Saturday 30 April 2011

BONGI (SWEEPER) NAGUESH KARMALI DOES NOT WANT TO ALLOW GOANS HOLDING PORTUGUESE PASSPORTS TO ENTER GOA by Shyam Sawant

In all the world I need a sweeper or a toilet cleaner and have decided to employ the fake freedom farter NAGUESH KARMALI as my toilet cleaner or in Concani what we call a BONGI of my personal house toilet. This job of a Bongi of my personal toilet is reserved for Naguesh Karmali exclusively.
I shall pay him more money then the pension he takes as a fake freedom farter of Goa.
THE REASON:
This BONGI NAGUESH KARMALI now wants Goans who have acquired Portuguese nationality not to enter Goa. Is Goa the father’s property of this donkey Naguesh Karmali. At the age of 18 Naguesh Karmali was caught robbing a house in Goa. He was accidentally caught by the Portuguese on the road sitting on his cycle whilst a meeting was going on.
Now Naguesh Karmali has come up with new ideas of stopping Goans from entering Goa. Goans who have acquired Portuguese nationality according to him are not Goans. This untouchable stray dog of Goa Nagues Karmali should know that Goa is not his father’s property to stop the Portuguese Goans from coming into Goa.
I challenge Naguesh Karmali to stop me from entering Goa if he is really one father’s son. This dog is become mad with rabies and should be shot down before he bites somebody. I know most of his secrets. I also know his biggest secret of his illegal relationship with one lady inspite of being married. The name of the lady is Sunanda now dead and gone. Naguesh as an youth was involved in lot of such scams. This schedule Caste SOB was a womanizer in his hey days. I know him very well and all his wrong doings.
He is now asking the government to stop the Goans who are holding Portuguese nationality and passport from entering Goa. I challenge him and his remaining chamchas to do this and show us. We are Goans and above all Portuguese Goans who can say proudly VIVA DOTOR SALAZA VIVA GOA PORTUGAL. What can Naguesh Karmali do to me?
My dear Goans do not listen to this BONGI (Sweeper) Naguesh Karmali who is a fake or false freedom fighter (Farter).
I declare hereby that I would like to appoint Naguesh Karmali as my personal and home toilet cleaner or in Concani as my BONGI. The title BONGI NAGUESH KARMALI is the most befitting title for this donkey.
Goans specially my Hindu brothers and sisters if these freedom farters come to your houses kick them out. Do not let them enter your houses or your house will “BOXTOUTELEM”
I want badly to hire “Naguex Carmali” to clean my toilets at the earliest. VIVA GOA! VIVA PORTUGAL!

SO CALLED FREEDOM FIGHTERS ARE THE JOKERS OF GOA by Jim Fernandes

These so called "Goa Freedom Fighters" had no guts to fight the Portuguese and gain freedom for 450 years! Had it not been for the Indian military intervention (and with tacit American and Russian nod), the Goa Liberation story would have been quite different.
I'd like to know, why these jokers ought to be called "Goa Freedom Fighters". What freedom did they achieve?
They achieved nothing! It is the Indian military that kicked the Portuguese out of Goa. The Goa government should strip these jokers, off of all forms of government assistance (whether financial or otherwise) with immediate effect.
Further, is it not true that GFFA treasurer and joker Prabhakar Sinari had his daughter married off to a Portuguese national? What a joke!

GRA'S STAND ON THE SO CALLED FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF GOA by Floriano Lobo

GRA'S stand on the so called Freedom Fighter's of Goa:
These are no Goa's Freedom Fighters. These are pests, who are the PENSION FIGHTERS since 1961. They have taken on themselves to fight Portugal 24 x 7 since 1961 to justify their pensions. This breed is so un-informed that they do not even know that India and Portugal has DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS by virtue of the Co-Operation Treaty having been signed in New Delhi by both Countries in 1974.
Therefore, Portugal is in India, and specifically in Goa by virtue of the existence of this signed Treaty. That India didn't even bother to consult these pariahs called freedom fighters should be a matter or great shame to them. GRA shall, in time, write to the Center to stop their pensions paid to them at tax-payer's cost for reasons that these are the anti-social elements. In fact, the Pension Fighters should have fought and must fight, not the Portuguese in Goa but the Portuguese sponsored 'Mining Leases' in Goa which are re-invented by the double to destroy Goa they have supposedly fought to liberate from the Portuguese.

JMFC ISSUES NOTICES TO SIT FOR NOT FILING FIR AGAINST HOME MINISTER RAVI NAIK AND HIS SON ROY NAIK

PANJIM:  Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), Panjim on Saturday issued notices to Special Investigating Team (SIT) for not filing First Information Report (FIR) filed by local activists alleging of receiving threats from Home Minister Ravi Naik, his son Roy and other police officers in the police-drug nexus case.
JMFC has asked SP Om Prakash Kurtarkar, DySP Mohan Naik and inspector Praveen Vast to appear before it on June 2 for a reply failing which the Court will decide the matter in their absence.
Social activist Kashinath Shetye and 13 others had moved the JMFC alleging that SIT was refusing to register the complaint.
Activists alleged Ravi, Roy Naik of threatening them to delete name of ‘Mr Roy’ from the complaint. They had alleged Home Minister Ravi Naik of using police force to threaten them to withdraw or delete a crucial name in the criminal complaint in the police-drug nexus case.
The complaint letter to the SIT had asked to probe the police- drug mafia nexus which included “One Mr Roy, who has a substantial presence in the drug industry as a drug lord”.
The complainants alleged that police inspector Sudesh Naik threatened them on directions of the home minister, Crime Branch Superintendent of Police Mangaldas Desai and DySP Shamba Sawant, to withdraw the complaint or atleast delete the name of “Roy”.
The applicants alleged that they were placed under police surveillance and frequently threatened if they do not comply with the instructions. But if they obey the terms, PI Naik had assured ‘they would be rewarded handsomely for their compliance.’

THE HOLY FATHER – THE SAINTLY POPE JOHN PAUL II BEATIFIED ON SATURDAY

VATICAN CITY: Tens of thousands of people from around the world descended on Rome on Saturday for the beatification of Pope John Paul II, six years after his death.  "It’s almost as if he is here,” said Mr Enzo Arzellino, who travelled all night on a bus from southern Italy with his parish group to attend the beatification on Sunday.
On Saturday, groups of pilgrims, many from the pope’s native Poland, thronged St Peter’s Square carrying their national flags and singing songs.  “‘For the people he is already a saint. This is just a step towards official recognition from the Church,” Mr Arzellino said.
St Peter’s Square, where the beatification takes place, was bedecked with portraits of the pope and 27 banners with photos reflecting an event in each year of his pontificate.
Rome has been caught up in beatification fever. The city is festooned with posters of the pope on buses, taxis and hanging from lamp posts as it awaits one of the largest crowds since his 2005 funeral, when millions came.
Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, who was at the pope’s side for decades as his private secretary, said he was thrilled by the number of young people already in the square before the beatification mass.
‘’How marvellous. Look, just as they came on the day he died, this time they came to rejoice over his elevation. He is no longer in the tomb. The tomb has remained empty because he is here again,”’ Cardinal Dziwisz told Reuters in an interview in the square.
Pope John Paul’s coffin was exhumed on Friday from the crypts below St Peter’s Basilica and will be placed in front of the main altar. After Sunday’s beatification mass, it will remain there and the basilica will remain open until all visitors who want to view it have done so.

Forgiving his assassin - with Agca
It will then be moved to a new crypt under an altar in a side chapel near Michelangelo’s statue of the Pieta. The marble slab that covered his first burial place will be sent to Poland.
Several hundred thousand people are expected at the mass in St Peter’s Square on Sunday when John Paul’s successor Pope Benedict XVI will pronounce a Latin formula declaring one of the most popular popes in history a “‘blessed” of the Church.
One who will be sitting in a place of honour is Sister Marie Simon-Pierre Normand, a French nun who suffered from Parkinson’s disease, the same ailment that afflicted the pope for the last 12 years of his life.
The Vatican has deemed that Sister Normand’s otherwise inexplicable cure after she and her fellow nuns prayed to the dead pope was due to John Paul’s intercession with God to perform a miracle, thus permitting the beatification to go ahead.
Another miracle will have to be attributed to John Paul’s intercession after the beatification in order for him to be declared a saint.
Some 90 official delegations from around the world, including members of five European royal families and 16 heads of state, will attend the beatification.
One is Zimbabwean President, Mr Robert Mugabe, who has been widely criticised for human rights abuses in his country. Mr Mugabe is banned from travelling to the European Union, but the Vatican -- a sovereign state -- is not a member of the bloc.  The leader of any country that has diplomatic relations with the Vatican can attend Vatican events.

PERMITS OF 10 PRIVATE BUSES SUSPENDED FOR PARTICIPATING IN STRIKE

PONDA: Taking a strong view of the bus strike that was held on April 15, Ponda road transport authority (RTA) has suspended the temporary permits of 10 buses plying on different routes from Ponda and issued notices of suspension of permanent permits to others for their participation in the bus strike.
Admitting having issued suspension notices, Ponda assistant director of transport (ADT) Nandkishor Arolkar said that a final decision to suspend the permits or not would be taken at a meeting of RTA. The date of the RTA's next meeting has not yet been decided, he added.
Arolkar said the RTA found that 10 buses with temporary permits and about 150 buses with permanent permits were off the road on the striking day. As a result, the ADT office has issued notices to permanent permit holders asking them to explain why their licences should not be terminated.
Revealing that the notices were served between April 18 and 22 and that bus operators are filing their replies, the ADT said they are going through their replies.
"The replies clarify their stand of keeping their buses off the road on the bandh day. The final decision about the suspension of the permanent permits will be taken at the RTA meeting that normally takes place in the first week of almost every month," Arolkar said. "The temporary permits are, however, suspended and they have to ask for a fresh permit now," the ADT added.

