Dear Elvis Gomes and other aspirants for CM post if any, At the moment what we see is that Goa has been transformed into North Goa and South Goa districts and that there is a duplication of administrative work with double of staff. I have several points to be pointed out but let me focus only one at the moment. Definitely Goans are not happy as this Goa is made into two parts i.e North Goa and South Goa. Luckily we have one CM. Literally it appears that we have two states within one official state of Goa. You ( Elvis) being an expert administrator of Goan origin and from IAS cadre, will know the consequences of these changes and hopefully you will revert back to the original if you feel that this is not correctly job done by this present Government and if you (AAP) comes to power .
Say for example I have noticed about the gun deposition during the election period under code of conduct, which is a common affair in Goa or in India. All the gun holders were waiting, either for the news item or sent an intimation letter individually as this is very important in nature, which many times fails to post the intimation letters by their respective District Collector administration. Nowadays the system of sending letters to individual gun licence holder have been stopped. We sometimes see that North or South Collector publishing it for depositing the guns under Code of conduct rules but most of times do not synchronize until somebody reminds the respective administration. It so happen that that administration without verifying their record books whether the gun has been deposited ot not, I was called on 11.Jan 2017 from a local Police Station on Mobile No" <0992334226> probably in good faith to remind me whether the gun is deposited or not but in fact I have already deposited on 5th Jan 2017 itself, and the receipt was obtained. What I want to point out is that the administration is weak and that if there are two districts than it may becomes more difficult to check the records. Next, comes my request to the Government of Goa which I was telling ages back as many Collectors either has been changed or transferred were informed by us, to have a better room for deposition of guns at the police headquarters or at any nearby police station but never been implemented and the guns are left on top of each other for the lack of space at the headquarters of Police station. In Portuguese regime these guns were cleaned up and service during the deposition period but nowadays this system is not followed. These guns are mostly of sentimental value and imported and looks bad to remain in the very small suffocated shabby room. . Will the Deputy General of Police ( DGP) and present Collector make note of it? Also I suggest to the next Government if by chance BJP does not come in power that the fees must be lowered or revised to the original ones as these guns are never going to be used but will remain in their houses as a sentimental value and why at all fees needs to be increased every time. This was done during the time when Manohar Parrikar was in power as Chief Minister of Goa and the fees are extremely high. Other administrative problems if any, which i did not elaborate here, since Elvis being a good administrator and of IAS status, will know the difficulties of Goans and recommend the changes for approval for reverting back into One Collector for Goa state as it was before. WILL THIS HAPPEN IN FUTURE? Stephen Dias Dona Paula date :,17th Ja. 2017 9422443110 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------