Thursday, August 6, 2015

Thank you Mr Lopes FORCE

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Thank you mr Lopes

letters to the editor

06 Aug, 2015, 02:04AM IST

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Thank you
Mr Lopes 
I would like to thank Mr Lopes and his team FORCE who have really suffered for the brighter future of our children.
 I remember the year 2011  my son was promoted to the Std 1. We like many other parents  were under a lot of stress for being helpless in giving good education to my son in a language accepted globally  and a big relieve came by way of FORCE formation. 
Mr Lopes and his team along with PTAs of various schools were involved with protests in Margao. The then CM’s resident I remember attending every meeting along with the late Mr Alwyn who too was instrumental in getting us motivated and inspiring us to attend the meetings under our school PTA banner.
 It was this FORCE that pressurized the Kamat government to take a cabinet decisión to favour the parents choice. The new government only carried forward this decisión but did not turn it into a Bill. 
The year 2015 my son is on the vergé of leaving the primary school and going to the secondary as many of the other parents children are but we made it a point to attend the chain hunger strike and also met the local MLA and were on the road like the others for our future generations. Our task is not over. We will not rest till the passing of the Bill in the winter session. 
We wish you a speedy health recovery Mr Lopes and we wish you and your team support us till the passing of the Bill and promise the same support to your FORCE. 
Melanie Alvares, Sangolda

Open letter to
Chief Minister
Dear Mr Chief Minister,
The recent assembly proceedings brought to us that according to you, the questions raised by the opposition regarding the illegal and immoral Golf Course project in Tiracol and Casinos in Mandovi are attempts by a few to settle personal scores with yourself.
You are not wrong because every political leader who is entrusted with power by citizens and who cheats them by discarding his party's election time promises and comes in support of a hidden ulterior agenda is bound to feel the same way.
You were not our choice as Chief Minister, but imposed upon us when your predecessor was called to a greener pasture. Of late you have made a laughing stock of the chair of Chief Minister by passing immature remarks over various issues. On the top of it, you have audacity to call upon your party cadre to be prepared for victory in next, next to it and further next elections.
Shame on us, the people Goa who are tolerating your antics up to now, for the last nail in your party's coffin in Goa was hammered the moment Dominic de Tiracol breathed his last.
Today, hundreds of people are flocking our musical protests from Tiracol to Margao to take back the message that real power comes to them when their will and not that of a cartel of land sharks and corrupt politicians is implemented on earth.
Your fall is imminent, and will be a warning alarm to your successors that Goa belongs to the citizens of Goa as a heirloom to protect, and not to them as a luxury to enjoy.
Sudeep Dalvi, Convener, "Save Tiracol Save Goa"

Slap on the face
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a fine of  Rs five lakh on Leading Hotels for illegal felling of trees at Tiracol.  This is a big victory for Goa Foundation and the people of Tiracol and also a big slap on the face of Leading Hotels and also on the CEO of this project – the CM of Goa!
Matias Lobo, Oman


Shelter for 
commuters    
I  was waiting for  the bus going to  Bangalore  in Margao, behind the KTC bus stand.  The buses usually pick up their passengers at this spot.   
 The bus was supposed to come from Panjim after collecting some passengers.  I came by a hired vehicle. It was raining heavily. My reporting time was 7 pm.   I reached in time, but couldn't see my bus. I called the agent and enquired, he told me that the bus was on its way to Margao. I could not come out of the vehicle,  as it was pouring heavily.  There is no shelter around,  where one can stay and wait for the bus.  
Thus I had to wait in my hired vehicle, and pay double the charge as the bus came an hour late. It is my humble request to the concerned authority to look into the matter and build a shelter for the commuters on an urgent basis.
Veena / Vandana Fernandes, Cansaulim


Do not abandon
Goa 
Goa previously was a paradise with complete communal harmony between Catholic and Hindus, with the arrival of Konkan Railway Goa, the smallest state in India suddenly got engulfed by most of the people from outside Goa who took over all our jobs especially in the Government department therefore most of the Catholics started looking for jobs onboard Cruise vessels / Bombay and Gulf.
Now with Portuguese passport and with most of the Catholic migrating to Europe the balance has been disturbed furthermore as the Catholics do not have the majority to counter the growing RSS / BJP clout in Goa this was amply evident when the Catholic Deputy Chief Minister Francis D’Souza was overlooked for the role of Chief Minister when Manohar Parrikar left for Delhi to be the Defence Minister. 
Kudos to Jose Maria Miranda for his letter in Herald August 4, 2015 for pointing out the fact that the likes of  Vishnu Wagh is all set to make more dents in the harmonious relations between Catholics and the Hindus. I would also like to appeal to the Catholics not to abandon Goa for fresher pastures aboard i.e Europe where you lose all your rights as Goans because you will then have no identity in Goa or aboard. Stop migrating and get involved in making a future for yourself and your children in Goa itself which has lots to offers provided you all are willing to work hard. 
Please get more involved in joining politics and police force of Goa to maintain the balance and peaceful Co-existence.
Anthony Rodrigues, e-mail




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