ARCHBISHOP SAYS CHURCH ALWAYS ALERT ON THE EVER CHANGING SOCIAL SITUATIONS

PANJIM: In his Workers’ Day message, the Archbishop of Goa and Daman, Filipe Neri Ferrão has said that the Church in Goa is always alert to the ever-changing social situations and responds to them through relevant action in every possible way to uphold the Gospel values of love, justice and equality.
One of the issues the Church in Goa is constantly addressing is ‘the condition of workers,’ says a statement issued by the Archbishop.
The vision statement of the strategic plan of the Ministry of Labour and Employment of the central government for the next five years looks at “decent working conditions and improved quality of life of workers, ensuring an India without child labour in hazardous sectors and enhancing employability through employment services and skill development on a sustainable basis,” the statement says.
The Archbishop says that the Church in Goa has been working to eliminate child labour and to see that all children up to the age of 14 years get suitable opportunities for schooling. The statement also cites Pope Benedict XVI who states that in many cases, “poverty results from a violation of the dignity of human work, either because work opportunities are limited or because a low value is put on work and the rights that flow from it, especially the right to a just wage and to the personal security of the worker and his or her family.” The Archbishop has called upon people to strive to uphold the rights of every human being through ethical and moral living: safeguarding the birthright of every human person, that is his or her dignity, making the aim of civil society the ‘common good of all,’ ensuring that specially workers in the unorganised sector receive just wages, adequate rest, recreation, health care for themselves and dependent family members and a share in the fruits of their labour; supporting them in their freedom to act within the law to form associations and enlightening them to adhere to work ethics, use their earnings judiciously, refrain from all addictions and all forms of violence and ensure the safety of the property of their employer.

FOREST DEPARTMENT SHOWS GUTS, ACTS AGAINST HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL ILLEGAL MINERS

PANJIM: Forest department officials have finally shown guts to act against the “highly placed persons” involved in illegal mining by seizing heavy machinery used to carry out excavation in the Netravali wildlife sanctuary, belonging to the kin of a heavyweight Congress politician from South Goa.
According to the information available from highly placed sources in the state administration, the machinery that was used for excavating was seized by the team of forest officials earlier this week and the seizure report was submitted to the competent court as provided in Forest and Wildlife Protection Acts.
The sources in the state administration also said that following the seizure of the machinery, there was immense pressure on the forest department officials to release the machinery but the forest officials withstood the pressure and took action against illegal mining activity.
The sources in the government further said the seized machinery could only be released by the court and state officials have no jurisdiction over the case now. The forest department officials acted discreetly and fast to ensure that they complete the formalities of seizure before any pressure was brought on them and filed the report before the court.
The forest department has been accused of inaction against illegal mining and this perhaps is the first instance in the recent past wherein the department has acted against those involved in illegal mining in its area.

TRAFFIC COPS’ HEALTH AFFECTED DUE TO CONSTANT EXPOSURE TO HEAT AND DUST

MARCEL: Continuous exposure to heat and dust pollution is taking a toll on the health of the traffic police in Ponda taluka.  The overburdened traffic cell in Ponda often receives complaints from the traffic policemen of health-related problems, probably due to exposure to heat and dust pollution.
Ponda Traffic Cell In-charge Police Inspector Salim Shaik said the Ponda Traffic Cell has about 50 policemen, of which 25 are posted to regulate traffic in the mining belt of Usgao.  Though each traffic policeman is posted in the mining belt on alternate days, but according to Shaik, the environment has badly affected its staff’s health.  “With lesser number of staff available, there is an increased risk of illness as often the same traffic policemen have to do duty in a dusty environment. Policemen are increasingly developing ailments due to exposure to heat and dust pollution,” said Shaik.
“This has adversely affected attendance as most of the times traffic personnel are on sick leave,” added Shaik.  “Traffic policemen posted in Usgao from 6 am to 7 pm are exposed to dust pollution caused due to mining trucks. The road shoulders which were widened a month ago also cause dust pollution,” he said.
“Road shoulders were widened temporarily to park trucks during school hours and were also helpful in easing traffic congestion,” he added.
PI Shaik feels that if the State government increases existing strength of Ponda traffic cell, then the problem could be reduced to a certain extent.  “Our traffic personnel are sometimes reluctant to do duty in the mining region due to health-related issues. However, the issue can be tackled provided we have enough of traffic personnel,” said Shaik.
“Since we have lesser number of staff, the same staff has to be deployed in the region. We face problems due to shortage of staff, but somehow we are managing it,” he said.
“However, if the government sanctions us more staff, then it would help us a lot. Every day there is overload on the already short staffed Ponda traffic cell and the conditions worsen when there are Bandobast or road diversions,” added PI Shaik.

EARTH DIGGING POLICY FORMULATED TO AVOID MISHAPS

PANJIM: The Goa Government has decided to formulate an 'earth digging policy' so as to avoid mishaps due to recklessness of the contractors. The administration yesterday issued an order making it mandatory for the road contractors to take prior permission from Deputy Collectors before digging.
The Government's move follows the recent blaze near the K K Birla Group's fertiliser manufacturing plant at port town of Vasco. The fire had erupted after a contractor, working for Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL), damaged a naptha pipeline while undertaking digging.  "The incident has made it imperative to formulate a policy on earth digging," according to the administration order.
South Goa Collector G P Naik has said "due to ignorance and recklessness of contractors, risk is always involved in earth digging activities."
"Any organisation, Government Departments, Government undertakings, private bodies, local bodies or any individual or legal person who is desirous of undertaking earth digging should obtain a written permission from the Deputy Collector and Sub Divisional Magistrate concerned," the order said. – PTI

GRA’S GAME PLAN EXPOSED by Floriano Lobo

As a GRA [Goemchea Rakhondarancho AWAZ] member, I did read Soter's tirade with great interest. Actually, the questions he poses are of very much relevance to Goa's SURVIVAL in this jungle of political cannibalism.
Though I have my ears to the ground, I have not a clue that a parallel organization such as GRE [Goemchea Rakhondarancho Ekvott] has come a floating to compete with GRA, and I am quite surprised. If what Soter says is true, then it must be understood that GRA is, in fact, looked at with worried wrinkles on the (thikka - aka red smeared - aka saffron robed) foreheads and therefore this parallel competition.
Only time will tell which one will lead NIZ GOENKARS to their PROMISED
LAND.
BTW: It was [my] GRA that had a 'supposed' to be, but not quite, 'massive' rally at the Lohia Maidan yesterday the 29th. April, 2011 where what is actually happening as far as governance is concerned in the hinterland such as Rivona, Cavrem, Nerul, etc. etc. etc. was threadbare exposed. If Soter thinks that it was [their] GRE that was in action yesterday in the South, then he needs to get his facts right.
Cheers
Floriano
GRA
PS: For Soter's information:

GRA's stand on the MOI:
The Medium of Instructions at the PRIMARY LEVEL must be in the language that 90% of Goa's Children speak and understand from birth. If this is Konkani, then it must be Konkani. If it is Telegu, Kannada, Bengali, Urdu or Marathi, then so be it. The English language must also be taught as a SUBJECT from I to IV in the manner of perfection so that these children exit the Primary level and enter the Secondary level in smoothest possible transition.
GRA's Stand on Mining:
Mineral Resources of Goa are a gift of God to Goa and Goans. If it's exploitation does not benefit Goa and Goans, let it lie buried and untouched whether the Goa Government or for that matter the Central Government LIKES IT OR NOT.

DEVANAGIRI WILL DESTROY KONKANI by Agnelo Gomes, Combakar

Devanagari Script is a script of sub-continent of India. It's common in Uttar Pradesh among Hindus only, and in Maharashtra. North of India uses Urdu Script very popular in Hajratganjh in Lucknow, Kashmir, Pakistan, and in Lahore, Punjab, among Muslims.
Entire south of India from Karnataka to tip south of India, they got various scripts.
In Goa we have Roman Script for over 500 years.
Nehru and Gandhi fooled Indians to have common language Hindi as it was Nehru's mother tongue and not even that of Gandhi. Jinnah spoke Urdu using Urdu Script.
Uday Bhembre is another person misguiding Goans.
Look at these words: "Akhil Bharatiya Konkani Sammelan". Do they sound Konkani? In konkani this phrase should sound as " Soglia Goenkarancho Konkani Baxecho Ekvott"
Uday Bhembro, sounds Zailach Paizhe like Dayanand Bandhokar and Company.
Words used “Akhil Bharatiya Sammelan" are not Konkani words; they belong to a minority language of sub-continent of India.
This is how our Goan Hindus destroyed our rich Konkani by embracing Marathi.
It's time Uday Bhembre takes good refreshing course in Goan Konkani. Stop misguiding Goans, will you?
Our Script is Roman. We'll certainly destroy Konkani by mixing Marathi words.
One cannot hold a nation together that was fabricated by grouping various states wherein languages and cultures have no common resemblance.
Freedom of speech and script will develop Konkani by itself in their own local areas. One cannot ask a horse and donkey scream on the same frequency.
They are two different classes of animals. Same way A Goan is a Goan.

