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Dear Dr. Barad,
You have misdirected your questions, if the Times of India is to be believed.
Please read the banner headlined article "Will Mr. Kamat please clarify?" with
the self-explanatory sub-title "CM's 2007 letter to Centre contradicts present
stand on Goa Varsity" on page 1 of Saturday, 15 November, 2008. Also read "Take
Goa Univ off Bill, CM to tell Centre" with the sub-title "State has realised
mistake of agreeing to Upgradation:MP" [referring to Shantaram Naik's
hindsight, which is perfect ..... as the US Marines saying goes "Hindsight is
20/20" ] in TOI of Sunday 16 November, 2008. The CM's letter of 22 November,
2007 was a well kept secret till now.
Please send a letter to the CM [and the then Minister of Education to boot!],
Shri Digamber Kamat .... who sent the letter dated 22 November, 2007 [almost
one year old today]to the Ministry of Human Resources Development conveying the
consent of the Government of Goa for UPGRADING Goa University Central
University, reportedly with the concurrence, or prodding, of the Director of
Higher Education, Mr. Bhaskar G. Nayak .... asking whether it had the
cuncurrence of the cabinet, ruling coalition and/or the Goa Legislative
Assembly as the case may be.
There is a window of opportunity to know the truth: Apply for a certified copy
of the proceedings of the Goa Legislative Assembly between 01 August, 2007 [the
month in which the GOI Ministry of HRD wrote to Govt. of Goa] and 22 November,
2007. If I am not mistaken, there was no Assembly session during this period.
The MLAs were elected in June, 2007 and after the monsoon session took a well
deserved rest till the winter session, save for the toppling games in July,
2007, led by Mr. Manohar Parrikar of the GDA [not GBA] fame.
The main door to the truth would be access to the agenda of the Cabinet
meetings to see if the subjected was ever listed for discussion. Goa
University's status would not be discussed as "Any Other Business" or "A.O.B."
in a cabinet meeting. An RTI with the Cabinet Secretary/Chief Secretary should
do the trick for Rs.10/- and stationary costs not exceeding Rs.100/-, including
Rs. 12/- for Speed Post to send the RTI application.
One simple question and a request will do the trick:
1.Was the proposal for the change of status of Goa University to a Central
University and/or its implications on the agenda of any cabinet meeting between
01 August and 22,November, 2007?
2. If YES, please furnish a copy of the relevant Agenda and extract of Agenda
note pertaining to the issue.
If SECRECY or CONFIDENTIALITY clauses are applied at the Cabinet Secretary
level, the last resort is to file an RTI application with the Director of
Higher Education ...still the self same Mr. Bhaskar G. Nayak, former Principal
of Saraswat College of Commerce& Management [now Sridora Caculo College of C &
M, Khorlim-Mapusa] and of Government Colleges in Pernem and Quepem, who could
not take over the post of Principal in Dhempe College for want of a Ph.D in his
Curriculum Vitae but now controls the funding of not only 28 'traditional
courses'[Arts, Science, Commerce and Management] or "Non-Professional"
colleges, each of them headed by Ph.D holding Principal without a single
exception .... which cannot deny access to the note prepared by it for the CM
in this context.
For any researcher in caste dynamics of Goa, it offers a wonderful opportunity
to study it in the context of the proposed UPGRADATION of the Goa University
...including the dynamics of the ephemeral CITIZENS of Goa INITIATIVE created
by Floraino Lobo at the instance of one Dr. U.G. Barad, Mr. Srinivas Kamat, Dr.
Jayant Budkuley, Prof. Madhav S. Kamat and others earlier this year. We have
discussed the caste divide on the dais at the "contributory" [your contribution
was Rs.50/- besides "free" speech for the proponents of the opposition to the
upgradation, if I remember right] debate in the Institute Menezes Braganza
hall, Panaji-Goa, earlier this year.
Why treat Atanasio "Babush" Monserrate now as you treated Floriano Lobo for the
debate earlier this year? Floriano had the courage to admit that he had been
had ... almost as if in revenge for the way Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque had
taken the pseudo "Admiral" Timmaji in 1510 A.D. there is a moral in the story:
1. Not all Catholics are dumb or slow witted as they are thought/taught to be;
and
2. Not all Hindu GSBs are as smart as they think they are!
Dr. Samir Kelekar and you help to prove this moral of the story. Nice try, just
the same. Perhaps, the case can be best argued by the so-called
"Advocate-at-large" when someone takes the "Higher" Education to High Court
over the blatant lies being told to the unsuspecting academicians and student
community in Goa. The Goa Education Rules of 1992 ... for giving Grant-in-Aid
to Primary Schools only if they teach in an undefined [in both the Goa
Education Act, 1986 and the Official Language Act,1987] "LOCAL language"
...contrary to the letter and spirit of the OLA 1987 which has a proviso that
reads 'nothing contained in this Act will be used to discriminate on the basis
of language in matters of religion, culture, education.... " or words to that
effect.
I do not know why Goans think that the Rat-snake [Malunn] has two mouths. That
is not true at all!!! ;-)
Mog asundi
Miguel
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:47:00 +0530
From: "Dr. U. G. Barad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Education Minister & Goa University
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Mr. Education Minister I would still like to pose some questions which I
hope you would answer:
Please bring out "White Paper" on following issues: (1) who had drafted the
proposal seeking the so-called up gradation of Goa University? (2) Who
presented it to the Chief Minister (who was at that time holding the charge
of Education portfolio)? (3) Who presented it in the PMO and MHRD??
Further, was this proposal discussed in the State Cabinet? Was it discussed
in the Assembly which enacted the Goa University Act? Is it not necessary
for the Assembly to express its willingness to repeal the GU Act before
Parliament enacts Act for centralization of GU?
Best regards,
Dr. U. G. Barad
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