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@goanewsdotcom #EdiTweeT: Celebrate Opinion Poll Day as OSMITAI DIS
Congratulations @goacm @DrPramodPSawant for the official circular to have a Govt function on 16th January to celebrate the Opinion Poll Day. But this was not a mere plebiscite but culmination of a widespread mass movement of #NizGoenkar to protect the #Identity of #Goa. It thus needs to be celebrated as ‘Osmitai Dis’, taking ahead the legacy of conscious Goans, who have been celebrating it as the ‘Osmitai Dis’ since 1987 (38 years).
The day was observed this year by the Directorate of Official Language by organising two lectures in North & South Goa colleges. Now, need a step forward to issue another circular by CM’s #Education ministry, directing all educational institutions to celebrate it & educate the teachers & students about the historic day and its importance to preserve Goa’s identity.
In order to create consciousness among all the generations about Goa’s identity, the Govt also needs to celebrate it in all its departments and semi-Govt institutes by taking an OATH to work sincerely to preserve Goa’s identity at all levels.
Remember, it was a ‘political battle’ Goans fought thoughtfully through a #referendum to keep Goa’s separate identity intact, keeping aside the language controversy and all kinds of other differences. That spirit of Unity & Integrity needs to be imbibed in each and every Goan, for generations together. That’s why it should be called & celebrated as ‘Osmitai Dis’ (Identity Day)!
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BRAVO CM FOR WRITTEN TEST, CALL IT गॉंयकार परिक्षा
Congratulations @goacm @DrPramodPSawant
for sticking to the Goan-centric policy decision of holding a written examination in #Konkani for government jobs. It’s a long-pending demand of #jobseekers #Goan youth from the time a clause was included ‘Konkani essential, Marathi desirable’ around 25 years ago.
It was proved beyond doubt that a mere 15-year #Domicile certificate was not enough since Mamlatdar offices issued bogus certificates to non-Goan candidates, by selling their ‘#Goenkarponn’ for pennies. The old practice of Goa Konkani Academy issuing certificates after conducting a similar exam was also stopped and verbal tests were preferred. They are not fully justifiable.
In a multi-lingual #Goa, where Goan #students also study and widely use #English and #Marathi besides #Hindi, holding such tests in English OR Hindi would attract candidates from all over India while Marathi tests would attract ‘outsider’ candidates from the neighbouring areas, where Marathi is either the official language or used as their mother tongue in some regions, unlike Goa. Having Konkani AND Marathi exams would also be a grave injustice to those jobseeking Goan youth, who don’t know Marathi.
It's a test to protect Goan youth from outsiders taking #Govt #jobs. It's also a test to judge who is a #NizGoenkar candidate and not to know how eloquent you are in Konkani, the spoken mother tongue of all ‘Goans’. It has nothing to do with the ongoing controversies over the Official Language of Goa.
That’s why Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant deserves applause for taking a firm stand that the exam would be held in Konkani, “which the candidate speaks”, and not in Standard Konkani.
https://t.co/hTfrzSHWIO thus urges the @GovtofGoa to call it a गाँयकार परिक्षा - and not a Konkani exam - which would make it clear WHY this exam is held.
The examiners are also requested to draft their questions, which are related to ‘#Goenkarponn’ and not to play with Konkani words, that are 'not commonly used' by ALL Goans across the length and breadth of the state, involving all communities.
It would also keep the Konkani-speaking candidates from neighbouring states at bay. The pathetic state of exam failures would also be avoided and it would help identify a deserving #Goenkar candidate!
The jobseeking Goan youth and students at large should come out in support of this most-needed decision for their future before the language controversies of Goa submerge it!!
It’s for your future, dear Goan Youth, mind you!!!
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SUSEGAD (SOSSEGADO) MEANS NOT ‘LAZY’ MR CHIEF MINISTER
Susegad means not ‘Lazy” @goacm @DrPramodPSawant, it means a #peace-loving, relaxed attitude and a person enjoys life to the fullest. Every human being on this #earth should live a #Susegad life. Nowadays it’s called the #Happiness Index. The word #Sossegado might have been derived from the #portuguese language, but the #lifestyle is authentic #Goan.
