[Goanet] Fw: Dating Race

[Con Menezes]

Race &  sexual attraction.  Interesting .

Choose full screen for optimal viewing  

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[Goanet] MORE EVIDENCE ON HOW MANOHAR PARRIKAR CHEATED GOA

[Aires Rodrigues]

The Goa Government very high-handedly paid a whopping Rs 6, 37,721 for the
dinner hosted by then Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on 8th June 2013 at
the Goa Marriot Resort for the 543 delegates attending the National
Executive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party which was held in the Goa
from the 7th to 9th June 2013. This has been revealed in the information
obtained from the Protocol department at the Secretariat under the Right to
Information Act.


As per the information furnished under the RTI Act a note was moved on 4th June
2013 to the Protocol department by Sanchita Banerjee Rodrigues, Press
Liaison Officer to the then Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar  that the Chief
Minister would be hosting a dinner for delegates of the National Executive
Meeting, decietly without mentioning that it was a BJP meet. The entire
file notings processing that bill also nowhere mentions that it was a BJP
meeting but just masks it as a National Executive Meeting.


As per the information furnished by the protocol department Manohar
Parrikar while Chief Minister from 9th March 2012 to 8th November 2014
hosted a total of 48 official lunches and dinners  which cost the Goa
Government a total of Rs 40,96,032 (forty lakhs ninety six thousand and
thirty two rupees). All this fun and frolic at the cost of the tax payer
despite the State coffers being cash starved.


A perusal of the records obtained under RTI Act also shockingly reveals
that in the 21 of the 48 occasions, despite there being no mention on what
was the reason for hosting the lunch or dinner, the bills were cleared by
the Protocol department with no questions asked.


This includes a dinner at Goa Marriott hosted on 9th March 2013 for 90
persons which cost Rs 1, 37,950 and another dinner for 400 persons at Hotel
Mandovi Riveira on 25th September 2013 which cost Rs 3, 95,694 both for
which the reason of hosting the occasion finds no mention in the request
sent by the Chief Minister’s Office to the Protocol department.


All these documents obtained under the Right to Information Act will be
handed over to the Vigilance department to seek a probe against Manohar
Parrikar as there has been a clear misuse of public funds with bills
cleared without being properly scrutinized and audited besides the bills
inflated and manipulated.


This lavish and uncalled for illegal spending by Manohar Parrikar was a
criminal waste of public funds and contrary to government’s own circular
calling for austerity measures in view of the serious financial crunch
faced by the State. Tax payer’s money cannot be squandered by the
government on political party merry making.


When Manohar Parrikar was Chief Minister, his Secretary cum Man Friday and
Collection agent was Siddarth Kuncolienkar, another smooth operator who
succeeded Manohar Parrikar as Panaji MLA and who now wants to take us on a
Smart city jolly good ride. A very close watch will have to be kept to
ensure that these two characters do not further defraud Goa’s already
depleted State Exchequer.


Aires Rodrigues

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[Goanet] EXCERPT: How detective Shorty Gomes made it to the pages of a book (Scroll.In)

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BOOK EXCERPT
How detective Shorty Gomes made it to the pages of a book

The creator of the sleuth from
Goa recounts the long saga that
led to the publication of the
Shorty Gomes stories.

AHMED BUNGLOWALA
ahmed.bung...@gmail.com

>From 1975 to 1983 we lived at Pedder Road, Bombay, as paying
guests. Vijaya and I were recently married and the
one-room-bath-kitchenette accommodation suited us fine
-- especially after the few months we had spent in a shabby
and claustrophobic place in Kurla East, with a nosey landlord
as bonus. What hastened our exit from the Kurla place was
that one day a chunk of the ceiling plaster came crashing
down. Fortunately, no one was hurt.

The landlady at Pedder Road was a jaded and quirky film star
of yesteryears and my first meeting with her had evoked a
strong association with the Gloria Swanson character in Billy
Wilder's Sunset Boulevard. She (the landlady) had advertised
the PG room in the TOI (we had become voracious readers of
the 'accommodation available' columns after the plaster
falling incident) and I had written her a postcard saying I
was interested and would like to check out the place. She had
phoned me after a couple of weeks and I went over to meet her.

She looked at me with her cat-like green eyes, sizing me up.

  The usual interrogation followed. Soon, she agreed
  quite readily to rent the place to us. I was
  thrilled, and paid out a month's rent in advance.
  Before leaving she let me know that the one thing
  that had greatly weighed in my favour was my
  handwriting -- it was neat and clean, she said.
  Later on I was to understand that a good hand is
  the written equivalent of a good voice.

Soon we settled down in our new digs -- we bought a
second-hand fridge, an old cassette player and a used (now,
pre-owned) Jawa motorcycle -- not all of them at the same
time. One of the things our hidebound landlady was very
particular about was the doorbell ringing protocol. Our
visitors, she insisted, had to ring the bell twice. Hers, once.

Easier said than done. And this became a constant source of
irritation and friction. On weekends, our small place would
invariably turn into an *adda* with many of our friends
simply forgetting the golden rule. Holy cow! The arguments
over recently watched movies at the Alliance Française or Max
Müller would grow progressively louder with Rashid Irani
flying off the handle if someone even mildly suggested any
shortcomings in the movies of his 'sacred' pantheon of
directors -- headed by Werner Herzog. Vijaya and I would try,
in vain, to coax our friends to keep the decibel levels low.