INDIAN GOVT COLLUDED WITH D. BANDODKAR TO MANIPULATE VOTES AGAINST DR. JACK SEQUEIRA by Michael Britto

Indeed Rane's created so many fake Freedom Fighters (especially HINDUS who were chicken mentality during Portuguese times) and in creating this fake freedom fighters, RANE has done so much damage and mockery to the word of True freedom fighters honour and dignity . It is simply distorting for anyone to understand how and when these Hindus fought against portuguese during portuguese times.
We know that , during portuguese times , none of these fake Maha-evil Hindus pretending Freedom Fighters were ever seen or heard in goa. It was only after illegal annexation of Goa by Indian Govt , and after M.G.P coming to power through blessing of Indian Governments fake illegal votes and manupulation to keep Dr Jack Sequiera out from taking the reins of Goa, ....... were than and only then, these fake Maha-evils were included as Freedom Fighters by Dayanand bandodkar and simultaneously by RANE .
Indeed Indian Govt knew what Dr Jack Sequira would had done, if won the majority and so even though D.Bandodkar had lost his seat , he was still told to stand in other area and was elected due to money power which Indian Govt had allowed D.Bandodkar to spend .
These Mahaevil Hindu Freedom Fighters first need to prove what wars had they won and what exactly had they fought for and how long during portuguese times.
As portuguese are right to ask for proof of identity before Goans get Portuguese Passports, so also Hindus should be asked to prove first that they are Goans or Maharastrians.
Cause lot of Maharastrians live in goa and call themself as Goans and even take pensions as freedom fighters of Goa.
All Hindus who live in Goa cannot be trusted as V.M Salgoakars, himself stood for during opinion poll.......nor all who take pensions as freedom fighters are true freedom fighters of Goa but just the loosers and maha evil thiefs like P. S .RANE and its family members. who are pure Maharastrians at heart.

GOA GOVERNMENT WEBSITES ARE OUTDATED by Adv. Aires Rodrigues, Ribandar

The Goa Government brags so much about Information technology but most of its websites are outdated and some of them redundant. E-governance is still a very distant dream. All websites should be updated on a day to day basis but unfortunately most of them are not for weeks if not months together.
What is surprising is this sorry state of affairs is no different with the Bombay High Court at Goa website. Justice Nelson Britto who retired on January 7th this year does not yet figure in its list of former judges. How could they have forgotten their very own.

IN LAST FOUR MONTHS GOA’S CHIEF SECRETARY MADE 9 TRIPS OUT OF GOA

PANJIM: From January to April this year Goa’s Chief Secretary Mr. Sanjay Srivastava made a total of nine trips out of Goa.  The information furnished to Adv. Aires Rodrigues under the Right to Information Act by the Chief Secretary’s office has revealed that the trips include seven to Delhi, one to Diu and a 12 day trip to the United States of America to attend a Goa Tourism Road show.
The Chief Secretary’s office has informed Adv. Aires Rodrigues that a total of Rs 1, 05, 560 was spent on the Chief Secretary’s four trips to Delhi and Rs 39, 019 on the two day trip to Diu.
The Chief Secretary’s office has further informed Adv. Rodrigues that the bills of the other three trips made by the Chief Secretary to Delhi and the tour to the United States of America are yet to be settled.
The information furnished to Adv. Aires Rodrigues last month had revealed that in 2010 Goa’s Chief Secretary Mr. Sanjay Srivastava had made 27 official trips within India and two trips overseas. A total of Rs 5, 91,099 was spent on the 27 trips made by the Chief Secretary within India while an expenditure of Rs 2, 56,728 was incurred on the two trips overseas.
Adv. Aires Rodrigues has today stated that such frequent traveling and extravagant expenditure by the Chief Secretary has to stop as it was contrary to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh’s directives for austerity and restraint in official travels by Ministers and officers.
Adv. Rodrigues has stated that while the Chief Secretary was very frequently flying out of Goa, the Aam Aadmi was suffering as the local administration lacked direction and had become dysfunctional.
Goa’s Health Minister Mr. Vishwajit Rane has recently moved an official note to Chief Minister Digambar Kamat demanding the immediate removal of Chief Secretary Sanjay Srivastava as he was frequently out of Goa besides also being very incompetent.

Friday 29 April 2011

THE INVASION OF DADRA e NAGAR-AVELI by Agnelo Gracias, Dabul-Bombay

Dadra and Nagar-Aveli are two adjacent enclaves of Portuguese India located in the interior from Damaõ. Administratively, they belong to the District or Conselho of Damaõ, under the Governor of Damaõ. Dadra's headquarter is the village of Dadra; the town of Silvasa is the headquarters of Nagar-Aveli.
Of the small police force manning Dadra, three policemen, Sub-Chefe Aniceto do Rosario, Sub-Chefe Antonio Fernandes, and a third policemen chose to obey the dictates of their conscience and to stand by their flag — that of Portugal — rather than heed the alluring and insidious seduction of traitors to join them in their treason. Aniceto and Antonio paid for their loyalty with their very lives, two stalwart patriots and heroes martyred by the Indian terrorists.
The Crime
On the 21st of July 1954 at 9.30 p.m. the Dadra Police Station was violently attacked and two police personnel of the Portuguese Indian Police Force, Sub-Chefe Aniceto do Rosario and Sub-Chefe Antonio Fernandes were murdered and a third injured. Next morning, the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru stated that he was surprised to read of the incident in the newspapers.
Ten months later, the Bombay weekly Current carried an article by the editor D.F. Karaka, raising a number of embarrassing questions on the armed assaults on Dadra and Nagar Aveli and asked where the volunteers, admittedly invading Dadra & Nagar-Aveli from Indian territory, had procured their arms from in a country (India) where there had been the strictest control on the possession of fire-arms.
Many years later, I came to know from a Goan 'Nationalist' (i.e. Indianist or pro-Indian partisan) that the telegram to proceed with the assault on Dadra had come from Nehru himself. If one is to read the graphic descriptions of the preparations for, and the assault itself, one can conclude conclusively that the planning for the same had taken place over several months.
When eye-witnesses were interviewed many years later, they recalled the firing on and the return fire from the defenders of Dadra within the besieged Police Station to have lasted some 20 minutes and that the next morning the Indian flag was seen flying over the Police Station, with Indian policemen already manning the building.
The Background
Since Indian independence, the Governors of Damaõ, as well as the other officials of the District, including the Europeans, had always been allowed, by custom and tradition, to cross the Indian territory between Damaõ on the coast and the interior enclaves of Dadra and Nagar-Aveli, and to go and return from Vapi, without any formalities of visas or presenting themselves to the Indian authorities.
But there had been diplomatic notes from India to Portugal demanding the unconditional transfer (cession) of the six Portuguese enclaves (Goa, Damaõ, Dio, Dadra, Nagar-Aveli & the Isle of Anjediva) to the Indian Union and after these notes had been rebuffed by the Government of Portugal, the Indian Union decided to close down its legation in Lisboa with effect from the 11sth June 1953.
This, indeed, was the take-off signal for the Indian Union authorities to make false allegations on the treatment of Indians within Portuguese territories in order to justify its action against the Portuguese civil and police personnel transiting between Damaõ and the two enclaves (Dadra & Nagar-Aveli) dependent on it.
Preparations Start
Against the background of some alleged harassment of two Indians, B.S Sood and Bhatnagar, (identified by the Goan community as two of the many Indian spies and provocateurs) of the many thousands of Indians who had visited Goa for the Exposition of the Relics of St. Francis Xavier in December 1952, the Indian Union chose to withdraw the facilities of visa-less travel between Damaõ and its dependent enclaves from 26th October 1953 — 10 months later.
The Indian Ministry of External Affairs had stated in its note No D.6886 of 23 December 1953 that the District Magistrate of Surat was being authorized to grant transit visas to Portuguese European officials going from Damaõ to Dadra and to Nagar-Aveli, but in actual fact the District Magistrate claimed that his duty was only to notify the Passport Office in Bombay of the movements of Portuguese European officials and the issue of visas was still the responsibility of the Indian Consul-General in Nova Goa (Pangim).
From 3 February 1954 the Government of India prohibited the transshipment of arms and ammunition from Damaõ to Dadra & to Nagar-Aveli except for those arms carried personally the by the Governor-General of Goa and diplomatic personnel accredited to India.
The Build-Up
On 12 March 1954, Dr. Vasco Vieira Garin, Minister of Portugal in New Delhi drew the attention of the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, that the population of Damaõ had been forbidden by India to purchase foodstuffs from Indian markets near the border and that Indian police posts in a radius of 20 to 30 kilometers from the border had been reinforced with 300 plain-clothes armed men.
On 9 April 1954, Dr. Pedro Teotonio Pereira, Ambassador of Portugal in Washington D.C., issued a confidential diplomatic note that following the withdrawal of the Indian Legation in Lisboa on 11 June 1953, there bad been an intensification in anti-Portuguese propaganda in India, that even postal services to Portuguese India had been subject to delay and that insurmountable difficulties had been placed in the transit of Portuguese officials between Damaõ and Dadra & Nagar-Aveli.
On 24 April 1954, the Legation of Portugal in New Delhi protested the new restrictive measures on motor traffic between Damaõ and Dadra & Nagar-Aveli. In a separate note of the same date, Dr. Vasco Vieira Garin exposed a new system of permits for all Portuguese officials, not just Europeans, to enter and cross Indian territory.
On 27 April 1954 Dr. Garin called the attention of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs to persistent rumours of invasion of Portuguese villages in Dio. On 6 July 1954 the Legation of Portugal in New Delhi verbally took up with the Indian Ministry of External Affairs the sudden arrest and deportation to Goa of a long-standing Bombay resident, Mr. Pompeia Viegas.





