SOLUTION - SOLUTION
VOTE FOR Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's/Sonia Auntie's INC/CONGRESS
VOT FOR - Modi/Advani's BJP which has swallowed Maharashtra's MGP
VOTE FOR - The Maratha Raja's INC
SPIT ON - Goa Su-Raj Party
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
www.goasu-raj.org for scroll-up expanded Party Presentation on the home
page so that you may know better.
----- Original Message -----
From: "soter" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 5:34 PM
Subject: [Goanet] Degoanising Goa's services
The growing degoanisation of every service in Goa is simply disgusting.
Leave aside the private sector, one expects to see some traces of goanness
in the government and semi-government undertakings. But if you are
exclusively konkani speaking and trying to access some Goa government
service you may well be made to feel like a migrant. The security at the
Goa Medical College ensures that you feel like in a hospital at Mumbai and
Bangaluroo. The security at the entrance of Goa Government Secretariat
makes you feel as if you are before the gates of Vidhana Saudha in
Karnataka. Walk into a goan restaurant and try conversing in konkani with
the waiter and all you will get is a blank stare. Raise your vocie a
little and he will take off to call the supervisor. The menu card says
goan food but the cook is Nepali. The other day I was shocked to see the
number of U.P. drivers behind the wheels of our taxis. It is difficult to
spot a goan barber in a goan hair cutting saloon. Now Healt
h Minister claims there are no anaesthesists and doctors in the PHCs. How
can there ever be, when every post is auctioned to the highest bidder and
a scoundrel politician breathes down your neck for non-productive favours?
Standard argument is that there is no local labour available. How can
there be local labour when the basic labour laws and wage scales are
flouted? Which employer will want local labour if he can get extra
profits from bonded labour with providing low wages and sub-human living
conditions?
-Soter
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The book people are already talking about: Goanetter Selma Carvalho's *Into
the Diaspora Wilderness*. Launch on July 25, 2010 at the UK Goan Festival
[http://goafest.itpsworld.net] Goa launch next month. See
http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ Buy at Broadway's, Panjim [Ph
9822488564] at Rs 295 in Goa. Overseas, postage extra.
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