Besides all the problems enumerated very correctly in the article presented by Mr. Pinto, I would say that one of the biggest issues has been the tenant or mundkar's issues. I have had severe problems in the recent past. Two of my own properties are in jeopardy because a mason who my grandfather knew about 30 years ago bribed a talati at that time and his name is there as tenant in the forms 1 and 14.
As I was about to build compound wall for another property, the land surveyor found that the gate of a mundkar of another landowner has been built on my land, which means I am forced to give her access rights thereby cutting short my own property. Besides, the fighting and abusing, even to the point of manhandling my own workers, is something we people who live in civilized parts of the country and the world cannot deal with. If I as a Goan who was born and raised in Goa, knowing the local language perfectly, find it very difficult to handle this and want to run away from it all, what about our next generation. This is what we need to carefully think about. Another landowner I know, who came to claim his own property, was literally thrown out by the mundkars. We Goans are our own enemies. Is it surprising therefore, that the non-Goans and "bailes" are taking advantage of all this? Bernice Pereira
