GOANS SHOULD FOLLOW " AM'BAD facebook PATTERN ", !!! CLICK THE PICS OF ERRANT PRIVATE BUS/AUTO NO. & DRIVERS & POST THEM ON -GOANET- & - facebook-!!!! If an auto-driver or private bus operator in Goa refuses to stop the bus or is demanding extra fare or is rude, there is no need to quietly go to the next one. Report about it on internet platform to shame them.
Bangalore: If an auto-driver refuses a fare or is rude, there is no need to quietly go to the next one. A Bangalore-based youth suggests that you note the registration number of the errant auto-driver’s vehicle, click his photograph and later upload it on the Internet to shame him. Nikhil Narayanan has started an online community named ‘Rage against the Rickshaws’ as a platform for dissatisfied commuters. He used to commute daily by auto from his house to his office at Richmond Circle. Fed up of their errant behaviour, two years ago, he stopped commuting by autos. Though he no longer deals with auto-drivers on a daily basis, he has not forgotten his earlier ordeal and knows what others are undergoing. One month ago, he started the online community to vent his frustration and give others a platform to hit back at auto-drivers. It now has more than 220 members. They plan to collect registration numbers of errant auto-drivers and build a database. Nikhil writes, “I intend to list down registration numbers of all vehicles belonging to errant auto-drivers on this community. Please feel free to contribute through comments. I shall add them to the list. And, when we have a significant number, I shall personally ensure that this database reaches our respected commissioner of police. I expect full cooperation from everyone who faces this menace on a daily basis. Come and join the ‘Rage against the rickshaws’. Let’s teach these thugs a lesson.” When he got 150 registration numbers, he called Additional Police Commissioner (Traffic) Praveen Sood to hand over the list, but was directed to the RTO. “I approached the RTO, but was told they don’t have the necessary equipment to detect tampered fare meters,” Nikhil says. But, he is not willing to be bogged down by such stone-walling. He continues to collect numbers of errant auto-drivers. He is optimistic that there will be a day when the authorities concerned will no longer be able to ignore the numbers -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dr.Anjali Mohan Rao, Chairperson, Indology Goa GIRIVAR, Opp.Dhempe College, Miramar Beach, Post-Caranzalem, City-Panaji, Goa 403002 INDIA Phone/Fax: 0091-832-2462195 Cellphone: 0091-9765974786 website: http://www.indologygoa.in http://www.facebook.com/dr.anjali.m.rao http://twitter.com/dranjalirao http://jmohanrao.blogspot.com/ "...the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic, who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done..." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ISSUES BEING DEBATED: In East Africa, despite colonialism, the British afforded the Goan a sliver of a socio-political voice. Read *Into The Diaspora Wilderness* by Selma Carvalho. Soon to be available in Toronto. Pp 290. Via mail-order from [email protected] http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/
