The poor people who have always been used as vote bank by the politicians are living at the mercy of their own life. Most of the people being daily wage laborers and their children who are going to school are also suffering. The temporary arrangements have failed to accommodate all the affected inhabitants. Every time the demolition takes place the victims have suffer during the rainy season. The government needs to take prior precautions of the rehabilitation arrangements and avoid such demolition activities during the rainy season.
Ganesh Lamani, Vasco-da-Gama
Take a cue from SC directives
Coming down heavily on the manner in which the Government advocate had misled the Rajasthan High Court, a deeply anguished bench of the Supreme Court comprising of Justice Anil Dave and Justice Dipak Misra in a very recent Judgment observed “As far as the counsel for the State is concerned, it can be decidedly stated that he has a higher responsibility. A counsel who represents the State is required to state the facts in a correct and honest manner. He has to discharge his duty with immense responsibility and each of his action has to be sensible. He is expected to have higher standard of conduct. He has a special duty towards the court in rendering assistance….” Let us hope that in Goa the Advocate General Atmaram Nadkarni takes a cue and follows these directions in letter and spirit by never misleading the court and setting an example as the Leader of the Bar of the State. There should never be any fixing, fudging or falsifying in the temples of justice.
Aires Rodrigues, Ribandar
Cooling effect
The other day I went along with my family to watch a Konkani tiatr at the Ravindra Bhavan in Baina. Initially it was pleasant feeling to sit in an air-conditioned auditorium. But then as time passed the cooling became unbearable. It seems that the temperature of the air-conditioner is not being controlled adequately so that the people sitting in the auditorium feel comfortable as is done at the Kala Academy or at the Ravindra Bhavan in Margao. It must be said that several elderly people and little children who come to watch the tiatr at the Ravindra Bhavan in Baina have to endure very cold temperature during the three-hour duration of the tiatr. It would be desirable to control the temperature to a comfort level.
Adelmo Fernandes, Vasco
Time for ISL
The bad news is that the World Cup is over. The good news is that the Indian Super League (ISL) is set to take off soon. I am willing to bet on it that the ISL will turn Indian football on its head. Let’s be positive and think big. Small countries have made it big. Costa Rica is one-third the size of Mumbai in population and so too is Uruguay. Chile and Belgium are as large as Mumbai. We too qualified for the World Cup in 1950. But while others made rapid progress we declined rapidly.
It is quite conceivable that in a few years ISL will do for Indian football what IPL has done to Indian cricket. We have the numbers, the desire and the ambition. So let’s sit back and keep our fingers crossed and hope that the ISL will be the stepping stone of our journey to a future World Cup finals.
Robert Castellino, Calangute
Prices on the rise
There seems to be no difference between the BJP and the Congress. Narendra Modi had promised that if the BJP came to power, it would bring down the prices of essential commodities. The BJP is now in power with Modi as prime minister but the costs of household commodities, as well as those of petrol and diesel, remain sky-high. This only goes to prove, once again, that political parties fool the people at the time of elections and forget to fulfill their promises once they come to power.
Jubel D’Cruz, Mumbai