The impromptu bar in the kitchen would be depleted by
midnight and every one would make their way home after
grabbing a few bites of the food that someone had brought
along -- very often kababs and nans from Sarvi in Nagpada.
Bombay, at that time, was flush with creative energy -- in
cinema, theatre, poetry, and fiction. It was a very
stimulating period in our lives. It was at this time and
place that I first started writing the Shorty Gomes stories.
I was by now on a regular reading regimen of Dashiell Hammett
and Raymond Chandler -- with James M Cain, B Traven and JD
Salinger completing the eclectic mix.

Then one day something very strange happened.

  At a party at a friend's place we met a Bengali
  woman -- plump, self-assured and quite drunk.
  Making conversation, I asked her what she was doing
  with her life generally. With a deadpan expression
  she intoned, "I work for a private detective
  agency."

I almost dropped my glass of rum and soda, complete in the
surprise of what she;d just said in her deep, husky voice.
Keya Dutt was to become one of our dearest friends during
that time and we would often go to her place in Andheri on my
Jawa to while away the hours in the company of her friends --
all Bengalis -- and listen to Keya's exploits about her
matrimonial snooping on husbands cheating on their wives, and
wives cheating on their husbands. She told us a hilarious
story about a guy who was cheating on his wife with not one
EMA (agency jargon for extramarital affair) but three!

Meeting Keya provided further impetus to get on with my
writing. (The character of the cunning, corpulent Madam Flora
in the story The House is inspired by her.) After much
procrastination and rework I completed the first story and
got started on the second-writing longhand on ruled A4 size paper.

I would be constantly bothering Vijaya with spellings and
connotations of certain words and phrases. (I became
'comfortable' with English a little late in life because my
formative years were spent reading and writing in Hindi in a
small town in Madhya Pradesh, where my father was a
successful furniture contractor -- the business he summarily
lost after Partition.) By now the buzz about Shorty Gomes --
the Goan-origin private eye, operating from his flo

[Goanet] VICE CHANCELLOR APPOINTMENT FOR EXTENSION AFTER 65 YEARS OF AGE IS IN TROUBLE

[Stephen Dias]

WHEN EVERYBODY NEW THAT VICE CHANCELLOR TERM IS NEARING END,  THE
GOVERNMENT OR IN THAT MATTER GOVERNOR OF GOA WHO IS THE CHANCELLOR OF GOA
UNIVERSITY IN THAT RESPECT SHOULD HAVE TAKE DECISION TO APPOINT A NEW IN
INCUMBENT  BEFORE THE PERIOD OF PRESENT VICE CHANCELLOR EXPIRES.
 NOW SINCE IT REQUIRES  6 MONTHS TO GET A FRESH PERSON APPOINTED IT APPEARS
THAT THE TRICKS ARE MADE TO GET SHETYE'S  EXTENSION BY ALL MEANS. THIS IS
AN ANOTHER FRAUD THAT GOVERNMENT IS COMMITTING ON ISSUES OF GOVERNMENT
APPOINTMENT JOBS.

STEPHEN DIAS
DONA PAULA
-Governor’s nod awaited for Shetye’s extension
TNN | Oct 22, 2015, 02.02 AM IST

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*Panaji: *Goa University vice-chancellor Satish Shetye's term is set to
come to an end later this month after just three years in office only
because he has attained the age of 65 years and as per the existing statute
he has to step down from office.

The statute that set an age limit of 65 years for an academic to serve as
GU's vice-chancellor has now been amended and sent for the chancellor's
assent by the varsity's executive council. The amended statute states that
any person appointed to the VC's office will continue in office for five
years, irrespective of the academic's age.

The assent of the chancellor who is Goa governor Mridula sinha on GU's
executive committee decision is awaited.

Once the statute stands amended with the chancellor's assent, there will be
no other reason for the chancellor not to consider extending his term in
office by two years.

The procedure for the appointment of a Goa University (GU) vice-chancellor
requires the university, the chancellor and the state government to each
recommend the name of an academic who can be part of a three-member search
committee to select the new VC probables.

Sources said that the search committee is yet to be formed and begin its
work. "The panel will have to choose three names suitable for the post with
commendable academic achievements and teaching experience. The one chosen
to be GU's next VC may take time before joining office as he or she has to
fulfil their commitments in their current area of work. This process is
expected to take a minimum of six months and as GU cannot remain without a
VC during this period, there is a likelihood that Shetye will have his term
in office extended," a source said.

[Goanet] SEBASTIAN MUST WRITE AFTER DOING HIS GOOD HOME WORK AND NOT TO BRING CAST SYSTEM INTO THE PICTURE

[Stephen Dias]

Fr Bismark and like minded others must answer the land sold of Vanxim, etc
and also at St Monica, Souta mayor? belonging to Church by Bishop where
Sebastian is making allegations against the Bishop File Neri Ferrao.

Stephen Dias

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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 09:58:42 -0400
From: Jose 
To: Stephen Dias ,  "goa...@goanet.org"
,Sebastian 


(1) Mon, 19 Oct 2015 FROM Sebastian 

Please be informed about serious frauds committed by Goa Archbishop and how
Church bodies are manipulated to cover up these frauds.