The Aggression



On 22 July 1954 the Portuguese Government of Goa telegraphed Lisboa that On his arrival at the frontier on 22 July 1954 the Governor of Damaõ had been refused permission to proceed to Dadra & Nagar-Aveli on fictitious grounds that separate visas for arrival and departure were required and not on the passport presented; but, having obtained these visas at Vapi, he visited Dadra but on his return to Vapi he was sent back to Dadra for awhile in order that he may not see the movement of Indian troops being deployed, as per intelligence, for the invasion of Dadra, and The Governor was encountering hostile preparations, the outcome of which appeared in the Indian press on 22 July 1954. There had arrived at Vapi a group of about 1200 "volunteers" consisting of ex-Indian military personnel and officials, about a dozen jeeps, and radio and combat equipment. On the same day, namely, 22 July 1954 the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs notified the press that links between Damaõ and Dadra & Nagar-Aveli had been cut, that Dadra had been practically encircled by a Mahratta Infantry unit, that between Dadra and Nagar-Aveli considrable armed forces had been placed, and that the situation there was grave.





The following day the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lisboa, announced that an aggression had been launched against Dadra and deplored the loss of life of and injuries to the police personnel defending Dadra.



The Portuguese Legation in New Delhi in a note No. 98 dated 24 July 1954 to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs communicated that Dadra had been the object of armed aggression, that as a result of the hindrance of communications between Damaõ and Dadra & Nagar-Aveli the Portuguese Government was not fully aware of the details of what had happened, that a state of violent usurpation did exist which could not in any way impair the sovereignty and the rights of Portugal in connection with the victims of aggression, and that the Indian Union grant transit facilities to the Portuguese armed forces and the authorities staying in Damaõ to enable them to re-establish the order that had been disrupted.





The Ground Reality



Bombay newspapers on the morning of 22 July 1954 reported that the first chunk of Portuguese territory had been "liberated" by the United Front of Goans and displayed a photograph of its president Francisco Mascarenhas, in gumboots as "Supreme Commander" hoisting the Indian flag in front of the Dadra Police Station the previous night.



It transpired that the renegade Francisco Mascarenhas had actually been holed up by Indian military personnel in the waiting room at the Vapi Railway Station until the violent occupation of the Police Station had been accomplished in around 20 minutes, starting at 9.30 p.m. on 21 July 1954 and only then was he transported to the site of the murder of its defenders, the patriots Aniceto do Rosario and Antonio Fernandes in order to moderate public opinion to what the Indian press made it appear — an action purely undertaken by "anti-Portuguese" Goans.



Aniceto Rosario was in charge of the Police Post, Antonio Fernandes and the third man were under him. Another officer, Francisco Xavier Stein de Lira, fled from the rear of the Police Post, leaving the rear door open for the enemy.





According to the brother of Sub-Chefe Aniceto do Rosario, an engine-driver of the Indian Railways, on the morning of 21 July 1954, some men had called at the Dadra Police Post to advice Aniceto do Rosario and his subordinates that they planned to attack at night-fall, and advising him and his men to surrender but Rosario and his men (except one) opted to remain steadfast with the Portuguese Flag even unto death.



In front of the Police Station stands the Flag Post, where the National Flag used to fly. As the mob of terrorists charged the Police Post, one of them attempted to tear down the National Flag; Antonio Fernandes could not stand this desecration but rushed out and shot him down; for his labours, he received the crown of martyrdom at their hands.



Aniceto do Rosario and another, a Muslim, held the Police Station, and with a judicious use of their arms, shot down many of the terrorists. However, they were vastly outnumbered, and one of the terrorists crept in from behind, through the back door left open by Stein de Lira, and stabbed the great martyr in the back, thus bringing him his martyr's crown.





Stein de Lira cooperated with the terrorists, and became a collaborator; the enemies triumphantly flaunted him as the "Regidor of Dadra", and as a means of justifying themselves.



So heavy was the toll inflicted by the heroes upon the terrorists that, according to eye-witnesses, at least two truckloads of their corpses had to be carted away.



For his courage and integrity, Dom Aniceto do Rosario was awarded post-humously the highest award of Portugal: "Order of the Tower and Sword".



The bodies of Aniceto do Rosario and Antonio Fernandes were buried in a field adjacent to the site of their martyrdom. The Indians refused to permit any markers, but a cleric insisted on placing markers on their graves. Later, their remains were repatriated to Damao, where they were re-intered in the Fort.



In the city of Damaõ, the streets near their homes were named after our heroes: Aniceto do Rosario and Antonio Fernandes. The Indians have renamed these streets after some of their fellows, after the Occupation of Damaõ, in December 1961.



Viva Portugal!

Further Notes



In the morning of July 21, 1954 some men visited Aniceto do Rosario at the Dadra police station and told him that 'they' would be coming in the evening and he and his men should surrender but instead he put up a fight. The post was attacked around 9.30 p.m. from across the road and firing continued for around 20 minutes. The rear door of the police station was open and that is where the miscreants entered and killed Aniceto do Rosario and Antonio Fernandes. They were buried in the grounds of the Franciscan monastery in Dadra but somewhere in 1959/60 through the intervention of the Red Cross and after personal application of Aniceto's brother to the government of India the remains were allowed to be taken to Damao.
Till the battle at Dadra was over, Francis Mascarenhas was kept waiting in the Vapi waiting room and then he was driven to Dadra to make it appear that he 'liberated' it as 'supreme commander.'
One Pereira, senior police officer after Falcao, wanted to put up a stand at Canoel but when he found that Fidalgo and Falcao had crossed into Indian territory, he surrendered with his men who were kept in detention at Canoel till November and were then allowed to proceed to Damao. When Fidalgo and Falcao crossed into Indian territory in Nasik District they were brought to Bombay and were at the residence of a Parsi, Mr. Contractor, who harboured them for few days till they got back into Portuguese territory.
For six months the residents of Dadra and Nagar Aveli were not allowed to step out of the areas till a formal permit system was introduced.

MINE OWNERS HAVE BLACK MONEY STASHED IN MILLIONS IN SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS

PANJIM: Several owners of Goa's 100-odd open cast iron ore mines have millions of dollars worth of black money stashed away in Swiss bank accounts, a Communist Party of India (CPI) leader said on Friday.
"Several of Goan mine owners have their black money parked in Swiss banks.
Politicians are often their conduits for carrying money to safe havens," CPI state general secretary Christopher Fonseca said, referring to state Education Minister Atanasio Monserrate's recent detention at the Mumbai airport with more than the allowed volume of foreign currency on a visit to Dubai.
Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters here, Fonseca said: "The promised WikiLeaks expose on black money stashed in Swiss banks by Indian businessmen and politicians is bound to have names from Goa in it."
The CPI has in the past consistently demanded that the nearly Rs 10,000 crore industry should be nationalised in order to conserve the country's natural resources.
According to data submitted in the Goa Legislative Assembly during its monsoon session, ore worth Rs 4,000 crore was illegally mined and exported out of Goa to countries like China, Japan and Romania.
Even the Goa Mineral Ore Exporters Association (GMOEA), a forum of ore exporters which include top ore business houses, has cried hoarse about the rampant illegal mining in the state.
According to Leader of Opposition Manohar Parrikar, nearly 18 percent of Goa's total 45 million tonnes mining output comprises illegally mined ore. He has also accused Chief Minister Digambar Kamat and several of his cabinet ministers of being hand-in-glove with the illegal mining mafia. – IANS

EX-TOURISM MINISTER PACHECO IN THE DOCKS AGAIN

MARGAO: Former tourism minister and Benaulim MLA, Mr Francisco Xavier Pacheco alias Mickky and his friend Mr Mathew Diniz on Friday appeared before the court of the chief judicial magistrate, Margao, Mr C Fernandes in a threatening case, which was reported in 2009 in a Majorda beach resort.
Mr Pacheco has been in the dock after the Colva police received a complaint from the general manager of the Majorda casino alleging that he was threatened by the former tourism minister and his friend while they were playing at the casino.  The crime branch, Panjim, has filed a charge-sheet against Mr Pacheco and Mr Diniz in the threatening case.
Both have been charged under sections 341, 352 and 506 (ii) read with section 34 of the IPC. In all 18 witnesses have been shown in the charge-sheet. The Colva police had registered the case under 506 (ii) against Mr Pacheco and Mr Diniz.

