Mr.Noronha, 1. What labour are we talking about? 2.Say we do not have the centres to train the class of people as mentioned, if you are saying that we get such expertise from outside goa not for permanent but temporary on a contract basis do they stay here for temporary rather than training goans one will find the entire dept. filled in with their relatives and we never realise it. 3.Transparency does not exist anywhere today, but that should not stop us to voice out agaisnt wrongdoings in any Government or any dept. 4.It is the people who should now be intelligent to elect leaders of calibre, and it is time people take a U turn in their thinking when it comes to elections.The politicians have and are always going to may hay while the sun shines, but if we have a vibrant youthful regional party most of these questions will and can be answered. 5 If there is any development in any region it should benefit the locals of that regions first,not the outsiders,the outsiders can set up and train but not stay back longer and stay here forever by building nests for their relatives at the expense of locals,but any development should be controlled by norms and policies, and we goans ought to stress ourselves harder to have a say in any pattern of development. 6.DID NOT QUIET DIGEST THIS QUESTION VERY WELL ABOUT economic affluence of Goa....if you could kindly throw some more light on it. 7.That is what we goans want to hand over the torch of development to our younger generation, and make them proud of being goans in all fields, make them realise that they should no longer depend on outsiders but help and assist each other as this will in long way not only help them but future goan generations to come. 8. As mentioned above every goan would love to benefit from training of expat goans,/Foreigners as this will stop goans from travelling elsewhere in india for further studies or training and will boost the image of Goa and Goans, but this is not being done, an outsider comes with the pretext of training and the training slowly develops into settlement inturn influx of his cousins, relatives, friends, etc.etc. as the training goes on while the other side the trainer so called expat. has made Goa the launching pad for his retirement package not for him alone but his entire future generation and again comes the influx of outsiders through some gate. 9.The Goans i am sure are otherwise by now there would not be any goan left in Goa, with the responses on this net on this issue all those who contributed either for or against whereever they are , somewhere in their heart they all love goa and one day Goa will only be for Goans and this is the right time to have such forums. 10. Sorry Mr. Noronha the last two questions about agenda and decolonisation was not well understood by me if you could kindly define it further.
Have a blessed sunday. Vivek -- "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Marlon Menezes wrote: > > > Simon, > > Dont worry, Vivek, Vasu and Bernado have agreed to > > support my quest for 100% goan employment by > > volunteering their services to clean up my septic > tank > > the next time it clogs up. > > Marlon > > Before this degenerates into an exercise in > name-calling and > insult-trading, let's remember there are some > complex issues involved > here: > * Do we have the labour Goa needs to sustain a > certain level of affluence? > * Do we have the centres to train semi-skilled > persons, professionals, > managers, journalists, agricultural scientists, > entrepreneurs that > Goa needs to sustain its economy? > * Do we have transparency in our system, to ensure > that the jobs go > to the person best suited -- not based on > ethnicity, caste, > religion or corruption? > * Have our politicians and other decision-makers > been reflecting > the interests of the area, or just caught up with > entangling > the citizen with non-issues, while feathering > their own nests? > * Why do we ourselves prefer to employ 'non-Goan' > maid servants, > fishermen to work on our trawlers, nurses to look > after our > elderly, managers to look after our factories, and > so on, while > talking agressively about ethnicity? > * Is our pattern of development suitable to the > requirements of the > people of the region, rather than to the needs of > capital or > a wider Indian/export-oriented economy over which > we have little > or no say? > * In what way is the economic affluence of Goa -- in > part also > fuelled by migration overseas -- acting as a > magnet to draw > in a workforce from outside the state? > * Are we looking to the future in a way that helps > us build up > our young people take on suitable skills to propel > them into tomorrow? > * In what way can Goa best benefit from the skills > and talents of > the people we derisively call 'non-Goans' (or > expat Goans, and > even foreigners for that matter)? > * Are people in Goa educating themselves well enough > to take care > of their own future? > * How do we ensure that the agenda for Goa is set by > people who > have a long-term stake in the local region itself, > rather than > falling into another situation of neo-colonial > dependence? > * Have we decolonised our minds sufficiently to be > confident > about our future, > > -- > Frederick Noronha : > http://www.fredericknoronha.net Ph 0091.832.2409490 > Freelance Journalist : http://www.bytesforall.org > Ph 0091.832.2409783 > http://fredericknoronha.blogware.com Cell 0 9822 > 122436 > > ########################################################################## > # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > # > # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), > and avoid top-posts # > # More details on Goanet at > http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # > # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to > reflect respect to others # > ########################################################################## ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Mobile: Download the latest polyphonic ringtones. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