(2) On Oct 21, 2015,  Stephen Dias  wrote:

IF THESE NEWS ARE TRUE THAN IT MUST BE EXPOSED AND STOPPED SELLING GOA LAND
TO OUTSIDERS.

Comment:

Dear Stephen,

You are a sensible individual, hence my response to your post. ( I had
ignored Sebastian's postbut will comment since you quoted it)

 a: Which legally constituted Court of Law has heard and ruled upon the
case of 'Fraud' as alleged above ?

b: Granted that Sebastian is a bit Frak in English, should the claim not
have been qualified ( by you ) as 'Alleged' ?

c: Under WHICH prevailing law of the land can/should Goans be 'STOPPED from
SELLING GOA LAND TO OUTSIDERS'?

d: If appropriate legal and financial advice is received, should the Church
NOT make the sensible decision to dispose off the properties in order to
properly manage the other properties and responsibilities?

e: What is the true relevance of this Caste-nonsense ( from Sebastian ):
'both parties: sellers - the Archbishop Ferrao as well as the buyer
Mahendra Gaunekar ? are bamons and this is not by co-incidence'.

BTW: I fully support the position that As much of Goa's Greenery as
possible must be protected. But this repeated Caste-nonsense from Sebastian
is just that ie Nonsense.

ps: I have ignored the Political insinuations.

jc

End of Goanet Digest, Vol 10, Issue 568
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[Goanet] Defiant Portugal shatters the eurozone's political complacency

[Gabe Menezes]

Well, well, well...shall have to wait and see repercussions, if any.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11946412/Defiant-Portugal-shatters-the-eurozones-political-complacency.html
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[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day....

[Gabe Menezes]

Ben E King - At Last

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9eSVuRg7Ss

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[Goanet] AIFF REPORT: AIFF U-17 COLTS WIN SUBROTO CUP, RECEIVE TROPHY FROM KING PELE + PIXS

[Bernado Colaco]

I remember the 70's/80s, our Goans schools, Dom Bosco, Monte de Guirim doing 
well in the Subroto cup. Atam kaim na kobor after the death of Paes.
BC

Dear colleagues,

Please find below the match report of the Subroto Cup Final where AIFF
Academy colts routed Little Angels Paradise Secondary School, Manipur 4-1
in the Final.

*For all updates of the National Team and exclusive pictures please follow
our Official Twitter Handle @AIFFMedia. You will find live updates of all
of India?s matches (across all age-groups) and all other relevant updates
on our Official Twitter handle.
 

[Goanet] Fw: India beef lynching premidated?

[Con Menezes]

   
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34599849

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[Goanet] Mumbai: A good Samaritian: Leslie Periera's law of compassion

[Robin Viegas]

From: bcsabha.kal...@gmail.com
To: 

http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31821&articlexml=His-law-of-compassion-15102015012005
Oct 15 2015 : Mirror (Mumbai)His law of compassionNazia Sayed TWEETS 
@sayednaazMIRRORLawyer Leslie Pereira helps patients who are abandoned in the 
city's hospitals by their families
Leslie Pereira has spent much of his life in the compounds of government-run 
hospi tals, looking for patients who have been abandoned by their families. The 
lawyer has, until now, rehabilitated hundreds of destitute commercial sex 
workers, HIV patients and elderly people. Even today, one can find him in JJ 
hospital, helping those unfamiliar with the hospital, guiding them towards 
operation theatres, emergency wards, sometimes even police stations to file a 
criminal case. Goa-born Pereira decided to fight for such people after he 
himself was refused help by hospital authorities when he was in dire need of it.
“I know what it feels like to be abandoned, to be lonely. I am an orphan myself 
and had lived years of my childhood on the streets before I was adopted. Even 
after being adopted, though, I never got the love and attention I longed for,“ 
says Pereira. He adds that he was never given proper food or clothing and used 
to eat well only when he visited a friend's house. “I grew up being at the 
mercy of others, which is why I decided to work for people who felt a pain 
similar to mine. “I know I can't take care of all the people in this world, but 
I feel that even if I make one person smile, my goal for that day stands 
achieved.“


Two years ago, a seven-year-old girl from Karnataka had lost both her parents 
to HIV, and was admitted to and abandoned by her grandmother in JJ hospital. 
She had been thrown out of her village because she was HIV-positive.Pereira 
adopted her, cleared her bills, and later assured her shelter by helping get 
her lodged in a care centre. A two-year-old girl, who was raped and thrown out 
in the bushes near the Sewri railway station, was also taken by Pereira to the 
rescue home Asha Sadan, from where she was adopted by a couple, and with whom 
she is now living a happy life.


Eunuchs who are left alone at the hospital and denied admission also look to 
Pereira for help.“There used to be no one to take care of them at the hospital. 
I have spent lots of nights in the hospital, talking to them and attending to 
them. They are also humans and require care and love.Is that too much to ask 
for?“ asks Pereira. The Samaritan has made tending to the neglected a habit of 
sorts.