Unfortunately, the Susegad lifestyle, which we are always proud of, is getting disturbed by a new culture of #hatred seeping into Goan soil, opposing other #religions, our fellow #Indians from other regions and even varied lifestyles of #plural India. Those in power need to denounce such divisive mentalities, which are nowadays disturbing our Susegad lifestyle. An introspection is a must in this regard to retain our “Bhangarachem Goem”!
Also please don’t insult the hardworking Goans by generalising them as Lazy. Yes, there are lazy people in Goa, especially in government employment, specifically those who got themselves recruited either through political influence or by paying bribes. No wonder the cash-for-jobs scam probe cannot trace the masterminds behind it till date. While the minority of sincere government employees work very hard, the majority are these ‘real lazy’ influential people, eating into our public coffers.
In addition, the most hardworking talented youth of Goa continue leaving the state, for having no opportunities here. On the other hand, other youngsters are compelled to live in Goa completely directionless, as no authority bothers to provide them with the necessary planned guidance and available opportunities in #self-employment, small #trades, medium-sized #Businesses and the vast #service sector created by the growing economy of #Goa. Rather than focussing on these youth, those in power are sadly busy selling Goan land to the land sharks, the prime business in politics today!
Please stop this blame game and stop rubbing salt in the wounds of Goan youth! If the political world is really concerned about this, then let us concentrate on building our peace-loving, relax-minded, self-sufficient, happy Susegad #Goem, before we lose it forever!!!
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‘RESURFACING’ ROADS WITH POTHOLES IS A CONTRACTUAL DUTY OF CONTRACTORS
More than half of recently asphalted roads in #Goa have either washed away or full with potholes. The #PWD has issued notices to 28 such contractors to “resurface” the damaged stretch, failing which they would be blacklisted.
This is not at all a bold step taken by @goacm @DrPramodPSawant as the PWD Minister. “Resurfacing” the damaged stretch is a part of the contract. One year for single layer & three years for double layer. Filling the potholes, a patchwork, is a mere eyewash & more corruption.
No #politician or PWD official should boast about this warning notice. It’s a contractual obligation of the #contractor & bounden duty of the local #MLA, #minister & @GovtofGoa to get it FULLY RESURFACED.
If they fail to do it, the PWD official should be punished and the voters should “blacklist” the elected #politicians.
Let’s use the #Vote as a #Democratic #Weapon when come #Elections. The only language the #corrupt politicians understand.
#EdiTweeT @goanewsdotcom
WILL PRAMOD SAWANT FOLLOW NITISH KUMAR FORMULA ON KALA ACADEMY SCAM?
In the ongoing #GoaAssembly session, on 29 July, Art & Culture Minister Govind Gaude claimed that the #KalaAcademy complex has been restored with better facilities now and blamed his predecessors for the dilapidated condition of the iconic complex. He also accused the #CharlesCorrea Foundation.
However, the next day, CM @DrPramodPSawant, as the PWD minister, admitted serious lapses in the structural and infrastructural works (including sound and light) by the contractor, announced having ordered a preliminary inquiry, and also assured the House to ‘restore’ everything with the help of artists, experts, and the Charles Correa Foundation.
Now, on Wed 7 August, PWD demands are coming up for discussion on the last day of the monsoon Assembly session, when it is crystal clear that repairs of the Kala Academy was a Rs 75-crore #Scandal involving Techton Buildcons hand-in-glove with the concerned authorities.
The Art & Culture Minister has blamed past regimes for damaging the whole complex since the first IFFI was held in 2004.
The present @goacm has admitted serious lapses in the restoration work.
The Charles Correa Foundation and ‘Sound Man of India’ Roger Drego have pointed out substandard construction work and outdated infrastructural equipment having been installed.
Artists have continuously complained of poor light and sound quality and even curtains not opening properly in the ‘leaking complex’.
After 12 bridges collapsed within less than a month, Bihar CM @CMBiharNK @NitishKumar Kumar, NDA partner of @BJP4India, suspended 15 engineers & announced that respective contractors would be told to rebuild all the bridges at “no extra cost”.
On the same lines, will the CM, on Wednesday, follow the example of his #Bihar counterpart and suspend the concerned PWD engineers and get the Kala Academy work restored from Techton Buildcons at no extra cost?
