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Photos from Goa's 2009 mando festival:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/sets/72157622843319441/
Event on Wed, Thurs evening from 5 pm onwards, Kala Academy, Panaji-Goa
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This is the one day that Goa Su-Raj has reason to feel proud. The Dona
Paula - Vasco Sea-Link is one of the prestigious projects given voice to in
its Road Map for Goa released in 2005. The other pet projects are the
Ribardar Causeway Necklace and the Nerul-Miramar sea-link.
If it was left to this party to execute this Dona Paula-Vasco sea-link, we
would do it this way:-
1. Have all the interested parties bidding for this project, display their
respective models along with the specs, costs, duration it will take to
complete/put in operation and most importantly its life-span.
2. Have this displayed in a centrally located exhibition hall where citizens
can check-out the pros and cons of each model and vote (give marks out of 10
for each model) into the box kept next to the model.
3. This vote would count at the time of short-listing/finalizing the
consultant based on the principle of 'BEST FOR LESS' which may or may not
be the final decision maker but help towards making a qualified decision.
4. The short-listed/finalized consultant will be held responsible for the
time of completion as well as to bear the expenses of the feasibility study
et al.
We must realise that this is a most prestigious project and should not be
left to the half-baked government cooks like it has been done for the IFFI
where commissions ruled the roost, if we Goans do not want to see the
repeats of the Nehru and Zuari bridges.
floriano lobo
General Secretary/Spokesperson
Goa Su-Raj Party
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
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Communalization of politics has serious consequences
for culture of governance. It is when a party fails to
provide good governance but still wants to gain or
regain power that it plays the communal card.
Communal politics is, thus, a threat both to our
spiritual heritage from the past and our well being
in the present.
Swami Agnivesh
