TEAM HERALD
MARGAO: The two-day Sagar Kavach which got underway across the State on Wednesday to tone up the security system left hundreds of citizens fuming at the South Goa district Collectorate.
Resentment was palpable around with citizens who had come from various parts of the district for official work in the Collectorate were left stranded in a serpentine queue as the police carried out a strict search and demanded identity proof. Even as the nakabandi outside the Collectorate building at the Ambaji junction left bumper to bumper traffic on the NH-17, citizens resented over the slow pace of frisking at the entrance to the Collectorate building.
Former Margao Municipal Councillor Ramdas Hazare said that citizens have no issue over the security measure, but hastened to add that the government officers should offer prompt services to the people.
“We often find in the Collectorate some of the offices locked from outside and citizens have to enter through the inside doors. The officials should provide prompt services to the citizens,” he added.
Another citizen Cynthia said that while security was tightened at the main entrance, people were still moving inside through the side doors. “Will the terror elements enter the Collectorate with bomb only from the entrance door? There were so many people who had no ID proof,” she said.
