[Goanet] Halal food in Britain?

[Con Menezes]

  
http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/37199807

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[Goanet] The New Zealand Haka.

[Con Menezes]

   Usually before a rugby encounter.  this was when they played against the 
French team. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiKFYTFJ_kw

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[Goanet] Opinions invited for the Goa Tourism Master Plan in a weeks time

[Goa Desc]

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Re: [Goanet] Goanet Volunteers

[Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا]

On 28 August 2016 at 00:10, Roland  wrote:

> I know this from personal experiences that have arisen from diverse
> circumstances and people whom I have never dreamt of write to me from some
> corner of the globe in reply to a certain post. To give a very small
> example, years ago I wrote about a then famous Bombay Tiatrist Robin Vaz
> who passed away a long time ago and I wrote about his characterization of
> Agente Monteiro and his bringing down the house in Byculla and Mazagon with
> his Kunbi music impersonations. I quickly received a heartwarming note of
> thanks from his niece in Toronto whom I'd never met, but who told me that
> but for my post, she thought her uncle was quite forgotten.


What about Agente Monteiro's son?
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/tracking-goa-s-dreaded-agent-via-cyberspace/story-gFKbGMozaw31MkJaXV8b4H.html
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[Goanet-News] Volume Zero: Documentary on Charles Correa

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A tribute to great Indian Architect Charles Correa on his demise.

The most comprehensive documentary on Charles correa ever made.
Director: Arun Khopkar
Visit : https://archcritik.wordpress.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzK86VPXUs8
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[Goanet-News] Goanet's 22nd anniversary

[Herman Carneiro]

Dear Goanetters,

I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you to all of your who have
supported Goanet throughout the years. I congratulate all of you on this
milestone.

Special thanks to our moderators and volunteers, especially FN, Bosco and
Gabe.

We're always looking for volunteers to help. Drop us a line if you can
spare a little time to get involved.

As always, please consider supporting us financially by making a small
donation. To do so please email me.

Thank you, again, for your support.

-- 
Herman Carneiro
www.Goanet.org
Where Goans Connect!

[Goanet] Goanet Volunteers

[Roland]

My friend Mervyn Lobo has made an unfair comment about the same volunteers 
serving for the past 22 years.

In one of my more exhuberant moments, I offered to be a volunteer years ago 
when Goanet publicly solicited its readership, but my offer was met was a 
stony, non-acknowledgement. In retrospect, I am glad I was "rejected".

What was left unsaid is that the work calls for a lot of hard disciplined work 
and in the case of moderators a 24/7 application of efforts. All volunteerism 
by its very nature is a commitment, but to be a Goanet volunteer requires one 
to be more driven than most other opportunities need you to be.

So if someone else chooses to do the work and I reap the benefits, all the more 
power to them.

As for Eugene and Bernado deriding the fact that the board has 10,000 daily 
readers, a claim is a claim until someone in Goanet's back office decides to 
exhibit some kind of proof which they haven't done up to now, but the fact 
remains that there is no Diasporic communication list that currently remotely 
replaces Goanet's reach.

Silent, though most of the readers and membership may are, be sure the ghostly 
ten thousand avidly read the bulletin board more often than you would expect. I 
know this from personal experiences that have arisen from diverse circumstances 
and people whom I have never dreamt of write to me from some corner of the 
globe in reply to a certain post. To give a very small example, years ago I 
wrote about a then famous Bombay Tiatrist Robin Vaz who passed away a long time 
ago and I wrote about his characterization of Agente Monteiro and his bringing 
down the house in Byculla and Mazagon with his Kunbi music impersonations. I 
quickly received a heartwarming note of thanks from his niece in Toronto whom 
I'd never met, but who told me that but for my post, she thought her uncle was 
quite forgotten.

Roland Francis
Toronto.

[Goanet] Mopa Airport

[Roland]

While Churchill Alemao and the Salcette politicos were protesting and 
demonstrating their hearts out against Mopa, the project is steadily proceeding 
in the background.

A contract worth 4,500 crores has been awarded for the work. No doubt there 
will be major over-runs by the time it is completed.

