------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRI Continental Film Festival - Dona Paula, Goa, Sep 28 - Oct 2, 2007
http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricontinental/tricon.htm For public viewing. Registration at The International Centre Goa. (Ph: +91-832-2452805 to 10) Online Media Partner: http://www.GOANET.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Utt Goenkara has expressed deep concern and anger over the total breakdown in the law and order situation in Goa and has demanded that the recruitment, promotion and transfer of police personnel should be free from any political interference. Utt Goenkara has stated that a lawless Minister like Mr. Vishwajeet Rane and a criminal minded police officer like Old Goa Police Inspector Mr. Vishwesh Karpe were bad role models. Vishwajeet Rane was a fit case to be sacked from the Goa cabinet and Mr. Vishwesh Karpe deserves nothing less than compulsory retirement. Ridiculing Goas governments expectation that religious institutions and shops should engage private security, Utt Goenkara has stated that very soon every Goas Aam Aadmi would have to fend for themselves with help of private security. Utt Goenkara has questioned as to whether the police would be left only to provide illegal and unprecedented security cover to politicians and their nefarious henchmen. Police officers that cannot uphold the law due to personal or political compulsions should be compulsorily retired and allowed to be employees of politicians of their choice. On 26th September 2007 in a notice sent to the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police, it has demanded immediate disciplinary action against Mr. Vishwesh Karpe, the Police Inspector of Old Goa Police Station, for grave dereliction of duty in grossly delaying registering of the F.I.R in connection with the threat issued by Health Minister of Goa Mr. Vishwajeet Rane. When a copy of the notice was sent to the Old Goa Police Station on 26th September, Police Inspector Mr. Vishwesh Karpe refused to accept the notice and verbally abused the messenger Mr. Atanasio Menino DCruz who was delivering the notice. Police Inspector Karpe told Mr. DCruz that for being after Mr. Vishwajeet Rane that he (police Inspector Karpe) would teach Utt Goenkara activists a lesson and finish them off. Inspector Mr. Vishwesh Karpe by threatening to finish social activists off had committed an offence punishable under section 506 (II) of the Indian Penal Code. The conduct of Police Inspector Vishwesh Karpe was unbecoming of an officer in charge of a police station and contrary to Chief Minister Digambar Kamats assurance that the Goa Police will be sensitive to Public complaints and deal with the Aam Aadmi in a very courteous and caring manner. Goa's DGP has been told that if there was any attack on social activists or on their families and properties, the said Police Inspector Mr. Vishwesh Karpe along with Health Minister Mr. Vishwajeet Rane should be treated as prime suspects in view of the threats issued by them. On the Dayanand Social Security Scheme, Utt Goenkara has stated that the scheme which was launched six years ago on October 2nd 2001 was subject to political interference and administrative mismanagement and therefore in dire straits and in need of a total revamp. The scheme, which was meant to be Freedom from Hunger, had stopped processing applications received from April 2007 and Goa has run out of funds to make even the September payments to the existing beneficiaries. Demanding that the scheme should give an enhanced financial benefit to only the most vulnerable sections of society, Utt Goenkara has wondered as to how MLAs and MPs were allowed to certify the income, age and residence of the applicants, given that such information had to be certified by the local Mamlatdars on a report submitted by the Talathi of the area. Stating that the number of beneficiaries had soared to a whopping 96,000 applicants, Utt Goenkara has stated that the scheme was grossly misused by politicians and demanded a probe in the matter. Aires Rodrigues Spokesman Utt Goenkara ___________________________________________________________ Want ideas for reducing your carbon footprint? Visit Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html