CLEAR CUT MESSAGE FROM GRA TO GOVT FOR FAILURE OF DUTIES

MARGAO: An impressive meeting of the Goemchea Rakhondarancho Avaz at the historic Lohia Maida has conveyed a message loud and clear to the government and opposition that the conglomerate of NGOs should bring about a movement for a political change if they fail or show signs of shirking away from their duties in addressing issues affecting the local people.
The public meeting gave the go-ahead signal to the GRA to start mounting pressure on the government as well as the opposition to force the government and the Legislature to implement all issues raised by the NGOs.
A significant resolution adopted at a meeting demanded immediate steps by the government to start a dialogue with civil society for the installation of Lokayukta in Goa for pinning down politicians and bureaucrats on their conduct and corrupt practices. The resolution demanded that the Bill should be passed in the Assembly and made a Law before December 19, 2011 to coincide with the Golden Jubilee of Goa’s Liberation.
The meeting also demanded that the government enter into a dialogue with civil society for a draft proposal for acquiring special status for Goa to maintain its unique natural, cultural and social characteristics and to preserve land for Goans.
The resolutions read by activist Laurel Abranches and adopted unanimously by the people further demanded scrutiny of electoral rolls in all the 40 constituencies to ensure that only bonafide voters decide the Legislature. They further demanded that the Election Commission take stringent action on erring bureaucrats who are aiding politicians resorting to vote bank politics.
“The government should create a special cell with adequate staff in the mines department to stop all illegal and semi-legal mines”, another resolution said, while demanding capping the output keeping in view the logistical problems and mineral needs of the posterity.
The GRA further demanded that the government enter into a dialogue with the civil society for the distribution of windfall gains from mining amongst various sections of its population.
On Regional Plan 2011, the meeting asked the government to make RP people centre, while demanding a stop to illegal and semi-legal constructions and alleviate infrastructure problems like garbage, parking etc.
Interestingly, the meeting demanded that the Opposition in the Goa Legislative Assembly stop fixing the matches with ruling group and mount pressures to facilitate above issue instead of shadow-boxing in the Assembly.

SENIOR POLICE OFFICER SAYS SUFFICIENT COMPENSATION BE PAID TO THE VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING

PANJIM: A senior police officer has mooted that substantial amount of compensation should be paid to victims of trafficking, so that they do not go back to the same ‘profession’.  Speaking at the inaugural function of a two-day seminar on anti-human trafficking, Inspector General of Police (Crime Branch-Andhra Pradesh) S Umapati, said that atleast Rs 8,000 to Rs 10,000 be paid per victim of human trafficking to ensure a proper rehabilitation process.
Umapati said that the Andhra Pradesh government pays Rs 10,000 to the rescued children and women victims of trafficking.  The IPS officer quoted a national survey that an estimate of 30 lakh women and children are trafficked for various forms of exploitation, of which children comprise nearly 25 percent.
He expressed dissatisfaction over the decline in conviction rate.  “Many times police have to go beyond the call of duty to catch these people (traffickers) and convict them. In Andhra Pradesh, we could secure conviction of the traffickers to 7-10 years imprisonment because the judges were sensitised,” he said.
He said that about 22 crores income is generated from trafficking everyday.
Goa State Commission for Women (GSCW) in association with the International Organisation for Migration – Hyderabad has hosted a two day seminar on ‘Public Private Partnership to combat human trafficking and prevention through skill building and employment opportunities.’
Speaking on the occasion, GSCW chairperson Ezilda Sapeco said that poverty is the main cause of trafficking.
She remarked that despite various measures taken by governments the benefits of economic development have not trickled down to the marginalised sections of the society.  “The poverty and the living conditions make children and women belonging to the poor sections of the society highly vulnerable to human trafficking,” Sapeco added.
Goa has witnessed quite a number of human trafficking cases, which has been evident with series of raids by Goa police on massage parlours and other tourist locations. Most of these victims are brought from other states, especially neighbouring Karnataka and north-eastern states, to Goa for this purpose.
Director Women and Child Development Sanjiv Gadkar said that six victims are housed in the protective home at Merces and they are participating in the rehabilitation process.

TIATRIST ANIK AMDAR MONTRI by Ramesh Naik

Kudos to Willie Severes and Freddy Angelo Fernandes for pointing out a very wrong practice followed by our tiatrist. I being a lover of Tiatr since my childhood would really appreciate the talent portrayed by each and every Goan tiatrist.
Amateur tiatrist with a pinch of tiatr background try to be superstars in just one dawn. They try to produce their own tiatr-casting professionals of Konkani stage. Such types of amateur’s confidently knock on politician’s doors to ask for financial help. So it obvious that the politician who helps will be the chief guest. When a politician is the chief guest political songs are omitted from that particular show, or sung towards the end when the Chief Guest exits from the venue. Otherwise tiatrists love to sing political songs and to be called again and again by the crowd. But how can it be, you criticize them and at the same time praise them when they are called as chief guests?
As it is said that Tiatr is also a media to convey a message to the masses, Politicians grab this opportunity to go on the stage and talk about their dedication towards our mother tongue Konkani and Tiatr.
Tiatrist should never forget the destruction done to our state Goa buy these politicians. Who is responsible for the rude cruel behavior of Police to the public? Politicians. Who is responsible for day light robberies, rapes and murders all over Goa? Politicians. Who is responsible for Konkani / English medium dispute in Schools over Goa? Politicians. And yet tiatrist have led them to the stage in the glory of the lights as chief guests.
How many tiatrist had ever invited Padmashri M.Boyer before he passed away to be the chief guest? I can say M.Boyer was Tiatr and Tiatr was M.Boyer.
It’s not late as yet. Try getting veterans tiatrist who are still alive as chief guests. They have given their life for the love of Konkani stage. Now a day’s generation also will come to know who these people are and that Tiatr has come a long long way, defiantly its not just made in one dawn.

Thursday 28 April 2011

POLITICS – A FAMILY BUSINESS by Willie Menino Severes, Majorda (Dubai)

A Politician should be a person, honest and straightforward, having the charisma and hunger to do something for the people of his/her State and Country. But, right now Goa has been going through a period of shameful politicians and disastrous political culture which is affecting the life and living of the Aam Admi in the state.
 Today’s corrupt politicians have become so rich, most of them have become huge business barons too, where these business are done to convert their money into legal money. They drive cars which no one can afford, live in posh mansions, all at the cost of the taxpayer.
With the growing greed for riches, politicians are now getting their kith and kin into politics. Why would minister’s children having respected professions such as a Pilot and an Advocate join Politics? Why would a minister’s wife be the village sarpanch or a councilor? Do they see a burning desire to dedicate their lives for the service of the common man? So what is their interest? Most of us will want want our children to be doctors, engineers etc so that they become successful and respectable citizens of the society. But our politicians want their children and spouses to join politics, so it stays all in the family. Power and money has become the name of the game, of our today’s MLA’s and Ministers. Family dynasty is the order of the day.
It is time we as Goans understand the priorities for Goa and Goans, and not to fall prey to the false promises of our Politicians. Our politicians are here to further inflate their riches and finish off our God given resources in the name of development. Politics should not be a family business. So think hard and elect wisely, or there will be a day we Goans could be outsiders in our own land.
And, before I sign off, a reminder to our politicians, about what the Bible says about, Honesty and Truth
Proverbs 11:3 - "Honesty guides good people; dishonesty destroys treacherous people."

GOA NEED YOUNG GUNS by Joel Morais, Cuncolim

The boneless tongue is the free gift of God to humans, we can talk whatever we like, it’s really not necessary to follow our own words or writings and that's what I m doing. My thoughts are mine; they might be cheap or under-educated for others. I am the master of my own life, nobody can force me to think the way they want and till today I have not understood what is exactly legal and illegal in Goa? A highly illiterate person in Power decides our children's future with regard to Education. Is this legal?
I do believe to respect those under whom I work to earn my daily bread but nobody can force me to salute or respect whom I don't like or don't want to respect, doesn’t matter who they are? They might be the best leaders of our Country. Nobody can force me to stop watching movies or documentaries which they don't like, It’s my life, It's my choice, I am free to do what I want, provided my doings doesn't hurt and disturb the feelings, sentiments of the Society in general. I do believe in Bagat Singh, Chandrashekar Azad, Ashfak Ali Khan, Bismil, not forgetting Subhash Chandra Bose and people of such mentality. Nobody can force me to follow the footsteps of the leaders whom I don't believe.
We elect our representatives to serve us and there's is no point in cursing or blaming them for their bad deeds. They are the best and that's the reason we have been electing them since years to serve us. For example in GOA, Goenkars like to get served from the lovely, non-corrupt, blessed hands of Honorable Churchill Alemao, Joaquim Alemao, Francisco Sardhina, Mummy Victoria not forgetting Rane, Ravi Naik and many more. They make the best plans for Goa. During BJP regime, IFFI festival was wastage of government funds for Congress and now Goa is the permanent venue for the same. According to me, it's a good source of illegal income in a legal way for our politicians in Power. These people in Power had plans to finish Goa in the name of Regional Plan 2011 and we call ourselves as liberated. Garbage is blooming all over Goa. Truth looks failed in Goa most of the times.
Need to Save Goa is the common statement during recent times. My question is, Save Goa from Whom? Goa has been liberated; it has been saved from the Portuguese by our great Freedom fighters. We are free and independent. We have our own democratic system in our Country, we elect our own representatives, we have given them the authority to bring dirty industries in holy, green Goa .We have given them the power to have destruction plans for the one time beautiful state of Goa, we have given them the power to sell our legal rights to the migrants in the name of ration cards and create a vote bank for themselves. We have given them the authority to convert Green Goa into concrete and that is what we witness in Goa. Our Identity is on the verge of disappearance. We are responsible for all such wrong or right happenings. They, the political prostitutes cannot be blamed for anything because we have been electing them since years to serve us and will do the same in the near future and this will be confirmed in few months time. PROVE ME WRONG PLEASE!
My mind says, nothing will happen, nothing will change, things will turn from bad to worst and a day will come Goenkars will be strangers in our own Goa. Goa need young guns, a six bullet gun can finish six dirty things provided aimed correctly and hundred such guns can kill six hundred ugly parts of our system. Can I be one among those guns?

