When Manohar Parrikar took over the last time, I, in all sincerity had
emailed him the following:
Manohar-bab, you are the son of Mapusa. Don't only polish your contituency
of Panjim. Also give a casual glance to your home town.
Three things: The Kadamba Bus terminus is an open toilet. The World Famous
and Touristic attraction, the Mapusa Market is a MESS in CAPITAL LETTERS.
Our Mapusa river is being polluted with raw sewage of entire Mapusa and it
is poisoned already.
Please attend to these three things on priority basis and do yourself a
favour.
I got a reply:
Florian-bab, you can expect vast changes in Mapusa before Christmas.
My email was somewhere in September. The response was prompt. Therefore I
waited until past Christmas to send him this email:
Manohar-bab,
With reference to your above email in response to mine, pray which Christmas
did you mean???
All correspondence stop at that.
This is for your kind information only.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rajan P. Parrikar" <parri...@yahoo.com>
To: <goa...@goanet.org>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 5:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Mapusa and the new dispensation
To Goanet -
Tony de Sa:
Mapusa is in the limelight, it being the residential town of both CM M.
Parrikar and Dy CM Francis C J D'Souza. Unfortunately,
Mapusa reeks like a pig sty and is in a total shambles. From
being North Goa's premier shopping/ bazaar town, it has descended to
becoming a ghanti town. The problem with Mapusa is the same as what ails
most of Goan towns. Please don't glorify them by calling them cities.
Parking is chaotic, the roads are narrow, the pavements are encroached,
there is tons of garbage, real stinky garbage strewn all around. Pan
splatters stain the external walls. Public amenities - toilet facilities,
parks, gardens, etc are prominent by their absence. The Ravindra Bhavan
which was supposed to come up was delayed because of the customary 20
percent baksheesh to the Minister for PWD (+ 2 p.c. for his agent) was not
coughed up. The bus stand is in a mess and stinks more like an open sewer.
The Market requires a total overhaul and the fish and vegetable markets are
crying for completion. The big nullah which carries raw
sewage and then empties itself into one of
the creeks of the Mapusa river is a health disaster waiting to happen.
Our CM and Dy CM (also the Urban Affair Minister) pass through Mapusa every
day. With there be a bonanza for Mapusa in terms of real development and
beautification? Last time round when Parrikar was the CM he had said that
he would clean up Mapusa since he had finished with Panjim and that Mapusa
was neglected. Unfortunately, the reins of Government were snatched from
his hands. So will Parrikar and Francis rise to the occasion and revive the
lost glory of Mapusa?
It is not just Mapusa. The whole of Goa has decayed into a ghati town.
I suggest you go meet both the CM and the Dy CM and renew your appeal
verbally and through a written list. I, too, have put forth my charter of
action
items for Panjim (as well as Goa). Give them some time (100-150 days, say).
We'll see if some of those items are addressed by then. That'll give us an
indication whether the new administration means business (or not).
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