They Fly and How

Around The World In 365 Days –4

Till death do us part
Do you not wish each time you read this column that Delhi was Belgaum and Mumbai was Anmod? That way Goa would have saved crores of your precious tax money because it would cost that much less to fly our new rulers, if Delhi and Mumbai were just around the corner. Perhaps it would have been even better if Goa were Greater NOIDA (a wee bit outside Delhi) instead, and therefore your politicians would simply have to drive the short distance to Delhi. But then, Mumbai would still be a great distance away. Moral of the lesson: it is going to be a lose, lose situation, always. They just cannot resist the temptation to fly.

Digambar Kamat
13-15.01.2000 Delhi Rs18,130, 23-29.02.00 Delhi Rs20,987, 03-04.03.00, 24-25.04.00 Mumbai Rs5,262, 01-03.05.00 Mumbai Rs23,659, 21-25.06.00 Delhi/Jaipur/Mumbai Rs5262, 01-10.08.00 Delhi/Mumbai Rs16,965, 25-29.08.00 Nagpur/Mumbai Rs11,955, 12-16.11.00 Delhi/Mumbai Rs15,205, 30.09-10.10.00 Delhi Rs20,210, 23-24.12.00 Mumbai Rs5262, 07-08.02.01, 02-04.03.01, 16-17.02.01 Mumbai/Delhi Rs22,876, 02-04.03.01, 11-13.05.01 Mumbai Rs5672, 03-08.09.01 Delhi/Lucknow Rs22,492, 12-13.10.01 Mumbai Rs5642, 20-22.10.01 Delhi Rs31,779, 31.10-02.11.01, 12-13.12.01 Rs19,980, 24-25.12.01 Mumbai, 05-06.01.02 Rs6,022, 20-22.01.02 Delhi Rs16,105, 20-22.03.02 Delhi Rs17,362, 26-28.04.02 Delhi Rs17,850, 06-09.09.02 Mumbai Rs5,822, 29.06-04.07.02 Mumbai/Delhi Rs17,912, 21-28.10.02 Mumbai, 22-24.11.02 Bangalore Rs28,364, 13-15.12.02 Hyderabad, 21-23.01.03 Delhi, 02-05.02.03 Mumbai Calcutta/Mumbai Rs33,518, 06-07.01.03 Mumbai, 12-16.01.03 Mumbai Rs25,772 Delhi Rs25,772, 17-21.02.03 Delhi Rs17,886, 06-08.03.03 Mumbai Rs24,575, 11-13.03.03 Delhi/Mumbai, 15-17.06.03 Delhi Rs20,147, 24-25.09.03 Mumbai Rs7,542, 28.10-02.11.03 Delhi Rs21,455, 04-05.12.03 Delhi/Mumbai Rs20,625, 14-16.01.04 Mumbai Rs13,265, 31.01-01.02.04, 23-24.02.04, 12-14.03.04 Delhi/Bangalore/Mumbai Rs54,097, 15-16.03.04 Cochin, 24-26.03.04, 01-07.04.04 Delhi Rs15,762, 09-10.07.04 Delhi,03-09.08.04 Mumbai Rs25,520, 23-28.08.04 Delhi, 09-13.09.04 Delhi Rs19,700, 07-09.10.04 Delhi, 26-28.10.04 Delhi Rs56,118, 06-08.11.04 Mumbai, 19-20.11.04 Mumbai, 11-12.11.04 Delhi/Mumbai Rs29,701, 29.12.04 Mumbai, 21-22.01.05 Delhi, 30-31.01.05 Rs29,701. Total 11,40,395.

Flight paths
Subash Shirodkar flying to Pune thrice including a sojourn to Mumbai, Delhi and Hyderabad in February, May, June, September and October of 2000 cost you Rs43,814. Somnath Zuwarkar's flights cost you Rs65,377, Mauvin Godinho flying in March and August of 2000 cost you Rs27,216. Arecio D'Souza's flying cost Rs63,238, while Francisco D'Souza cost you Rs83,144, Venkatesh Desai Rs9,550 and Francisco Silveira Rs39,117.

They did not cross the much sought after rupees one lakh and above category and therefore do not deserve to be in the group that entitles them to have their flight destination details mentioned here for posterity. Pardon me, but I thought Goa's Flying Circus deserves to be classified like banks classify credit card holders depending on their bank balances into ordinary, Gold and Platinum. Mauvin Godinho, as time will tell you sooner or later and because of his being born again, could however easily move into this lofty (pun intended) category.

Dayanand Narvekar Rs14,94,884 Feb 2000-Mar 2007
Francisco Sardinha Rs 4,10,661 Jan 2000-Oct 2000
Pratapsing Rane Rs14,57,354 Feb 2005-Apr 2006
Wilfred D'Souza Rs22,89,428 Feb 2005-Aug 2007
Digambar Kamat Rs11,40,395 Jan 2000-Jan 2005
Subash Shirodkar Rs 43,814
Somnath Zuwarkar Rs 65,377
Mauvin Godinho Rs 27,216
Arecio D'Souza Rs 63,238
Francisco D'Souza Rs 83,144
Venkatesh Desai Rs 9,550
Francisco Silveira Rs 39,117

Total Rs71,24,178

Classless society?
First you had the Brahmins and the rest of us, fisherfolk, toddy tappers, bahujan samaj, gawdas (the way it was spelt even differed!) Then suddenly some of us (get me?) got categorized as scheduled tribes, whatever. Then, apart from some politicians still jostling to be the leader of the scheduled tirbes, we went from to rich and poor. Okay, the Congress calls us (poor) aam aadmi and derivates off that. Keep that bit out of this discussion. Times have changed, it's no longer the caste factor. Today's class society are those who managed to retain their dark or the darkest of dark glass car panes which is banned in many metros, and so you have the janta who cannot call their fav MLA which is why they got their expensive films peeled off rudely unlike those for whom an MLA is just a mobile call away. And ofcourse what happens in Ponda, Quepem, Cancona, does not matter, what the hell, after all we are Panjim-centric, aren't we? Then you have non-Goans who can build on sand dunes even, like Baga's Calypso, who did his thingamajig on the beach, so close to the sea, you could throw stones in to it even if you were arthritic or had a hip replacement. If you have been reading this column in the past, there are many, many more cases like this. Candolim's Sunny Side Up written about here being just one. And, you have Goans like the hardworking fishermen in Colva who had his little lane rubbed off the face of this earth and the Goan whose hotel on the river Sal was so badly damaged by bulldozers some time ago, he still can't get his hotel going.

