To Sanjit Rodrigues, Commissioner of CCP
Dear Sir Welcome to the CCP. CONGRATULATIONS! I'm glad that you have once again taken up the reins of our Panjim Municipality which is now in a deplorable condition after everybody in the CCP, whether Commissioners or Mayors have made a mess of it. Being a Panjimite I feel ashamed of the state of Panjim and can only wonder and pray that it will be back in a sound and original condition. It needs a lot of effort which only you can do. Your best efforts will be needed to repair the damage roads all over, including the several pot holes even in front of your CCP building. Garbage and sewage are the other huge problems for you to tackle and I am sure if you can get help from our Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant and Panjim MLA Babush Monserrate you will surely succeed to bring Panjim back to its original grace. You must also put into action steps to clean up the St Inex creek. It is the heart of the city. Apart from the above, which are large scale projects, there are some very specific tasks you must urgently take up. - I want you to act first to get rid of casinos in the river Mandovi and as a first step, stop the building coming up at the Captain of Ports jetty. This must be stopped immediately! - PWD is to be given a lift instead of the GSIDC. The GSIDC where you were earlier is also going from bad to worse because of bad elements in the department, including the earlier MLA who was least interested of this city and Sidharth Kuncalienkar is only looking after himself. He was responsible for the city reaching in this bad condition. Whenever you need help from Panjimites, we are always there to give you helping hand but remember we will be the first to bring illegalities, if any, to your attention. Can you investigate and stop a 8-storey building which is coming up at Bay View colony, Dona Paula, near my house? This building has on the surface all the approvals received from TCP, CCP, Health Department, and Fire Brigade and was supported by the earlier Taleigao Sarpanch despite several complaints and reminders. But perusal of plans available in the file of NGPDA inspected by me shows that the width of this road where this construction is going on shows 10 metres whereas the existing road in reality is approximately just 4 to 5 metres wide -- allowing only two vehicles to move with great difficulty (see a photo unloading a truck container with steel wires on this road hardly has any space left with). The CCP had given permission despite this construction being in Taleigao jurisdiction which is in line with mine. I and all my neighbours pay house taxes for Taleigao, why did only this building continue to pay house tax to CCP? The boundary road between CCP and Taleigao Panchayat falls exactly in front of this illegal building. This time after Babush came to power he promised to look into this 8 floor illegal building. It is supposed to have a swimming pool in its 500 sq mtres area and the owner is a Mr. Gill, a Sadarji who is involved with the casino people. I believe they are planning to house casino girls - God only knows for what purpose. Hope it is not for prostitution. In any case an 8-storey building on such a small residential lane will be devastating. The lane was not built for heavy traffic. This investigation needs to be taken up on war footing. All the residents are suffering. Stephen Dias, Senior citizen, Resident of Bay View Dona Paula 9422443110 20.9.2019 P.S. Please find out why all the Mayors so far either do not have email IDs or never read the emails sent to them, perhaps purposefully so as not to do any work for the citizens of Panjim. The mayor should have an email ID that is publicized so that people can report issues and the emails received should be monitored and acted upon. Sent from my Samsung device
