RE: [Goanet]Goans in IAS?

[Rui Collaco]

Daryl, if 42 years after the so-called "liberation" there has been no Goa 
cadre,why would it become an issue now? Only now have you noticed that there 
are few Goans in the the Goa administration? Don't you know that Goans are a 
minority in goa's administration, at all levels, from top to bottom? During 
the colonial administration, only a handful of civil servants were 
metropolitan Portuguese, the rest (the vast majority) were Goans. Today, I 
believe only a handful of jobs are occupied by Goans, the majority of posts 
are taken up by non-Goans. Recently I challenged goanet's Portugal-bashing 
club to counter this assertion and to provide figures on the percentage of 
Goans in the administration, but there was not a single reply. I believe the 
Tourism Dept. has not had a Goan heading it since 1961! This is how 
liberators treat the "liberated" people, while denouncing the evils of 
colonialism. Comes with the territory! How would you otherwise sell Goa's 
image as a land of "sussegad" people (to use Goa's corrupt version of a 
Portuguese word), easy women (that Indians come to ogle at), and 
alcohol-drinking Catholics? I am afraid it may be too late in the day to 
reverse some very serious developments that Goans did not notice over the 
years. If anyone thought that the "liberation" was an act of Indian 
"generosity", then it's time to wake up. "Liberation" came with a price. A 
price that is being paid by Goans, specially the Catholics, in increasing 
installments!

Rui Manuel Collaço

Lisbon



From: "Daryl Martyris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [Goanet]Goans in IAS?
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 13:46:53 -0600
I've been noticing that  lot of directors and secretaries of government
departments are not Goans. I heard recently that the IAS still does not 
have
a Goa cadre. Is this true? Does anyone know why is this is so? Is it 
because
not enough Goans qualify for the IAS to deserve a seperate cadre? Does
anyone know if any Goan has ever joined the IAS?
 I would think that not having a separate cadre is a tacit admission that
Goans lack the capacity to be good administrators.

Of course this doesn't imply that governance will automatically become any
better if Goans head the departments, nor am I necessarily advocating a 
"Goa
for Goans" theme. I'm just curious.

best wishes,

Daryl

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