Dears, The irony of it all is astounding! News Reports tell us this: *The senior retired teachers, who allege they were forced to retire at the age of 58, as result of change in rules, are demanding for their two years pay benefits along with six pay commission arrears.* *Opposition Leader Manohar Parrikar*, who visited the police station *to support the demands of the senior retired teachers, said the Government should take into account a few demands and try to fulfill the same*.
History tells us this: Mr. Manohar Parrikar was both, the Minister for Education and Chief Minister in the BJP-led Government of Goa, when the retirement age of the school teachers was REDUCED from 60 years to 58 years in 2002 ....until the infamous VCD entitled GOA'S FREEDOM STRUGGLE was produced by the Directorate of Education from an existing film and sent to the schools on December 18, 2004 for compulsory screening after flag hoisting on Goa Liberation Day. It back-fired, Babush, Madkaikar and , most importantly, Digamber converted to the Congress fold and Pratapsing Rane became CM. He restored the retirement age to 60 years. The rest is history. So who is the sinner and who is being asked to make good the loss? Incidentally, the Regional Plan 2011 was also first prepared and notified by the BJP Government in 2004. The Rane dispensation added a little more red colour to it in 2006 ....and dumped it all in February, 2007 in the run up to the 02 June, 2007 Assembly elections. It will most likely need the June, 2012 elections to get the RP 2021 out .... or the District Planning Committees [DPCs] functional as per Article 243 of the the Constitution of India. The South Goa Zilla Panchayat has given 6 months notice for devolution of powers and funds. In the meanwhile, there is hope that the first ever Comprehensive Development Plans for our towns will be prepared as per the TCP Act, 1974 before the Municipal elections in October, 2010. Que sera, sera. Mog asundi Miguel Arrest fails to deter retired teachers HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, MAY 28 Police action didn’t deter the agitated teachers of Discriminated Teachers Forum to continue their hunger strike on Friday in an attempt to call the attention of the authorities concerned to take note of their grievances. Around 84 teachers aged over 60 were detained today morning at the Panjim Church Square, here, from where they were to take the road to the Chief Minister’s official residence to start the hunger strike. Well aware of the teachers’ move of the hunger strike, the police on Thursday night had imposed Section 144 up to 200 metres from the CM’s official residence. The teachers were detained sometime around 9.30 am and released in the afternoon at 2.45 pm. The police tried to dissuade the teachers from continuing their hunger strike by giving them lunch, but the latter were adamant in their resolve to continue. After coming out of the police station they moved to the Captain of Ports Jetty, to continue their strike. President DTF Nevis Rebello said the teachers have faced injustice and the police action will not stop them from continuing with the strike till their grievances were resolved. *Opposition Leader Manohar Parrikar*, who visited the police station *to support the demands of the senior retired teachers, said the Government should take into account a few demands and try to fulfill the same*. He was critical of the police detaining the teachers. *The senior retired teachers, who allege they were forced to retire at the age of 58, as result of change in rules, are demanding for their two years pay benefits along with six pay commission arrears*. * http://www.oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/Arrest-fails-to-deter-retired-teachers/37328.html * * * > ----- Original Message ----- From: "soter" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 9:51 AM Subject: Goa's new blockbuster teatok of 17th may *The issues raised by villagers as on 17 May 2010 are definitely genuine and extremely important just like the concerns of November 2006 when the RP 2011 got notified*. The picture of that supper with the judases, scribes and pharisees sitted at that table are still fresh in some of our minds. *In 2006 it was Babush Monseratte who was the 'monster rat' systematically constructed by the politician-press combine. * Then it was Babush who was the traitor responsible for real estate development and cause of the migrant influx in Taleigao and Panjim. Anger of Goans towards the mass-scale environment destruction and their political alienation was simmering beneath. The time was just favourable for the politician-corporate combine to exploit the emotions of the people. Emotions were running high, *'Babushachi xacuti zaalach pahije!