Thank you Sanny-bab!\\ Margao Municipal Council unable to help the mess that is Margao Today!
To all the woes faced by the common man in the CM's very own constituency, there is a rapid rise in malaria cases all round the year due to the mosquito menace. The builders lobby being the strongest in Margao, the law and health authorities turn a blind eye to the overflowing of soakpits from buildings. The MMC and its councillors are busy playing the game of musical chairs, and everybody knows who plays the pipe...i mean who actually is the pied piper on whose tunes the councillors change sides all the time, giving little time to the development and the maintainence of margao city. There exists various NGOs in Margao who claim to be saviours and protectors of Margao and Goa. These NGO's have the cheek to advise the people of Panjim Constituency not to vote for Porrikar, when all the money used for those huge newspaper adverts could be used to buy mosquito repellants and distribute them to the aam aadmi freely. Margao has a major traffice problem, and since the city has seen haphazzard growth, there is no parking spaces available. The various vendors are freely selling their wares on the main streets and admit that if they give a regular hafta to the municipal authorities, nobody dare touch them. Margao is plunged into darkness most of the time due to erratic power supply, despite being a commercial capital of Goa. The stray dog menace has reached newer heights and it has been almost five years the MMC does not even have a person to control the stray dogs menace. Despite tall claims of commissioning water resevoirs atop the monte hill and the hill opposite chowgule college, the city taps go dry very often as the selaulim pipeline bursts so very often and the electricity supply is erratic to keep the pumps running. The sonsodo garbage plant is yet to be commissioned and very often we find the main streets of Margao strewn with garbage. Upon assuming office, our publicity hungry CM made the dailies splash a picture of himself in a chaddi (a culture he acquired since his BJP days?) but till date nothing has happened on that front. The state of the public health centre or the Hospicio is in shambles. many ministers and chief ministers came, saw and went and took undue mileage to improve the plight of the hospicio, but they all took free publicity getting themselves photographed posing to shake hands with the patients...shame politicians...there is a limit to stoop! Margao has not seen much development in the past two decades and much is desired. I hope the new NGO groups like Ami Modgonvkars come around to do something constructive for Margao. We need members of NGO groups to come out with a broom and weep the streets themselves...a la Senapati Bapat... If the elected members MLAs and councillors couldnt do much in the past ten years to improve the plight of the aam aadmi, not much ca be expected in the future. We need the people to come out and question the elected representatives as to why progress is not done to improve the situation in Margao. Hope to see Margao as the model city of Goa and India soon. Regards Cedric da Costa Dubai - handed over to the Civic body by SUDA to sweep city roads - is corroding at MMC?s Old Market garage. The less said about stray dogs and cattle is better. The population of strays is fast rising in the city, but the Civic body has not adopted any pro-active measures to contain the menace. Though the Civic body recently initiated measures to boost up recoveries of outstanding arrears, running over Rs three crore, there?s no concrete plan to mop up additional revenue by way of house tax, trade licence and advertising fees. It?s status as the state Commercial Capital notwithstanding, business establishments registered with the Civic body are less than in Panjim and other towns, indicating that thousands of shops and establishments are operating illegally. There?s no respite from the overflowing soakpits in most parts of the city, as Margao?s ambitious sewerage scheme is yet to cover the entire city till date. And, despite the bumper-to-bumper traffic witnessed in the city and acute parking,neither the Civic body nor the government has stepped to address these problems. That the Civic body is plagued by musical-chair games is evident by the fact that it had as many as four Chairpersons in the last two years. Incumbent Chairperson Johnson Fernandes is not stable either, surviving on the BJP group. Admitted former Chairperson, Savio Coutinho: ?This Council has not been able to deliver the goods. Not even 25 per cent expectations of the people has been achieved in the last two years. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
