[Goanet] 1, 4, 54, 280 - How many babies are missing

[Roland Francis]

An excellent and incisive article by Anurabh Saikia on Scroll.in copied to 
Goanet reader.

A lot more information and background on the scandal than any other superficial 
reports the Indian media has so far provided.

One thing is clear. 
1. The tribals for whom the state was carved out are exploited more than ever. 
2. The child welfare committes have far more power than is good for them and 
they misuse it.
3. Nirmal Hriday and other NGOs like it take advantage of the opportunities 
that come to them to increase their outreach and exercise lax supervision on 
their own activities.
4. Everybody wins: Child Welfare who turn a blind eye when money is passed 
around since they get a part of it, Nirmal Hriday who get influence with 
tribals by helping out with unwed mothers and destitute new-born children and 
exploit it to evangelize. 
5. The BJP who make unfounded allegations and get political brownie points. 
Their real motive is to open up tribal land with resource robbing corporation 
who supply them with tons of ill-gotten money. For every one rupee the Sisters 
of Charity get from anywhere, the BJP gets a million.

The only losers are the tribals who are trafficked by Delhi moneybags in the 
same manner as they have despoiled Goa with their real estate shenanigans, 
caring little for law, procedures or feelings of the people they hurt and the 
country to which they belong.

Roland.

[Goanet] Photos of devastating wildfires outside Athens Greece.

[Con Menezes]

   
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/07/photos-of-the-devastating-wildfires-outside-athens-greece/565937/?utm_source=newsletter_medium=email_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter_content=20180724=MzEwMTkwMDgxMjU0S0

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[Goanet] Science & Technology. The rise of the Robo chefs.

[Con Menezes]

  
https://media.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21745748-cooking-bots-are-fast-reliable-and-dont-swear-their-underlings-rise

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[Goanet] Easy listenng selection....When I fall in Love....Nat King Cole.

[Con Menezes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfAb0gNPy6s

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[Goanet] Reminder 24/7

[Gilbert Lawrence]

From: Roland Francis 
If you've promised anyone that you'll love them 24/7;

Today is 24/7.

--
GL responds
So if the guy just cannot keep his promise to love her 24/7, (or worse still 
forgot), the girls may settle for anything that goes from 0 to 200 in 3 seconds 
flat. 
So here is a tip to get our Goan combo out of that jam:  Don't fret.  Buy her a 
(weighing) scale.
Best wishes GL

[Goanet] Goanet is evolving... a new avatar

[Eugene Correia]

Over the last couple of months, I have noticed a spate of Utube links to 
Konkani songs as well as old English favourites. Goanet seems to be losing its 
focus, going astray.
Fred used to provide statistics on who posted the highest number of posts. Wish 
to know who is at the top in recent times. Requesting Fred to also give the 
total figure of subscribers. 

Eugene


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[Goanet-News] One, four, 54, 280? How many babies do the Missionaries of Charity stand accused of selling? (Arunabh Saikia in Scroll.in)

[Goanet Reader]

GROUND REPORT

One, four, 54, 280? How many babies do the Missionaries of
Charity stand accused of selling?

Jharkhand police's case against
the charity has sparked a
political controversy in the
state, with Christian groups
alleging a media trial.

by  Arunabh Saikia
Published Jul 23, 2018 · 09:00 am

PHOTO: A shelter home on the outskirts of Ranchi, Jharkhand |
Manob Chowdhury

  Budhini was a little over a month old when her
  father, Bishram Soy, brought her to Ranchi on June
  27. Soy's wife, Salomi, had bled to death while
  delivering Budhini. Exactly a week later, their
  elder daughter, underweight and persistently ill
  since her birth, died too. Soy, a marginal tribal
  farmer in Jharkhand's Khunti district, realised it
  was beyond him to take care of another sick child
  -- Budhini had been plagued by acute bronchitis
  ever since she was born. He had heard about the
  Nirmala Shishu Bhavan, a children's home run by the
  Missionaries of Charity, an organisation founded by
  Mother Teresa, which took care of orphans and other
  deserted children, and decided to leave Budhini in
  its care.