SPCA: AGACAIM POLICE INSPECTOR COMMITS SERIOUS MISCONDUCT IN CIPRIANO FERNANDES CASE

PANJIM: The State Police Complaints Authority (SPCA) has observed that there is prima facie serious misconduct on the part of the Agasaim police inspector for failing to register an FIR in the custodial death of Cipriano Fernandes.  The SPCA has now asked the PI to prove that he did not register the FIR in good faith and at the advice of the director of prosecution.
The SPCA headed by Justice (retired) Eurico Santana da Silva, while hearing a complaint filed by human rights activist Jowett D'Souza said, "As the fact stands, the position taken by the respondent suggests that prima facie there is a case of serious misconduct on the part of the concerned police officer, which justifies further action."
The SPCA said that they have decided to proceed with the inquiry into the matter to ascertain the real truth.  Also the SPCA has said that the point for determination in the case is that the respondent, PI Vishwesh Karpe, proves that the action taken by him in not registering an FIR in respect of the petitioner's complaint was done in good faith and at the advice of the director of prosecution.
Cipriano, 38, was on a two- month vacation in Goa when he became a victim of the alleged police brutality. On January 7, he was arrested by the Panjim police after his lady friend complained of threatening her.  He died at the Goa Medical College (GMC) and Hospital on January 9 allegedly after police thrashing in the police station.
While police claimed that Cipriano suffered from fits and vomited alcohol after which he was rushed to the hospital, his family members alleged that Cipriano died as a result of police brutality. After the incident came to light, D'Souza had lodged a complaint with Agasaim police, requesting them to register an FIR against the concerned police officers of the Panjim police, but the police didn't then register an FIR. Aggrieved, D'Souza approached the SPCA.
The SPCA has further said in the order that the material on record discloses that PI Karpe had refused to register an FIR with regard to the complaint of D'Souza involving a cognizable offence, on the ground that an inquiry was being held by the sub-divisional magistrate in Panjim.
"In our view, it was the duty of the respondent to comply with the legal mandate and the directions of the Supreme Court and get the complaint immediately registered so much so the reasons adduced by the respondent to justify his action are not tenable in the eye of law," the SPCA added.

HONOUR IN BEING CROWNED QUEEN AT THE HANDS OF THE PIMPS - GWA QATAR by Rupert Coutinho, Dubai

This article is regarding May Queen Ball 2011 in Qatar organised by Goan Welfare Association. When I was small I recollect the elders in the village inviting our local Parish Priests to grace important occasions of house inauguration and seek their blessings.
Politicians never had any special place as VIPs since all invited guests were equally treated with no distinction. It is sad and highly disgusting to note that this time some wise and over-enthusiastic cheerful Goans preferred to organise May Queen Ball 2011 in Qatar with special attention and invitations to well known Ex and present MLAs of high calibre. I would be very happy if they had to invite some good social activist and a man of honour/good repute/role model for people as Chief Guest who has contributed a lot to the Goan cause.
Sadly and interestingly Goans prefer the same people who have looted and plundered Goa and its wealth and these same people will be dining and dancing all the way, celebrating yet another event without any guilt or conscience. And there will many greedy and gullible Goan women who will be enticed with lovely prizes of Gold necklace, 5 Star hotel stays in Bangkok, free airline and what a pride it will be for them to be crowned as a ‘’Queen’’ at the hand of some of the most corrupt and greedy Goans who are more of a pimps selling our beautiful Goa to the migrants. This is what Goans will take pride in and the same ones will be heard prophesying how to save Goa in the days to come. But how can we Goans go on this way. Some one and all have to speak up. The reign of ignorance and hypocrisy should end. And we know deep down there is no other way. Goans its right time for you to see and judge who is a true Goan and who is not and for a better feeling see the details of the event. Voice your sentiments.
As for the organisers - Viva Qatar Goans. Keep it up and Well Done!! Keep Dancing, have a nice time with your families and and with your brothers in arms.

AN ASSURING CM OF GOA REFUSES TO MEET AGITATING PARENTS

MARGAO: The agitating parents, who have come under the Forum for Rights of Children’s Education and supported by former tourism minister, Mr Francisco Xavier Pacheco alias Mickky, have given deadline of May 7 to the government to include English language as medium of instruction, under the right to education.
Over 160 rallying parents met at the Fatima Convent School and marched to the Chief Minister, Mr Digambar Kamat’s residence for an audience. When he refused, they tried to force their way in, but were arrested by the police.
The protesting parents shouted slogans against the Chief Minister while courting arrest at the Margao police station.
After releasing the 160 protestors unconditionally, the deputy collector, Mr Agnelo Fernandes assured the parents that he would convey to the authorities and the Chief Minister the demands made by them. At this point, Mr Pacheco joined the protestors.
A memorandum to be submitted to the Chief Minister by the FORCE said that its demand is not in any way communal and acceptance of its demand will not involve any increase in budgetary allocation for these primary schools.
It has reminded Mr Kamat that its movement has been peaceful throughout. However, there have been a number of other movements, during this same period that resulted in injury and public loss, and in these cases the government has been quick to reopen negotiations.
The protestors reiterated their demand on acceptance of English with Marathi and Konkani and any regional language as medium of instruction.  “If they feel that English is de-culturing the state, then close down all private English-medium schools in Goa,” said Mr Savio Lopes, the FORCE secretary.
Stating that the next course of action would be revealed on May 7, Mr Lopes said all MLAs and ministers whose children are studying in English-medium schools should be sent to schools in regional languages.  The FORCE secretary informed that from various schools across Goa they have collected 51,372 signatures on a single day.

HIGH COURT ASKS SPCA NOT TO PROCEED WITH SHOWCAUSE NOTICE IN CUSTODIAL DEATH OF CIPRIANO FERNANDES

PANJIM: The high court of Bombay at Goa has asked the State Police Complaints Authority (SPCA) not to proceed with the showcause notice initiating suo moto inquiry proceedings into the alleged custodial death of Cipriano Fernandes till May 2.
In this case, the petitioner, head constable Sandeep Shirvoikar had approached the high court challenging the order passed by the SPCA. The court has also asked public prosecutor (PP) Carlos Ferreira to inform if the state will take departmental action against the petitioner expeditiously or not, so that in addition to lodging of FIR and initiating of proceedings, even departmental or disciplinary action can go on. The PP sought time to take instructions from the government.
Appearing on behalf of the petitioner, advocate Arun Bras D'Sa submitted that the SPCA, after passing the suo moto order, ought to have recommended to the authority concerned to initiate departmental or criminal action against the petitioner. D'Sa said that the SPCA was not right in proceeding with the trial by issuing a notice to the petitioner. He argued that the SPCA has jurisdiction only to recommend the concerned department to initiate action, departmental or criminal against the petitioner.
The petitioner had further submitted that subject to the registration of the FIR and magisterial inquiry, the limited powers vested on the SPCA is to recommend initiation of disciplinary proceedings.
It may be recalled that Fernandes, the 38-year-old seafarer, was picked by the Panjim police from his aunt's residence in Porvorim on January 7 evening and after his girlfriend complained that he had threatened her with a knife at her house in Caranzalem. Shirvoikar and two other policemen were later suspended.

GOA COULD HAVE BEEN IN FOOTBALL WORLD CUP by Agnelo Gomes, Combakar

Football in Goa during Portuguese regime has one of the highest standard, since India occupied Goa, football in Goa and everything else along with it died in Goa. Due to lack of funding and lack of Goan spirit and Patriotism, Goa is still controlled from Delhi.
If Goans like to be something to be remembered, first they should become Independent, instead of being sucked by India and strapped for cash. That India robs Goan assets each year.
India is an inferior country in the world with no love for sports and black listed by FIFA World Cup since 1950 when it had refused an invitation to join The World Cup families.
First of all Goans must find spirit of Patriotism from within. Goa cannot depend on others, there are too many mobsters in Goan politics of corruption. Goa has no democracy only tototalitarian control by Delhi.
No newspapers in Goa have Independent control only to run by Delhi. Poor journalism comes from O Heraldo and Navhind times, no dissent is allowed in government control news by Delhi, O Heraldo and Navhind times are corrupt and puppet of India deceiving less educated Goan people by fake news each day.
Average Goan is not literate enough to understand the complex life.
A nation will be born again when its citizen gain more power of knowlege base and become patritiotic. There is no turning point otherwise. Poverty will spread all over Goa in matter of time.
Only native Goans can do something difference for their children by abandoning illegal rule of India over Goa.
One day Sun will shine all over Goa, and freedom bells will ring.
-Agnelo Gomes
Freedom Fighter to drive Indians out of Goa.

AG KANTAK ASSURES HANDING OVER DUDU CASE TO CBI

PANJIM: Advocate general (AG) Subodh Kantak on Thursday assured the high court of Bombay at Goa that the state government will issue a notification for handing over the case involving alleged Israeli drug dealer David Driham alias Dudu over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The AG made the statement before a division bench comprising Justice S C Dharmadhikari and Justice F M Reis during the hearing of a petition filed by Sunil Kawathankar, president of National Students Union of India (NSUI). Kantak told the court that the government is in the process of issuing a third notification for handing over Dudu's case to the CBI for further investigation.
Kawathankar has sought a direction from the court to the Goa crime branch to hand over investigation into the four cases concerning the drug mafia-police nexus to the CBI for further investigation. The four cases include those pertaining to alleged Israeli drug dealers Yaniv Benaim alias Atala and Dudu, suspended PSI Sunil Gudlar and former ANC PI Ashish Shirodkar.
It is totally useless case now of the police-drug-nexus. The evidence has been entirely destroyed by Chandrakant Salgaoncar the most corrupt policeman of the police department of Goa to save the son of the home minister of Goa Ravi Naik. It is well known fact that the case was refused to be handed over to the CBI till Chandrakant Salgaoncar finished distilling and destroying evidence linking Roy Naik. Chandrakant Salgaoncar was later given medal for this special service of corruption and sabotaging the case.
The state government had earlier sent a notice to the central government requesting its approval for authorizing the CBI to take over investigations. Thereafter, the Centre had also told the court that it is willing to hand over Dudu's case to the CBI. The next hearing of the case has been fixed on May 2.

