From: Miguel Braganza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I don't seem to undestand what you mean by 'Nagesh needs to do is takeDear Vivek, Good question, indeed. If I have not heard of or seen the Pacific Ocean, it does not cease to exist. All that Nagesh needs to do is take the trouble to find out. One cannot keep on blaming the Portuguese colonial rule for everything.
the trouble to find out'. I don't think that you have followed this thread in full.
Also, I have not blamed the Portuguese colonial rule in anyway.
Nikhil Dessai, the ex-Agriculture Officer who is now MD of Sugar Factory, would definitely make it to the IAS if there were coaching facilities in Goa. He tried twice...and almost made it in his second attempt!
I don't mean to question anybody's intelligence or achievements, but 'almost an IAS' is not quite the same as an IAS certificate to show for. I know of many Goans who made it to IITs and other famous institutions, without the luxury of formal training and coaching.
Sanjit Rodrigues, the Commissioner of CCP ,or Deepak Bandekar, the C.O. of MMC, might have attempted IAS if they had the facilities. Our college libraries can stock the question papers, our ex-IAS officers[not the 'absorbed' version like JC] could motivate potential students while in the FY of college or ,even, in high school. Ashutosh Teli chose Arts and prepared for IAS exams while others worked through B.Sc. That is the way many others make it to IAS from other states. We need this type of 'Career Guidance', not people telling our children what type of computer course is best suited for them.
We are talking about a hypothetical situation here where someone could have
achieved something, had he/she the resources. Such assumptions are hard to prove.
I am pretty sure that the necessary books and papers should be available in Goa. Even when technical books were not available in Goa, when I did my Engineering studies, we used to order them from Union Book Stall in Dadar.
It is time we stopped only talking and posting on the net. It is time some of us got together and began to work to make this come true. Post on the net...but do something ,too.
Well, we are privileged at having Medical, Engineering, Architecture, Pharmacy,
Art, Law colleges, besides so many other educational institutions in Goa. I don't think
that we can absorb all those graduating, in to the Goan workforce at all. Wonder which
Philantropist would be willing to spare sufficient cash to start an institute for training
potential IAS guys. And how many IASs can we get every year, when it is not at
all sure that all Goans completing the IAS curriculum will be posted in Goa?
Nagesh Bhatcar
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