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The print media in Goa is again trying to fool the people of Goa over the Smart City issue given to the Panjim city. I have for the last 10 years writing about various atrocities of the successive government whether Congress or BJP. From 2006 to 2012, crores of rupees of the tax payer’s money from CCP were spent on preparing the detailed project reports on JNNURM projects. The Panjim city was supposed to be renewed and beautified with the 1000 crores to be offered under the various JNNURM projects like Water supply, cleaning of St Ines Creek, Mobility plan, Solid Waste Management, better roads, beautified Heritage structures etc. Sadly nothing precious came from the Centre except Casinos, gambling activities, haphazard car parking, unregulated garbage and the gambling tourists defecating, urinating and littering the city with waste plastic and other forms of garbage. It is now established that the people of Panjim are gullible and as some authors have rightly call them idiots. It is amazing that a leading newspaper has given a one page article by their reporter Shoab Shaikh titled on “Panaji will be lit Smart and City to be Solar powered “ on dated 10th September, 2015. One thing for sure if at all there happen to be a SCAM, a planned of 4500 street lights to be converted into LED lights. Under these brightness Panjimites will be able to see well. The garbage from casinos is being thrown on the city roads by the gamblers, They would be able to see hundreds of cars parked freely from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Chennai, Kerala, Maharastra, Karnataka and even Delhi all over Panjim roads with their drivers in it, drinking eating, sheeting and urinating all around. Now they are unable to see this at night because there is no proper lighting in Panjim. They will also be able to see drug pushing, gambling prostitution and other sexual activities which are now taking place in the cover of darkness. The Congress from 2006 has fooled Panjimites for two terms in office and now it is BJP’s turn to allow farthing of Panjim in the name of Smarting of Panjim. Come on Panjimites, wake up to the new dream which is sold to us by the BJP government. The good old Governor Mridula Sinha, singing Hindi poems and selling Swatch Bharat dreams will it serve any purpose? Her advertisement board with her photograph (enclosed) on Swatch Bharat is already fixed near Goa University and Dr. Sham Mukerji stadium which happened to be a clean place at newly widening D.Paula-Bambolim road. Instead of, this board would have served its purpose, had it been placed near the Custom House and Excise dept at old High Court building in the bye lanes where defecating and urinating is rampant. Governor Mridula Sinha should visit the Panjim market also and the by lanes of Central Panjim to witness for herself and see how Sanjit Rodrigues, the Commissioner of City of Panjim is taking the city away from the Swatch Bharat dreams and fooling as Panjim today is stinking with filth. The people of Goa have dumped Congress due to its corruption. The BJP too will be eased out of power due to its poor governance. Only time will tell. But as of now, Panjim is reeling under pressure of haphazard car parking, mangrove reclamation, garbage mismanagement casino menace, migrant menaced, criminal activity and environmental degradation issues. In the kingdom of blind one eyed man is a King; hence the one eyed and cockeyed BJP Government can keep fooling the less worthy people of Panjim for how long, only GOD knows. My final assessment is that Panjim will never ever be a SMART CITY. Stephen Dias, Panjmite Mob: 9422443110 date: 10.9.2015