LOCALS DEMONSTRATE: STOP HOUSING PROJECT AT CUELIM

VASCO: About 200 locals of the Arossim-Cansaulim-Cuelim village panchayat on Thursday held a demonstration near the site of a proposed 145-apartment housing project coming up at the base of the Cuelim hill.  Locals said that though a December 2008-gram sabha meeting had unanimously resolved against granting the builder a construction licence, the licence was issued on a December 2010-order of the additional director of panchayats, Margao.
Thursday's agitation was triggered off by labourers clearing the bushes at the project's site on Wednesday.  The gathered locals, including women and children, said they were kept in the dark by the panchayat about the additional director of panchayat's order.
Mamlatdar Rajesh Azgaonkar, who was deputed to the site by Mormugao deputy collector Levinson Martins, gave the locals a patient hearing and directed the builder's representatives to stop work till all the documents pertaining to the project are inspected and a decision is taken on the same.  He has asked that the documents be submitted for inspection on Friday.
In 2008, villagers had obtained documents about the project under the Right to Information Act, wherein the 10-m road shown in the plan was in reality a mere 3 m thoroughfare.
Locals had then threatened to agitate if the panchayat issued the builder a construction licence, and the licence was allowed to lapse.
The builder then appealed before the additional director of panchayats, Margao, who passed an order in favour of the builder in December 2010.  A month-and-a-half later the construction licence was issued to the builder.
While efforts to get a comment from D B Shanke, who was the additional director of panchayats, Margao, in December 2010, proved futile, director of panchayats, Menino D'Souza told TOI when contacted, "The order of reissuing the licence was given by the additional director of panchayats and it is a final one. As it was issued by the additional director I cannot comment on it."
The Nossa Senhora dos Remedios (Our Lady of Remedies) chapel, famous for its celebration of the Three Kings' Feast on January 6, stands atop the Cuelim hill.

GRA RALLY AT LOHIA MOIDAN, MARGAO ON 29TH APRIL AT 3:00 PM

Goemchea Rakhondarancho Awaz (GRA) is holding its second mass contact in Margao to give people of Goa affected by mal-governance to voice their anger and to empower them to take corrective actions and to liberate them fom the chronic woes plaguing them.
Many views, suggestions and directions had emerged throgh participative process in the
GRA's First public rally in Panjim on 15th March. Margao rally is to refine these further.
There are many issues created by this breed of polticians. But based on public feedback, following issues emerged as priority ones:
1) Political change in all 40 constituencies and that GRA should act as a catalyst.
2) Installation of Lokayukta in Goa for pinning down politicians and bureaucrats on their conduct.
3) Special status for Goa inview of its tiny size, unique natural, cultural and social  characteristics and to preserve land for nij-goemkars.
4) Sanitization of electoral rolls to ensure that only bonafide voters decide the Legilature.
5) Stop all illegal and semi-legal mines. Stop legal mining over above sustainable mining keeping in view the mineral needs of the posterity. People at Large should be the  major beneficiaries in the windfall gains from mining.
6) Regional Plan should be people centric. Stop illegal and semi-legal construction.
Alleviate infrastructure problems like garbage, parking etc.
People are requested to join in large numbers and express their solidarity towards
GOEM, GOENKAR and GOENKARPONN.
Please carry as many suggestions. They will be analysed and compiled in a book form, which will become a guide for voters to vote in the next assembly election. - TEAM GRA

“DUKOR’S” NEW PROHPESY UNTIL MAY 2012 – ENGLISH AS MOI AND FORGET MOPA AND RAHEJAS FOR THE TIME BEING by Rupert Coutinho, Dubai

It is surprising to note that the big, fat, stinking and filthy ‘’dukor’’ attempts to invigorate MoI issues to appease the parents but the reality is that this anti-Goan doesn’t have any sauce in his balls to stand up firmly against Rahejas and MOPA promoters.
While the true Goan blood is fighting for Goan causes, will any of his ‘’sticky fingers’’ (Brothers in Arms) in Dubai who believe in Churchill’s Prophesy ‘’squeal’’ to question him this time when they host him on 28th April 2011 or have they too depleted their sauce?

416 ILLEGAL STRUCTURES AT DESTORRO, BAINA AND KATEM BAINA IN VASCO

VASCO: The Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) on Thursday told the high court of Bombay at Goa that it had identified 416 illegal structures at Destorro, Baina and Katem Baina in Vasco.  During the hearing of a petition filed by the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT), MMC's advocate S D Padiyar said that the civic body has identified 416 illegal. The MMC would now issue demolition notices against these structures, he told the court.
When a division bench comprising Justice S C Dharmadhikari and Justice F M Reis inquired as to whether the structures fall within the jurisdiction of MPT or MMC, Padiyar replied that since the structures are within 50 m of the high tide line, they fall within the jurisdiction of Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA).
The bench then said that the MMC need not issue any showcause notices as it is not within its jurisdiction. The state government should go ahead with the demolitions of these 416 structures without issuing any notices against them, the bench observed. On a query made by the bench as to how many of these structures belong to fishermen, advocate general Subhodh Kantak said that the government would investigate this issue and accordingly inform the court during the next hearing.
In another petition filed by the MPT, the AG told the court that he would file a detailed affidavit on the next date of hearing giving the status of the appeals filed against the showcause notices issued to illegal structures at Khariawada in Vasco.

ANJUNA POLICE ARREST A SOUTH KOREAN DRUG DEALER

PANJIM: The Anjuna police have arrested an alleged South Korean drug dealer with drugs worth 2 lakh on Thursday. Policemen were patrolling the Anjuna beach on Thursday afternoon when they saw the alleged dealer, 41-year-old Hongjae Yoo, walking towards a shack.
The police stopped Yoo and on searching him, found 38 g of MDMA, 3 g of LSD and 19 g of charas, all worth 2 lakh. "We caught Yoo, a known drug dealer in the area, red-handed with drugs worth 2 lakh on Thursday afternoon," said Anjuna police.
Police sources said that they had been trying to catch Yoo, who has been residing in Goa for the last four years. "But he is a smart operator and despite raiding him three or four times, we couldn't find any drugs in his possession. He always managed to give us the slip," the police said.
Yoo used to shift his residence from Anjuna to Pernem to avoid getting caught. "He didn't have any runners operating for him. He used to purchase drugs from the Nigerians or get it from Nepal and personally sell it to the shacks and night clubs where there would be a party," police said. "He deals mostly in charas, cocaine, MDMA and LSD," added police sources.

MOPA VILLAGERS ACCUSE GOA GOVT OF FARCE TO ACQUIRE LAND FOR AIRPORT

PANJIM: Mopa villagers alleged that the Goa government is enacting a farce of acquisition of land for the Mopa airport, though it cannot be pursued on grounds of economic viability and international aviation norms, stating that they will not accept any compensation for it.
Speaking to reporters in the city on Thursday, Sandeep Kambli of Mopa Vimanthal Pidit Xetkari Samiti (VPXS) said that the special land acquisition officer has announced that he would distribute cheques to land owners this week in connection with the acquisition of their land for the airport.
Irked by this announcement, which they termed as irrelevant, the villagers said the tenants who are tilling the land are the deemed owners and not the original land owners, who are sought to be paid the compensation. "The land is not in their possession and the cheques are being forcibly given," he added.
The government is trying to acquire about 80 lakh sq m of land for the approach road and airport in six villages.
The villagers are opposing the acquisition of land as it is largely productive and life-supporting. "Around 15,000 farmers have been subsisting on cashew, kokum, paddy, millets and other crops since time immemorial," Kambli said.
The villagers have been questioning the procedures followed by the government, alleging that no environment impact assessment has been carried out regarding the project. If the airport project goes ahead, it will not draw enough air traffic to make it a feasible proposition, considering requirement of volumes of traffic.
It may be recalled that the international civil aviation organization (ICAO), in its report to the Goa government, had raised doubts about the feasibility of a second airport at Mopa if the existing Dabolim airport is upgraded.  "We will not surrender our land at any cost and are prepared to face death," Kambli said.