And sussegad non-Goans too
Reliance for example. A fault complaint to Reliance, if you can get them on your other working phone, is routed to Pune, which then calls up Goa and deputes a technician to your home if required. Time needed: at least three days. I got a Plug 2 Surf USB modem in March. It lies with me sealed and unused, but I have been billed regularly. Tata indicom apparently outsourced its business to a Blue Square Marketing whom it takes weeks to call and I am yet to hear a Goan voice on the other end. Meanwhile, I am still waiting to be hooked up. I call up the Goa Marriott. Could I get details of your diner's card membership? The Marriott that insisted on reading out its longwinding scheme, has a week later not emailed me the details, which I prefer to leisurely evaluate on my monitor and not from a distant voice that rattled out a host of items like a Kannadiga waiter in a Kamat restaurant wordily assailing you with the menu. Really, quit calling us sussegad.

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Living to eat - 6

Party time

Wilfred D'Souza
31.08.05 lunch for ruling MLAs Delhi Darbar Rs11,813.
19.09.05 lunch for select journalists O' Coqueiro Rs30,990.
07.10.05 dinner for an ambassador (unnamed) Cidade de Goa Rs98,332.
09.12.05 dinner for Chinese delegates Cidade de Goa Rs70,726.
14.02.06 dinner for ruling MLAs O' Coqueiro Rs20,910.
27.04.06 dinner for 20 O 'Coqueiro Rs13,195.
17.07.06 lunch for CM, ministers, MLAs O 'Coqueiro Rs14,970
24.07.06 lunch for ruling ministers, MLAs O 'Coqueiro Rs26,396.
01.11.06 dinner for MD of Soiby Satellite Pvt. Ltd O 'Coqueiro Rs3,310.
24.01.07 lunch for MLAs O 'Coqueiro Rs26,380 (On the 23rd and 24th Rane and Luizinho Faleiro spent Rs7,200 and Rs26,704 entertaining MLAs.)
02.03.07 dinner for 15 O 'Coqueiro Rs12,920.
07.03.07 lunch for ruling ministers, MLAs O 'Coqueiro –Rs31,622.
25.03.07 dinner for seven O 'Coqueiro Rs6,768.
Cost of feeding MLAs you unfairly voted to power Rs1,32,091. Power being the sine qua non here. Unfairly? For the opposition MLAs that is, because your ministers in power believe in feeding only the ruling MLAs (read: as in their own kind.)

Dayanand Narvekar
12.02.05 lunch for VIPs Hotel Majestic Rs10,500.
30.07.05 lunch for sarpanches, VIPs Green Park Rs10,500.
31.07.05 dinner for select journalists Mouli Caterers Rs9,000.
17.08.05 dinner for Dr KK Unni, Dr Frank Bertoni Goa Mariott Rs31,087.
27.08.05 dinner for doctors Green Park Rs10,500.
18.09.05 dinner for VIPs & visiting doctors O' Coqueiro Rs10,500.
11.11.05 dinner for select journalists O' Coqueiro Rs27,000.
17.12.05 dinner for Justice KG Balkrishna, other HC judges O'Coqueiro Rs25,500.
22.03.06 lunch for MLAs O 'Coqueiro Rs18,645.
20.01.06 dinner for VIPs Goa Mariott Rs15,435.
18.01.06 dinner for MCI inspector, others Goa Mariott Rs31,252.
22.02.06 dinner for sarpanchas Green Park Rs10,500.
10.02.06 dinner for MLA, sarpanchas, panchas ZP members, others Green Park Rs35,000.
12.07.06 lunch for ruling ministers, MLAs O 'Coqueiro Rs16,360.
28.07.06 lunch for 35 O 'Coqueiro Rs23,796.
22.09.06 dinner for select journalists O 'Coqueiro Rs10,500.
13.12.06 dinner for visiting dignitaries O 'Coqueiro Rs10,500.
11.01.07 dinner for Parliamentary Standing Committee Noah's Ark Rs1,21.052.
17.02.07 dinner for participants at Goa IT Goa Mariott Rs2,03,660.
28.03.07 dinner for sarpanchas, panchas Green Park Rs10,500.
14.04.07 dinner for sarpanchas, panchas O 'Coqueiro Rs22,905.
04.10.07 dinner for RBI officer Mumbai International Centre bill awaited.
15.12.07 dinner for sarpanchas, panchas Sirsat Caterer Rs16,200.

July 2006

Like 9/11, July will be a month to remember for the devastating effect on your tax rupees. Only there were no terrorists involved, it was your friendly neighbourhood montri who was involved. The dotor (whose flights to Delhi etc and abroad I also researched cost Rs22,89,428 from Feb 2005-Aug 2007) and Narvekar (flight cost: Feb 2000-Mar 2007 Rs14,94,884) spent a total of Rs57,726 entertaining the ruling MLAs on July 12, 17 and 24. On July 25 Digambar Kamat (flight cost: Jan 2000-Jan 2005 Rs11,40,395) threw a Rs28,814 lunch for his ministers and MLAs at O 'Coqueiro. On July 31 Pratapsing Rane (flight cost:Feb 2005-Apr 2006 Rs14,57,354) hoisted a Rs16,200 lunch for ministers and MLAs at his fav Sher-e-Punjab. Apparently they were so eager to rush back to work, so they couldn't find a Goan food restaurant. These are expenses of ministers I have covered so far. There's more on July and it's enough to constipate you. But for now remember that Rs1,02,740 was spent gorging in July of that year. Also, don't you wish some of these restaurants especially the many at the Cidade Goa, or speciality restaurants like O' Coqueiro and Sher-e-Punjab were government owned, just so that some of the profit pennies filter back to you? In the business pages they call it dividends. Not happening!