*' The show down on 18th December 2006 brought back memories of the Konkani agitation. It revived the confidence of the Goan people that a second liberation movement was to happen. This was followed by a mammoth rally at Lohia Maidan in Margao in January 2007. *The government was forced into revoking the RP 2011 as the Assembly polls were due in just a few months time*. GBA was to be the new liberation army of the Goan cause. *Pressure to field candidates was systematically mounted on the GBA but to the misfortune of the political architects their designs got frustrated. GBA insited that it is apolitical*. This saved the elections for the Congress which managed to cobble together the required numbers to form the government. A bolt from the blue saw Digambar Kamat ascend the throne of the Chief Minister of Goa in June 2007, a fact hard to bite for the BJP which saw him as a traitor. But *from there on GBAs script of the unfinished task on the final rites of RP 2011 and the process of putting in place a new RP began to expose the script writers of the entire 'tiatok' producers from the mango tree till the elections*. We shall reserve those larger socio-political truths of 2006-2007 for another day. The 17th May 2010 backdrop of a Secretariat complex with screaming women and police brutalities with the repeated publicity of the CMs remarks, " I do not want Goan votes" is the opening scene from a new block buster tiatok that seems to be hitting the political theatre in Goa. It is on similar lines of the earlier tiatok staged beneath the falling mango tree in St. Inez. "*Digambarchea batatwada karnarich pahije!*" seems to be the new refrain for 2012. *He is the new sacrificial lamb upon whom is cast the burden of Goa's woes*. Except that this time the script writers are different. This time the cement and pastry king with his jolly boys are in no mood to act as they are preoccupied in playing footsie with their paramour chief minister*.* The climax of the tiatok is being systematically built up with Goan emotion rousing media coverage. There are some interesting and popular veteran politician tiatokists amongst the supoporting cast. *However, attempts to once again give a seal of church endorsement to this tiatok by dragging the name of Fr. Maverick, head of CSJP into the supporting cast has not yet materialised.* That Fr. Maverick has denied press reports about his association at the meeting on 17th May is bound to draw accusations of him being a spoil sport. The cover page of a stray thought migrant mouthpeice which was the key player in the 2006-2007 tiatok has already begun to blackmail of the church by portraying the Archbishop on his cover page. *With emotions running high the ever gullible Goan is once again in no mood for rationality* and any attempts for a rational approach is bound to meet with outright allegations about causing disunity and the favourite icing coat of Goan crab mentality. There is absolutely no doubt that Digambar Kamat, Churchill Alemao and several of the politicians are anti-Goan and should be brought to book for their crimes against the Goan people. But without a long-term scientific approach for a lasting solution to the problems of the Goan people, the future could be no different then the post-election scenario of June 2007 when GBA began dancing footsie. *We Goans have been cheated again and again,. be it the Konkani movement, Anti- Meta strips, anti Konkan railway or anti-RP 2011*. The tiatokists have run off with the cake while the audience remains hungry. But who are we the illiterate and inexperienced campaigners to be the party spoilers? No matter how much the wife of an alcoholic complains she goes back to his rescue again and again in spite of being cautioned against such behaviour. The counsellor is left helpless and sometimes even accused of encouraging a marital break-up. So is the case with many gullible Goans who have never really cultivated their reasoning faculties. To reason is to oppose, to blindly accept is support. Nothing besides this. We have always had a dearth of ded-xanne Goans who know better than any strategist even of international repute. So, this is our plight in 2010, 49 + years after liberation. *When emotions over take reason there is no scope for a sane approach to a problem. Anyone who dares to inject reason is the villain and the slanderer*. One can only pray for divine illumination to a gullible and emotionally charged Goan teatok audience. Till such time we can also well predict another tiatok not only in 2012 but also in 2017 but by then there will emerge migrant script writers. Till such time that reason (what in management parlance is called Logical Analysis) also gets incorporated into action, all one can do is repeat the refrain from Remo's song, I cry Goaaaaaaa! Adieus Goa! N.B. Tiatok = Tiatr + Natok. This concept was first mooted by Mr. Datta Damodar Naik at the Msgr. Dalgado Memorial Awards ceremony organized by DKA at eh Black Box of Kala Academy on 08 May, 2008, to promote communal harmony and make it possible to have a Kabrastan in Margao. Log Frame Analysis is standard practice for assessment of "expected outcomes" of a process. -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S-1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mapusa 403507 Goa Ph +91-9822982676;91-832-2255913 www.ofai.org www.pgsorganic.in Horticulture.Facilitation.Networking -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