The Nirmala Shishu Bhavan was home to 21 other children -- all
less than two years old. Twenty of them, like Budhini, were
single-parent children whose mothers had died during
child-delivery. One child's mother, according to the records,
was terminally ill.

However, days after Budhini arrived, on July 6, Ranchi's
child welfare committee shifted all 22 infants out to another
shelter home. Established under India's Juvenile Justice Act,
district child welfare committees are custodians of
vulnerable children in need of care and protection from the
state.

The decision to move the 22 infants was triggered by a
scandal that has made headlines around the world: Ranchi's
child welfare committee alleged that employees of Nirmal
Hriday, another shelter run by the Missionaries of Charity in
the city, were "selling babies".

A shelter home for unmarried pregnant women, Nirmal Hriday
assisted them towards safe institutional child-delivery.
Until 2015, it also acted like an adoption home: once a baby
was born in its care, if the biological parents were
unwilling to take responsibility, it registered the newborn
with the child welfare committee, as mandated by the law, and
then placed it for adoption.

  But this changed in 2015, when India framed new
  adoption rules. Aimed at introducing transparency
  in adoption, the new rules require prospective
  adoptive parents to register on a centralised
  online government database, which connects them
  directly to children in adoption centres registered
  on the network. Missionaries of Charity refused to
  be part of the network and closed down all its
  adoption agencies in the country, on grounds that a
  freshly introduced provision to allow single-parent
  adoptions went against its religious beliefs. In
  short: any adoption through the Missionaries of
  Charity now is a punishable offence and amounts to
  human trafficking. The homes run by the charity
  must surrender the newborn children in their care
  to the child welfare committee, which will decide
  where to place them.

But Ranchi's child welfare committee alleges Nirmal Hriday
failed to inform it about children born under its care on
several occasions. It claims to have scanned the records of
the home and found 54 of out 122 children born under its
aegis since 2016 were now "untraceable".

After the child welfare committee filed a complaint against
Nirmal Hriday, the police registered a first information
report on July 3 and arrested an employee of the home, Anima
Indwar. In a written statement to the police, Indwar admitted
to giving away three newborns in exchange for money, and
detailed a fourth transaction that she was aware of, but not
involved in. She also claimed that Sister Concilia, the nun
supervising the unit of unwed pregnant women at the home, was
an accomplice. Soon, a video was leaked in which the nun --
now in police custody -- is seen confessing her involvement to
an unseen policeman.

"You wait and watch," said the committee's chairperson Rupa
Verma in an interview in her office in Ranchi. "We are doing
an investigation now, when the results come out, more
skeletons will come tumbling out of their closet."

  Earlier, several local dailies had reported that as
  many as 280 children had been found to have been
  sold off by the charity between 2015 and 2018. The
  police had clarified that there was no basis to
  these numbers.

  A senior police official of the state told
  Scroll.in that the police investigations were
  limited to one case involving four newborns, not
  

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[Goanet] One, four, 54, 280? How many babies do the Missionaries of Charity stand accused of selling? (Arunabh Saikia in Scroll.in)

[Goanet Reader]

GROUND REPORT

One, four, 54, 280? How many babies do the Missionaries of
Charity stand accused of selling?

Jharkhand police's case against
the charity has sparked a
political controversy in the
state, with Christian groups
alleging a media trial.

by  Arunabh Saikia
Published Jul 23, 2018 · 09:00 am

PHOTO: A shelter home on the outskirts of Ranchi, Jharkhand |
Manob Chowdhury

  Budhini was a little over a month old when her
  father, Bishram Soy, brought her to Ranchi on June
  27. Soy's wife, Salomi, had bled to death while
  delivering Budhini. Exactly a week later, their
  elder daughter, underweight and persistently ill
  since her birth, died too. Soy, a marginal tribal
  farmer in Jharkhand's Khunti district, realised it
  was beyond him to take care of another sick child
  -- Budhini had been plagued by acute bronchitis
  ever since she was born. He had heard about the
  Nirmala Shishu Bhavan, a children's home run by the
  Missionaries of Charity, an organisation founded by
  Mother Teresa, which took care of orphans and other
  deserted children, and decided to leave Budhini in
  its care.