Mea Culpa

My apologies, I should have pointed this out last week, but all this gorging on or off my tax money slowed down the brain functions to the extent I forgot to mention this bit of appetizing fact. Dadoo's (see table below) dinosaur dinning habits made him spend Rs1,20,850 on a banquet bash for Kiran Dhingra, an upright chief secretary, perhaps the only one Goa ever had and known for her austerity (read as: refused to sanction corruption) and was therefore transferred out by Pratapsing Rane. I find that curious because Dhingra, who definitely was not a foodie, spent a bit more than what was spent on that one dinner during her entire Goa stint as you can see from the facts below. My point if you haven't cottoned on yet, is the entire janta must be attending all these al fresco freebies. Only Narvekar, which is why Kamat made him finance minister, cared to entertain your lowly sarpanch and panch spending Rs1,05,605.

By the way, a panch who swears by socialism and to do social work (till you vote for him/her that is) gets a monthly stipend of Rs1,000 while a sarpanch gets paid Rs2,000 which you will understand is why they sanctioned all those monstrosities built by Delhities and Mumbaites in your village. In fact, Narvekar got really fiscal putting, as you can see from his spend sheet, a cap of Rs10,500 on many of his eat outs. But his love for doctors, dunno about that despite all the rumours, if you know what I mean.

The government's food bill (and growing) so far:
Digambar Kamat Rs 36,47,744
Pratapsing Rane Rs 39,72,941
Manohar Parrikar Rs 12,05,515
Vishwajit Rane Rs 84,788
Alexio Sequeira Rs 1,03,590
J P Singh, IAS Rs 16,61,290
DS Negi, IAS Rs 4,25,683
Vijay Madan, IAS Rs 58,223
Kiran Dhingra, IAS Rs 1,54,375
JK Dadoo Rs 2,53,271

Total Rs1,15,67,420
Period researched is April 2004 to 2007.

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More on the Goa Flying circus

Around The World In 365 Days –3
They might have flown to Dilli more times than you went to the Kesarval spring for that special bath or to Baga for that matter on picnic in a life time of trying to do so amid your busy schedules and trying to make two ends meet. Certainly there is ample evidence of that. Some politicians might have achieved that in a year of flying to the capital on missions of only that they are looking for mercy themselves. They certainly flew so fast and furiously as to be on name knowing terms with most airline crews!

Pratapsing Rane
5-6.02.05 Delhi Rs30,552, 23-25.02.05 Mumbai Rs11,548, 7-9.06.05 Delhi/Mumbai Rs37,585, 24.06.05 Delhi Rs40,000, 26.06-01.07.05 Delhi/Mumbai Rs41,355, 24-27.07.05 Delhi/Mumbai Rs40,277, 31.07-03.08.05 Bangalore/Delhi/Mumbai Rs47,812, 09-11.09.07 Delhi Rs40,537, 24-25.09.05 Mumbai/Delhi/Mumbai Rs38,230, 06-10.10.05 Chandigarh/Delhi Rs42,640, 7-8.11.05 Mumbai/Delhi/Mumbai Rs 39,407, 12.12.05 Mumbai Rs58,579, 8-10.12.05 Mumbai/Delhi/Mumbai & 27-29.12.05 Pune/Mumbai Rs23,909, 20-25.01.06 Hyderabad Rs42,446, 8-9.02.06 Mumbai & 24-25.02.06 Delhi/Mumbai Rs33,412, 10-12.03.06 Delhi/Mumbai Rs44,495, 16-18.04.06 Mumbai/Delhi/Mumbai Rs39,626, 03.04.06 Mumbai/Delhi/Mumbai Rs35,217, 7-8.04.06 Mumbai Rs14,582, 26-27.04.06 Pune/Mumbai Rs23,909, 3-5.05.06 Hyderabad/Mumbai Rs35,922, 25-27.05.06 Mumbai/Delhi/Mumbai Rs45,632, 27-28.06.06 Mumbai Rs14,992, 4-6.07.06 Mumbai Rs42,085, 6-7.08.06 Mumbai Rs15,314, 11-13.08.06 Delhi/Mumbai Rs46,139, 31.08-02.09.06 Delhi/Mumbai Rs47,037, 22-25.09.06 Mumbai/Delhi Rs47,487, 27-29.09.06 Mumbai/Vadodara Rs31,387, 17-18.10.06 Mumbai Rs15,727, 3-5.11.06 Mumbai/Delhi Rs32,027, 7-10.12.06 Delhi/Mumbai Rs63,609, 13-14.12.06 Mumbai & 21-23.12.06 Bangalore/Cochin/Bangalore/Mumbai Rs46,690, 4-5.01.06 Mumbai Rs36,194, 12-14.03.06 Mumbai/Delhi/Mumbai Rs67,058, 1-2/03/06 Bangalore & 21-31.03.06 Mumbai/Delhi Rs48,224, 24-26.04.06 Mumbai/Delhi/Mumbai Rs47,962, 30-31.03.07 Delhi/Mumbai Rs47,750. Total Rs14,57,354.

