Dear Roland ,
I do not subscribe to day dreaming as a method of planning. Let us discuss
issues based on facts known as on date. A good starting point, that Floriano
Lobo has also accepted, is Dr. Jayant Budkuley's article that the Navhind Times
has found fit to publish [of course, after deleting the reference to Bhausaheb
Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, the Founder of Goa Education Society and its
Dhempe College of Arts & Science, Miramar-Panaji, on land leased by the Mhamai
Kamat family, as also to the Salgaocars, Chowgules and the Archdiocese which
started the other colleges.]
Dr. Jayant Budkuley, is a Professor of Chemistry at Goa Univeristy and his wife
Dr.Kiran Budkuley is a faculty member in English. [She is also highly
proficient in Konkani] Dr. Budkuley has served a full 5-year term as the
Registrar of Goa University, the topmost Administrative post under the
Vice-Chancellor. He knows well the subject that he has written about. If you
have missed that, please read it. It has been posted on Goanet by Floriano Lobo.
Once you have read and understood that, we can debate on the subject.
In the meanwhile, I would only like to say that if the GOA University becomes a
CENTRAL University, the Executive Concil, Senate, Academic Council and
admission policy for students there in will be controlled by the Federal
Ministry of HRD. You will accept that there is a difference between a "student
of a central University in Goa" and a "Goa-resident student of an University in
Goa" becoming an IAS or any other Central Cadre officer.
Corruption is not an issue, neither is the strength of our local politicians
spine. The issue is basically the admission policy for students. We have a
central Institute of Hotel Management in Goa. It has 225 students per year in
its 3 year course. Last ten years very few students from Goa made it to the
IHM. This year the performance of Goa students is possibly the best ...about a
dozen out of the 225 students joining class tomorrow.
So Goa will provide the land and water to run the Central University in Goa for
people of India. Goans are Indians. Goa is a part of India. Which state of
India will provide admission to students from Goa in its Universities on "equal
opportunity" basis ...as tyhe Central University in Goa will provide to them??
Can anyone ensure a MoU to that?
Of course, I would be glad if a Central University is established in Goa IN
ADDITION TO the Goa University! That is what the PM had promised .... and
educational hub. No CONVERSIONS, please. No Inquisitions against the
neo-literates courtesy Goa University being replaced by Central University as
the Portuguese did to the Syrian Christians in Kerala [and possibly in Goa, if
Fr. Cosme Costa's projection based on the Syrian Cross in Goa Velha is true.]
If the starting of Goa University was publicaly debated for 15 years [1970 to
1985], why is its closure being done in such a hush-hush way .... after the
Convention Centre and IT Park came under protests on its campus? Goans cannot
be that stupid, or are they?? Time will tell.
Mog asundi
Miguel
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:29:56 -0400
From: "Roland Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goa University Going Central
Message-ID:
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Hi Miguel,
Living abroad, I have never presumed to tell
Goans in Goa how to do things. However, that does not prevent me from
making an argument and stating my views on a subject that is
introduced on Goanet.
I am glad that Floriano has immediately started a Citizen's Initiative
to discuss the matter. That is the right move. Before one starts
agitating, one must know both sides of the argument of why and what
one is agitating for.
One important question arises before discussion of the subject becomes
meaningful. Why is the Centre considering conversion of GU?
There are 2 subsets of the issue of conversion of the University.
I strongly favor the conversion to a Central University.
Having a Central University will slowly put Goa on the national map.
Students passing out from the new Goa University will have ready access
to Central Cadre services, a presence it now sorely lacks. With a
sizable body of Goa Cadre top administrative officers, top cops and
top diplomats, Goa will get the respect it deserves. And as you so
well know Goans flourish academically. They have always done so, given
the right environment. Unfortunately, that environment has always been
out of Goa. No protest will ever be worth foregoing this window of
opportunity.
Regards and mog assundi,
Roland.
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Miguel Braganza
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dears,
>
> Roland Francis can sit abroad and tell us plausible stories of what
> happens at Goa University at Taleigao Plateau [in village Panchayats
> of Taleigao, Santa Cruz and Bambolim] or any other University in Goa.
> He is knowledgeable. I make no such claim for myself.
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