The Nirmala Shishu Bhavan was home to 21 other children -- all
less than two years old. Twenty of them, like Budhini, were
single-parent children whose mothers had died during
child-delivery. One child's mother, according to the records,
was terminally ill.

However, days after Budhini arrived, on July 6, Ranchi's
child welfare committee shifted all 22 infants out to another
shelter home. Established under India's Juvenile Justice Act,
district child welfare committees are custodians of
vulnerable children in need of care and protection from the
state.

The decision to move the 22 infants was triggered by a
scandal that has made headlines around the world: Ranchi's
child welfare committee alleged that employees of Nirmal
Hriday, another shelter run by the Missionaries of Charity in
the city, were "selling babies".

A shelter home for unmarried pregnant women, Nirmal Hriday
assisted them towards safe institutional child-delivery.
Until 2015, it also acted like an adoption home: once a baby
was born in its care, if the biological parents were
unwilling to take responsibility, it registered the newborn
with the child welfare committee, as mandated by the law, and
then placed it for adoption.

  But this changed in 2015, when India framed new
  adoption rules. Aimed at introducing transparency
  in adoption, the new rules require prospective
  adoptive parents to register on a centralised
  online government database, which connects them
  directly to children in adoption centres registered
  on the network. Missionaries of Charity refused to
  be part of the network and closed down all its
  adoption agencies in the country, on grounds that a
  freshly introduced provision to allow single-parent
  adoptions went against its religious beliefs. In
  short: any adoption through the Missionaries of
  Charity now is a punishable offence and amounts to
  human trafficking. The homes run by the charity
  must surrender the newborn children in their care
  to the child welfare committee, which will decide
  where to place them.

But Ranchi's child welfare committee alleges Nirmal Hriday
failed to inform it about children born under its care on
several occasions. It claims to have scanned the records of
the home and found 54 of out 122 children born under its
aegis since 2016 were now "untraceable".

After the child welfare committee filed a complaint against
Nirmal Hriday, the police registered a first information
report on July 3 and arrested an employee of the home, Anima
Indwar. In a written statement to the police, Indwar admitted
to giving away three newborns in exchange for money, and
detailed a fourth transaction that she was aware of, but not
involved in. She also claimed that Sister Concilia, the nun
supervising the unit of unwed pregnant women at the home, was
an accomplice. Soon, a video was leaked in which the nun --
now in police custody -- is seen confessing her involvement to
an unseen policeman.

"You wait and watch," said the committee's chairperson Rupa
Verma in an interview in her office in Ranchi. "We are doing
an investigation now, when the results come out, more
skeletons will come tumbling out of their closet."

  Earlier, several local dailies had reported that as
  many as 280 children had been found to have been
  sold off by the charity between 2015 and 2018. The
  police had clarified that there was no basis to
  these numbers.

  A senior police official of the state told
  Scroll.in that the police investigations were
  limited to one case involving four newborns, not
  

[Goanet] Kandy Lamissi (The Girl From Kandy)

[Roland Francis]

Sung in English but in the popular Sri Lankan Bailla style.

https://youtu.be/vPLDKyAPrz8

Roland.

[Goanet] Rajan Ani Prema

[Roland Francis]

My personal favourite.
This one is done by Remo and Alisha Chennai.

Gonzaga Coutinho does it superbly too. 

https://youtu.be/77mTtp0Tf18

Roland

[Goanet] An illustration for A Radical Cure: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on the Need for Roots

[Venantius J Pinto]

O ghoran!

