Co-working space
on beaches
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It could safely be said that the Covid-19 pandemic has in a way introduced the concept of ‘Work-From-Home’ (WFH). Now we even have companies advertising openings for WFH job vacancies. Employee preferences are clear, they want to work from home. However, there are several companies which want their employees to get back to their respective offices. The Work From Home has also led to another work concept which is ‘Work From Anywhere’( WFA).
It is a known fact that Goa is known for its world famous beaches which attract people from far and wide for leisure and pleasure. Now the beaches could also attract office-goers from across the country. The Tourism and IT Minister Rohan Khaunte has reportedly continued to push his workation (working + vacation) concept to drive to Goa as a destination saying that the State government has come up with the idea of co-working spaces on the beaches.
People can reportedly work, go and surf on the beach and come back and resume work. This is a good concept, however, it must be said that every co-working space needs to always have basic facilities like WiFi. The co-working space needs to be far away from the crowds that visit the beaches. Life-guards need to be deployed close to such co-working spaces on the beaches. There needs to be wash-room facilities available. Police may also have to be deployed around such areas for security reasons.
Adelmo Fernandes, Vasco
Speedometer on
bridges, a necessity
The tragic accident of the policeman on Atal Sethu followed by another disastrous accident of four people dying by drowning when their vehicle fell into the Zuari River is really sad. What a loss of precious lives for the family and for the State.
The Transport Ministry needs to put all the safety and speed cameras to capture speeding cars on these bridges. All constructed bridges do not have road banking, that’s why the speed limits boards are installed informing the speeding drivers to check their speed. With no one watching the negligent drivers feel they are on the grand prix race track, some few crazy drivers behind vehicles that try to maintain the 30 KMPH speed get honking for drivers behind or even filthy words once they overtake you even though overtaking is not allowed, so such accidents take place and the society suffers.
Will the Transport Minister or our Chief Minister immediately install the speedometer cameras on all bridges? Atam Bhivpachi Goroz asa Chief Minister Bhai.
Gregory E D’Souza, Siolim
Record entries
for Chess Olympiad
The Tamil Nadu government deserves accolades for organising the 44th Chess Olympiad at short notice. The event, a rare first for India, moved out of Russia because of the war. Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared the sporting event open and commended the organisers for making excellent arrangements. Indian chess legend Vishwanathan Anand handed over the chess torch that had travelled across the nation to Chief Minister MK Stalin. With a record 186 nations in the fray, this is the biggest ever Chess Olympiad.
N J Ravi Chander, Bengaluru
The hooch tragedy
The Gujarat Model has been preached and forced on the lesser mortals of the country. Very soon we will be made to follow the Karnataka or the UP Model where those who raise their heads are beaten up and even killed in the name of religion.
The hooch tragedy in Gujarat has completely exposed the Gujarat Model and also the ex-CM of Gujarat and present PM of India.
With the parliament in session the BJP MP’s are adept in heckling and shouting at the opposition who are only asking for a discussion on the price rise. Hope the voters can see what is happening and decide whether it is right to elect politicians who produce fake certificates and run illegal bars in Goa.
Matias Lobo, Tivim
Sprinter Hima Das creates history
Indian sprinter Hima Das scripted history on Thursday as she clinched the gold medal in the 400m final, at the IAAF World Under-20 Athletics Championships in Tampere, Finland – becoming the first Indian athlete to do so in a track event. The 18-year-old Das clocked 51.46 seconds to claim the top position. Andrea Miklos of Romania came second with a timing of 52.07 seconds. She now joins the illustrious company of star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, who won a gold in Poland in the last edition in 2016 in a world record effort.
The other medal winners at the World Junior Championships were Seema Punia, bronze in discus in 2002 and Navjeet Kaur Dhillon, winning discus bronze in 2014. Hima had suffered a lower back injury at the 2018 Asian Games and that forced her to miss the World Championships in Doha. Hail Hima for a historic and a heroic win.
C K Subramaniam,
Navi Mumbai
Beware of digital health IDs
The proposal for implementing a new digital ID for health services under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission makes the already implemented Nation vide unique Aadhaar based ID to each citizen futile. The additional cost to implement this new ID should be utilised to strengthen the health services (Emergency Medical response teams, call centres -101 Ambulances), equip doctors with the latest medical equipment in Goa.
Goa being a small State could be the testing area for citizens’ response for deploying the new health IDs for the rest of the country.
Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) through the Health Management Information system (HMIS) cloud-based system, seems to be a back door entry for wasting precious tax payers money, funds, gains for some mischievous benefits and to cause the innocent Goan population to stand in queues again. Are these not green passes in disguise for crowd restrictions to be controlled by cloud based systems?
Lazarus D’Souza, Bastora
‘True friendships’
never die
Few relations on earth never die, and friendship is one among them. The willingness to accept the good and the bad of the other person, or nation, is essentially ‘true friendship’. Inter-personal friendship and friendship between societies and nations, are keys to foster global goodwill and peace. These unique characters are, of course, fraught with roadblocks.
The harmonious relation between the people of the world is threatened by many factors some negotiable, some not. People-to-people understanding and peer support, which usually cement friendships at all levels, stand to be broken by poverty, violence, prejudice and hatred. Terror has gripped the world with one human being yearning to smother another. Global conflicts, and ill will, would be things of the past if people and communities of the world stand as one.
Mutual respect is a special virtue which goes a long way in holding together men and women. Friendship doubles the joy and halves the misery. War ravaged nations are struggling to come to terms with the fact that their cities and towns are reduced to bits and pieces. Though the world has come a long way from the world war days, the proneness of some countries to be attacked, and some of them to be aggressors, is worrying.
Exchange of people between countries, through tourism, education and employment, has tremendously buffered friendship between various countries dissimilar in culture and traditions but held firmly by the glue of friendship. The language of friendship is not words but the meaning behind the spoken sentences.
Ganapathi Bhat, Akola
