Aiz amchea Goyant fokot lóz ghaztá...
There was time when I could, most eminently,
claim: I am proud to be Goan..."
Alás, the justification for that claim has sadly evanesced...
replacing that worthy pride with stinking shame...
Alfred de Tavares
> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:05:49 +0300> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet] 'Goa's corruption level alarming'> > 'Goa's
> corruption level alarming'> 8 Sep 2008, 0512 hrs IST,TNN> > PANAJI: Goa has
> an 'alarming' level of corruption, finds a study involving below poverty
> level families vis-à-vis their access to public services. The state rubs
> shoulders with Nagaland among smaller states and Union territories, and five
> other bigger states, including Bihar. > > The joint study by Delhi-based
> Centre for Media Studies (CMS) and Transparency International India (TII) and
> released recently covered all 31 states and union territories and interviewed
> the poor in urban slums and rural areas. > > The states were ranked into four
> levels - alarming, very high, high and moderate. Among the bigger states who
> share the 'honours' with Goa for the alarming level of corruption are Assam,
> Jammu and Kashmir and Madhya Pradesh. > > Chief Secretary J P Singh declined
> to comment, saying, "I will have to see the report." However, Ganesh
> Chodankar, general secretary, Goa Government Employees Association said the
> findings are accurate. "For any appointment in government service, one has to
> pay huge sums underhand," he said. > > "It is the political class which is
> responsible for the malaise," he said. > > In Goa, households of poor
> families in Panaji, Margao, Ponda and Sanguem were contacted for the survey
> on corruption in eleven public services, including power, water supply, as
> also need-based services like land records/registration, housing, and police.
> > > As far as awareness about Right to Information Act and its use by BPL
> households is concerned, Goa figured at the bottom with only 1.2% of BPL
> families in the state aware about the potential of RTI as a tool to curb
> corruption. > > The awareness in Bihar was marginally higher at 1.4%,
> Himachal Pradesh 2.9%, Haryana 2.9% while Andhra Pradesh topped with 13%.> >
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Goa/Goas_corruption_level_alarming/articleshow/3456829.cms>
> > ~(^^)~> > Avelino
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