A woman from Chennai had come to Mumbai to apply for a visa that would help her 
fly to the Gulf. In the city, she suffered a paralytic stroke and was admitted 
to JJ hospital. During her stay there, she was raped by the ward boy in a 
toilet. As the hospital authorities tried to hush up the matter, her attendant 
Jamila Begum brought the matter to Pereira's notice. He later got an FIR 
registered and ensured the arrest of the rapist. The victim's bills were taken 
care of and her treatment continued for another nine months. Pereira still 
practices at the Bombay High Court. He is well known for pursuing Public 
Interest Litigation cases against various issues for the past 18 years. He 
exposed the scam of dead bodies going missing from the morgue of a famous 
government-run hospital. The corpses, it turned out, were being sold to certain 
medical colleges for anatomy lessons. A case was later filed at the High Court. 
Pereira also uncovered the racket of clinical trials being conducted on poor 
patients by the hospital authorities of a big hospital without their consent 
and knowledge. Today, conducting such trials on patients without their 
permission, is illegal.


“My aim,“ says Pereira, “is to serve humanity, irrespective of caste, colour 
and creed and to work for the betterment of society by being generous. I wish 
to help the needy and give back to the universe what the universe has given me 
-a life.“




  

[Goanet] Easy listening selection......Nat King Cole

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   Rambling Rose
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB2hhgjlgFE

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[Goanet] The Salesian Story in Goa: From the War to the Fields (Fernando do Rego)

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Compiled by FERNANDO DO REGO
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One of the most popular Catholic religious Orders in the
world is the Salesians of Don Bosco. The Salesians of Don
Bosco (or the Salesian Society, officially named the Society
of St. Francis de Sales) is a Roman Catholic religious
institute founded in the late nineteenth century by St. John
Bosco to help poor children during the Industrial Revolution.

The Salesians' charter describes the society's mission as
"the Christian perfection of its associates obtained by the
exercise of spiritual and corporal works of charity towards
the young, especially the poor, and the education of boys".

The institute is named after Francis de Sales, an
early-modern bishop from Geneva. Today worldwide, there are
15,298 Salesians (14,731 if you exclude novices and bishops).

ARRIVAL IN GOA

  It was soon after World War II, around the year
  1948, after a request of many Goan Catholics, which
  included my father Dr. Antonio Augusto do Rego, to
  the then Prelate of Goa, that the first Salesians
  arrived in Panjim. They were lead by Fr. Vincenzo
  Scuderi. With him were many more Italians who had
  been held in the Concentration Camps of the British
  India, being Italians, at that time enemies of England!

Vincenzo Scuderi, born 30th May 1902 in Ramacca near Catania
in Sicily, was a Catholic priest belonging Salesians of Don
Bosco. One of the great members of this Society in India, he
was a pioneer of the Salesian work in Goa, including Don
Bosco, Panjim. He died on 22nd November 1982 at Catania, Sicily.

Fr. Scuderi did his early schooling with the Salesians at St.
Philip Neri School, Catania. He showed early promise as a
student and leader. He joined the Salesian Congregation, and
was ordained in 1926.

He opted for the missions of India, and reached Shillong, the
capital of what today is the North Eastern State of
Meghalaya, at the end of December 1928. Within two years, in
June 1931, he was named in-charge of the Assam plains,
together with Fr. Archimedes Pianazzi and Antonio Alessi. In
1934 he was appointed Provincial, with jurisdiction over the
regions now roughly forming Assam, Bengal and Uttar Pradesh.

A few months later, he was also appointed Apostolic
Administrator of the diocese of Krishnagar (in the central
region of India's West Bengal state). His secretary was the
young Fr. Giuseppe Moja. In June 1940, Msgr. Scuderi and
other Italian Salesians were taken prisoners by the British,
since Italy had entered World War II on the side of Germany.

  He spent time in several camps all over India: Fort
  William (Calcutta), Ahmednagar, Deolali, Dehradun,
  and finally Purandar. Interestingly, the Salesians
  in these camps even underwent a whole course of
  theology and received ordination. In Purandar,
  Scuderi began schools for children of the
  prisoners, of the servants, and of the sweepers.

When the British made it clear he would have to go, he opted
for the Portuguese territory of Goa, so as not to have to
leave India. There, a new saga of six years, with a group of
volunteers who followed him, began.

He started with the Oratory and a Portuguese primary school,
followed by a technical school and English high school; two
other festive and daily oratories in town; a technical school
in Valpoi. He even bought a plot in Panjim, the capital, and
built a chapel that soon became a centre of devotion for
hundreds. Fr. Scuderi is thus the founder of the Salesian
work in Goa, which now includes foundations in Panjim, Odxel,
Parra, Paliem, Tuem, Fatorda, Loutolim, Benaulim, besides
other foundations in southern Maharashtra and coastal Karnataka.

Msgr. Vincent Scuderi spent 24 years in India. He spent
roughly 12 years in Assam and Bengal (1928-1940), six years
as a prisoner (1940 to 1946) and the remaining six years in
Goa. However, broken by two major hernia operations and a
severe bout of typhoid, he was called back to Italy. His
place in Goa was taken by Fr. Jose Luis Carreno, who can be
called the second great Salesian pioneer of Goa. Fr Carreno
worked in Caltanisetta, Gela and Riesi, before retiring to
Catania. His volcanic dynamism marked his passage in all
these places.