HIGH COURT ADJOURNS TO MAY 2ND GOA GOVERNOR’S PLEA AGAINST RTI

PANJIM: A Division bench of the Bombay High Court at Goa comprising of Justice S. C. Dharmadhikari and Justice F.M.Reis today adjourned to May 2nd the petition filed by Goa’s Raj Bhavan against the Right to Information Act. The Goa Raj Bhavan was today not represented by State Advocate General Mr. Subodh Kantak but by Advocate Mahesh Sonak
The petition filed by Goa Governor Dr. S.S.Sidhu’s Special Secretary Dr. N. Radhakrishnan challenges the 31st March order of the Goa State Information Commission which had directed the Raj Bhavan to furnish Adv. Aires Rodrigues within 30 days the information sought by him under the Right to Information Act.
The State Chief Information Commissioner Mr. Motilal Keny in his order had ruled that the Goa Governor was a “Public Authority” and does come within the ambit of the Right to Information Act.
Adv. Aires Rodrigues’s complaint against Goa Governor Dr. Sidhu follows the stand taken by the Goa Raj Bhavan that the Governor was not a public authority and did not come within the purview of the RTI Act.
Adv. Rodrigues had sought from Goa Raj Bhavan under the RTI Act details of action taken on the complaints made by him to the Governor of Goa against Advocate General of Goa Mr. Subodh Kantak. Adv.Rodrigues had also sought copies of noting sheets and correspondence pertaining to the processing of his complaints against the Advocate General of Goa.
Dr. S.S. Sidhu is the only Governor in the country who was not complying with the RTI Act by claiming that he was not a “Public Authority”.

Wednesday 27 April 2011

SEND THE LOOTERS TO JAIL by Dalia

During the period of the rule of Digambar Kamat including his days in BJP and now, there have been growing corruption, injustice and police brutality on people in Goa. Innocent citizens of the state are suffering great hardships and the machinery of the government is a total failure. There have been wrongful convictions and actual criminals like himself and his cabinet colleagues are free. Drug seller policemen are free. Killer policemen are free. The murderers of Cipriano are free. The Police in uniform from Bicholim who are highly corrupt under their corrupt boss, responsible in kicking and beating a woman, Geeta Parab are absolutely free. International Criminals like Atala and others got a free pass to leave the country possibly to eradicate the evidence involving corrupt drugs selling policemen and Roy, the son of Ravi Naik.
For Congress in Goa, Power has intoxicated the hearts and minds of the 40 Thieves. Feelings of injustice are running high in the minds and hearts of the common man. Home Minister does not see any wrong doings by the police and his son, he claims that there are no drugs available in Goa. Digambar Kamat is blind, deaf and dumb, he does not see any wrongdoing by his selected set of Ministers and MLA’s. Churchill sees nothing but projects that can yield him money to spend and get his Big Lips daughter into politics. She is presently the Collector of Goa (Bribe Collection). Monserrate does no wrong and is illiterate to the core, he does not know to differentiate between Rupees, Dollars, Dinars and Dhirams, poor fellow does not even know how much to carry in hard cash whilst travelling abroad. For him, all currencies are monies having the same value. Aleixo Sequeira still thinks he is a kid and likes to play with dices, his vices with potful money drained in Casinos. Foxy Joking Alemao always stays out of limelight operating his hundreds of mining machines and his own mines, most of them illegally. And for the fox in waiting Vijay Sardessai, every pimping service elevates his position making him eligible to get Congress ticket for the next election. This is one more dangerous individual who will make more damage to Goa than any of the present looter. Mickey Pacheco, the immoral MLA of Goa famous for Ratol feed related high profile case of Nadia is a free man after all the income tax raids claiming tax frauds, money laundering and other numerous cases. As I write this article, the learned Judge of South Goa has sent him to jail for assault on Electrical JE Natekar. Kudos to the learned Judge for doing justice.
Now, since the elections are round the corner there are a few politicians on announcing spree in village churches that free lollipops are available for distribution by them. Why not Church refrain from advertising these politicians? Let us tell the Priests concerned to stop advertising for these corrupt politicians. These are political gimmicks to fool the people through the holy institutions.
It will not be too late when we learn that this Digambar Kamat government has sold the Municipal gardens of our towns to Delhi parties to build A Class hotels or residential bungalows. When people have so much to worry, who has got time to sit in an AIR CONDITIONED TOILETS? Except Digambar, the blind CM of Goa and his family from Monte Dongor.
It is time for every Goan to think, re-think harder. Should we vote the same faces now and again? Why can’t we bring in a change? Why do we have to show personal feelings to these looters and the criminal law makers of Goa, some of whom are with criminal background and incompetent to the core? Why should we elect now and again these illiterate fellows? Comeon, spread the word to every Goan that enough is enough. Let us throw these useless lawmakers out and get in new faces. Yes, new faces but not from these political and corrupt families, not Valanka, not Rudolph, not Ranes again, not Dhavalikars and not any more Alemaos nor Ravi Naiks.
Dear Goans, tell each and every crumb eater to change for the better, give up political lollipops and work for the betterment of Goa and for our generations to come.
Get this Cancer out of Goa, send them to jail

SPORTS AUTHORITY OF GOA IS MORE INTERESTED IN GENERATING REVENUE THAT BOOSTING SPORTSMEN by Nisser Dias

At the recently concluded assembly session Congress legislators in the absence of the BJP MLAs (boycotted - demanding dropping of Education minister Babush Monserrate from cabinet on charges of currency smuggling) made a fervent plea to either develop or construct play grounds to give a boost to sports in the state.
It is indeed an excellent thought even though the elected representatives received a rare spark of ingenuity after the victory of Indian cricket team at the World Cup after 28 long years and that too on homeland. Of course every single Indian is proud of the achievement and our unsporting legislators did their bit by moving a congratulatory motion in the assembly.
However their plea to develop more playgrounds in the state is not honorary because their main intention is not development of sports or sportsmen but the commissions and the cuts they receive for undertaking such projects. There cannot be a more classic example then the Common Wealth Games where crores of rupees were siphoned off by various members of the organising committee and just this week, its chairman Suresh Kalmadi was arrested by the CBI for his involvement in the scam.
And surely Goa legislators especially the lot that is governing the state are no saints. They take up projects only when they are assured of their commissions. Our elected representatives have also struck a cord with equally greedy personnel staffed in the sports authorities like the SAG, GCA, Youth Affairs and various other units involved in sports.
First and foremost let me discuss village playgrounds which have been taken over by the Sports Authority of Goa. It started during the first tenure of Mickky Pacheco as sports ministers, however the concept of take-over could have been mooted before Pacheco even became an MLA. But he went along with the tide maybe due to inexperience. The idea of handing-over village playgrounds to SAG was to develop them and equip them with proper facilities for the local youth to use. However the moment SAG took possession of few grounds they refused to let youth from the locality to even play on it in the evening. That was not the end of it, SAG went a step ahead and fenced the ground, erected a gate and maintained a security guard to deter youth from using it. Can sports be developed by denying youth to use the village grounds?
Refusing local youth from playing or using the ground did not go well with the villagers who resorted to hooliganism to mark their protest. SAG authorities failed to realize that these grounds were developed over the decades because of village folks used these spaces to dry fish, chillies and other provisions in the morning sun and in the evening the youth would use it to play. Restraining youth from using the grounds to play which they had been doing so for decades raised heckles and protests from villagers. To rub salt into the would, SAG then decided to levy a fee of Rs 500 a day for youth to use the grounds and also charge village clubs organizing annual inter-ward and inter-village tournaments. As it is village clubs used to have a hard time to bring in sponsors to organize tournaments and now they had the burden to pay SAG. I am of the opinion that the first nail in coffin in discouraging youth from playing football in villages was hammered in by the SAG for their greed of generating revenue.
As of today a ground in Benaulim which was taken over by SAG has been leased out to Churchill Brothers for thirty three years for mere Rs.20,000 a year. If one does simple arithmetics the villagers or local youth using the ground at a fee of Rs. 500 would end up paying Rs. 15,000 a month, whereas a professional club is made to pay just Rs. 20,000 for a year. Under such circumstances how can the sports minister and his ministry and other sports bodies under him develop and groom young talent.
While on the topic of Churchill Brothers club, Joaquim Alemao has been the president of the Varca sports club for times in memorial. The village boasts of a good football ground which was earlier used by the local youth to play. Under Joaquim presidency the ground was enclosed with a boundary wall with seating arrangements. However local youth are denied permission to use the ground like earlier times on daily basis but professional players are allowed to practice. Even organizers of ward tournaments of the village itself are charged a fee to use the grounds. If this is the attitude of ministers and Sports Authority of Goa how can we think of picking up young talents. We should realize that talents are not picked up in camps or coaching classes, young talents are picked up from village football grounds.
Then Sports and Youth Affairs wanted to acquire cultivable land in Nuvem admeasuring almost 30,000 sq meters to build a stadium for the Government primary school. Handful of students studying in the primary government school were below the age of 7 years. Church ground situated just opposite the school was available to these toddlers, but the director of Sports and Youth Affairs Dr. Susanna D’souza was determined to acquire the land and thus in bid to convince the farmers is alleged to have told the villagers that she is going to build a, ‘sexy’ stadium there and villagers should not object to it. This is classic case of those in-charge of sports are not interested in applying their mind to improvement of sports but are more interested in building structures and generating revenue.
I am of the opinion that government has to provide infrastructure for every sports being played in Goa and all the facilities should be made available to young budding children. At the same time the government should not take over local play grounds and deny the villagers from using it just because SAG or government has constructed a boundary wall. Yet another example of mis-use or rather abuse of sports equipments. For four long years sports equipment like cricket , football, volley ball kits are sparingly provided to village clubs. However in the election year all the MLAs take tons of sports equipment and distribute it like confetti to any tom, dick and harry just to attract votes and the sports bodies like SAG and Sports and Youth Affairs are party to this practice.
In conclusion to develop sports in Goa we need not flatten hills or destroy forests and fields to set up infrastructure where local youth will not be permitted to use. We need to improvise village grounds, provide facilities and incentives and more importantly urge and encourage the youth to use it on daily basis without restrictions.