Dear Aires bab We all remember this Swachh Bharat Abhyian was founded by our previous Governor of Goa Smt Mridula Sinha and she has even installed her picture in a huge board near Goa University at Dona Paula which even after her exit this board got rotten and none of successive Governors didn't even bother to use that board. SAD This board should have been installed in St Inez creek instead of a posh area where everybody could see and come forward to clean this present dirty creek. What is the point to keep at a very nice and clean environment? We all after seeing this board with her picture sitting comfortably until it rotten was really a joke for us residents at Dona Paula. All know that she had even converted her residence of Cabo Raj Niwas into a jungle full of trees and cows shed etc Old Portuguese living Governors who stayed there and some our good Indian Governors will surely curse this lady for turning this palace into a jungle. Now slowly this recent Governor is cleaning up the mess created by her. Thank GOD.
Stephen Dias Social worker 2nd Oct 2021 A FAILED CLEANLINESS DRIVE By Aires Rodrigues Seven years ago on 2nd October 2014, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched across the country amidst much fanfare. High expectations were raised but the cleanliness drive has however remained a mere paper tiger with the campaign miserably faltering while crores have been poured down the drain only promoting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP. The drive to ensure cleanliness and sanitation has to be a people’s movement and not a political one. Even in a tiny State like Goa it has been a total failure as garbage continues to be mounting and accumulated all over. Even the capital city Panaji is festering with dirt galore. The situation is only worsening by the day and the lack of sanitation and hygiene being a matter of concern. Those crores of rupees squandered by the Government on that media blitz for this campaign would have brought smiles and cheers to the poor and downtrodden if all that money was instead judiciously spent for their upliftment. Under the guise of Swachh Bharat what has infact been cleaned over the years is only the State coffers in what has been a criminal siphoning of public funds.