  Fr. Guiseppe Moja (20th December 1915, Orino,
  Lombardy -- 26th May 2009) was yet another
  prominent Salesian priest and missionary in India.
  He is part of the group of pioneers who began the
  Salesian work in Panjim, Goa, including the Don
  Bosco High School, Panjim. He also pioneered the
  Salesian work in Sulcorna, Goa, now to home to a
  substantial farm and the Don Bosco High School,
  Sulcorna.

Fr. Moja had left Italy for India in 1932. He entered the
Salesian novitiate at Shillong and made his first profession
on 7th December 1933. He was soon appointed secretary to Fr.
Vincenzo Scuderi,

[Goanet] GOA GOVERNOR URGED NOT TO GIVE EXTENSION TO GOA VC DR SATISH SHETYE

[Aires Rodrigues]

Goa Governor Mridula Sinha has today been urged not to allow any extension
to the Goa University Vice Chancellor Dr Satish Shetye who is due to retire
this month on attaining the age of 65.


In a memorandum to Governor Sinha it has been sought that she should not
allow the Goa Government to drag her in their malafied and mischievous
attempt to illegally grant an extension to Vice- Chancellor Dr Satish
Shetye.


The entire pre-planned move of the 17 member Goa University’s Executive
Council to amend the Goa University Statute SA-6 (1) (d) was to give Dr
Shetye a two year n extension. The Executive Council did not have the
powers to engage in fixing the retirement age of academic staff of the
University including that of the Vice Chancellor in view of the amendment
dated 23rd September 2002 to the Goa University Act.


The solemnity and sanctity of Goa’s educational turf stood compromised with
the very high-handed move under a veil of total secrecy to give Goa
University Vice-Chancellor Dr Satish Shetye a two year extension.


Dr Shetye who would benefit by this two extension himself presided over
that very Executive Council meeting of which he is the Chairman and
comprising of his friends and family as members. Infact the Vice-Chancellor
is not supposed to take any major decision three months prior to his
retirement.


This first ever change to the University Statute that was sought to be
effected to give Dr Satish Shetye a further two years as Vice-Chancellor
would defeat the very spirit and intent of restricting the retirement age
of the Vice- Chancellor to 65 years which was meant for induction of
relatively younger persons and fresh blood in the management of the
University.


Infact in September 2012 itself when Dr Satish Shetye was appointed as
Vice-Chancellor he lacked academic excellence, exposure to the higher
education system in the country and abroad, adequate experience in academic
and administrative governance besides above all having no teaching
experience whatsoever.


The current lackluster Vice-Chancellor Dr Satish Shetye has no singular
great achievement to merit such extra-ordinary privilege of a two year
extension. Even the ‘A’ Grade gained by Goa University from NAAC (National
Assessment and Accreditation Council) was not due to the present
Vice-Chancellors’s own personal contributions but due to the collective
efforts of all the Departments in the Goa University and the good work done
by earlier Vice-Chancellor.


Dr Satish Shetye’s only achievement is that he has acted as a dedicated
mouth piece of the government and danced to the tunes of the ruling BJP in
running and rather ruining the University.


Dr Shetye’s extension was manipulated at the instance of the RSS elements
within the BJP and would affect the University adversely by denying it the
services of more acclaimed and capable national level personalities. If the
extension to Dr Satish Shetye was sought under the guise of he being
knowledgeable and experienced then why had such extensions not been offered
to other senior faculty members too.


The rules require that the post of Vice-Chancellor be advertised six months
in advance and a Search Committee can also be constituted to recommend to
the Governor suitable names of persons to be the next Vice-Chancellor. The
authorities intentionally went into slumber as the extension now being
sought to be given to the incumbent Dr Satish Shetye was well pre-planned.


Since the very inception of Goa University in 1985, all the
Vice-Chancellors appointed have been from the Science stream. It is time to
get an eminent personality from other faculties like Arts, Commerce or
Management appointed as the next Vice-Chancellor to infuse some dynamism
and Acche din at the Goa University besides the much transparency in its
working.


Aires Rodrigues

Advocate High Court

C/G-2, Shopping Complex

Ribandar Retreat,

Ribandar – Goa – 403006

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[Goanet] GFDO Press Note

[Edwin/Diana Pinto]

GFDO PRESS NOTE

GFDO said that Union Minister Prakash Jawdekar’s blatant interference in the 
Environment appraisal process for Mopa Airport was a brazen slap in the face of 
democratic institutions and procedures. This was evident from his announcement 
during his Goa visit that he would grant the Environment Clearance even before 
the actual meeting of the Environment Appraisal Committee took place. Such 
unilateral and high handed behaviour flies in the face of democratic processes 
and makes it abundantly clear that the Minister of Environment & Forests has 
lost sight of the fact that his job is to protect the environment of the 
nation, which in the case of Mopa comprises rich and invaluable forests, 
wildlife, agricultural lands and perennial springs of the plateau and not to 
serve vested interests who have bought huge lands in Pernem taluka in Goa and 
Sindhudurg district in Maharashtra. 

Not satisfied with this unprecedented  interference, the Minister further went 
on to violate all norms by chairing the meeting of the Committee, as reported 
in the press. The Minister's arrogance and lack of respect for procedures and 
law only matches his obvious disrespect for the environment, his lack of 
concern for Goa’s already beleaguered tourism industry or the 10,000 poor Goans 
who will be directly displaced by the project, and his abject obedience to the 
needs and demands of private profiteers.  

