ENTERTAINMENT EXPENDITURE

It is interesting to discover that four MPs and one official

Have spent one crore on entertainment, hardly beneficial

To the common man or to the general welfare.

Why should the tax-payer such expenditure bear

When the common gains are so superficial?



And why must such entertainment be at a five-star hotel?

Does this any kind of austerity spell?

Shouldn't one give guests a chance to taste authentic Goan food?

Perhaps this could also genuine local surroundings include -

Not doing so, a strange elite mentality does spell.



And in these days of email and STD,

Must our officials go on bended knee

So often to the Delhi and Mumbai?

One would like to know why:

How does this better governance guarantee?



-      Shanti Dhoot



RE


Message: 10 16 Jun 2008

From: "Lionel Messias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Goa's flying circus is back
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Dayanand Narvekar spent Rs14,94,884 of your precious tax money flying to
Mumbai and *Dilli*. That was from February 2, 2000 to March 3, 2007. In 2007
Narvekar flew 20 times, that's 20 flights in 12 months.
*Francisco Sardinha*
23-24.01.00 Mumbai Rs7,552; 02-03.04.00 Delhi Rs22,020; 01-03.05.00 Mumbai
Rs8,392; 24-28.04.00 Kathmandu Rs25,672; 24-28.02.00 Delhi via Mumbai
Rs22,540; 18-22.05.00 Delhi/Mumbai & 20-23.06.00 Delhi/Mumbai Rs68,184;
14-16.07.00 Delhi/Mumbai Rs22,317; 21-22.08.00 Delhi/Mumbai, 26-27.08.00
Cochin, 28.08.00 Delhi Rs70,194; 30.8-07.09.00 Mumbai, 26-28.09.00 Delhi
Rs21,575; 11-23.10.00 Sydney/Singapore Rs1,42,215. Total Rs4,10,661.

Our politicians and IAS officers need to run to Delhi for every tidbit
reason.

Message: 11 of 16 Jun 2008

From: "Lionel Messias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Living to eat -4
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 They can't wait to live it up. Hardly had he taken over his ministry,
Vishwajit Rane went gastronomic. He threw a dinner, guess where, at the
Cidade de Goa for the advisory council on October 20, 2007. Cost: Rs84,788.
That was his first. Other extravagant dinners will follow. You can bet your
life on that despite PM Manmohan Singh going on national TV to plead for
austerity.


*The government's food bill (and growing) so far:

The government's food bill (and growing) so far:
Digambar Kamat Rs36,47,744
Pratapsing Rane Rs39,72,941
Manohar Parrikar Rs12,05,515
J. P. Singh Rs16,61,290


Total Rs1,04,87,490

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