Aires, You hit the nail on the head. All these Commissioners postings and Chairmanship awarded to their Chamchas is a waste of the tax-payers money. Instead the Goa Government needs to heed the voice of the people and fulfill the legitimate wishes and mandate for the betterment of Goa and Goans! What we see is all these con-schemes and grand plans to fill their pockets and destroy Goa!
That useless NRI Commissioner has put out a lengthy explanation on Goanet that is all rubbish. Come to think of it from previous press reports, in a dictatorial fashion he had you expelled from the Non-resident Goans meeting in December 2006 at the Cidade de Goa. That jamboree by the way was a colossal waste of the tax payers money and we know it was all to benefit the Cidade de Goa with no benefits or outcome from that meet . We saw subsequently even the Supreme Court's ruling being over-turned by the Goa Government to benefit the said Hotel owner and we all know why! >From the press reports subsequently when others in the room had questions on the Regional Plan for Goa he gave some more useless arguments which led to Arwin Misquita and several other delegates walking away in protest at his high-handedness when he ordered them to leave for no reason as he couldn't handle some tough questioning! At that meeting where the press was present the then CM Pratapsingh Rane was all in tremors and fear of the grilling and projecting this current incumbent as he couldn't face the salvo on the Regional Plan. Digu-kaka with all his grinning Cheshire cat act is nothing but a cat among the pigeons and used to giving some placating and soothing advice for the moment buit has his own devious plans up his sleeve for his own benefit and his coterie of corrupt Ministers. Three years down the road, and with still more useless expenditure from the NRI Commissioner and various other Commissions and no Regional Plan in sight the jamboree continues. The current Government continues to pull a fast one on Goans. Ministers are hand in glove with the Directorate of Panchayats, Town and Country Planning, Forestry Department as the real-estate business is a lucrative one so that they can milk Goa. Ministers blatantly are using the Government Machinery to favour their own and the Panchayats dance to their merry tunes. In the meantime the Government can find more schemes to swindle and waste the tax payers money while destroying Goa! I'm attaching a previous e-mail with some devastating and painful images of what's happening to our Coastal villages of Goa that Rajan Parrikar had posted sometime back on Goanet. I'm sure Rajan Parrikar and JoeGoaUK and others will have more pictures of destruction and damage that is being caused to Goa's environment. Are we surprised to see the news item about the coastal erosion that has resulted due to these uncontrolled mega-projects? You would have seen the report in Herald on the mega-project in Cansaulim as well as in the Times of India. Mega-projects like the "Gonsalves-Dias Gates" that so called thugs like AbooBakr Shaikh masquerading as builders and intimidating villagers, widows and the elderly on the basis of the support and backing of the Power Scam fame MLA and his builder cousin (of the Queeny Realty fame) are rampant all over Goa from Cansaulim to Carmona. More con-schemes continue and are still in the making. As for the Goan villagers as this current Government says they can all be gated and boxed out of their own lands while Goa is sold down the river. What we need is not a flying squad but to expose why the present Goa Government is not willing to heed the wishes of the people more than three years later! They are not willing to ratify the mandate of the people until then they will not bring about legislations and changes to the outdated TCP Policy that is in place. In the meantime Goa will be destroyed by this current Government! ************************************************************************************** To Goanet - Welcome to this special cruise through concrement. On Day 1 of our excursion, we swing through the northern areas of Salcette. First stop - the beautiful village of Arossim. I have been beating the drum of the takeover of Goa by outsiders for over a year now (the usual suspects then said I was being alarmist - they can't say that now since the carnage is so pervasive). Does anything belong to the Goans anymore? We are now trespassers in our own orchards and fields. http://www.parrikar.org/images/Salcette/arossim-1.jpg http://www.parrikar.org/images/Salcette/arossim-2.jpg http://www.parrikar.org/images/Salcette/arossim-3.jpg http://www.parrikar.org/images/Salcette/arossim-4.jpg Next stop - the village of Cansaulim. http://www.parrikar.org/images/Salcette/cansaulim-1.jpg http://www.parrikar.org/images/Salcette/cansaulim-2.jpg http://www.parrikar.org/images/Salcette/cansaulim-3.jpg (Notice that the high tension line sits INSIDE the foundation! Must be a pioneering design of highly advanced Goan engineering.) I have talked about Majorda in another post today. Now to Velsao, where we see an orchard being depleted. http://www.parrikar.org/images/Salcette/velsao-1.jpg http://www.parrikar.org/images/Salcette/velsao-2.jpg Consider this an aperitif. The main course will be served tomorrow in Colva. Warm regards, r **************************************************************** From: Aires Rodrigues <airesrodrigu...@gmail.com> To: goa...@goanet.org Cc: goanet@lists.goanet.org, goanet-ad...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] TIME TO GROUND THE NRI COMMISSIONER Message-ID: <aanlktiltqxxbwbfcewjfva_ixdwre8sldu_vdbq5w...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Goa needs a flying squad to stop land use violations and the rampant corruption in various government departments. But what we have instead is a flying NRI Commissioner, Mr. Eduardo Faleiro. He is always recklessly flying across the globe and is a further burden to the State exchequer. The government should come clean on the crores of rupees that have gone down the drain over the years because of the dismal performance of this Commissioner who only flies and talks. With the internet at hand, concerns of Goans settled outside Goa are known to all. There is no need to jet around the world for pleasure trips in the guise of interacting with Goans outside Goa. It is no secret that this retired politician, a former Union Minister is holding on to the post of NRI Commissioner with cabinet rank and status as he could not be accommodated anywhere else in a retirement posting. Keep flying, Mr. Commissioner until your wings are clipped or the state treasury has been emptied. All good things come to an end. In your case, sooner the better. At least for the sake of Goa and Goans. Aires Rodrigues T1 - B30, Ribandar Retreat Ribandar - Goa - 403006 Mobile: 9822684372