The figures given by Lionel Messias on the opulent indulgence of the Ministers by way of their food, drink and air fare bills are a constant source of amazement to me. Take for example : dinner for an ambassador (unnamed) Cidade de Goa Rs98,332. How much can one eat ? How much can one drink? Is there no limitation on expenditure? Will some netter enlighten me? Isn't there an audit department which is supposed to raise all kind of queries and objections? In comparison, schools face mandatory government Audits every few years. Woe betide the school that overspends a few thousand rupees on much needed school equipment. The wrath of the whole Education Department descends on the erring school and the money is summarily recovered from further grants. In this day and age, a school head is not even allowed to spend two hundred rupees a month for giving visitors a cup of tea and two biscuits. When there are people starving in India and even in Goa, when DSS does not reach the needy, when villages cry for better roads, water supply, electricity, such wasteful and ostentatious expenditure is a crime perpertrated on the people of Goa.
-- Tony de Sa Ph: +91 832 2470148 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] M: +91 9975 162 897 ----------------------------------------------------------- I discovered that I have choices but sometimes its only a choice of attitudes. ------------------------------------------------------------
