With the schools having re-opened the students of Sharada Mandir School must have been hoping that the authorities would have during the summer break completed the long pending works of the Miramar- Dona Paula Road. But it was a welcome with debris all over. The concretization of the Miramar-Dona Paula Road which commenced in March 2014 was to be completed in 12 months. The Government had claimed that the road was part of the master plan for the City of Panaji and that the state of the art Miramar-Dona Paula concretized road would have a cycling and walking track. But two years down the road it is only shoddy substandard work.
Highly reprehensible is the insensitivity and thoughtlessness of the authorities to the distressed plight and hardship being faced by the students, staff and parents of Sharada Mandir on account of the sordid state of that road.
Besides Sharada Mandir, the entire business premises along the Miramar – Doan Paula road have hit a road block. And all this when the Bombay High Court has ruled that citizens have a fundamental right to good roads.
The concretization of a road which was in the best of state has been a criminal waste of public funds and we will soon see more crores poured down the drain under the guise of making Panaji a Smart city. The Government has seized the opportunity that Goans are very patient, laid back and put up with it all. Anywhere else in India this Government would have been stripped naked and hung to the nearest tree.
