Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has been carrying on the legacy of his predecessor Manohar Parrikar by governing our cash strapped State very autocratically, with no transparency and accountability whatsoever.
The now launched ‘Vibrant Goa Foundation’ is the latest of this government’s many scams and a sheer act of utter bad governance. In the name of promoting business avenues in Goa, this private venture has been arbitrarily hand picked and assigned the task without any laid down criteria or parameters whatsoever. The selection should have been by an open tender and not a very close door BJP choice. This unnecessary, questionable and very high-handed drain on the State Exchequer is bound to figure prominently in the next report of the Comptroller Auditor General (CAG).
It is high time the Chief Minister realizes that government’s agenda and schemes should be people centric and not a wagon to accommodate party cadres.
Why couldn’t the Government have entrusted this task of promoting industries and business ventures to the very experienced and knowledgeable besides reputed Goa Chamber of Commerce & Industry which possesses all the expertise and knowledge in the field. Pramod Sawant would have to account as to how he has recklessly and malafiedly doled out two crores of our tax payer’s money to Vibrant Goa without any rationale whatsoever. Besides government Corporations who are financially already bankrupt have also been asked to chip into this Vibrant Goa loot and plunder.
Does the Chief Minister need to be told that government needs to be very cautious and extremely careful while spending every paisa from the State Coffers? Manohar Parrikar left the State in dire straits and if Pramod Sawant does not take cogent corrective measures, an already sinking Goa is going to land up into a further disastrous and irreversible state of administrative chaos. Mr. Chief Minister, Goa will never be Vibrant as long as your motley government is always vibrating!
