All of us have many problems to face in life; like dangers to health, tricky situation of wealth, sufferings of loneliness, badly behaved relations and so on. But every problem has a key and we have to use the right one to solve our difficulties; the keys are courage, vision, intellect, determination and presence of mind.
The State faces the difficulty of providing jobs for its citizens. So, to solve that, the govt invites industries; but without training Goan workforce the skills these businesses need. Consequently, these companies have to look beyond the State’s boundaries to find skilled staff. These are the lapses authorities make when ‘busy amassing wealth.’
Tortured thoughts of unemployment crowded the mind of Goans. So, they chose to go abroad. They found that employers in private sector in Goa pay peanut salaries for their employees and exploit them. Therefore, Goans go in search of greener pastures where they get more value for any kind of job. They go not only to earn their daily bread, but also, to maintain their lifestyle which they had cultivated during the Portuguese rule. They go to foreign country after struggling with huge sacrifices. They gather enough strength to overcome their difficulties and move ahead. But does their departure mean that they do not love Goa? Is there any ‘niz’ Goans, so wicked, who will not love his land where he was born and bred?
Goans’ departure reduces the burden of the Government to provide profitable job for Goans. Their foreign remittances, for family maintenance in Goa, help in improving the States’ economy. It is suspected that the government wants more and more true Goans to fly away to far-off countries to lessen their burden of providing them suitable jobs in Goa and also want ‘niz’ Goans to go to help the economy with their overseas remittances.
Due to unnecessary developments in Goa more and more non-Goans arrive on our soil; as it is said, “Where there is honey, ants cannot be far away.” This rapid rise of Baile has outnumbered Goans..
Some are of the opinion of treating those Original Goans who possess Portuguese passport as foreigners and are in favour of including, in the elector register, the names of Baile who hold 15-yr residence certificate in Goa, so that they can be later politicians’ vote bank. A few feel that such vote bank is like putting oneself in danger; but nothing can be done as greed always makes one a fool.
Many ask, “When Portugal can adopt lenient policy and grant citizenship to Goans and their children, then why similar policy cannot be introduced by State of Goa with ‘Dual Citizenship’ to migrant Goans. If the inflow of Baile goes beyond permissible limit by occupying every inch of Goan land than the situation in Goa will end up to unnatural conclusion where non-Goans and vested interests will have a stronger voice than Goans themselves and will bulldoze even our ministers out of State and pack them to European countries to do the same job what our migrant Goans are doing there. This is because time and place often gives advantage to outsiders and wrong deeds of authorities always end up getting bad results.
