15 Sep 2018  |   05:08am IST

Of bribe givers and bribe takers

Ivor Pereira

During the Congress rule the then minister for industries, Luizinho Faleiro had invited companies and industries from outside the State to come up and set up shop in Goa and promised them incentives for the same and companies and industries were set up for that purpose. The treasury coffers started filling up so that the same could be used for the development of other projects on the pipeline. 

What I do not understand is how can a government put a clause that these companies should employ Goans who do not have the required skills for these industries? Most of the components/units manufactured should be of high quality because they are exported abroad and even if one component is defective the whole consignment is sent back thus making it a loss for the company in way of lost manpower, energy, raw materials, etc. So no one in their right mind would employ unskilled labour. And no law is there for the same. If the government wants to actually take these companies to task they should make them responsible for the pollution, digging of bore wells, providing decent housing for their migrated staff, toilets, etc. But will the government do so? 

Again what I do not understand that the government is trying to introduce a law that will absorb all Goan youth by the year 2022. The government has now literately fallen at the feet of companies to absorb our Goan youth into their company and lieu they will give them 80% subsidiaries. They have become the bribe givers and law breakers. On the other hand the companies will gleefully accept such an offer and so they become the bribe takers.

It is up to the learned activists to see if such a law will hold as what the government is doing is stealing from Peter to pay Paul (stealing from the taxpayers to pay the companies). Can the government take our money without our permission?

Again what I do not understand is if Zuari Agro Chemicals, MPT, GSL and other older companies like MRF, CIBA, etc, could get skilled Goan workers why can't these new companies do so?

Even the mining dependants are Goans and are a skilled labour force. Why is it taking so long to investigate illegality of the mine owners? The government must have reasons best known to them especially the political thieves. Why are outside mining trucks allowed to ply on Goan roads when the same can be allotted to Goan truckers who are not in the mining belt?

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