Dear Eduardo Faleiro/ Francisco C. Sardinha/ Francisco de Sousa/Sidharth Today I happened to be in Maina for Lent season to attend "Santos Passos" as I am son -in law of Maina Curtorim. I could not enter the Church as it was crowded. When I was sitting outside the Church on the footpath, I happened to notice two things, one is broken benches at the Maina Children park in such a bad condition and other one is marble plate written the details with one spelling mistake that is ( inaugrated instead of inaugurated with "U" missing). This board is still seen with the same mistake. Shri Faleiro could have asked to replace the board and get the benches repaired . They are really in dilapidated condition ( see photo). This Park was inaugurated by our great person Shri Eduardo Faleiro, ex- Hon. MP of Rajya Sabha under Mplad sheme in the presence of Hon. ex-Speaker of Goa Assembly Shri Francisco C. Sardinha on 20th Sept, 2005. What I want to say is that most of these great personalities do not look what is written on the board , and just cut the ribbon for inauguration, sometimes could be their own name is wrongly written. Being both great persons Eduardo and Sardinha one from Raia and other from Curtorim itself respectively did not take interest to visit this Park after that. " Kam zalem Voiz Mello" is our Konkanni saying. Similarly many such politicians like CM's , MP's, Ministers , MLA's are fond to cut ribbons and forget it. This kind of things happens mostly for publicity, election stunts or political motive. Just recently I have come across an inauguration yesterday on Saturday of a Modern X-Ray processing system called the Computerized Radiography system (CRS) which was placed order last few years back, by former Head of Pulmonary Chest Diseases Hospital ( TB ) Dr. Antonio Mesquita and all of a sudden we see Dy. CM. Shri Francisco D'Sousa and Panjim MLA Shri Sidharth Kunkolienkar inaugurating this Digital Advance machine and their photograph is published in one of the dailies. This clearly shows a clear publicity. The person who has taken interest to get this machine for his TB Hospital was not even invited, as a courtesy sake. This is the way things works in Goa.
Stephen Dias Dona Paula Sunday 14th March 2016 Note: Report and the Photograph of this machine inaugurated by Dy CM in presence of MLA of Panjim was published in "The Goan " daily. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------