The clarification issued by the Office of NRI Commissioner Mr. Eduardo Faleiro does not state which parts of my statement are false allegations. I reiterate everything I have said in my note demanding that it was time NRI Commissioner Mr. Eduardo Faleiro is grounded.
The Goa Government has spent a whopping Rs 3, 31, 47,262 (3 crores 31 lakhs 47 thousand 262 rupees) on NRI Commissioner Mr. Eduardo Faleiro and his office from the date of his appointment on 23rd Feb 2006 to date. While Rs 28, 93, 260 was squandered on foreign jaunts, the travelling within India has cost the tax payer Rs 13,53,342. The travelling within India includes Mr. Eduardo Faleiro’s 19 trips to Delhi and 8 trips to Mumbai. Mr. Eduardo Faleiro and his NRI cell is unnecessarily splurging money left and right on foreign jaunts and other wasteful expenditure. The massive amounts being spent on NRI Commissioner Mr. Eduardo Faleiro is a criminal waste of public funds and only proves the lack of financial accountability and transparency in the Goa State Administration. While the Goa Government has no money to pay old age pension to thousands whose applications are not being processed for lack of funds, how do we justify such wasteful expenditure? Goans overseas would be the best to judge the performance of the NRI cell headed by Mr. Eduardo Faleiro and whether its time he is sacked and the NRI cell restructured by incorporating a combination of salient features of the Kerala, Punjab and Gujarat NRI cells. Aires Rodrigues T1 - B30, Ribandar Retreat Ribandar - Goa - 403006 Mobile: 9822684372