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Subject: No Mechanism to Check Goan Work Force : GIDC - Gut Feeling COMMENTS BY GOA SURAJ PARTY.
Herald: 25 August, 2010
Page 5 report
No Mechanism to Check Goan Work Force: GIDC
Herald reporter: Panjim. Aug 24
Despite providing the land and other required infrastructure to the industries in the State, the Goa Industrial Development Corporation [GIDC] has no mechanism to check whether the companies are recruiting Goan workers or not.
Replying to queries, at a press conference, GIDC Managing Director said that the checking on whether the locals are employed or not is done by the Labour and Employment departments.
One of the GIDC\'s condition while allotting land to the industries is that 80 per cent work force should be from Goa.
However, Naik stated that the GIDC has no mechanism to do any check on this aspect while granting permission to the industries, he replied.
In recent time the Opposition party as well as several other NGOs have criticized the government for recruitment of non-Goan workers at various industrial estates.
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Letter to the Editor Herald - 28/8/10 \'Lies and falsehoods\' by Antonio Lobo, Mapusa.
The news report \'No\' mechanism to check Goan work force: GIDC ( Herald, 25 August), says the IDC is unable to verify the percentage of Goans employed in industries in Goa. This exposes the promises of past Industries Ministers like Luizinho Faleiro, Mauvin Godinho, Dayanand Narvekar and others, all of whom justified acquisition of land from comunidades and private owners to set up industrial estates for the benefit of Goans Their sole motive was personal gain and the assurances were only meant to silence the opposition. Is it surprising, therefore, that Goans are becoming - if they haven\'t already - a minority in their own land? I hope these \'worthy gentlemen\' can sleep well at night, for they are responsible for giving sleepless nights to so many Goans.
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COMMENTS:
Dear dear gullible Goans.
First- off, this piece of news report is consigned to the hinterland pages of the Herald where it is bound to be missed. Page 6 is where not Goacentric news appears. Therefore persons like me are likely to miss these gems altogether. BTW: this actually happened with me, me getting all 4 English dailies home delivered, until I received a call from one of my party colleagues to confirm if I had seen this bit of hidden news. No, I said. I have missed it and went scouring for the Herald of 25 August and it was there , just a column x 12 centimeters, basically designed to be missed by who is who interested in Goa\'s and Goan\'s wellbeing.
The rot started when Goa was conquered/annexed but definitely not liberated what have you. [btw: as far as I am concerned, and this is personal prejudice, I have never considered GOA liberated. On the contrary I feel that one ghastly Dictator or 450 years\' rule has been replaced by another monster dictator whose only diplomacy is that he calls himself a DEMOCRATIC DICTATOR, where one sees DEMOCRACY upto the point of elections. After that, it is DICTATORSHIP worst than Salazar\'s.]
My very first thought after going through the above news item was: Close down GIDC and send everyone packing home. If 80 per cent Goan work force is the criterion on which land is given to industrial units, then telling us a sorry story that Labour and Employment departments are responsible to check things out is off limits. This only means that you, GIDC, go on distributing Goa\'s land like icing cake to outsiders and expect the norms to be followed by other departments?. If this is not the famous PASSING OF THE BUCK on somebody else\'s shoulders, then I don\'t know what \'passing the buck\' means.
JC Almeida, one of the First Development Commissioner of Goa (if I am not mistaken) and one of the first Goa\'s Chief Secretary, immediately after Goa was Annexed by India through military force, had the chick to unfold GOA to the Industrial Estates and thereby Industrialization, where Goans per se had nil acumen of industrial management, far less technical know how to run ancillary industrial units. Bars, Restaurants, a few fabrication units, black smithy and carpentry etc was the maximum that Goa knew during the Portuguese regime, besides agriculture. But JC Almeida, on the dictates of the Masters from Delhi opened up the industrial horizon of Goa thereby giving the maximum opportunity to outsiders to romp home claiming neck breaking subsidies. And our dear Goans were left high and dry. Shouldn\'t there have been the process of educating Goans in industrial management & training taken up by the Goan authorities before opening the industrial field to non Goans with whom Goans had no competition? Therein lies the seed of bypassing Goans which continues to date.
As far as I know [ and I was 14 years old when the Portuguese were ousted from Goa] there was no electrical arch welding that I know of. The front gate of my father\'s house is the testimony of 16mm square bars without the welding process (rebate joints) made by the black-smith from Bastora (near the Bastora Pond/Temple), pre so called liberation times. The same gate is witness to this artisanship to this day.
Industrial units have been opened through GIDC et al and have decamped after taking the Goa Government for a jolly good ride. The skeleton of a steel plant in Pernen
[Vishwas Steel?] is the mock reality that stands even to this date.
It is believed that when Luizinho Faleiro was the Industries Minister, some Company based in Singapore wanted to set up a plant to manufacture surf boards or something at Orlim in Salcete. The people there held Luizinho and the Company to their word that 80% of the work force should be Goans. The authorities came back to say that the technical skills required are not found in Goans. The people retaliated to tell the authorities to first select and train the local work force, if necessary by sending them to Singapore for training and only then set up the plant. Goa\'s Industry minister went to sleep and the company vanished in thin air.
Look at the industrial chaos in Cuncolim Industrial Estate. Steel rolling mills a plenty. How come? What is the work force? Biharis and Rajasthanis? Do Goans work there? How come they were allowed to set up in Goa?
I personally coaxed a foundry man from Ahmedabad one Mr. Rosario, who was about to set up a modern plant in Rajasthan to manufacture engine blocks right from JCB to two wheelers when he told me that the raw material was going to come from Goa - Pig Iron. Why not set up the plant in Goa itself? was my argument. That would be marvelous as the transporting cost is killing, he said. I sent him to Manohar Parrikar ( the metallurgist CM of Goa) with the project report. I helped him scout 5 lakh square meters at Valpoi- Sattari ( near Tata\'s plant) with the owner agreeing to sell outright. He would set-up the plant, train 80% of the work-force locally and then only go into production. The machinery was computerized and imported from Switzerland, with minimal pollution. What does Manohar Parrikar do? He takes one look at the project file, hands it back to him and tells him to see the Pollution Control Board. That he does not know anything about these processes. (And I had brought Mr. Rosario selling him Manohar Parrikar being the IIT with Metallurgy). The Pollution Control board rejects the project file out-right even without looking at it saying that the government does not allow polluting industries. How many steel rolling mills were set-up in Goa, in Kundaim, Cuncolim, Honda and elsewhere during the BJP and Manohar Parrikar\'s time?? These steel rolling mills are certified as non-polluting? By whom? The toothless GSPCB?
The latest is that Vishwajeet Rane is against the mining in and near Harvalem water falls. But at the same time he is promoting an Industrial Estate there. How come? What has Health to do with Industrial Estate? Obviously, he does not want to depend on the locals for his vote-bank. He wants to import from the other Indian States and seal his fiefdom for ever.
The need of the hour is to boot our GOANS first along with the NO GOOD Nationalist Political Parties which include CANGRESS, THE NO COMMITMENT [TO GOANS] PARTY aka NCP and ofcourse the RSS- BJP which is at this very moment trying to be sweet to the Goan minorities.
Goa needs the \'STEEL ROLLING MILLS\' now then ever before.
Goa needs to manufacture \'BACKBONES\' of STEEL so that Goans can stand straight and kick out this national corrupters once and for all. So far Goans have been strengthening their \'KNEE CAPS\' through crawling and kneeling down. In the near future Goans need to transfer steel to their feet so that they can kick ever harder and with devastating effects.
Someone please tell me if I am wrong.
Cheers
floriano
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