This story is posted in response to the Circa post, ...keeping in mind what
is happening in Margao, Mapuca, Navelim and Anjuna....among other places
Anyway ...here is the story of another (once pretty) city which has been
ghettoized.
In this story excerpted from the UK Independent, there are references to Goa
Hotels, Julio Ribeiro, Bombay and the rest .....
this is circa 2006 !!
jc
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article342410.ece
Published: 01 February 2006
In a court room in Bombay this week, one of the most remarkable stories in
modern policing is drawing to a close.
Although he continues to live in a crumbling apartment block in official
police accommodation, Indian newspapers have reported that the investigation
found he also owned a flat in Switzerland, a fleet of tourist buses and
"probably" owns two hotels at a holiday resort in Goa.
Bombay dreams are made of: the poor immigrant who comes to the city and
makes good. Every day, new immigrants arrive from the rural backwater
villages of India on the streets of the place they call the "maximum city",
a metropolis of at least 16 million people that is bursting at the seams.
The roads are so crowded that they have had to build flyovers over the
entire length of them, turning them into double-decker highways. Housing is
in such short supply that the slums come up to the end of the runway at
Bombay airport, and the wheels of the plane almost touch the roofs as you
come in to land.
A senior minister "openly declared he had ordered the police to shoot down
gangsters," a former Bombay police chief, Julio Ribeiro told the Indian
Express.
"The situation was so bad that police postings and transfers were paid for,"
Mr Ribeiro said. "With the seniors so corrupt, there was no way they could
have checked the junior.....
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