This is in reference to the news item in Herald dated 16.01.15 regarding officially bringing two villages Candolim and Calangute under the North Goa Planning and Development Authority. Though it was desired by many yet it was done not thru Indian democratic method but thru Salazar’s “Zulumshahi” method as it was happening during the Portuguese regime in Goa. It looks even Salazar would not take this type of undemocratic step when the mandate was unanimous in both the villages against the formation of PDF during the emergency Gram Sabah meetings called in Candolim and Calangute.
With the formation of PDF in my locality the biggest losers will be the local Panchayats where some of the members are alleged to fleece the locals shamelessly while issuing the Licenses for constructions of any sort from the point of One Room Dwellings to Star Hotels. The bribe charged for permission was so enormous that the bribe takers are become crorepotis by looting the innocent locals. They demand bribe as if it is their devine right and many of these rogues are given preferential treatment by the local religeous authorities thereby even lowering the sanctity of the religious places.
Thru the formation of this PDA the brute power of some brute members of the local Panchayats will be drastically curtailed where these brute members are known to act like Saddam Hussein with the locals by being proud, arrogant and revengeful. Revenge for these people is become their forte and most of their victims were innocently weak persons. These revengeful and corrupt members of the Panchayats forget that they are elected not to take revenge and harass the locals but to serve the locals nicely. They think they are omnipotent to do any damage to the locals with the little power they are wielding which is just a temporary and not permanently.
Now when PDA starts functioning, I feel the same corrupt and brute policies will not be repeated by the PDA personnel otherwise Michael Lobo will jump from Frying Pan to the fire because the next general election is around. Constituents in the locality have already fired a salvo against Congress and in view of this Michael Lobo who is going to head this PDA must make this PDA a Bribe Free and Revenge Free. Pride and arrogance should never exist in this PDA personnel and they must serve the locals well.
Candolim, Goa.
Tel: 7507394349.