Wilfred D'Souza
24-26.02.05 Delhi/Mumbau Rs32,529, 26-29.06.05 Delhi/Mumbai Rs24,446, 9-12.06.05 Surat/Mumbai Rs8,112, 03.07.05 Delhi/Mumbai Rs38,427, 29.09-01.10.05 Delhi Rs38,058, 26-29.10.05 Rs38,067, 06-10.03.06 Berlin Rs2,06,800, 23-25.02.06 Delhi Rs30,354, 14-27.06.06 China Rs2,55,000, 19-20.05.06 Mumbai Rs13,972, 11-13.05.06 Delhi Rs40,461, 17-18.05.06 Delhi Rs40,462, 11-22.11.06 London Rs1,40,749, 16-24 Shanghai/Hongkong Rs1,35,051, 01-03.08.06 Delhi Rs31,465, 19-25.09.06 Moscow/St. Petersburg Rs1,05,000, 4-6.09.06 Delhi Rs31,764, 01-06.05.06 Dubai Rs1,38,561, 02-09.12.06 Delhi Rs39,660, 06-09.01.07 Delhi Rs44,120, 09-10.03.07 Delhi Rs18,306, 14-23.06.06 Sydney, Australia Rs3,55,000, 17-27.09.06 Moscow/StPetersburg Rs1,17,831, 04-14.11.06 London Rs2,55,609, 01.02.07 Mumbai Rs15,855, 25-26.04.07 Delhi Rs39,250, 03-04.05.07 Delhi Rs34,004, 01-02.08.07 Delhi Rs10,930, 08-10.08.07 Mumbai Rs9,585. Total Rs22,89,428. The dotor as you can see has a penchant for flying abroad having spent Rs17,09,601 of your tax bucks doing precisely that and might even have picked up a bit of Russian flying in and out of Russia. Nyet?

That makes it a grand total (see below) of Rs56,52,327 culled from records I have and does not include the clever ruse MLA's use now, of getting government corporations, like the Goa Tourism Development Corporation which is developing itself more into a private flying club than it is developing tourism, to foot their travel and living bills. Expect the total to fly fast and furious.
Dayanand Narvekar Rs14,94,884
Francisco Sardinha Rs 4,10,661
Pratapsing Rane Rs14,57,354
Wilfred D'Souza Rs22,89,428
Total Rs56,52,327

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Living to eat - 5

Make a meal of it

Imagine 40 more fortune-hunters

Ram Niwas Mirdha, chairman of the National Akademi of Music, Dance and Drama was singing a different tune. Or, was he dancing to one? Imagine increasing the current strength of 40 MLAs to 80 fortune-hunters to avoid the constant toppling games? How will another 40 constituencies be carved out? The only thing I can think of is reclaiming land from the sea with all the iron ore rejects that are clogging up the hinterland, but that might be too expensive. Already, from two expenses totaling Rs75,891 mentioned below, good money was apparently spent dining the delimitation commission and this is only one element of what could be a whopping expenditure. So, which is worse, creating 40 more corporations for them to head, clothing, feeding and flying around another bunch of spendthrifts or, paying for reclaiming 40 more constituencies from the sea? Be my guest and guess.

Ladder 49

On June 12 a friend called up saying a fallen mango tree was blocking the access road to the Ribandar ferry from the Divar side. Could I call up the fire station? It was a few minutes past seven in the morning. I called up Ashok Menon, the station director's residence, whom I've never met before. His wife answered and promptly gave the phone to him. Most police officer's I know would have been busy in the loo or too grumpy in the morning to come on the line. He said call 101, the control room, it promptly told me to call a DG Pednekar at the Old Goa Station. Unfortunately through some misunderstanding in our communication a fire tender was dispatched to Ribandar instead when it was meant to cross the river at Ribandar to Divar. Mind you all this took just 20 mins or so till I could rectify the situation and the firemen crossed over eager to do their job. So eager, they kept frantically calling me trying to find the exact location of the tree. Unfortunately, by then my friend had disconnected his mobile and I spent the next 20 minutes embarrassed by the quick fire response of the officer, a man called Michael Braganza and another unnamed man. Embarrassed because none of the people I called in Divar and particularly in my area Malar had any information or were reluctant to give me as I kept requesting each, a phone number close to where the tree had fallen. Embarrassed because the firemen kept pleading with me to hurry so they could respond to their next call, which evidently were piling up. An Englishman Jan Bostok I called eventually, yes, those of the tribe who are the flavour of the month for venting our anger upon, asked (1) his driver to go looking around for the fallen tree (2) drove around in his second vehicle looking for the tree in a different direction. Me, I was still calling up one islander after another, till another good friend Corina's Joe Vaz gave me the phone number of Mario Pinto, a panch and former sarpanch of the Divar panchayat. Mario fortuitously knew where the tree had fallen and I asked him to relay the location to Braganza. Moral of the lesson: Divar continues to be comatose, but don't blame the Goa Fire and Emergency services for it. Their rapid reaction to a call for help was an embarrassment and I don't even know what Braganza looks like.


DS Negi, Chief Secretary
04.05.04 dinner for secy, Ministry of Labour, GOI Goa Marriott Rs17,720.
14.05.04 dinner for central observers, senior officers Mandovi Rs32,831.
01.06.04 dinner for RC Sinha, advisor to Goa government Cidade Rs16,418.
14.06.04 lunch for RBI officials Nova Goa Rs1,800.
18.06.04 dinner for ex-DGP Seva Dass and others Mandovi Rs14,458.
05.07.04 dinner for Rajeev Verma, IAS Goa Marriott Rs21,213 + gifts Rs845.
23.08.04 dinner for Rajya Sainik Board Mandovi Rs5,802.
01.09.04 dinner for secy, I&B, GOI Fort Aguada –no details.
10.06.04 dinner for dignitaries Cidade de Goa Rs24,674.
12.09.04 dinner for ITTB review meeting Goa Marriott Rs26,510.
14.09.04 dinner Justice Kuldip Singh, BB Tandon, Election Commission Cidade Rs20,774.
15.09.04 lunch for Japanese delegation, water supply and sanitation Cidade Rs20,673.
21.09.04 dinner for Murdhup Vyas, addl collectior, Meena Chowdhury, SDPO Cidade Rs16,471+Rs650 gifts.
29.08.04 dinner for KG Mathew, secy, Karnataka Cidade Rs10,169.
17.11.04 dinner for KP Singh, addl. secy. MHA Goa Marriott Rs17,350.
11.12.04 dinner for Krishnamurthy, secy, GA Fort Aguada Rs24,393.
13.12.04 dinner for delimitation committee Goa Marriott Rs43,526.
28.11.04 farewell dinner for DGP Amol Kanth Cidade Rs20,114.
20.12.04 farewell dinner for BS Bhalla Fort Aguada Rs21,442.
01.01.05 dinner for Arunachal Pradesh CS Goa Marriott Rs26,310.
02.01.05 dinner for Ashok Misra, IIT, Mumbai Goa Marriott Rs22,060.
14.01.05 dinner for GN Pegu, IAS Goa Marriott Rs10,615.
05.01.05 farewell dinner for LS Shetty Nova Goa Rs8,865.