Not Goa-related in the usual sense and parameters laid down on Goanet, but
my (Goan) illustration supports Scott Remers's, A Radical Cure: Hannah
Arendt and Simone Weil on the Need for Roots

in
Philosophy Now #127, UK. Having said that it will resonate with our angsts
in the Goa and the "marekar dis" of the goonhood/bamtemponn of today (if
anything else will). Yeah, coconut is a grass! Zoi, zoi.

Do share any thoughts you may have and certainly any on the illustration.
As George Bewrnanos said: All is grace. Skip words like awesome, good, and
other bandshiren (kitchen rags) terms. :) All said without any malicious
intent.

Do feel free to share. Trying to run up ivory towers, while in between
hoping to generate some wealth. Chortle, chortle.

Thank you,

Venantius J Pinto

[Goanet] Reminder 24/7

[Roland Francis]

If you’ve promised anyone that you’ll love them 24/7;

Today is 24/7.

Roland.

[Goanet] Goan Nostalgia ~ Old Pics of Goa & Goans.

[Roland Francis]

For those who have not eyeballed these before.

For those who have, do it again.

https://youtu.be/muzJmVXae6g

Roland. 

[Goanet] Reprise - Goan Clubs In Bombay.

[Roland Francis]

https://youtu.be/YTYE1WGcTdI

Roland.

[Goanet] Bhurgeponn (Childhood)

[Roland Francis]

Dr Francisco Colaco of Margao a gentleman cardiologist.

He sings Portuguese and Konkani songs almost as well as he repairs old tickers.

https://youtu.be/q1yz2qJn09k

Roland.

[Goanet] GFDO Letter to Chief Secretary regarding Mopa Concessionaire Agreement

[Edwin/Diana Pinto]

July 20, 2018



The Chief Secretary,

Government of Goa,

Panaji

G O A



Dear Sir,

As Chief Secretary of Goa state, we are sure you will agree that effective 
governance would normally require that all major projects be announced only 
after analysis and delivery of an in depth and painstaking report that would 
first examine the feasibility of the project itself, while also considering 
local conditions, impact and repercussions of the project on the land and the 
community.

These basics of good governance however, seem to have been ignored by the Goa 
Government, which with unseemly haste, plunged headlong into the imposition and 
implementation of the Mopa Airport project in 2013, apparently without any 
serious application of mind and study of the viability and suitability of this 
controversial project, especially since concerned citizens have been expressing 
their apprehensions and putting forward unanswered questions right from day one.

After a close study, we are distressed and alarmed to find serious 
inconsistencies, procedural lapses, omissions and illegalities in the 
Concessionaire Agreement signed between the Government of Goa and GMR, that 
make it abundantly clear that the Government bent over backwards to give undue 
concessions to the Concessionaire at the cost of Goa and Goans, surrendering 
valuable land and foregoing much needed revenue, which is highly irregular and 
goes against the public interest. We therefore come to you as Chief Secretary 
of Goa, to raise some of the many anomalies in the Mopa Concessionaire 
Agreement for your consideration and immediate action.

1.   The Draft Appraisal Report was prepared in 2013, when Mr. Parrikar took 
over as Chief Minister. It was based on an Amman & Whitney Master Plan, created 
during the tenure of the previous Government. The income and expenditure 
analysis projected by KPMG, was based on the figures mentioned in the Amman & 
Whitney Master Plan. Interestingly, the KPMG Report concluded that on a 
standalone basis without land, the Airport project was not feasible and hence 
land should be given to the contractor for commercial use.


Strangely, after awarding the tender, the Airport developer GMR was permitted 
to prepare a whole new Master Plan in 2017, where the airport design plan and 
passenger traffic projections differed widely from the earlier Amman & Whitney 
Master Plan. The Government itself admitted that the Draft Financial Appraisal 
Report prepared by KPMG was entirely based on the earlier Amman & Whitney Plan, 
which with the new Master Plan in place now made it obsolete, outdated and 
irrelevant.


