Dear Joel, Editor THE GOAN EVERYDAY I took trouble visiting you personally and providing my report on Miramar -Dona Paula on hardships to commuters. The said report is yet to be published by you which is more than three weeks. You promised me that you will verify and take up the matter. But still you have not done it. In my revised report I have highlighted various technical discrepancy committed by the contractor for GSIDC pertaining on bad workmanship of roads and illumination work which are causing lots of hardships and inconvenience for the commuters of Dona Paula, Miramar, Caranzalem and Taleigao residents. You have been giving me promises for the last three weeks or so that it will be published but of no Luck and you still taking time. Do you have a pressure from the Government side to suppress such reporting as Government will be exposed? This is long pending work and lots of funds have been siphoned on this project which is a wastage of public exchequer. I have been put in shame with my colleague scientists and staff of NIO as well as the residents of Dona Paula and surrounding areas that such report will be published but it is still pending with "The Goan desk", but now I am fully prepared that no such report will appear. The illumination on this road is a nightmare for us everyday to travel from Panjim to Dona Paula at nights. You or your team please make a visit personally one day especially at night by yourself and verify this road which is not only badly surfaced and bumpy road but also having slid sewage covers not aligned and very badly installed although some repairs is done recently. The main underground new and good cable installed more than a year back is dug up again and still under repairs ( see photographs taken just yesterday 19th Aug 2017). The splicing is going on by the contractors days together as they are still searching for more faults. What kind of work is undertaken by the contractors and that too on the main new good heavy duty cable which is damaged by these workers ?. This is not a loss for the government as this new cabling joint will be now at stake and weak in future? This joint may not even last for 5 years or less, and who knows it may have to dug up soon once again. Moreover the interconnecting underground cabling is taking time connecting to the poles as I believe that they have some problems and people can see that the tiles have been lifted at many places and thus the illumination work is pending. You have failed reporting such issue which is very important for the vehicular traffic and are causing lots of headaches to the public traveling on this road. At least please add this problem apart from my revised report presented by me earlier and publish it in the interest of public? Or make your own report considering all my points with photographs submitted to you earlier along with the report.
Stephen Dias Former Scientist A1 of NIO Dona Paula resident Date: 20th August 2017 Mob: 9422443110
