Yesterday's unfortunate accident resulted in the loss of life of an innocent victim.
In the final analysis who is to blame? I put the blame squarely on the heads of corrupt RTO officials. Why do I make such an accusation? Let me give a few reasons. As a Goan son of the soil, if I try to get a new vehicle registered at the RTO, I have to fill a plethora of forms, show all sorts of proofs of identity and give all sorts of residential proof. And now here we find that there is a Thakur, who smacks of being a non-Goan by the very name, who registers his vehicle in Goa with a simple residential address which he has conveniently changed since the time he purchased his MUV and is now apparently a non-existent person. So now arises another question by corollary: What was the original purpose of purchasing the vehicle? White (read Russian) Slave Trading? Pedophilia? Smuggling - Alcohol, Narcotics, imported goods? Next question: What is going to be done to the corrupt RTO wallahs who accepted the bribes to register the vehicle? What remedial action is going to be taken to avoid future recurrence of such incidents? I could recommend a full Mandatory and comprehensive KYVO (Know Your Vehicle Ownership) to be carried out within 6 calendar months for each and every vehicle which is on the roads in Goa. Such an exercise was recently undertaken by the Mobile companies in the face of terrorism. If a mobile is a terror threat. then more so an automobile. Diggu bab ani Porrikar bab zaiat zage! Rajkaran thoddea disac sodat ani amchem bhangarachem Goyem favo tea baxen raj cholloiat. Rajkaran purn ani soggleach baxen assonc zai noi fokot bolsam bhorpak. Mog ani Devachem bessaum assum hea Natalak ani Khushalborit Novem Voros 2011 soglleancher. -- Tony de Sa. tonydesa at gmail dot com ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v