The preemptive announcement made by CM Parsekar that the Environment Clearance 
has been granted for the proposed Mopa Airport project is not only factually 
incorrect, but a blatant interference in the functioning of the Union MoEF. 
Firstly, by publicly stating his version of what transpired during the Meeting 
of the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) held on 20.10.2015, the CM has abused 
the opportunity provided to the Goa Government to be present during the 
proceedings. Secondly, his statement is not true, since the meeting held on 
20.10.2015 by the Committee was only to recommend the grant or refusal of the 
Clearance, with the Ministry reserving the final decision whether the Clearance 
will be granted or not, after receiving the recommendations of the Committee. 
Thirdly, the hasty and premature statement of the CM has completely violated 
the sanctity of the appraisal process, since the minutes of the meeting have 
not been written yet. 

>From the behaviour of these two public figures, it is amply clear that the 
>Union MoEF, is openly conspiring with the Goa Government to push the vexed 
>Mopa Airport project upon the State, even at the cost of subverting due 
>procedures laid down for clearance of such massive projects that are sure to 
>have long term repercussions on the environment and future of Goa. It may be 
>pointed out, this EC is being given without any relevant studies being 
>conducted that is so crucial in this matter, since the area is so close to the 
>Western Ghat region.

It is with great distress and dismay that GFDO feels compelled to point out to 
the Goa Government and the Union MoEF, that Goa is not a banana republic, but 
supposedly part of a larger democratic polity, that our founding fathers have 
safeguarded with the setting up of democratic institutions, processes and 
procedures. It is perhaps this sort of adhoc operations by the state 
administration, aided and abetted by the BJP government at the Centre,  that 
has brought Goa tethering on the edge of economic collapse. The greed and 
ignorance of Goa’s elected representatives and their lack of concern for future 
generations of Goans is apparent from the manner in which they are vying with 
each other to destroy Goa irreversibly by selling it to the highest bidders 
only for personal gains.

GFDO calls upon the people of Goa to unite and defend the motherland. This is 
the time to come together and save our community resources and environment for 
our future generations, before it is too late.

For GOANS FOR DABOLIM ONLY 
Fr. Eremito Rebelo  
Convenor

[Goanet] WILL MODI TAKE UP PUBLIC SUGGESTIONS ON RETIREMENT AGE?

[Stephen Dias]

GOVERNMENT OF GOA AND MAY BE  PARRIKAR DEFENCE MINISTER OF INDIA MUST
DESIST INTERFERING IN ANY MATTERS CONCERNED GOA STATE AS WE HAVE A NEW
CHIEF MINISTER FOR GOA. LAXMIKANT PARSEKAR.
.ALLEGEDLY PARRIKAR  HE HIMSELF IS  WRONG PERSON IN THE  WRONG PLACE.
GOVERNOR OF GOA SUPPOSE TO ADVICE GOA GOVERNMENT FOR ANY SERIOUS LAPSES OF
GOA UNIVERSITY AS SHE ( MRIDULA SINHA ) IS CHANCELLOR OF GOA UNIVERSITY .
WHETHER SHE WAS APPROACHED OR SHE IS ALSO IN THE GANG OF RECOMMENDATIONS.
THERE ARE MUCH " SMART"  YOUNG  PEOPLE IN GOA AND THEY SHOULD BE GIVEN JOBS
WHETHER IN GOA UNIVERSITY OR ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT OFFICES/DEPARTMENT , AND
NOT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE ATTAINED THE AGE ABOVE 60 YEARS.
GOVERNMENT MUST MAKE A RULE TO HELP YOUNG JOBLESS GOANS..
PERSONALLY I AM NOT AGAINST SATISH SHETYE AS HE WAS OUR NIO DIRECTOR
EARLIER.
I AM JUST CITING MY SUGGESTIONS IN THE INTEREST OF JOBLESS PEOPLE IN GOA.

STEPHEN DIAS.


--Goa University Too Now Soiled With Politicial Broth by Aires Rodrigues
Wednesday - Oct 21, 2015
[image: Goa University Too Now Soiled With Politicial Broth by Aires
Rodrigues]
The solemnity and sanctity of Goa’s educational turf stands compromised
with the very high-handed move under a veil of total secrecy to give Goa
University Vice-Chancellor Dr Satish Shetye a two year extension. This
entire pre-planned move got the green signal of the 17 member Goa
University’s Executive Council to amend the Goa University Statute SA-6 (1)
(d) and give a compulsory 5 year term to the present Vice-Chancellor Dr.
Satish Shetye who has completed three years.

Ironically Dr Shetye who benefits by this two extension himself presided
over that very Executive Council meeting of which he is the Chairman.
Incidentally the Vice-Chancellor is not supposed to take any major decision
three months prior to his retirement. But Dr. Satish Shetye was able to
bulldoze his extension through the Executive Council which comprises of his
friends and BJP loyalists. This first ever change to the University Statute
is being effected to give Dr Satish Shetye who is due to retire this month
on attaining the age of 65 a further two years as Vice-Chancellor. This
defeats the very spirit and intent of restricting the retirement age of the
Vice- Chancellor to 65 years which was meant for induction of relatively
younger persons and fresh blood in the management of the University.

