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Parrikar has been saying he has no wish to change the state language. I guess he just felt liked giving away 10 lakhs for the heck of it. This money could have been used to help the schools or medical facilities in Goa. Pandering to such issue does not help the average Goan. You are here > Goa News Home Rs 10 lakh grant to Konkan Marathi Sammelan Konkani mogis lambast govt’s tendency to pander ‘outsiders’ MARGAO, JAN 30 — — Government’s reported move to grant Rs 10 lakh for the Konkan Marathi Sammelan today drew sharp reactions from institutions promoting the cause of Konkani language in the State. The Konkani Bhasha Mandal and Asmitai Pratisthan while strongly deploring the action of Chief Minister, Manohar Parrikar to okay the grant has exhorted all political parties and social organisations in Goa to compel the government to stop such waste of Goan public funds. “No government of Goa has the right to waste Goan taxpayers money on non-Goans’ activities”, they said. In a statement, Asmitai Pratisthan president, Uday Bhembre said institution notes with regret that the government of Goa under Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has always given an inferior treatment to Konkani as compared to Marathi. “Sometime back, the CM had sanctioned Rs 10 lakh as subsidy to Zannta Raza, a Marathi drama on the life of Shivaji, performed by a commercial outfit from Maharashtra”, Bhembre pointed out. He said even much before that, the government of Goa had sanctioned a grant of lakhs of rupees for a commercial show performed by “Chaturang”, again a cultural outfit from Mumbai. Saying that the All India Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at Karad had insulted Goans and Konkani, by calling it a dialect of Marathi, Bhembre charged that the Goa government meekly swallowed this insult without even raising a word of protest either to the government of Maharashtra, which had financed the sammelan or to the organisers of the sammelan. “The government is now adding insult to injury by sanctioning a grant of Rs 10 lakh to a non-Goan organisation which will be again indulging in language politics under the garb of literary conference”, Bhembre asserted. Konkani Bhasha Mandal’s president, Prof Shyam Verenkar reiterated its oft-repeated stand that scarce resources of the people of Goa should be used for activities organised by Goan organisations and not for non-Goan outfits. He said the Goa government has been lately very very generous even to commercial cum cultural performances from outside Goa; whereas it has not been encouraging either activities conducted in Konkani by Goan organisations to the extent that it does to all non-Goan organisations. “The growing tendency of the present government to give inferior treatment to activities conducted through or in connection with Konkani the official language of Goa should be immediately stopped”, the KBM demanded. Reiterating that it has never been against the development of any other language, including Marathi, Verenkar said the KBM is strongly against the government funding the political gimmicks of some Goan politicians camouflaged behind Marathi. Like Asmitai Pratisthan, the KBM made an earnest appeal to all Goan political parties and social organisations to protest against this tendency of the present government to waste public resources on non-Goan organisations time and again. Top __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
