The Goa Environmental Action Group, jointly with the Goa Su-Raj Party has welcomed the news reports that the government has filed an affidavit in the honourable High Court of Bombay at Goa that it will recover Rs. 10.60 lacs from the three top officials of GSUDA (Goa State Urban Development Authority) namely the Member Secretary, Mr. Daulatrao Havaldar, Chief Project Officer, Mr. J.N. Chimulkar and the Asst. Project Officer, Mr. Amit Shirodkar, within a month for the demolition of the controversial project built at the Baina beach in violation of the CRZ norms, and are happy that a precedent is being set in this ever so lawless a State to correct the general malaise that has taken root in the government administration that its irresponsible acts of commission and omission on the part of its officials will go unchallenged. The norms that violators/polluters and people responsible for acts of careless misdemeanor, resulting in damages and/or losses to the public exchequer, pay. Only and only then the sense of responsibility and accountability will be respected through fear, with the prevailing 'whose father what goes" attitude going out of the window for once. There is no justice better than to 'pay from one's own pocket' for one's mistakes.
It is sad to note that this prevailing attitude in the government administration has deprived a sincere and devoted government servant who held the post of ' Health and Nutrition officer' in the 'Health Department, Government of Goa' and who retired as such some over 10 years ago has been willfully denied his retirement benefits, in the carelessness with which our government administration is habituated to work. In this particular case, which has been amply documented with the appropriate 'administrative' as well as 'vigilance' authorities, such norms will not only see that justice is done but is seen to be done. Such speedy justice is the need of the hour, especially, when the person concerned may not live forever to see it entering his front door. This person is none other than Dr. N.S. Dumo, the President of the Goa Su-Raj Party. If the doors of the honourable High Court needs to be knocked to get this much delayed justice, then it will be so. sd/- Floriano Lobo General Secretary and Spokesperson, Goa Environmental Action Group & Goa Su-Raj Party.
