CASINOS NUISANCE AFFECTING PANJIMITES The letter of J.M.Almeida accusing the Mayor of wrong doings at the C.C.P in his letter to the Editor dated 24.8.2013 in the GT, is a classical case of a thief who keeps in shouting thief, thief and pointing fingers at other and accusing them instead of self indulging in self introspection and cleaning one self.
The Almeida Guest House, on the D.B. Marg is a classic case of exploitation of C.C.P’s goodwill or negligence. This Guest House is just opposite to the river front where Casinos are parked at Mandovi river. That they are prime cause of haphazard traffic mobility in Panjim is a well recorded fact. There are scooters, cars parked all around the Custom House in the heart of city Panjim and the cause of traffic chaos in the city. There are no toilets around the new Panjim Jetty and all the clients of the Delta Corporations, some of who reside in Almeida’s Guest House find it convenient to urinate around the Custom House and litter garbage all around the heart of the C.C.P area. The Mayor of Panjim, should ensure that the Almeida Guest House and the casinos in the Mandovi river do not encourage their guests from urinating along public building and haphazardly parking their vehicles all around choking the vehicular mobility. Almeida being a “vested interest” benefiting from casinos, the Panjim Jetty renovation plan and the free parking of vehicles of persons visiting the casinos and working them too is defending all the illegalities carried out by the casinos owners as well as the GSIDC which is involved in Captain of Port Jetty expansion plan designed to anchor casinos and their feeder boats. The Mayor of Panjim should:- 1. Monitor the activity of Almeida Guest House the source of garbage, nuisance their guest apathy responsible for open urination around the Custom House 2. The Mayor of Panjim should activate the sleepy and lethargic nuisance squad advised by the High Court, which is sleeping and not monitoring the nuisance and penalize all those casino as well as Almeida Guest House occupants, who urinate and litter the heart of the city with urine stench solid wastes. 3. The Mayor with the help of Traffic Police and Town Police should inspect those casinos and order the sanitary inspectors of C.C.P to fine and penalize the defaulters who are responsible for the decay of the city of Panjim. I, on my own have initiated against GSIDC in regards to the unscientific expansion of the Captain of Ports jetty, which would herald a night marish experience to the residents of Panjim. I hope, the Mayor works to clean up the mess around Custom House and also around captain of Port jetty and set an example to others to follow, thus making Panjim a Model city free of urination and garbage litter. Stephen Dias D.Paula
