--- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I do believe unmitigated migration of people > into > Goa will ruin Goa, but that discussion has been > exhausted and I have nothing more to add to it. > > If there are ills perpetuated in Goa, it is Goans > and > Goans themselves to blame. I feel a lot of it has to > do with our education system, which has to be far > more > pervasive and bring into its ambit the type of solid > education which will churn out citizens that herald > the type of change required to catapult Goa into the > 21st century.
The only way one can reduce the unmitigated flow of migrants into Goa is to make use of technology. Contractors still bring in unskilled labour to do what a machine could do a lot faster, e.g. concrete pumps. However, this means investment in machines. There are opposing thoughts on this (investment in machines v/s investment in humans), but the point here is educating those already in Goa to use those machines that increase productivity with little outlay in human labour. I daresay it will happen one day, but it will be too late for Goa. The mental perception of labour must change and technology not only used to mechanise labour for technology's sake, but to increase productivity. One thing noticeably wrong is the way refuse is collected. The machinery used is wrong. It should have required just one truck-driver doing the job using fork-lift technology rather than two extra workers required to chain the bins and guide them to the truck and back again. What takes the PMC (don't know what its called today) municipal workers 5 mins to empty one bin, would have taken one driver, given the right technology, a little over 20 seconds to do the same. Another thing wrong is the way computers are used in banks and offices to duplicate the paperwork. In a bank, all you need is one long counter to serve the customers in all but contractual work. Withdrawals should not need going through various counters finally ending at the teller - every window could handle deposits, withdrawals and foreign exchange as a one-stop shop, with just the one queue being serviced by a number of tellers sitting behind the one counter. Above are just a couple of my observations. Cheers, Gabriel. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