There should be a technocratic NGO that quantifies even as an intelligent 
estimate, how much of each tender, project and major expense item of the Goa 
Govt starting with Mopa and extending to everything else, is actually spent 
legitimately on the work done.

As of now, everybody knows that part of everything is swallowed by illegitimate 
dealings i.e. bribery and corruption, but few if any know how much. 

The tax payer will be better equipped with this knowledge.

Time will tell whether Mopa was needed and Churchill was wrong.

Roland Francis
Toronto.

[Goanet] Gender Equality and the Bombay High Court

[Roland]

Here is the link to the TOI article by Rosy Sequeira which I showed at the 
bottom of my post but which didn't work since it was from the TOI app and not 
from the Internet.

https://www.google.ca/amp/m.timesofindia.com/city/mumbai/Allow-equal-access-to-women-at-Haji-Ali/amp_articleshow/53885904.cms?client=safari#amph=1

Roland Francis

[Goanet] Acts of Mun. Comm. which holds Mumbai citizens to ransom.

[Robin Viegas]

From: b sabha 


From: Charles D'Sa >

From: G R Vora >
To: BMC Mun Comm >
Cc: Act_Kamlakar_Shenoy 
>, Email Petiton 
Group >




To, 
  27.8.2016
Shri Ajoy Mehta,
Municipal Commisioner,
BMC Head Office, Room No. 46,  Old Bldg., 1st Floor,
Mahapalika Marg,  Mumbai – 41.


Dear Mr Ajoy Mehta,

At the outset I wish to state that my submissions below are with due respect 
and all humility, with no intention to cause hurt and injury to any individual 
and /or institution, but only in the interest of public at large. In the event, 
if my submissions are incorrect, I shall be obliged if your office can educate 
me by furnishing relevant documents in support. Without prejudice to my rights 
and contentions I submit as under.


Subject :--

Your following improper conduct, brought to your notice by activist – Mr 
Kamlakar Shenoy (Cell No. 9870987359, E-mail :  
shenoykr2...@yahoo.co.in), which holds the 
Mumbai citizens to ransom :--

a.Turning a blind eye to illegal construction, (in almost whole of Mumbai)

b.   Turning a blind eye to sub standard roads which endangers life and limbs 
of citizens. (almost whole of Mumbai).

c.Awarding roads and bridges contract to tainted contractors even after 
having knowledge of sub standard work carried out by tainted contractors. ( 
Hon. High Court cancels a contract too).

d.   Inaction against encroachment on roads and footpath by erecting shops 
making the roads and footpaths impassable and endangering life and limbs of the 
citizens. (e.g JJ hospital to Akbar Peerbhoy college, Crowford market to Bhendi 
bazar, Bhendibazar to Char null, Y.M. road and many others in Mumbai)

e.Deficiency of service, permitting illegal occupation of premises without 
valid occupation certificate.

f. Permitting illegal construction in Dongri, Pydhonie,  Bhendi bazaar 
(Mumbai 44, 48, 49 ) and no remedial action against such illegal 
constructions and BMC officers.

g.Aiding the illegal buildings constructed on the plots reserved for public 
amenities. e.g Plot no. 746, Stanley Fernandes Wadi, Near Catering College , 
Prabhadevi, Mumbai-25. (Copy attached no. 1)

h.   Shielding the Ex Municipal Commissioner and officers of BMC who illegally

i. Reduced the Play Ground space from 2006 to 1283 Sq.mtrs without 
authority at Dasturwadi, Dadar E.

ii.   Issued occupation certificate without Play Ground and Recreation ground 
as per sanctioned plan

iii. Issued occupation certificate when the construction carried out in not in 
accordance with sanction Plan. (Copy attached no. 2)

i. Spending of tax money to pay lawyers / Sr. Counsels’ fees and shield the 
BMC officers against whom FIRs are registered for committing offences which 
have no connection with discharge of official duty.

j. Many other illegal acts brought to your notice by activist – Mr Kamlakar 
Shenoy.


