MARGAO, DEC 17
Hazard a guess why the decade old tradition of playing evening music in the Margao Municipal garden has come to an abrupt end.
Well, the answer is simple. There’s nothing wrong with the music system, if civic officials are to be believed. But, the municipality has no dedicated manpower to operate the music system after duty hours, as a result music has stopped playing in the garden in recent times. That’s not all. Civic officials say the music system was being operated all this time by a security guard, and the tradition came to a halt after the transfer of the security personnel by the agency.
Sources in the know said the new security guard, who has taken charge, has no knowledge of operating the music system.
It is learnt that one of the civic employee, who was operating the music system, had asked an overtime for two hours, but the proposal did not find favour with the civic body.
Incidentally, the new council headed by Sushila Naik, and which owes allegiance to Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat has so far not taken any decision to revive the music system.
When contacted, Chief Minister feigned ignorance on the non-functioning of the music system and promised to direct the Chief Officer Prasanna Acharya to look into the matter and restore the tradition.