Vijay Madan, as acting CS
20.02.05 dinner for delimitation commission Goa Marriott Rs32,365.
12.02.05 farewell dinner for DS Negi Delhi Darbar Rs4,200.
28.04.05 farewell dinner for Nandini Paliwal, IAS Goa Marriott Rs21,658.

Kiran Dhingra, Chief Secretary
20.05.05 farewell lunch for Vijay Madan, DC Goa Marriott Rs10,896.
21.05.05 dinner for N. Gopalswami, election commission Goa Marriott Rs20,379.
28.05.05 dinner for Tsunami affected footballers of Andaman & Nicobar Mandovi Rs28,370.
15.07.05 farewell dinner for Jayashree Raghuraman, revenue secretary Foodland Rs11,925.
03.10.05 dinner labour secy, GOI Goa Marriott Rs25,215.
09.12.05 farewell dinner for Debashree Mukherjee Delhi Darbar Rs28,451.
19.10.05 dinner for Rajya Sainik Board Mandovi Rs3,448.
23.12.05 dinner GOI Secretary Goa Marriott Rs25,691.

JK Dadoo, as acting CS, but he was the Development Commissioner then
23.11.05 dinner for chairperson, Coconut Development Board Mandovi Rs10,659.
13.01.05 dinner for Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy officer Rajshahi Rs25,535.
08.08.05 dinner for chairman, Coconut Development Board Delhi Darbar Rs7,697.
30.12.05 dinner for IAS trainees FABR Rs35,100.
19.01.06 lunch for GOI Secretary Goa Mariott Rs8,961.
25.01.06 lunch for new CS and 10 Secretaries Delhi Darbar Rs8,899.
23.01.06 dinner for GOI secy, Mrs CT Misra Majestic Rs10,410.
17.09.05 lunch for PMA Huken, secy, GOI Cidade Rs5,243.
22.01.06 farewell dinner for Kiran Dingra Raj Holiday Village Rs1,20,850
28.05.06 dinner for National Commission of Religious and Linguistic Minorities Rajshahi Rs19.917.

Israel's turn
Yaakov Engel and Hezi Hermoni have purchased land to build three residential complexes in Goa through Engel's privately held real estate developer EngelInvest Group. Cost: $500 million. Apartments: 2,030. Engel Invest expects to make a $1 billion profit. EngelInvest's CEO for global operations is Alon Avdani. The projects: a 1,600-apartment complex in Cortalim overlooking the Zuari, a 160-unit complex in Panjim and a 270-apartment complex in Dona Paula. These apartments will reportedly sell at $5,000 per sq mt. EngelInvest operates in India through local holding company Venosa, which it jointly owns with Hermoni, who has been active in India for 15 years. EngelInvest owns 75 per cent and Hermoni 22 per cent. The CEO of Venosa is Ronen Hermoni.

Tailpiece
Did you get this SMS: "Finally it has happened! Beer is now cheaper than petrol! Now only drink, don't drive."

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Goa's flying circus is back

Around The World In 365 Days -2
If you remember this column of March 10, 2008 titled 'Around The World In 365 days' you would recall that Dayanand Narvekar spent Rs14,94,884 of your precious tax money flying to Mumbai and Dilli. That was from February 2, 2000 to March 3, 2007, the time frame I researched. Wobbly with trying to keep up with Goa's Flying Circus, I took a vacation on terra firma, if you please. I wrote then that in 2007 Narvekar flew 20 times, that's 20 flights in 12 months. Catch up now with Francisco Sardinha who logged on recently with his gaffe per month. Remember he said bullfights are for the aam aadmi. Now, Casinos are only for rich tourists because they don't come to Goa to sleep, he says. Sardinha's howlers fly as fast as his reasons to be airborne. Fasten your seat belts for take off.

Francisco Sardinha
23-24.01.00 Mumbai Rs7,552; 02-03.04.00 Delhi Rs22,020; 01-03.05.00 Mumbai Rs8,392; 24-28.04.00 Kathmandu Rs25,672; 24-28.02.00 Delhi via Mumbai Rs22,540; 18-22.05.00 Delhi/Mumbai & 20-23.06.00 Delhi/Mumbai Rs68,184; 14-16.07.00 Delhi/Mumbai Rs22,317; 21-22.08.00 Delhi/Mumbai, 26-27.08.00 Cochin, 28.08.00 Delhi Rs70,194; 30.8-07.09.00 Mumbai, 26-28.09.00 Delhi Rs21,575; 11-23.10.00 Sydney/Singapore Rs1,42,215. Total Rs4,10,661.

And to think that 21 years after achieving statehood there are some who feel it has given Goa an identity, a sense of dignity. Get a life please! Our politicians and IAS officers need to run to Delhi for every tidbit reason. Including for reasons of the former's proclivity for coup d'etat that requires them to scurry to Dilli often. Where's the dignity and freedom?

Administration of justice!
By a twist of fate, that is the title of the major accounting head under which these astronomical fees were paid to advocate general Subodh Kantak. As for Kantak's luck with his official earnings, what can I say? The man has the Midas touch. Representing a benevolent government Kantak I showed you last week earned Rs1,62,48,250 appearing in court between February 2005 and June 2007. There's plenty more. Kantak was paid Rs19,000 and Rs10,25,000 in January 2006. In August that year he was paid Rs19,000 and Rs7,45,000. In July Rs19,000 and Rs8,50,000. In June Rs Rs19,000 and Rs6,85,000. In May Rs19,000 and Rs2,20,000. In April Rs19,000 and Rs7,20,000. In March Rs19,000 and Rs8,55,000. In February Rs19,000 and Rs6,40,000. In December 2005 he was paid Rs19,000 and Rs5,90,000. In November Rs19,000 and Rs3,65,000. In October Rs19,000 and Rs3,75,000. In September Rs19,000 and Rs7,05,000. In August Rs19,000 and Rs7,70,000. In July 19,000 and Rs5,40,000. In June Rs9,500 and Rs1,05,000. Total Rs 94,65,500. The only other beneficiary was the union government as TDS at 7 per cent was deducted from these sums.

