On Thursday, 22ndof this month, a six member delegation of Candolim Senior Citizens Association headed by its newly crowned President, Mr. A.Veronica Fernandes, met with Mr. Azit Panchwadkar, the Director of Panchayat and discussed with him some points with respect to the functioning of Candolim Panchayat under the current Sarpanch who has got lot of deficiencies which require urgent action. To run the affairs of the village like Candolim is not a joke where some of the villagers during the Grahm Sabah meetings make the life of the Sarpanch miserable. It is one of the Panchayats in Goa were alertness of the citizens is high because they are knowledgeable. Precisely because of this alertness that during the last Grahm Sabah Meet, Candolim citizens as a mark of strong protest WALKED out of that Graham Sabah.
If you observe their actions carefully, like any other Panchayat body, Candolim also gone into the hands of wrong and proud members. The way some of them show their pride it looks to me that they are coming from heaven. Ironically, some of them are so poor intellectually and they dont even accept that they are there only temporarily. Once they are out from the Panchayat, they are just like KOCHRO” exactly like the previous ones who are now like Fish out of water. In fact most of them are the scum of our human society. They are not visionary; they have no capacity to think what is good for our society. They lack educational background to know many things. Very many of these Panchayat members are looters because they are looting the Panchayats and filling their own pockets. The looting activities of some Panchayats are so big that in one Panchayat due to the lure of the bribe money they collect in their Panchayat that one person, an employee of the Panchayat resigned from his job and contested the last election and won it.
Candolim Panchayat has got history created by a few Sarpanches who were the real sons of this village and not the settlers coming from the neighbouring areas. The first Sarpanch in our village Candolim Mr. Pandu Bott was moving in the whole village not on Motorbike and four Wheelers but on foot. He did not receive bribe for issuing licenses for the construction of Bunglows, Builings, Hotels etc. Precisely because of this he did not build for himself a bungalow or an Hotel or a Restaurant. He did not flood in Ghanttianchi Araddy in Cndolim the unwanted Ghanttis. Neither he boast of the Gangs under his possession to act swiftly against anyone.
A.Veronica Fernandes.