Since the whole basis upon which income and expenditure analysis was made had 
now been radically changed, why did the Government not order a fresh financial 
appraisal report on the GMR Master Plan? 


2.   9.38 lakh square metres of land for commercial development has been given 
free of cost to GMR (city side area). If the rule of thumb used by the CAG, 
with respect to Delhi Airport is adhered to, then the earning potential of such 
land over the 60 year lease period is calculated as 6 times the product of the 
market cost of the area of the land. Hence if Rs.25,000 per square metre is 
assumed to be the average cost of commercial land, then it appears that the 
Government of Goa has squandered the State’s earning potential to the tune of 
Rs.13,920 crore in exchange for an amount of just Rs.150 crore paid by GMR as a 
one time concession fee that covers all the expenditure incurred for land 
acquisition, consultants fees etc.


The KPMG report had recommended that a Joint Venture be set up between the 
Government and the developer so that the profits of the revenue generated from 
the commercial development of this land be shared. However, the Government has 
conceded all revenue earned from this resource to GMR. The Government has 
justified this “sell out” of a valuable public resource as necessary to its 
endeavor to make the project viable for the developer. 


According to AERA, after all the ongoing upgradation and additions at Goa’s 
existing and centrally located airport of Dabolim have been completed, it will 
be able to service 1.12 crore passengers by 2021 and thus, according to expert 
projections, have the ability to to handle Goa’s passenger traffic until 2036. 
In addition to Dabolim, Mopa Airport will have to compete for passengers with 
other airports in the vicinity namely Chippi, Karwar, Belgavi and Hubli – so 
you will surely appreciate that its chances at attaining viability are 
exceedingly slim indeed.


In the light of these circumstances, what was the need for the Goa Government 
to foist an unviable second airport on the State at such great cost to Goa and 
the community of Goans, given that we have a perfectly functional existing 
airport in Dabolim, whose efficiency and capacity is being further enhanced 
through ongoing expansion, upgradation and modernization?  


3.   As the bidder 

[Goanet] Kor Upkar (Konkani Duet)

[Roland Francis]

For your Tuesday blues.

https://youtu.be/hnJqMnUHnSA

Roland.

[Goanet] BLACK SMOKE IN THE CITY

[Stephen Dias]

Apart from formalin issue which is alarming this state of Goa we have
equally another powerful polluted black smoke emitting from the vehicles
which we are inhaling daily especially from the transport vehicles and
buses running on our roads and police are found only catching riders not
wearing helmets. This smoke can give rise to lung cancer with pulmorary
ailment or respiratory disease. Our cops and RTO officials are daily seen
catching especially young students riding motorcycles/scooters in the city
without helmet and challaning them but not for pollution certificates.
Buses or any vehicle emitting black smokes should have been a top priority?
Today while I was coming to Panjim from Dona Paula I saw a bus which was
giving a solid black smoke and none of the traffic police took any
interest. So I drove directly to the Traffic Cell department and inforned
all those cops sitting there  and gave the bus number so that this bus when
it reached the Panjim bus stand can be caught and channel the driver. But
none of them took any interest.There are plenty of such buses especially
from KTC and transport vehicles which comes with the load of consignment to
Panjim market are very much polluted. Even the SC has instructed the
Insurance companies not to issue insurance certificates to vehicles if they
do not produce polllution certificates. I have a bit experience that
certain approved private garages do issue pollution certificates without
much difficulties and there is no one so far is denied a pollution
certificate if their vehicle is even above the permissible limits.
Goverment must approve standard garages or some institutions for this
strict testing.
Definitely this environmental issue by polluting the cities is alarming and
could be much more harmful than of today's issue of formaldehyde which is
been mixing with fishes and now it appears rescinding slowly.

