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Are our ministers' phone bills eating into the state's coffers?
PANAJI: The average monthly cellphone bill of a Goan cabinet minister comes to
just
below Rs 4,500. For the 14 month period beginning April 2008 and ending May
2009,
the government paid an average of Rs 62,210.44 per mobile phone of 11 cabinet
ministers including the two cellphones of chief minister Digambar Kamat.
The statement showing the expenditure incurred on mobile phone calls of the
ministers was given in reply to an unstarred question raised by Mapusa BJP MLA
Francis D'Souza in the assembly recently. The expenditure incurred on the
mobile
phone of the transport and social welfare minister does not figure in the
statement.
The highest mobile bill was that of urban development and fisheries minister
Joaquim
Alemao whose phone conversations cost the exchequer Rs 2,24,080.31 for the
14-month
period. The second highest of Rs 1,34,043.48 was incurred by provedoria
minister
Manohar Azgaonkar. The third highest was that of chief minister Digambar Kamat,
whose two mobile phones incurred an expenditure of Rs 85,083.62 for the same
period.
The phone bills of home minister Ravi Naik showed the lowest billing of Rs
9,563.89.
The highest monthly mobile phone bill incurred in the same 14 month period was
Rs
76,185.00 by Azgaonkar in November 2008 and the lowest was Rs 428.26 by Naik in
June
2008.
Some of the expenses incurred by other ministers for the period April 2008 till
May
2009 are: PWD minister Churchill Alemao Rs 62,892, power minister Aleixo
Sequeira Rs
60,952.81, revenue minister Jose Philip D'Souza Rs 42,005.93, forests minister
Felipe Neri Rodrigues Rs 33,243.97 and tourism minister Francisco Pacheco Rs
17,847.15.
Almost Rs 4 lakh on refreshment
From April 2008 to May 2009, the government incurred an expenditure of Rs
3,91,123
on refreshments of 12 ministers, making it an average expenditure of Rs
32,593.58 by
each minister. The average monthly refreshment bill per minister amounted to
about
Rs 2,328.
The refreshment expenditure details of ministers were given in reply to an
unstarred
question by Mapusa BJP MLA Francis D'Souza in the legislative assembly recently.
For the 14-month period, panchayati raj minister Manohar Azgaonkar incurred the
highest expenses amounting to Rs 66,797 at a monthly average of Rs 4,771.21.
PWD
minister Churchill Alemao showed the second highest refreshment bill of Rs
51,128
averaging on a month Rs 3,652. He was followed by education minister Atanasio
Monserrate who incurred an expenditure of Rs 44,518 at a monthly average of Rs
3,179.85.
Refreshment expenses of other cabinet ministers are as follows: chief minister
Digambar Kamat Rs 41,579, home minister Ravi Naik Rs 38,227, tourism minister
Francisco Pacheco Rs 36,197, forests minister Felipe Neri Rodrigues Rs 31,019,
health minister Vishwajit Rane Rs 25,677, revenue minister Rs 25,164, urban
development minister Joaquim Alemao Rs 16,133 and transport minister Ramkrishna
Dhavlikar Rs 4,299.
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