Infact in September 2012 itself  when Dr Satish Shetye was appointed as
Vice-Chancellor by his friend and then Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar  he
lacked academic excellence, exposure to the higher education system in the
country and abroad, and adequate experience in academic and administrative
governance. Above all he did not have any of the much needed teaching
experience.

The current lackluster Vice-Chancellor Dr Satish Shetye has no singular
great achievement to merit such extra-ordinary privilege of a two year
extension. Even the ‘A’ Grade gained by Goa University from NAAC (National
Assessment and Accreditation Council) was not due to the present
Vice-Chancellors’s own personal contributions but due to the collective
efforts of all the Departments in the Goa University and the good work done
by earlier Vice-Chancellor. Dr Satish Shetye’s only achievement is that he
has acted as a dedicated mouth piece of the government and danced to the
tunes of the ruling BJP in running and rather ruining the University. Dr
Shetye’s extension was manipulated at the instance of the RSS elements
within the BJP and would affect the University adversely by denying it the
services of more acclaimed and capable national level personalities.

The rules require that the post of Vice-Chancellor be advertised six months
in advance and a Search Committee can also be constituted to recommend to
the Governor suitable names of persons to be the next Vice-Chancellor. But
the authorities intentionally went into slumber as the extension now being
sought to be given to the incumbent Dr Satish Shetye was well pre-planned.
If the extension to Dr Satish Shetye is being doled away under the guise of
he being knowledgeable and experienced, why have such extensions not been
offered to other senior faculty members too.

Since the very inception of Goa University in 1985, all the
Vice-Chancellors appointed have been from the Science stream. May be its
time to get an eminent personality from other faculties like Arts, Commerce
or Management appointed as the next Vice-Chancellor to infuse some dynamism
and Acche din at the Goa University besides the much transparency in its
working.


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[Goanet] Thirteen cardinals, including Dolan and Di Nardo, challenged Pope Francis' decisions on the synod | America Magazine

[Robin Viegas]

From: bcsabha.kal...@gmail.com
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From: Astrid Lobo Gajiwala 



http://americamagazine.org/content/dispatches/thirteen-cardinals-including-di-nardo-and-dolan-challenged-popes-decisions-synod


Thirteen cardinals—including Cardinals Di Nardo and Dolan—sent a letter to Pope 
Francis on the opening day of the Synod on the Family in which they challenged 
or raised serious objections to decisions taken or approved by him regarding 
the organization and the conduct of the synod. 
In it, they expressed “concerns” in relation to two important aspects of the 
synod, which they claim are shared by other synod fathers: the basic working 
document or “Instrumentum Laboris,” which they consider inadequate, and the 
synod procedures which they allege “lead to a predetermined conclusion.”
The letter was published in Rome one week after it was given to the pope, by 
Sandro Magister, a well-known writer on Vatican affairs, who is not much in 
sympathy with the direction of this pontificate, and who was suspended from the 
Holy See’s press office for his involvement in breaking the Vatican embargo on 
the pope’s encyclical, "Laudato Si'." 
On Oct. 12,  Magister published the text of the letter and the names of 13 
cardinals who he claimed had signed the letter. Within hours of publication, 
however, four of those publicly denied signing the letter: Cardinals Erdo 
(Hungary), Piacenza (Italy) Scola (Italy) and Vingt-Trois (France). Federico 
Lombardi, S.J., the director of the Holy See Press Office, would not comment on 
the letter.America has learned from informed sources that 13 cardinals did 
indeed sign the letter, including four not named on Magister’s list:  Di Nardo 
(United States), Njue (Kenya), Rivera (Mexico) and Sgreccia (Italy). The full 
list of signatories is given below.  
In their letter, the cardinals wrote that some consider “the synodal 
procedures” as “lacking openness and genuine collegiality.” They charged that 
“the absence of propositions and their related discussions and voting seems to 
discourage open debate” and called for the restoration of the system of 
“crafting of propositions to be voted on by the entire synod.” They also stated 
that “voting on a final document comes too late in the process for a full 
review and serious adjustment of the text.”
The 13 cardinals, all of whom are synod fathers, challenged the composition of 
the special commission (of 10 members from all continents) set up by the pope 
to draft the final document, and said, “the lack of input by the synod fathers” 
on this “has created considerable unease. Members have been appointed, not 
elected, without consultation.”
They asked that “anyone drafting anything at the level of the small circles 
should be elected, not appointed.”
Please support our journalism. Subscribe now!The cardinals went on to express 
“concern that the new procedures are not true to the traditional spirit and 
purpose of a synod,” and claimed that “a number of fathers feel the new process 
seems designed to facilitate predetermined results on important disputed 
questions.”
“Finally and perhaps most urgently,” they said, “various fathers” have 
expressed “concern that a synod designed to address a vital pastoral matter – 
reinforcing the dignity of marriage and family – may become dominated by the 
theological/doctrinal issue of Communion for the divorced and civilly 
remarried.” 
If this were to be the case, they said, it would “inevitably raise even more 
fundamental issues about how the church, going forward, should interpret and 
apply the Word of God, her doctrines and her disciplines to changes in culture.”
Pope Francis' response to this and other questions came the following morning. 
He spoke after the synod’s secretary-general, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, 
clarified the process. Cardinal Baldisseri recalled that in past synods the 
final report was drafted by three or four members—the relator, special 
secretary and the secretary general with help of others—but in 2014 Francis 
decided to expand the groups. The cardinal stated that those drafting the final 
document were never elected by the synod. He also made clear that the 
moderators and rapporteurs of the language groups are in fact elected by the 
members of those working groups, as established in the procedures for the 
synod; they are not appointed by the secretariat.
Pope Francis confirmed the procedures of the synod when he spoke. He explained 
that the 2014 synod never challenged the church's teaching on marriage and the 
family, and that it is not up for debate at this synod either. He told the 
synod fathers that the three fundamental documents for discusion at this synod 
are the final report of the 2014 synod, plus his own introductory and 
concluding speeches to that assembly. He restated yet again that the synod 
cannot be "reduced" to the single issue of whether divorced and remarried 
Catholics can be admitted to the Eucharist. He concluded by warning the synod 

