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Convenor of Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) Dr Oscar Rebello has been nominated
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I am shocked at this disclosure. Reminds me of a disgusting experience
not 3 months ago.
I had to visit the office of a senior advocate located a block away
from the Mapusa courts.
The office was shabby, cluttered and dirty. Musty files were piled in
a most disorganized manner. The furniture was stained, needed repair
and was of a quality more suitable for a municipal school rather than
a leading legal luminary.
To enter his office from the antechamber (if one were to grace it with
that name), I nearly tripped over a ground level partition railing
which should not have been located where it was.
After some legal consultation I asked where the restroom was. It was a
hot afternoon, I had some beer since I was on holiday and even though
I saw some reluctance in the eyes of the secretarial assistant, I
insisted on the need to go. She parted with the keys and told me that
it was a common but locked facility, down the floor passage.
It might as well have been a washroom out of hell. I gagged and choked
and tried to hold my breath for the duration, but I was not
successful. The walls were filthy, the Indian style hole in the floor
was caked with a sediment that not even the coarsest acid would have
cleaned and of course there was no functional flush or even at least
water coming out of the tap into a discolored plastic bucket that was
kept below it.
If this is a washroom that a leading Mapusa lawyer uses when at his
office, I can understand why there is public defecating on Panjim
sands.
Roland
416-453-3371
On Jan 13, 2008 8:31 PM, marie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you know that many offices in Goa - where Goans spend 8 to 10 hours every
> day - do not have toilets ? None in the whole building !
> r keeps blaming the ghantis -
> joeGoaUk shows us what office goers have to do to relieve themselves
>
> I, a senior citizen, have - on occasion - needed to relieve myself, and
> asked the office staff for directions to a toilet, only to be told that
> there is none in the whole building all of three stories !
> The most recent incident was the Sub-Registrar's Office in Mapusa where i
> had to spend a couple of hours. The clerk mentioned that there existed a
> toilet - but it was kept locked because there was no water available !
> In the building where the lawyer had his office there was no toilet at all !
>
> If you have an office goer in Panjim, the capital city, having to go to a
> pavement you can imagine the situation in the rest of Goa.
>
> --
> marie
