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COST OF MULTIPLEX IN REAL TERMS SHANTARAM NAIKEx-M.P. Ex-President, Goa PCC, 2137, Near Swami Math, Gogol,Margao 403 602 0832-2759555 9822159161 19th Nov.2004 600 PRIMARY SCHOOLS 500 HEALTH CENTRES,200 Kms OF ROADS MEANS MULTIPLEX How much Goa has lost by way of developmental projects, with the Goa Government having invested Rs 30 crores (Rs 300 million) to build cinema theatres (multiplex), in Panaji Goa, when no Chief Minister of any State in our country would ever do so at the cost of much needed investments in health, sanitation, education, electricity roads etc? With thirty crores rupees, the government could have built an hospital like Victor Apollo in Margao which was erected at a cost 20 crores only. Government could have constructed 600 Primary Schools or 500 health centers or more than 200 kms of road at the same cost of 30 crores. A chief minister who does not understand the basics of priorities in a developing country, must be rated No 1 from the bottom in any performance evaluation exercise and Goa Chief Minister, perhaps may achieve that feat, soon. Those who get carried away by the glitter of multiplex at Panaji fail to understand that the project has not only robbed poor and middle class Goans, but that, their loss has been doubled as the project, ordinarily could not have cost not more than 15 crores. To complete the process of participation of the Goa Government by way of investment of public money in an unprecedented manner in an uncalled for project, the Chief Minister should now post his ministers as ticket-checkers at the four theatres in the multiplex building. Shantaram Naik