The thrill of getting verbatim replies albeit from the horses mouth ---Ministers to queries raised by your elected representatives on the sacred floor of the Goa Legislative during its over fortnight long session which commenced from 22nd July, 2014 is by following the days proceedings on http://eassembly.goa.gov.in.
The era of "paperless regime" has dawned in this tiny twenty fifth state of Goa the Union of India. Although it is 51 years after the first legislative assembly was set up in the then Union Territory of Goa Daman and Diu and now 27 years after attaining Statehood we Goans are proud to have achieved this distinction slowly but surely. Imagine the days when tons of print material was used to provide compu-typed answers to then 30 and now 40 Members of the Legislative Assembly of each of the questions starred and un starred raised by members of the Goa Legislative Assembly. Besides that the copies for different files ending with the guard file the print media and now the audio visual media as well. The credit for this could perhaps go to both viz the Leader of the Opposition Mr Pratapsing Raoji Rane who as then Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly began the spade work for this paperless regime and which culminated in the current Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Mr Rajendra Arlekar seeing the dawn of this regime into reality. It is the hope of every Goan that queries of citizens raised under the RTI 2005 could follow suit. The Chief Secretary could make a beginning and other Secretaries / Directors of the Govt of Goa could follow suit so that before 19th December, 2014 Goa could emerge as the first State to introduce paperless regime. GODFREY J. I. GONSALVES, BORDA, MARGAO, 403 602, GOA. (INDIA) +91 98221 58584 (24 HRS) [email protected]
