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Two new showrooms/office spaces, double height (135 sq m each with bath) for lease in upscale Campal/Miramar beach area, Panaji, Goa. Contact: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In response to: Message: 9 Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:34:52 +0000 From: Naguesh Bhatcar <[email protected] <http://f5mail.rediff.com/prism/writemail?&mode=mail_to_individual&email [email protected]&els=07cca4e46b8a9d9e0c569065b14bf02b> > To: <[email protected] <http://f5mail.rediff.com/prism/writemail?&mode=mail_to_individual&email [email protected]&els=07cca4e46b8a9d9e0c569065b14bf02b> >, <[email protected] <http://f5mail.rediff.com/prism/writemail?&mode=mail_to_individual&email [email protected]&els=07cca4e46b8a9d9e0c569065b14bf02b> > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goanet] Goa Electricity Dept responsible for the death of Joaquim 55 and his Son 20? Mr. Naguesh, You are very much accurate in your assertion, you will find a lot of bees, where there is nectar, no nectar and you'll see bees just whizzing past. Only when there is an opportunity to make big bucks our politicians will fall over themselves, pretending to do something for the people, while all the time they are only interested in one thing, how much they can make out of the deal ? I was made aware by a very prominent member of this forum that, the Japanese had offered to upgrade our sewerage system free of cost, but since there wouldn't be any cuts, the offer was not taken up by our elite politicians. This is the state of Goan politics. While talking about the sad, unfortunate and the untimely demise of the father and son, the higher authorities of the electricity department should be heavily penalised. It is their responsibility to replace the cables and other equipment as per the "life time" of the equipment. With the fatalities increasing due to electrocution the authorities should make sure that precautionary measures are taken in time. I remember a similar incident in my village a good many years ago, during the down pour of heavy rains a coconut tree had fallen over the cables and a pole had snapped into two, a couple of cables broken and the rest were lying on the ground, we did not realize that the power supply had done the "Hudini act" at that precise moment, we all thought that with the snapping of the wire the fuses must have blown off, we were more than ten of us walking all over the wires clearing the coconut trees, taking the coconuts, tender coconuts, the "morond" and removed the portion of the tree, from over the wires, it might have taken us more than an hour to finish and we got back to continuing our card game, which we were playing prior to the incident, in the balcony of a house close by, it was not even ten minutes, when all of a sudden, we heard shrieks all around, we all dropped our cards and ran and the scenario, when I think of it even today, sends chills down my spine, five pigs lay stuck to the live wires dead, one can imagine what would have happened, if the power had come on, while more than ten of us were all over the wires. Thank God it was only the pigs. I have in no way exaggerated the situation, there is another fortunate member of that group, very much alive and active on this forum today. The electricity officials had no answers as to why the fuses had not blown off, while some wires had broken off and the rest tangled all over. These are the safety measures taken by the authorities, this incident had happened more than15 years ago and I see that nothing has changed since then, two more innocent budding lives lost to the lackluster attitude of our authorities. Compensation will help the family, but will it bring back their loved ones ? Why is our Government not doing anything about it ? There was a buzz, that underground cabling was being given a thought, probably that too must be gasping for a breath of "cut". Freddy Agnelo Fernandes