With his own minister blaming past regimes of two decades responsible for the damage, will the CM order a White Paper on Kala Academy by appointing a commission headed by a retired high court judge?
And since this is a serious criminal act, will Govt of Goa immediately file an FIR against the contractor?
Will the legislators on opposition benches press for these demands and give justice to the #artists community of #Goa?
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CHRISTIAN PERCENTAGE IN GOA ALSO DECLINING DUE TO LARGE INFLUX OF HINDUS; MUSLIMS ARE 8%, NOT 12%
Goa Governor @psspillaigov has sparked a controversy, while expressing concern over a declining percentage of #Christians from 36% in 1961 to 25% in the 2011 census. He has also claimed that the #Muslim population has risen to 12% in 50 years.
In reality, the @censusofindia figures show that the Muslim #population has risen from 2% in 1961 to 8% in 2011. In terms of numbers, it has increased from around 11,500 to 1.22 lakhs, in a state of around 15 lakhs. Nearly one-twelfth of the total population.
Contrary to this, the #Hindu population has nearly tripled from around 3.54 lakhs at the time of #GoaLiberation in 1961 to almost 10 lakhs in 2011. From 60% to 66%. Little over 6 lakh more Hindus were added. This is mainly due to the large influx of Hindu #Migrant.
Comparatively, the rise in Christian population in five decades is from 2.25 lakhs to 3.66 lakhs. Less than 1.5 lakhs more added. This is certainly not a healthy rise and the prime cause is the continuous exodus of Christians outside Goa and even India.
But the younger generation of Hindus & Muslims are also migrating outside Goa in a large number, within India and even to settle down abroad. 48-year-old Imtiyaz Shaikh from #Vasco is the Mayor of #Swindon today. The @GovtofGoa however has not bothered to study and analyse the increasing out-migration trend of young #Goans due to the lack of opportunities in Goa.
No doubt the percentage of Christians has fallen from 36% in 1961 to 25% in 2011. But this is not a real picture, because the percentage also declines when the number of other religions increases. Here, it has also fallen due to the unprecedented rise of Hindu population.
In fact, Goa witnessed a large migration of Christians in #Portuguese Goa, when it was a Christian-majority state. After having Old & New Conquests, the 1850 Census shows that Christians were 64% in Goa. This fell to 33% before the Portuguese left Goa. The majority became a minority & it declined to half the population. Contrary to this, the out-migration of Christians slowed down after #GoaLiberation.
Two books published by https://t.co/hTfrzSHoTg - "AjeebGoa's Gajab Politics" and "Double Engine" have dealt with the increasing trends of in-migration and out-migration, based on research conducted by many scholars. The readers may find the books at Goa's bookshops as well as online.
However, a much deeper study needs to be conducted by @goacm @DrPramodPSawant and his Directorate of Planning and Statistics not only about migrations but the changing demography of Goa, also because of the second-home concept made open to the wealthy class of Indians, who are fraudulently converting our green land into a concrete jungle in connivance with the land dealer-turned-political class.
Will the concerned Governor of Goa apprise the @ministryofhome1 to conduct this much deeper study and find solutions to retain Goans in Goa and save Goa from those who are not bothered about protecting Goa's #Goenkarponn?
You may kindly click the link to verify the Census figures: https://t.co/dnX6LYw8Fn
#EdiTweeT @goanewsdotcom
NEHRU’S ‘AJEEB GOANS’ WAS FOR “PRO-PORTUGUESE GOANS”?
It’s very painful to hear from a learned person like @rajendraarlekar, a Goan politician, presently Governor of Bihar that #PanditJawaharlalNehru made a statement “Ajeeb Hai Yeh Goa-ke Log” referring to handful of Goans, who were supporting #Portugal at the time of Liberation.
Honble. Arlekarbab interpreted “Ajeeb” as ‘Separate’ (अलग), when actually it means “Strange”.
#Nehru statement had nothing to do with #Portuguese Goans, but #Indian Goans.
Secondly, it was not a public statement but he said it in conversation with former ‘Rashtramat’ Editor Chandrakant Keni, who met him in #Delhi soon after #GoaLiberation. Mr Keni wrote it in his article and it became a famous statement. Gurunathbab Kelekar, a staunch freedom fighter & writer, has written it down.
