I'm assuming that the upper echelons of any state's administration is filled with IAS graduates picked up from a national pool of students. If this is in fact true, then one would expect that the majority of administrators running Goa would be non-Goan. So long as this system is being applied to all the states in India, I do not see any "conspiracy" by the so called outsiders trying to undermine Goa. Based on population statistics, I would therefore expect less than 1% of the administration's top bureaucrats to be Goan.
I do not believe in reserving jobs for Goans - even in Goa. The real issue is whether these IAS folks (whether goan or not) are qualified to handle the tasks given to them. We should be debating this, rather than get trapped into stereotyping other ethnicities as Rui is trying to do. Marlon --- Rui Collaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################