Reference : --


a.Your statement in Mumbai Mirror dt. 8.8.16 that BMC will not allow 
housing industry to be held to ransom. Avoiding meeting citizens and denying to 
provide the visitors book disclosing how many ordinary citizens are given 
appointment.

b.   Meeting tainted developers by making them sit in VIP lounge on 4.7.2016.

c.Denying the request to get the queries raised by whole of Building 
Proposal Dept, (City) from Sr. Counsel  and UD Department.


Please wake up Mr Ajoy Mehta :--

In the larger interest of citizens you need to justify your following acts done 
as Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai  :--


1.   Your statement to Mumbai Mirror newspaper : “BMC will not allow housing 
industry to be held to ransom.” However, you have :--



a.…. not denied nor gave any clarifications on the issues raised by me and 
building proposal department about the illegal opinion given by legal department

b.   ….. not clarified illegal sanction of building without compliance of 
section 39  and 92 of MRTP act, which deprives the citizens of basic amenities 
such as Municipal theatre.



2.   Please give your clarification as to why you have held the ordinary 
citizens to ransom on the issues raised herein above. What action have you 
taken to remove the above illegalities which hold a ordinary citizen to ransom.



3.   I say that you should also clarify whether your office works for rich and 
powerful society or for common man at large. If so why have you not provided 
list of visitors you have met since you took as MC.



4.   You shall clarify whether you Mr. Ajoy Mehta can hold to ransom all the 
citizens of Mumbai who pay you salary and extra ordinary perks by 

[Goanet] URGENT PRESS STATEMENT:CHRI and PRW question the need for new proposed security legislation- 'Maharashtra Protection of Internal Security Act, 2016'

[Robin Viegas]

From: b sabha 


From: Dolphy D'souza >



Dear All,

The Government of Maharashtra has drafted an Maharashtra Protection of Internal 
Security Act 2016. Some very problematic provisions. They say they are going to 
put this in the public domain for comments and feedback - we must hold them to 
a proper process. The Bill is on the Maharashtra Government , Home Department's 
website.. The Bill is attached for your ready reference.

Also find enclosed the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative [CHRI ] and Police 
Reforms Watch press note released to the media.

If such a law comes into force will lead to the emergence of a police state 
within a democratic set-up. We must protest and object to such an Act soon.

Do forward it to you network too. Do send us your comments and any suggested 
action plan to campaign against this.

Please note my new number.

Dolphy A. D'souza
Cell: 9833884227
Convenor
POLICE REFORMS WATCH
Email: policereformswa...@gmail.com
W: www.policereformswatch.org


- Original Message -
From: Police Reforms Watch
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 6:45 PM
Subject: : URGENT PRESS STATEMENT:CHRI and PRW question the need for new 
proposed security legislation- Maharashtra Protectionof Internal Security Act, 
2016


CHRI and PRW question the need for new proposed security legislation
Press Statement, 26 August 2016

The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and Police Reforms Watch 
seriously question both the necessity and the justification for another new 
internal security law as proposed by the Maharashtra government’s Protection of 
Internal Security Bill 2016. We are particularly concerned with the wide scope 
of the Bill.  Created purportedly to deal with multiple security challenges, 
the State once again bestows more and more sweeping powers on the executive and 
the police, all without the requisite accountability.

The omnibus Bill tries to deal with challenges of “terrorism, insurgency, 
communalism, caste violence, etc” all in one legislation and does not 
differentiate between the nature of the threats from each. Specific laws are 
already in place to deal with many of these matters. In order to bring every 
kind of threat under one law, the Bill relies on dangerously vague catch-all 
definitions, which are totally insufficient to further justify criminalisation 
or prohibition. It is equally alarming that the Bill gives the state government 
and police sweeping discretionary powers in the absence of sufficient checks or 
accountability for abuse of power.

Maja Daruwala, the Director of CHRI, states, “This Bill is ill-considered both 
in its intent and content. Every citizen should be alarmed at the sweep of laws 
like this which are designed for abuse. The greatest security the state can 
provide all of us is to make sure we have an honest efficient and law upholding 
police and a court system geared to give us speedy and fair justice. Certainly 
more and more laws only go to muddying the waters and reducing people’s power 
to face up to oppression”.
The Bill has been released into the public domain ahead of the next Assembly 
session. This provides an opportunity for an exhaustive debate to discuss the 
necessity of any new law as well as the state of policing and security in 
Maharashtra.