When Mr Keni met PM Nehru, at that time, people from different provinces had demanded separate states like #Maharashtra & #Gujarat from #Bombay province or #Mysore province etc, to preserve their regional #identity, #language & #culture.
In this background, #PanditNehru expressed surprise that a territory with its unique #identity with #Konkani language & culture was demanding its merger with neighbouring #maharashtra. And he said: “Ajeeb Hai Yeh Goa-ke Log”.
He referred it to the people, including staunch Indian #nationalist #FreedomFighters who were supporting Goa’s merger. Not at all to the handful of anti-national people, who were supporting Portugal.
Why twist Goa’s history and tell students falsehoods, in a desperate attempt of Nehru-bashing? If it was not insistence of Nehru that Goa has its unique identity, culture and language, we would have been in Maharashtra soon after liberation. We owe it to India’s first #PrimeMinister. Let’s not be ingrate (बेमान), please.
(Kindly read the first paragraph of the first chapter of the book “Ajeeb Goa’s Gajab Politics” attached here.)
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#EdiTweeT: Can @GovtofGoa relax the domicile rule, as an exception, & get deceased Gauri Achari’s sister Shubhada to #GMCGoa cancer unit from @TataMemorial, to look after her old parents, @visrane @goacm? #Goa has to perform penance for Gauri’s gruesome murder in a broad daylight
#EdiTweeT: Rather than creating ruckus over calling #PresidentofIndia #Rashtrapatni, it’s high time @ParliamentOfIn debates & replaces #malechauvinist posts like #rashtrapati #sabhapati etc with #genderneutrals like राष्ट्राध्यक्ष, विधानसभा अध्यक्ष etc. @draupadimurmum 🙏🏻
#EdiTweeT: Heartfelt piece by Govind Shirodkar on #DrKashinathJalmi on his 10th #deathAnniversary. He was one of the few #statesmen #Goa gave us, unlike today’s ‘hollow’ politicians. A ‘Dr of Law’ as Rane called him, authority on Legislature, a visionary mass leader, ground level
#EdiTweeT: Barring 2-3, why other #Goa #MLAs are not speaking against #IllegalTourism when @GovtofGoa @TourismGoa Dept has established it through official report? (Read the table). Govt reports only 78 lakh tourists when we get 1.5 Cr tourists annually. 76% is illegal, admits
#EdiTweeT: Excellent reportage by @oheraldogoa with shocking revelations of illegal #landgrabbing by #Goans in collusion with Goan #officials. Congratulations @goacm @DrPramodPSawant for setting up SIT. Hope all the involved officials will be suspended immediately pending inquiry
#EdiTweeT: Introspective articles by @BJP4Goa leader @DamuNaik & RajashreeNagarsekar on #widowabuse & #widowisolation. Also #Maharashtra initiator @pramodzinjade. Next step expected from @GovtofGoa @goacm & #Women Development Minister @visrane to bring legislation in #GoaAssembly
#EdiTweeT: @DrPramodPSawant first said #Nehru delayed #GoaLiberation; No Evidence! Then he said #Hindu #temples destroyed 500 years ago by #Portuguese are still lying in ruins; No Evidence!! Now he claims old #Goa #Assembly records destroyed; blatant lie? @goacm owes explanation.
#EdiTweeT: If #Lohia was alive, he would have stood by the labourer & asked @GovtofGoa why labourers are not provided a bathroom. Instead, his so-called Bhakt are demanding labourer’s arrest. #LohiaMaidan is not a temple, it’s a live monument of PROTEST for civil & #HumanRights.
#EdiTweeT: What’s #Goenkarponn? A #Hindu #Goenkar gets maximum #GudiPadwa wishes from #Christian & #Muslim brothers & sisters. A vice versa during #Christmas & #Eid . Long live Goenkarponn. Wish you a happy Sounsar (the Universe) Paddvo!!!
#EdiTweeT: Kudos to #Dhargal & #Korgao panchayats for passing unanimous resolutions to stop abusive practices against widow during husband’s funeral & later isolating her from #social & #religious functions. Hope other panchayats follow them & @GovtofGoa @goacm enacts legislation
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