Was I wrong then, in suggesting that the Panchayati Raj Act as it stands is
nothing but hog-wash?? That it requires total and complete amendment to hold
the Sarpanch accountable for any and every illegality in the village?
The next best thing to do to eliminate the panchayat
body/MLA-Politician-Builder nexus is to have Gram Sabha floated 'panel'
based Panchayat elections complete with a Gram Sabha manifesto where all the
panel member candidates can contest elections on a single 'symbol' with the
entire village read Gram Sabha campaigning for the panel.
This should be the trend in the future panchayat/ municipal and including
assembly elections to eliminate the disastrous after effects of corrupt
political parties and their corrupt political intensions.
Cheers
floriano
from PPS to PPS
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "soter" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 8:00 AM
Subject: [Goanet] LACK OF FUNDING TO PANCHAYATS IN GOA?
LETTER NO. 3 below which was sent to Herald on 26/4/2010 and has not been
published for reasons best known to the Editor. Muzzling of Truth?
"The Panchayat Minister's case about insufficient funds to Panchayats in
Goa (Herald, 25/4/2010) seems unreasonable considering extravagence in
expenditures by these local bodies that have no proper annual development
plans in place.
Today, we have nothing but brokers and agents in Village Panchayats who
look for every opportunity to float tenders for construction. The benefits
of this is well known to the public. The Village Panchayats in Goa must be
rechristened as 'Contractor Panchayats'. The Minister for Panchayati Raj
is another added disaster to the already degraded Panchayati Raj system in
the State."
-Soter D'Souza
Socorro