[Goanet] GOANET: REVISED LETTER ON SMART CITY OF PANAJI

[Stephen Dias]

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IS PANAJI A RACE COURSE FOR A SMART CITY?

 In what way can the cycle race conducted by MLA of Panjim, Sridarth
Kunkolienkar  around the Panjim city can help in planning SMART CITY  of
Panjim?   What kind of awareness is this for a SMART CITY? It appears to me
a  cheap publicity. Cycle race was conducted from Divya circle at Patto to
Gaspar Dias, when actually Panaji roads are in deplorable condition.
Luckily the cycles reached upto Miramar and could not go further as the
Dona Paula roads were completely in dilapidated condition.  Look at the
garbage all around Panjim city. Look at the new arrival of Lexicon,  plus
the  casinos that are already in the Mandovi River  which are polluting the
river. Look at the traffic chaos all around the city with haphazard parking
by outside state vehicles and their drivers seen  urinating, defecating and
vomiting when their bosses are gambling  in Casinos.  Will Sidarth and
others like minded associates who are involved in the planning the city
will be able to achieve their goal for a SMART CITY?  First of all, the
stinking  smell  coming from River Mandovi during low tides is a permanent
feature.   Will the MLA of Panjim  be able to stop this bad smell in Campal
-Panaji and especially at Patto, Ourem Road and St Ines Creek and Mala
–Fontainhas- Portais, St Cruz , Ribandar  etc ?  Will they be able to
succeed putting Panaji gutters in place? St Ines Creek and Ourem Creek is a
permanent sewage dirty area.

Will they be able to succeed removing all kind of obstacles such as high
rise buildings with no parking in place, shifting all petrol pumps,
demolishing old dilapidated buildings and other structures? We have also
 garages repairing  vehicles on the roads and pavement. We have old
condemned vehicles everywhere in the city roads, and what not. Let Sidarth
first tackle all these problems before engaging  on the smart city issue.

No Panjimites citizen stake holders  were invited for the talk in Fidalgo
Hotel and elsewhere.  Most of the CCP councilors have also boycotted this
meeting.  Now no one knew about the venue of another meeting which was kept
on Sunday ( 18th Oct), as published by Times of India  wherein no mention
was made regarding the  time and the venue.  When Sidarth Kunkolienkar was
contacted by me on Sat the 17th,  his mobile was   found ringing with no
answer, thereafter I sent him a SMS and still for that I did not receive
any answer.  Is he only having BJP crowd for the awareness and cheap
publicity?

Will anytime Panaji become a Smart City? This is not the way to start with
this kind of publicity. Can he get rid of all what I have mentioned above
before the funds if approved and then only he can think of Panaji
as SMART CITY.  I doubt that he and  CCP Mayor and others will ever succeed
the goal for a SMART CITY?

  During Opinion poll,  I remember Dr Jack de Sequeira organized a similar
kind of race course of motorcycles, cars, vans  from Panaji to Banastarim
and many Panjimites and other people took part and went upto Banastarim
 Maidan to convince the  Marathi strong hold crowd there, that Goans do not
want to go to Maharashtra and we succeeded on our Opinion Poll verdict. We
fought with them on those old days by tooth and nail in this Maidan with
dandas and lathis and fire crackers and succeeded convincing them our
intention and finally Jack Sequeira won the hearts of Goans with great
margin during Opinion Poll which went against the wishes of Dayanand
Bandodkar who had plans to convert Goa and merge into Maharashtra.

But Panaji becoming  SMART CITY will never be achieved when there is no
support from real group of Panjimites.

I understand that the funds approximately of Rs. 5000/- crores will be
raised in the proportion of 40 + 40+ 20 coming from Central Government
,State Govt and Urban Local body, respectively. We were told that a company
called ICLEI full form of this company is not yet known, but I suppose that
they are from South Asia. Can we get proofs and certification from
competent authorities before the said company undertake the work for Smart
City?



Stephen Dias

Senior Citizen
Dona Paula
date : 18th Oct 2015

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[Eugene Correia]

Bernando wrote:


I remember the 70's/80s, our Goans schools, Dom Bosco, Monte de Guirim
doing well in the Subroto cup. Atam kaim na kobor after the death of Paes.



The standard of football has fallen in Goa at the senior level. Schools
were the nursery of football players but seems no more. Sports may have
taken a back seat in Goa.

Eugene Correia