Stephen Dias
Dona Paula
mob 9422443110
24th July 2018
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[Goanet] BROKEN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

[John Eric Gomes]

WE ARE THE LAW!
Right from Pehlu Khan who was lynched for the rumor that he had beef in his 
fridge, to today' s Alwar lynching of Rakbar Khan, the Gau Rakshas and 
murderous mobs with State benevolence and police brutality in compliance, has 
been increasing with impunity! Ever since the BJP came into power we have been 
called Lynchisthan! The BJP keeps no stastics of lynching we are told. But the 
media has  and is chillingly exposing them. What is worse is the bizzare 
statements by  BJP ministers and responsible RSS members/spokespersons, shown 
live on Television,  justifying these ghastly murders! Here was a man whose 
cows were taken away from him, beaten by a mob, died under police custody. The 
police was more concerned on getting transport to send the cows illegally to a 
Gaushalla (and not the owners residence), also reportedly stopped for tea en 
route to the police station where the victim was seen alive and eventually 
taken to the hospital dead! The autopsy report says it all, with broken limbs 
and ribs. I saw a clip on Television showing a policeman kicking a floored 
Rakbhar! A telling statement was "The more Modi's popularity will get, the more 
lynchings will take place". Frightenning is the challenging of the Supreme 
Court and High Court decisions by government and encouraged/sponsored 
"spontenous" mobs! The Prime MInister just will not make a clear statement to 
stop this dangerous  nonsense and lets the double speak of "We condemn this 
dastardly deed, no one can take the law into own hands BUT(Lekin)."  then 
justify peoples sentiments, the Hindutva narrative and so on.  If the DGP is 
made responsible to implement the law by strict order and the state backs him, 
there will immediately be no law and order problem! In contravention of the 
Supreme Court and Mhadei Water Dispute Tribunal Karnataka diverts Kalsa river 
water to Malaprabha basin! Quotas decided by the SC (because the Executive is 
playing politics) leads to riots and destruction of vehicles and properties. An 
increasingly violent society with dangerous religious and communal dimensions, 
tardy implementaion of the law,  will pit one against the other and destroy 
this beautiful nation!

Re: [Goanet] Toronto The Bad?

[Roland Francis]

Apologies for not getting your question.

The Indian restaurant bombers are not yet caught, nor the killers of Barry and 
Honey Sherman who were the giant generic drug firm Apotex owners.

Perhaps the Toronto homicide and terror crimes squad can take a lesson or two 
from the London police.

Roland

> RESPONSE: Thank you for the info. I was asking about the Restaurant Bombers?
>> 
>>> Gabe Menezes.
>> 

[Goanet] De Beers moves elephants to Mocambique.

[Con Menezes]

 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-44929655?ocid=global_bbccom_email_23072018_top+news+stories

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Re: [Goanet] Toronto The Bad?

[Gabe Menezes]

On 23 July 2018 at 23:22, Roland Francis  wrote:

> This is the 4 hours ago breaking news.
>
> https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/siu-identifies-suspect-in-
> toronto-mass-shooting-1.4023591
>
> Roland.
>

RESPONSE: Thank you for the info. I was asking about the Restaurant Bombers?


>
> > DEV BOREM KORUM
> >
> > Gabe Menezes.
>



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Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Goa Priest, Accused Of Molestation, Says Charges "Fabricated"

[Gabe Menezes]

Is i right and proper to call a Pundit or a Pujari, a Priest? This is imho
misleading...

*http://tinyurl.com/yaskwakr *

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Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Manohar Parrikar To Fill In For Three Unwell Ministers In Goa Assembly

[Gabe Menezes]

Superman to the rescue of Goa.

*http://tinyurl.com/y9y5jfs6 *

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Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day.....Ethel Waters - Heat Wave (1933)

[Gabe Menezes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5PpCCfhBhY

We'll be hitting over 33 C so take care as per the met issued warning. If
your head is throbbing try this, Caveat Emptor.

how to make an electrolyte solution


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