The Goa Government despite its own circular of austerity measures for cost cutting has relaxed the State Guest Rules to accommodate the Supreme Court Judge Rohinton Fali Nariman who is arriving in Goa on 6th November for a 10 day holiday. This has been revealed in the information obtained from the Protocol department at the […]
Month: October 2015
RTI REVEALS GOVERNOR MRIDULA SINHA HAD FIRED TOUGH QUESTIONS ON GOVT MOVE TO GRANT MICKKY PACHECO PARDON
Goa Governor Mridula Sinha wrote a two page note to Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar posing pointed questions while returning back the cabinet proposal to grant pardon to then jailed Nuvem MLA and former Minister Mickky Pacheco. This has been revealed in information obtained from the Home Department under the Right to Information Act. Governor Mridula […]
LETTER WRITTEN TO ADVOCATE GENERAL ATMARAM NADKARNI BY PROF PETER RONALD DE SOUZA
Dated: 24th October 2015 Honourable Advocate General Atmaram Nadkarni, I write to seek your clarification on the issues of law that have a bearing on the continuation in office of the Vice Chancellor of Goa University, Dr Satish Shetye, after 25 October 2015. I do this because the authority of your august office has been […]
ORDINANCE EXTENDING GOA UNIVERSITY VICE-CHANCELLOR DR SATISH SHETYE’S TENURE IS A FRAUD ON GOANS
We need to strongly deplore the Goa Government’s very high-handed act of issuing an ordinance to extend the term of office of the Goa University Vice-Chancellor Dr Satish Ramnath Shetye. The power to promulgate an Ordinance is essentially a power to be used to meet a very extraordinary situation and cannot be allowed to be […]
MORE EVIDENCE ON HOW THE CORRUPT MANOHAR PARRIKAR CHEATED GOA
The Goa Government very high-handedly paid a whopping Rs 6, 37,721 for the dinner hosted by then Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on 8th June 2013 at the Goa Marriot Resort for the 543 delegates attending the National Executive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party which was held in the Goa from the 7th to 9th […]
GOA UNIVERSITY TOO NOW SOILED WITH POLITICIAL BROTH
The solemnity and sanctity of Goa’s educational turf stands compromised with the very high-handed move under a veil of total secrecy to give Goa University Vice-Chancellor Dr Satish Shetye a two year extension. This entire pre-planned move got the green signal of the 17 member Goa University’s Executive Council to amend the Goa University Statute […]
PANAJI NEEDS A FULL TIME, HONEST AND TRANSPARENT COMMISSONER
The Goa Government has sought an explanation from Sanjit Rodrigues the Managing Director of the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) who is also the Commissioner of the Corporation of City of Panaji (CCP) over his three week absence from work last month. In a letter to Sanjit Rodrigues, the Under Secretary Personnel has sought […]
POLITICIANS SHOULD LAY THEIR HANDS OFF THE JUDICIARY
Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer had said “Even so, the creed of judicial independence is our constitutional ‘religion’ and, if the executive use Article 222 to imperil this basic tenet, the Court must ‘do or die’ So the Supreme Court of India has rightly nixed the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) which was proposed by the […]
BJP LOYALIST SATISH SHETYE TO BE REWARDED WITH TWO YEAR EXTENSION AS GOA UNIVERSITY VC
We need to strongly condemn the very high-handed move to give Goa University Vice – Chancellor Dr Satish Shetye a two year extension. Goa University’s Executive Committee is trying to swiftly amend the Goa University Statute SA-6 (1) (d) to give a compulsory 5 year term to the present Vice Chancellor Dr. Satish Shetye. The […]
THE RTI ACT COMPLETES A DECADE BUT YET TO BE STRENGTHENED
The Right to Information Act which came into force on October 12th 2005 is now a decade old. The Right to Information Act was enacted to ensure transparency and accountability in governance. But the manner in which the government is subtly subverting the Right to Information Act is a matter of concern. A well informed citizenry, transparency, and free flow […]