Adv. Aires Rodrigues's conclusion makes sense viz: "For the last two and half years Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has been promising to recover those Rs 35,000 crores looted in the Goa Mining scam. But the writing is on the wall. No one will be punished and not a paisa will be recovered. That mining plunder which accelerated from the year 2000 has been an all party venture and loot with the Congress, BJP, NCP and MGP having all feasted from the pie with Manohar Parrikar himself having also been the Chief Minister of Goa from 24 October 2000 to 2 February 2005."
In addition, as the CM himself has virtually admitted in the recent session, every Govt. bureaucrat involved in mining is corrupt. I think the sums of money are so enormous that a movement by the people is necessary in order to recover the sums of money that have been lost. If this is not done then the almost Rs 10,000 crore debt that Goa is swimming in will sooner or later drown the State. It is time that the Goa Bachao Andolan and all similar minded groups begin to mobilise towards getting the mining companies to repay what lawfully belongs to the people of Goa. One honestly hopes that they and we have the energy to do this. Augusto