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Domnic Fernandes continues (Part III) his reminiscence of
Mapusa of the 1950s
http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=426
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Hello Goanetters,
NGOs and concerned individuals,
I hereby humbly implore the CM and the Govt. of Goa as a whole, to
promulgate an 'Ordinance' if required, to mange the havoc and mindless death
on Goa's Roads, and bring about sanity, with immediate effect.
The Govts in India, at the Centre and in the States have always 'ruled' or
tried to Rule, by Ordinance, as the same is allowed under the Indian
Constitution. I feel that sometimes these Ondinances have been promulgated
for non urgent, party politics and other not so useful purposes.
The most recent case being that related to Planning in Goa! This Ordinance
was so absurd that the people decided to stir and the Govt. had to retreat!
So many people are dying, getting injured and even maimed on Goa's Roads
that I feel that an Ordinance needs to be promulgated to remove all the
loopholes if any, in the existing law, and effect compliance, at all times,
by all drivers, all pedestrians, and by the Authorites like the Traffic
Police and the Road Construction people, and above all the RTO.
This Govt. Dept. called RTO is in a shambles, and in a laissez faire mood
24/7, and is totally incompetent, as also their advisers. All in this RTO,
from top to bottom, should be sacked fortwith and a wholly new entity should
be created, and execution and compliance should be sought in a war like
manner. The war on this front must be won, before more and more of our
people will die due to non compliance, or for no fault of theirs.
I feel that an 'Ordinance' is required to effect all of the above. As such,
I plead for the participation of all the MLAs of all Political Pursuations,
towards this noble cause and endorse and effect the Govt. Plan/ Programme,
in toto. Those not for this should be isolated by PEOPLE POWER!
I would also like all our news and other media players and journalists to
join in, in this war on Road Terror. Television is the most powerful media,
and is so popular that it should be made full use of, in getting the safety
message across. So far, I notice that this medium has not been tapped into
at all, to educate and or enforce. What a pity.
I do earnestly hope that the CH Minister and his GOvt. will act before the
end of next week; or else the people, and PEOPLE POWER should goad the GOVt.
into this type of action. Or should I/ we push Churchill Alemao to cause
trembling knees in Govt.?? :-) :-)
VIVA GOA! Long Live the Safety of Our People, on our Roads and everywhere!
Will the Govt. ACT or NOT?
Nascimento Caldeira
Melbourne
Down Under
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