The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (& Women)

One of the first actions Digambar Kamat took after assuming office (he hadn't by then even appointed his permanent staff) was to call up the chief secretary and ask him to settle Kantak's bills. Kamat barely had time to perform other tasks because the week or so prior were occupied firefighting in Delhi. Outside his cabin were Srinivas Dempo, Ramakant Khalap and Pandurang Madkaikar, with their own agendas. I was inside Kamat's anteroom along with another outstation journalist interviewing him. That's how I know.

According to Aires Rodrigues whom the Goa University ought to confer an honorary doctorate for his research, the current fees for AG's was approved by the Pratapsingh Rane cabinet on September 21, 2006, and quickly notified on September 28 backdating the revised fees from April 1, 2005 April Fools day.

Rodrigues says Kantak appeared in the Bombay High Court on January 27, 2006 in the Saleli riots case bail applications of 102 accused and was paid 102 times Rs8000 i.e. Rs 8,16,000. Factualy, he made a common argument for the whole batch of bail applications and he should have claimed only Rs8000. In the PIL challenging the appointment of parliamentary secretaries Kantak charged Rs8000 twice over for the hearing on July 24, 2007.

While Kantak, not designated senior counsel, gets paid Rs8000 each time he appears in the HC, even if the case is adjourned; his Gujarat counterpart is paid Rs700 per day per case only if it is an effective hearing. The Maharashtra AG is paid Rs5000 per case up to a max of Rs7000 per day irrespective of the number of cases. The Karnataka AG gets Rs1000 for the first case and Rs250 each for subsequent cases to a max of Rs10,000 per day. Kantak was paid Rs2,55,97,012 between June 05-August 07. India's CJ gets a miserly Rs33,000 pm. The Prez gets Rs1,00,000 pm. Kantak, gets Rs8,000 every time he shows up.


When the going gets good, the good(s) get going. From 2005-2007 the additional government advocates attached to the office of the AG were paid as follows: Rakhi M. Chodankar Rs7,03,723, Leena Dharwadkar Rs6,30,671, Gauri Bhonsale 5,02,827, Manish Salkar Rs3,50.587. Total Rs21,87,808. If Kantak does the arguing in court, it means the AGA's don't. They only show up to seek adjournments or file affidavits or are a part of the AG's valet service. Perhaps there's a thin dividing line between showing up in court and arguing! Or, none at all! Finally, the government paid the AG's personal staff Rs16,96,251 as expenses between June 05-Feb 08. And this bit of miscellany, Rs37,736 towards his mobile phone bill for July 05-December 07 and Rs6,349 for calling from home between July 05-October 06.

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Living to eat - 4

Making A Meal Of It

Bad day at Devaaya
You must have missed it too. Browsing through the December issue of Outlook Traveller, I spotted this on Devaaya, the resort in Diwar, whose restaurant is closed to non-residents including the islanders themselves. "Unfortunately it's all downhill from there (before this the writer describes the resort design and architecture.) No vehicles allowed inside; but why we should have to find the reception desk unaided we don't know. The plastered walls show cracks, the marble in the bathrooms is stained. You share your poolside buffet with crows, the pool with pigeons. The room service menu is whimsically withdrawn. With the property soon to be re-launched as a Wellness resort, the staff seems unsure of what they offer (or don't.) F&B is scary. Only one restaurant is operational - a blessing, given the kitchen hygiene (from black-rimmed teacups to vein-in prawns.) The fare is largely North Indian. Hardly anything Goan, barely any seafood. Yet the one time I have Goan fish curry, it's miles ahead of the rogan josh."

The writer goes on to say: "Trouble is, when the rest of the service grates on the nerves, meals are nigh inedible and peace refuses to come, the knots in your spine don't ease up. We can only hope the place sorts itself out, and soon! Mind you, the Outlook Traveller went there invited by Devaaya.

Stomach this
They can't wait to live it up. Hardly had he taken over his ministry, Vishwajit Rane went gastronomic. He threw a dinner, guess where, at the Cidade de Goa for the advisory council on October 20, 2007. Cost: Rs84,788. That was his first. Other extravagant dinners will follow. You can bet your life on that despite PM Manmohan Singh going on national TV to plead for austerity.

On June 22, 2006 JP Singh hosted a Rs52,594 lunch on board the Noah's Ark for the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment while Pratapsing Rane gave them a Rs 55,615 dinner at his favourite Cidade de Goa and Subhash Shirodkar spent Rs1,07,682 on dinner the previous night also on board Noah's Ark. On June 15, 2006 while Rane was dining out with delegates of the UN Development Programme and Planning Commission members at a cost of Rs4,77,980, Singh was hosting a Rs52,995 dinner for the Planning Commission members. That's Rs5,30,975 worth of food and booze in one night! And, you thought the UN and Planning Commission were meant to do you good. Now, you could be within your rights to think they actually did you in - of your hard earned money. Add that, to the December 23, 2006 Singh's Rs1,28,040 Cidade dinner hosted for the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and you wonder when your nightmare over good governance is ever going to end.

Because while your concerns over the perennial shortage of potable water, the garbage problem, your politician's misunderstanding of the word development, their expensive eating out habits, holidaying abroad; turns out your government's top officials too have a thing for the good life.

