Dear Goemkars !
I am taking the liberty of sharing with you a post which was made on GOA
NRI - I thought I d share it with as many of our Goans - as i possibly can.
We all seem to be fired up to do something GOOD ? but ...many of us are not
prepared to stand up against the injustice that seems to prevail around us
in Goa ..and in the Goan communities around us.
All we do is blame our Goan Politicians - but , I believe that our Goan
Leaders everywhere have do have to take the blame for the situation our Goan
Community is in today.
We do not even get a response to our emails ! ...............?
rene
Dear Rene,
This is the beginning of the turn in the tide. Three of my fellow alumni at
St. Britto HS, Mapusa, ... BOB Sandip Jacques, Director of Transport; BOB
Prakash Azavedo, Asst. Director of Transport-South [Margao] and BOB Roland
Martins of GoaCAN [Goa Consumer Action Network] ...are on the cutting edge
of this change. When Jesuit products like BOBs get into action, there is
very little that can stop us. Superintendent of Police [Traffic], Atmaram
V.Deshpande, has also supported this programme. This is not a "Traffic
Safety Weak" type of event that one sees every first week of January ...
this is about strengthening of the enforcement system.
The GSCC, as the name suggests, is for Children's rights. It is the product
of the Goa Children's Act, 2003 ...a parting gift of Secretary [Woman &
Child], Ms. Rina Ray, to Goa. Of course, the Manohar Parrikar regime moved
the Bill and made it in to a law. The spade work and the subsequent
promotion of its implementation was done by Rina Ray, who was also Secretary
[Finance] and was able to leverage that position to help Women and Children
in Goa. Any politician understands money.
If fully grown up men take Sh*t from bus conductors, they deserve it.Can not
half a bus-load of men teach one lousy bus conductor a lesson? Then why
don't they. In fact, why can't men and women take up for the children
instead of waiting for the Government to enforce laws ...because it is
convenient to park one's seat while the kids stand with their bags on their
shoulders?
Even those who are scared to soil their hands could send a post card to the
RTO .... or just call Police Control Room vehicle on toll free number 100 to
complain. Call the police and give them the bus number and where it is and
to what town it is proceeding. Almost everyone has a mobile phone these
days. Use one.
Mog asundi.
Miguel
renebarreto <[EMAIL PROTECTED] co.uk> wrote:
WHY .....Just children , why should we not have the BUS conductors
TREAT every one with respect ? It is only ...because WE Goans are
prepared to take all that sh...t from the bus conductors. WE ARE Long on
TALK ...and short on ACTION...
Please tell me I am wrong !
rene
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----- Original Message ----
From: Miguel Braganza <miguelbraganza@ yahoo.co. in>
GSCC guidelines may 'bend' rude bus operators to mend their ways
BY HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM, NOV 1 - The bus operators who treat school children travelling in
their buses quite rudely for they pay half ticket - now may have to mend
their ways.
The Goa State Commission for Children (GSCC) which works for promotion and
protection of child rights in the State
The Commission observed the bus operators do not permit students to enter
the buses until all the seats have been occupied as they pay only 50 per
cent fare as provided under rules.
This means that all children are only permitted to stand in buses. Children
then have to make their way into the buses with heavy bags/raincoats and are
pushed into buses that are packed over permissible limits.
Some students have also complained that the bus conductors are rude and at
times even subject them to sexual harassment.
Adults who travel in these buses also allow for this unjust practice to
continue as if it were only fair that they be allowed to sit since they are
paying more, pointed out Commission.
RECOMMENDATIONS
*It should be made mandatory in all buses (both public and private), to
allow children to enter the buses and be seated and to be treated equal to
passengers who pay the full fare.
Mog asundi.
Miguel
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