed to occupy the seat at the dais along with all the elected representatives.  This contravenes the rule and how the Secretary and BDO representative kept their silence was a question mark.  Worst part was that this same Agnelo was participating in the deliberations by answering questions posed to the Chair as if he was a member of the elected body and a spokesman of the Panchayat.  Sarpanch brings him as a Chief Guest to distribute the prizes for the students and allows him to take law into his own hands.

Twice earlier he was humiliated by two citizens for occupying the seat at the dais and moreover the Sarpanch is acting like his Chamcha without any shame or respect for rule.  Agnelo must know that because of such arrogant acts he was defeated in the last election.  When he is not an elected member of Panchayat, he got no business nor right to act like the boss of the Panchayat.  Panchayat is not his property neither of the Sarpanch. He is not owning the Candolim Panchayat nor the Sarpanch owns.  Hence, the Sarpanch is hereby warned not to overstep her authority.  She must stop inviting only Agnelo  for distributing the prizes.  There is nobody other than Agnelo in the village?  Is it the monopoly of Agnelo only always to come as chief guest to distribute the prizes and thereby poke his nose as spokesman of the Panchayat?  This is the quality of Congressmen and because of this low quality, Congress lost the last election including Agnelo Fernandes which fate is again looming over him.

Mickey Fernandes was very vocal and he even reprimanded the Panchayat on many contentious issues including the illegal type of construction in Araddy where there is no indication on the under construction building of the required details saying it is legal.  

On the Casino issue, the house objected to allow docking of Casinos at Aguada coast and also decided to take action on one Casino located at Dando on the land which according to Panchayat is running illegally. If this is illegally functioning then why Panchayat is sleeping from taking legal action?  Or is the owner of this Casino bribing the Panchayat?  By the way, is there any fixed amount of bribe to give to the Panchayat when submitting project papers for approvals? Can anyone enlighten me on this topic?  I see the moment you become a Panchayat member, you become a lakhpoti. Where these lakhs come from? Is it not thru taking bribes?

Regarding Garbage menace at Araddy, Sarpanch assured the House that it will be put into order within 6 months.  

 A.     Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, GGoa.
Tel: 7507394349.

 

   

 

MISS STACY MESQUITA HONOURED.

In Candolim, on 16th of this month, during the Gram Sabah Meet, in the morning, bright students of the village were honoured by the Candolim Panchayat.  One of the bright students was the topper Miss Stacy Mesquita who secured 92.16 % in Arts stream at St. Theresa's Higher Secondary, Candolim  

 

In the following photos seen beautiful Stacy Mesquita holding her certificates. 

 

Besides being a very bright student, Stacy is also a very good singer participating and winning laurels wherever she sings.

 

Goa-Kranti congratulates her on her achievement.

 

 

 

 

 

A. Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel: 7507394349.

 

THE KONKANI THAT UNITED US IS DEVIDING US NOW?

The real push for the Konkani movement for its recognition started with the formation of “NOVEM GOEM” movement in late seventies when members of Novem Goem Pratishthan, a Trust formed to establish two Konkani Dailies in Goa, one Romi and the other Nagri,  travelled on foot all over Goa to ask donation for this project.  It took them about a month to complete this exercise.  The freedom fighter and Konknnivadi,  Gurunath Kelekar from Margao initiated this movement in co-operation with 7 prominent learned Trustees.   Their target was to start a Romi Daily when collection of one lakh of rupees is achieved and Nagri Daily when 5 lakhs are achieved. The task of initiating this move of Novem Goem in Kuwait was given to me and we Kuwaitcars got together and collected about 5 lakhs which amount was sent to NGP Trust  in Goa.

As in Goa, Kuwait too thru this movement, Goans joined together for the common goal and remained united by discarding all their minor differences. In this process the biggest achievement was the unity between Romi and Nagri proponents in particular and Goans in general.  Though there are a few Nagri Konknnivadis in Kuwait yet it was nice to see them joining hands with the Romivadis in Kuwait and thus creating a strong bond between the two segments.

Then in the name of Konkani came the formation of KPA to give final push for the recognition of Konkani and thru this KPA the greatest achievement came was the establishment of strong unity between the Romi and Nagri camps for the common goal.  It must be remembered that in the initial stages Nagrivadis in KPA pleaded with the Romivadis not to talk of the script at that point of time and at an appropriate time they will satisfy both the camps.  Though ultimately Romivadis were betrayed when Nagri Konknni was imposed on Goa as an official language yet Romivadis did not forcefully revolt over this betrayal thus maintaining the bond unexploded  between the two camps.

Now thru the latest imbroglio of MOI issue, not only the propagandists of anti-English education at primary level but even the anti-Romi Konknnivadis joined together to let lose their ire against Romivadis, Church and its schools. Equating Church with FORCE is wrong, FORCE movement is organized by an independent body not attached to the Church.

In the name of Konkani we came together but now regretfully in the name of English we are devided.  It is a pity even after so many decades since English left from India,  we are still under the bondage of English and this bondage will never leave from India. In this whole episode the rift between Romivadis and Nagrivadis is widened.  Can anyone bridge this rift? 

The very Nagrivadis with whom I associated to promote Konkani cause are acting like my enemies.  The very Nagrivadis who along with me received Lathis on our back from Rane’s policemen are keeping a distance from me because I am from Romi camp, they wanted my association then to support Konkani movement from Kuwait for the benefit of Nagri Konkani only?  No, for Romi too.  Because of Konkani we joined together and because of Konkani we are devided now? 

A.    Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel: 7507394349.