JP Singh, Chief Secretary
31.01.06 dinner for SK Jain, secy Labour at Hotel Mariott Rs35,293 +3,713 gift.
10.02.06 lunch for Sanjay, jt secy. Civil Aviation at Mandovi Rs3,555.
10.02.06 dinner for Sanjay Narayan at Goa Mariott Rs17,277.
06.03.06 lunch for JP Singh, addl. secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment at Majestic Rs4,715.
23.03.06 dinner for NDC director general-no details.25.03.06 dinner for advisor (Montek Singh Ahluwalia ) to Dy. Chairman, Planning Commission at Goa Marriott Rs17,927.
25.03.06 dinner for Chief Conservator of Forest at Cidade de Goa Rs52,186+3,380 gift.
03.04.06 dinner for IAS probationers at Cidade Rs26,584.
03.05.06 dinner for Julio Ribeiro at Goa Marriott Rs61,672.
05.05.06 dinner for Manbir Singh, ambassador to Iran at Delhi Darbar Rs15,750.
02.06.06 dinner for Amit Yadav, commissioner, Commercial Taxes at Cidade de Goa Rs38,104+1,352 gift.
14.06.06 dinner for Planning Commission members at Noah's Ark Rs52,995.
22.06.06 lunch for Parliamentary Standing Committee on Social Justice & Empowerment at Noah's Ark Rs52,594.
26.06.06 dinner for Chairman, NHAI at Sweet Chilly Rs3,500+1,352 gift.
04.08.06 dinner for Bobby Bedi (film producer) at Delhi Darbar Rs15,188.
24.08.06 dinner for Western Zonal Council at Cidade de Goa Rs92,781.
17.09.06 dinner for JK Dadoo at Goa Marriott Rs67,586+2,704.
01.10.06 dinner for Neeraj Kumar, DGP at Cidade Rs56,915.
13.10.06 dinner for addl. secy. & financial advisor, Ministry of Steel at Sweet Chilly Rs11,404+1,352 gift.
18.10.06 dinner for addl. secy, Ministry of Panchayati Raj at Goa Marriott Rs41,490.
19.09.06 dinner for home secy, GoI at Goa Marriott Rs1,31,456.
02.11.06 dinner for 11th Rajya Sainik board at Cidade Goa Rs24,010.
10.11.06 lunch for selection committee, DPSC at Goa Marriott Rs10,570.
14.12.06 dinner jt. secy, Ministry of Environment & Forests at Majestic Rs9,168.
23.12.06 –dinner for Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs at Cidade de Goa Rs1,28,040.
15.01.07 dinner for trainee officers, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy at Goa Marriott Rs28,905.
19.01.07 dinner for member, National Commission for ST at Cidade de Goa Rs45,943.
12.03.07 lunch for H. Arakawa at Goa Marriott Rs15,082.
24.03.07 dinner for visiting IAS officers at Cidade de Goa Rs34,986.
04.06.07 dinner for IBIC at Goa Marriott Rs31,875.
11.04.07 farewell dinner for law secy, UK Bakre at FABR Rs52,347+3,713 gift.
27.04.07 dinner for UK Worah, Amjad Tak at FABR Rs66,411.
05.07.07 dinner for one at Goa Marriott Rs20,189.
31.08.07 dinner for Ashok Pradhan, IAS, GOI at Goa Marriott Rs3,206.
08.09.07 dinner for Pravin Kumar, IAS at Goa Marriott Rs9,047.
19.09.07 lunch for Autonomous Management Committee at Goa Marriott Rs14,211.
25.09.07 lunch for Santosh Vaidya, IAS, resident commissioner at Goa Marriott Rs23,535+1,352 gift.
11.10.07 lunch for special invitees at O 'Coqueiro –bill awaited.
10.08.07 lunch for Sanat Kaul, MD, Delhi TTDC at Goa Marriott Rs5,850.
10.11.07 dinner for teachers, prominent citizens at Goa Marriott Rs80,450.
11.10.07 lunch for special invitees and board members at O 'Coqueiro Rs34,643.
17.12.07 lunch for GPSC at Goa Marriott Rs36,276.
17.12.07 lunch for UPSC delegation on Bharat Darshan at Goa Marriott Rs13,796.
17.12.07 dinner for IAS probationers on Bharat Darshan at Goa Marriott Rs22,479.
11.11.07 dinner for Indo Bhutan border management team at Cidade Rs54,528.
19.11.07 dinner for secy, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, GoI at Cidade Rs11,613.
11.12.07 dinner for G. Gupt, IAS and Veenu Bansal, IPS at Cidade Rs46,030+4,065.
07.01.08 dinner for IAS officer of Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy at Goa Marriott Rs17,497.

The government's food bill (and growing) so far:

The government's food bill (and growing) so far:
Digambar Kamat Rs36,47,744
Pratapsing Rane Rs39,72,941
Manohar Parrikar Rs12,05,515
J. P. Singh Rs16,61,290

Total Rs1,04,87,490

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Live to eat -3

Stomach this!

If our 40 MLAs somehow contrive to think that development means building elegant holiday homes for Mumbai's and Delhi's prosperous tax evaders in Goa and they have been saying that ad nauseam and to hell with the potable water needs of the aam aadmi or their trepidation at being segregated in their own villages; one way or another I take the liberty to think that our CMs and ministers use food as a tool or enticement to keep other MLAs not fortunate to have those sanctioning powers, happy.

A minister after all is like a demigod. He has all the spending powers and the excuses to holiday like Churchill Alemao did in London trying to fit into the shoes of his cigar chomping namesake (mercifully, only) Sir Winston Churchill though not quite slipping into them while Goa's taps ran dry or, Digambar Kamat holidaying in Kashmir and being awed by it while the aam aadmi was being robbed wholesale by thieves working with impunity at night. Or, Vishwajit Rane holidaying in France.

Accept it as another extension of the useage of the much maligned word development. How else can you explain Digambar Kamat, Pratapsing Rane and Manohar Parrikar splurging Rs15,82,251 on food for their ilk. Food for thought indeed! And by the way even in his short stint as power minister and amid all the daily power stoppages and fluctuations Alexio Sequeira could find the spark in himself to spend Rs1,03,590 on a dinner for the KIP Group at the Radisson. On January 16, 2008 he also threw a dinner for Sherali Kharyreulla, the Tajikistan, defence minister, Tajikistan and others at the Sun & Sand that cost the taxpayer Rs48,223.