For more information, contact:
Mr. Dolphy D’Souza, Convenor Police Reforms Watch
Cell: 09833884227
Email: policereformswa...@gmail.com
105-B, Evergreen Apts, Mith Chowky, Marve Road, Malad West, Mumbai 400 064
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) is an independent, 
non-partisan, international NGO working for the practical realisation of human 
rights in the countries of the Commonwealth.
Police Reforms Watch is a coalition of concerned citizens and civil society 
groups who have been working to catalyse the demand for Better Policing in 
Mumbai/ Maharashtra
--  Visit Network for Improved Policing 
in South Asia (NIPSA): http://www.nipsa.in/

Visit Facebook Page on Police Reforms: https://www.facebook.com/FixPolicingNow

More info on our website: 
www.humanrightsinitiative.org

[Goanet] Mumbai: BMC makes a farce of DP, may junk all 9,616 citizen’s inputs ...HT 27 Aug pg 5

[Robin Viegas]

From: b sabha 





  *   27 Aug 2016
  *   Mumbai
  *   Tanushree Venkatraman 
tanushree.venkatra...@hindustantimes.com

BMC makes a farce of DP, may junk all 9,616 citizen’s inputs

Committee to study objections exists only on paper as Sena delays appointing 
members

MUMBAI: Your objections on the city’s Development Plan (DP) 2034 are likely to 
go unheard by your elected corporators. While Shiv Sena, the party that heads 
the civic body, has delayed the formation of the planning committee that has to 
hear the objections, civic officials say time is running out.

According to Section 28 of the Mumbai Regional Town Planning (MRTP) Act, 1966, 
the planning committee has to submit a report “within two months from the date 
of its appointment”. Though the state formed the committee on August 12, the 
BMC is yet to appoint officials to it.

According to the Act, the committee must comprise three standing committee 
members and four experts appointed by the state government. It is to hear the 
9,616 objections filed in by citizens between May and July, 2016. It will then 
submit a report to the general body which will, in turn, submit it to the state 
government in another two months.

The committee has already lost two weeks since August 12.

A senior civic official, who did not wish to be named, said, “The time period 
is two months, immaterial of the committee’s functioning.. The time period is 
essential because the city cannot lose any more time on the DP. There is too 
much confusion in the real estate market.”

With no sanctioned DP for the city in more than two years now, the BMC is 
following the chief minister’s order of considering both, DP 1991 and 2034 and 
applying the rules. “Work is getting delayed,” the official said.

On Tuesday, the Sena indefinitely postponed the committee’s formation, stating 
that all group leaders from various political parties should be a part of it — 
a demand that will require an amendment in the MRTP Act. Trushna Vishwasrao, 
leader of the house and Sena corporator said that the municipal commissioner 
needs to “shed more light” on the committee’s role before its formation.

Asif Zakaria, a Congress corporator who opposed the Sena’s demand in the house 
said the Sena-BJP’s infighting is making the city suffer.


DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2034: THE STORY SO FAR


The city's blueprint for its infrastructure development for the next 20 years 
has been long pending. Following a public outcry over the draft Development 
Plan (DP) 2034 released in February 2015, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis 
ordered its revision. The plan has already been delayed by two years.

[http://cache3-img1.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/docserver/getimage.aspx?regionguid=4fd0a26d-920e-4479-8729-feaae6d84aa9=166=873320160827001001=N%2frV%2fnkO19zz5iwgba1t%2bA%3d%3d]HT
 FILE PHOTOThe BMC fears that the delay in forming the committee may result in 
the citizens’ observations going unheard.

BMC sought two extensions following which the revised draft was published on 
May 27, 2016. BMC released the blueprint in four different phases to receive 
observations from citizens that have been included in the revised draft.

