Re: [Goanet] How do you explain this?
On Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 10:46:06 a.m. CST, Rajan Parrikar wrote: We see this all over Goa (and India, too). Take a look at the photo from this morning - https://www.parrikar.org/misc/Workers.jpg Rajan,On the first day that I arrived in Goa, I went out onto my 4th floor hotel balcony in Panjim to show my daughter the Mandovi. My daughter looked down and spotted a woman, as part of a gang, digging a trench on the road below us. Next to her was a five year old child who was taking away and emptying the metal basin that the woman was filling with gravel. My five year old daughter looked at me. I had no answer for her stare. It seems that Goans in Goa are deadened to such scenes. Mervyn
[Goanet] How do you explain this?
We see this all over Goa (and India, too). Take a look at the photo from this morning - https://www.parrikar.org/misc/Workers.jpg In every civilized country today, workers are outfitted with electro-mechanical equipment for this kind of civil works. But not in this land apparently. We see builders, contractors, and all manner of fatcats driving around in their shiny Mercs, Range Rovers, and Audis while their workers sweat it out with implements from the 12th Century. Why is it like this? One consequence I have already addressed in a recent post - the abysmal quality of Indian workmanship. When you have scant regard for humans and their physical labour, it will attract the most desperate people to the job, people who do not have proper training for the task at hand. One reason for this situation I heard was, labour contractors prefer it this way as they can skim off the wages meant for the workers. Modern equipment would mean a much reduced labour force and therefore not much opportunity for graft. I don't know if there is any merit to this explanation. r
