If at all any structure that needs to be effectively demolished, it is the Directorate of Panchayats along with its Director, the Deputy Director and the concerned Minister.
I have my own very good reasons for saying what I am saying. ANYONE WHO HAS ASKED FOR A STAY ON DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL STRUCTURE HAS NEVER BEEN DENIED. IT IS '' ASK AND YOU 'MUST' RECEIVE"" with the word 'shall' cremated for good. The Panchayat Raj Act is a tom-foolery of its worst kind. Under the Indian Administration, no law, rule or regulation exits without gaping loop-holes. Every law is designed for the ultimate benefit of the criminal rather than for the benefit of the victim. The Panchayat Raj Act needs very serious amendments by way of stipulating severe penalties for the Director and the Deputy Director for granting stays left-right and centre to anyone who applies for it. As it stands, it is designed to feed the lawyers who are not very successful in Civil and Criminal matters. It fails to satisfy my mind as to why an ordinary villager who has never gone to court or a lawyer should do the same for simple matters which during the ertwhile Portuguse regime the village REGEDOR would solve. In 99 cases out of hundred, when the Sarpanches of the Village Panchayats move to demolish blatant illegal structures (the ones erected in someone else's properties, stays are given forthwith by the impotent Director demolishing the stand and the morale of the Sarpanch and the Panchayat who is trying to enforce the law. Presently, as the Panchayat Raj Act stands the Director of Panchayat is a puppet on a string whose only job is to execute everything told to him over the phone by ministers and the Chief Minister and to frolic from his office to the respective minister's cabin or the house like an errand-boy. I want any Director or Panchayats, present or otherwise to challenge my statement and I will run him down into the ground. The Deputy Director of Panchayats is indeed the Director of Panchayat's valet and nothing else. The present Minister for Panchayats Mr. Subash Shirodkar is not fit to clean the Panchayat toilets. He exists only because he has of late developed a good pair of tonsils and built a strong Midas' room to fill up what was absolutely empty. The present duo i.e Director of Panchayat and his Deputy in Mr. Menio D'Souza and Mr. C.D. Gaude will hopefully be different from 'Yes Sir' category. Floriano Lobo goasuraj Ph. 2470223 9422060347