Citizens were given 60 days from the date of publishing to send in their 
suggestions and objections. 9,616 objections were submitted by July 29, 2016, 
the last date. BMC has faced opposition from political parties such as Shiv 
Sena and NGOs on its plans to open up no-development zones and salt-pan lands 
for affordable housing in the city. According to the MRTP Act, BMC has to 
submit it to the state government within six months from the date of its 
publication. “If they (the Sena and BJP) wanted an amendment in the Act, it 
could have been done during the monsoon session. Why wait all this while? These 
are delaying tactics by both parties because of the upcoming civic elections.” 
ASIF ZAKARIA, a Congress corporator on the delay in the DP committee formation

[Goanet] Succession laws... changes in Goa

[Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا]

The succession laws have recently got changed in Goa. Some hints here that
it could be misused. But is there any detailed analysis please?
See
http://goacom.com/succession-laws-changed-but-lawyers-wary-about-state-govts-right-to-change/
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[Goanet] Gender Equality and the Bombay High Court

[Roland]

The Haji Ali is an architecturally beautiful low-rise mosque in Bombay's Worli 
area that is separated from the city's landmass by a narrow strip of land 
accessible only during low tide. The Dargah or mausoleum, houses the body of a 
Sufi Saint. 

Indian Sufism by the way is liberal and thus diametrically opposite in Islamic 
observance to Saudi Arabia's harsh Wah'abism. The mosque is such a well known 
land mark that even the area around the mosque as a destination, has long been 
known as Haji Ali.

Women were allowed entry up to the tomb but in 2012 on the pretext of the fair 
sex being molested in the dense crowds lining up for viewing, the Trust that 
manages the mosque barred women within a certain distance of the tomb. 

The actual reason probably was that even the followers of Sufism were getting 
less tolerant of liberal practices in response to hardcore Sunnis referring to 
them as apostates.

When the issue was taken to court by a woman's group on the grounds of their 
fundamental rights being infringed, the arguments of the Haji Ali Dargah Trust 
were on religious grounds: that a section of the Constitution allowed religious 
bodies to manage their own affairs and referred to verses of the Quran to 
support the segregation of women (one of the Quranic injunctions against women 
being that they are unclean when menstruating).

The High Court ruled in favour of the women. In its judgement, it said that the 
Quran does not discriminate against women per se and that in any case the 
section of the Indian constitution that upholds every citizen's fundamental 
rights had been violated and that this section over-rides the section where 
religious bodies could conduct their own affairs.

Leave has been given by the HC to the Trust for appeal to the Supreme Court but 
this whole issue brings up an interesting question for the Catholics of India.

What if a women's group (there are many militant active Catholic women's groups 
specially in Kerala that have arisen due to the rampant abuse of nuns and poor 
women by priests), petitions a State High Court, choosing a liberal one, to 
allow women to become priests.

There are many arguments for it, not the least of which is that there is no 
discrimination against women in the Bible, only in the all-male Church. The 
petition could also cite as precedent the BHC's ruling against the Dargah Trust 
in circumstances closely aligning with the Haji Ali case.

The Catholic Church needs an awakening beyond that being given by the current 
Pope.

Allow equal access to women at Haji Ali: HC 

Roland Francis
Toronto.

[Goanet] Armando Colaco’s men will be looking to bounce back from their defeat against Salgaocar

[FC Bardez]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below a match preview of  Goa Pro league  match of FC Bardez
Goa and Salgaocar FC.  Please print this match report in your respective
newspapers.

Armando Colaco’s men will be looking to bounce back from their defeat
against Salgaocar…

FC Bardez Goa will take on Churchill Brothers Sports Club in the Goa Pro
League at Duler Stadium tomorrow.

Read full report -

https://khelnow.com/news/article/fc_bardez_goa_take_on_churchill_brothers_on_super_sunday_in_goa_pro_league

Picture and Report Courtesy :  FC Bardez Digital Media and Mobile App
Partner – Khel Now

Regards,

Clive Alvares,
Media Manager – FC Bardez

Mobile - +919146306757
https://khelnow.com/team/FC_Bardez_Goa