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16-18, May 2008 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since Rajan is routinely showing us what Goa's > central > planning has wrought, and Gadgil is showing us how > the > Panchayats and Gram Sabhas are trying to stem the > ugly > tide of unbridled and uncontrolled development, your > comments make my case once again that you have no > constructive ideas to contribute. ---------------------------------- Arrey Mario-baba, just because you are bent on teaching women "lessons" on the forum, don't think you can teach this cat where her whiskers ought to be :-) In a world where space travel has become mundane, where human cells mingle with animal embryos and India is set to become the world's third largest economy, you want men to sit around banyan trees and decide the fate of the taluka? If Goa had any evolution in its political and economic governance, it would have mapped out the entire state, zoned parts of it for conservation and parts of it for industry and had its entire development process under the purview of a State Planning Commission. Local bodies can play consultative and advisory roles but surely they cannot have executive powers when it comes to state planning. By your argument, everytime a road or a water-line were to pass through a ward, it would require the local panchayat to sanction its approval. The state then becomes subservient to the ward, when infact the ward must be subsumed by the State. The days of the Panchayat Raj should be long dead in India. These inefficient and corrupt bodies of unit governance have no role to play in a economically modern India. selma