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Remembering Aquino Braganca (b. 6 April 1924), who fought for freedom
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http://aquinobraganca.wordpress.com/ (includes many historical
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DEAR GOANS,
THIS IS OFFICIAL NEWS , REPORTED IN TIMES OF INDIA WEBSITE.
DID THIS NEWS APPEAR IN ANY OF GOAs NEWSPAPERS?
IS THERE ANY DOUBT THAT 40 MINISTERS HAVE SOLD GOA AND HAVE PURCHASED THEIR
OWN ASSETS? THIS NEEDS TO BE AUDITED.
BY Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). I AM MARKING A COPY OF THIS
NEWS TO CAG FOR THEIR INFORMATION AND TO LET THEM KNOW HOW GOANS ARE ROBBED FOR
SO LONG NOW WHICH NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED VERY URGENTLY. THANKS TO CAG THEY
ALREADY ARE DONE AND REPORTED ALREADY ON SEZ.
I WOULD REQUEST CAG TO
(CHECK OUT WHAT ASSETS THEY(MINISTERS) HAD BEFORE BEING ELECTED AND TO CHECK
OUT WHAT ASSETS THEY HAVE AFTER BEING ELECTED). ALSO THE DECLARATION AND
VALUATION IN THE AFFIDAVITS NEEDS TO BE VERIFIED,CHECKED. I AM CONFIDENT CAG IS
PROFESSIONAL AND HAVE EXPERTISE TO CHECK THIS.
MINISTERS SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE ASAP. TIME IS RUNNING OUT. BECAUSE OF
DELAYED & SLOW INVESTIGATIONS AND VERDICTS IN COURTS, MINISTERS ARE ROAMING &
ROBING GOANS FREELY.
BTW, WHATS THE PENALTY/PUNISHMENT FOR SPENDING GOANS(TAXPAYERS) MONEY ?(A) ASK
THEM TO RETURN WITH INTEREST (B) THEY SHOULD BE DESERVENGLY PUNISHED (C)
SUSPENDED (D) THEY SHOULD BE ASKED TO RESIGN (E) THEY SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO
STAND FOR ELECTIONS
REGARDS-MARIO ANDREW RODRIGUES
Goa ministers splurge taxpayers' money
5 Apr 2009, 1251 hrs IST, IANS
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PANAJI: The Goa government has spent nearly Rs 1.5 crore on food and almost Rs
13 lakhs refurnishing the official residences of three senior
ministers and the speaker, according to written replies given by the government
to questions raised in the state assembly.
Chief Minister Digambar Kamat threw one party at Eid and another at Christmas.
The combined bill came to nearly Rs 11 lakhs, according to one of the replies
to a set of questions posed by two legislators - Dayanand Narvekar of the
ruling Congress and Vasudev Gaonkar of the Bharatiya Janata Party - during the
recent budget session of the assembly.
Kamat also hosted a dinner for historian Romila Thapar and journalist P.
Sainath when they were here for a lecture series. The bill for the dinner at a
five-star resort came to Rs 244,000, according to a reply in the assembly.
A group of experts was here in September for a seminar on Strategies for
Improving Livelihood Security for Rural Poor. Health Minister Vishwajeet Rane
treated the delegates to a dinner. The money spent was Rs 310,000, says another
reply, adding that the guests also went on an evening cruise on the Mandovi
river at the cost of the exchequer.
All the food bills, along with several others which totalled nearly Rs 15
million, were footed by the Arts and Culture Department, which is under the
chief minister.
Curtains in the official residence of Home Minister Ravi Naik here cost Rs
123,000 and those in Public Works Department Minister Churchill Alemao's home
Rs 58,036. Two TV sets given to Alemao cost over Rs 100,000.
Assembly Speaker Pratapsing Rane's liquor cabinet is richer. He bought a wine
opener for Rs 875, wine glasses for Rs 800, beer glasses for Rs 200, a set of
crystal glasses for Rs 1,000 and cocktail glasses for Rs 1,200, all paid for by
the exchequer, says a reply. Add to that a set of bathroom glasses costing Rs
700 each.
All the bills for home furnishings and cutlery were footed by the PWD, along
with a host of others, taking the total to almost Rs 1.3 million.
The Goa treasury has an outstanding debt of Rs 50 billion.
Asked if there was a standard procedure or a cap on such expenses, officials in
the protocol department of the state government chose not to answer.
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