And as parties go, there is little difference. The BJP like to describe themselves as a party with a difference. But the only difference is in the watering holes they patronize as can be seen in Manohar Parrikar's dining-out experience. When it comes down to it, development may be the name of the game but the route to it is through the stomach, even for the BJP. Who cares if taps run dry or the power goes out, the aam aadmi can wait while the powers that be (and should not be!) partake of the repast.

Manohar Parrikar
23.05.04 –dinner for A.Venkateshwarm, Arvind Ray at Mandovi –Rs11,659+Rs3,200 on gifts.
26.05.04 –dinner for Canadian delegation at Cidade de Goa –Rs17,630.
29.06.04 –official lunch at Ruchira Bar, Mapusa –Rs4,500.
01.07.04 -20.12.04 –daily official lunches at Ruchira Bar –Rs1,70,050.
06.07.04 –lunch for ministers, MLA's at Samarath Caterers –Rs2,400.
07.07.04 –dinner for Prof Satish Udapur, Prof Lalitha Udapur, Michigan State University at Goa Marriott –Rs16,715.
30.07.04 –dinner for ex-PM at Mandovi –Rs33,990.
27.08.04 –dinner for Association of Indian Management Schools at Cidade de Goa –Rs72,815.
22.09.04 –dinner for invitees at Mandovi –Rs9,504.
08.10.04 –dinner for Canada-India Institute Industrial Project delegates at Mandovi –Rs1,69,325.
08.11.04 -dinner for XXIX Jr National Badminton Championship –Rs44,500.
08.12.04 -lunch for select journalists covering IFFI at Nova Goa –Rs50,720.
08.12.04 –lunch for select journalist covering IFFI at Nova Goa –Rs17,080.
12.01.05 –dinner for Indian Forest Services officers at Cidade de Goa –Rs48,328.
10.01.05 -14.01.05 –official lunch at Ruchira Bar –Rs20,000
23.06.05 -lunch for select journalists at Ruchira Bar –Rs8,100.
23.08.05 –dinner at Nova Goa –Rs12,500.
08.10.05 -dinner for select journalists at Nova Goa –Rs7,280.
12.12.05 –dinner for 30 at Mandovi –Rs14,288.
05.02.06 –lunch for 15 at Nova Goa –Rs4,593.
August, 2005, February-March 2006 -Lunch for MLAs during Assembly session at Ruchira Bar –Rs1,08,900.
26.03.06 -dinner for 60 at Mandovi –Rs27,563.
05.05.06 –dinner for 60 at Mandovi –Rs23,625.
21.07.06 -dinner for 11 at Nova Goa –Rs9,930.
02.08.06 –dinner for 70 at Mandovi –Rs31,759.
04.08.06 –dinner for 16 at Mandovi –Rs10,631.
14.10.06 –lunch for MLAs -Rs6,500.
20.12.06 -lunch for MLAs, invitees at Nova Goa –Rs15,645.
10.07.06-31.07.06 –lunch for MLAs during Assembly session at Ruchira Bar –Rs1,07,104.
20.01.07 -dinner for MLAs at Mandovi –Rs7,875.
22-25.01.07 –lunch for MLAs during Assembly session at Ruchira Bar -Rs36,224.
08.03.07 –lunch for ruling ministers, MLAs at O 'Coqueiro –Rs29,000.
03.03.07 –dinner for MLAs, invitees at Mandovi –Rs12,206.
05-09.03.07 –lunch for MLAs during Assembly session at Ruchira –Rs39,376.
Total spent on entertainment between May 2004 and March 2007 was Rs12,05,515 of which Rs5,59,780 was spent on entertaining MLAs and ministers.

The government's food bill so far:
Digambar Kamat Rs36,47,744
Pratapsing Rane Rs39,72,941
Manohar Parrikar Rs12,05,515

Total Rs88,262,00

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I rest my case

Kantak doth protest too much -1

Subodh Kantak, the Advocate General says Aires Rodrigues, the lawyer, defamed him by making false allegations of double and excessive billing. You be the judge, jury and prosecutor and decide who is guilty because what Kantak charged the government (or got paid for without a murmer of protest) for the various hearings by any stretch of imagination or application of thumb rule is way beyond double or excessive. Disproportionate or inconceivable might just about be the words you are looking for. But as I write this, I just cannot find appropriate words.

Here is another point I would like to make. Governments for long have been paying lawyers fees that have no rationale or basis, neither were the fees I am told fixed with any prior knowledge or for that matter by comparing Goa's figures with other States. After Eyespy first broke the news in this column, the Chief Secretary JP Singh ordered that a comparison be made with Maharashtra and Karnataka. His logic was these are neighbouring States. So what? And what about the fact that some of Maharashtra and Karnataka's districts annual budgets would take a huge chunk out of Goa's annual budget? In other words, they have the dough. We do not. For example the following fees were paid to defend the government in the Supreme Court in writ petition no. 440/2007 Goa Democratic Alliance versus Goa government.

Anip Sachthey Rs 6,24,400, Madhu Sikri Rs33,000, Harin P. Rawal Rs 1,00,000,
Shriniwas R. Khalap Rs 2,00,000, Huzefa Ahmadi Rs 1,60,000, Anupam Lal Das Rs 33,000, KK Venugopal Rs 8,80,000, K. Parasaran Rs10,72,500. For the uninitiated, Shriniwas is the son of Ramakant Khalap. The total of what Kantak would call not excessive is Rs31,02,900, enough to solve your village's immediate needs, roads for instance even if bijli and pani that most villagers are crying out for are a given in a state like Goa.

But Kantak thinks he has the edge on being blameless and honourable. After all the legal eagles that appeared for the government are professionals. For instance Kapil Sibal, a union minister, had appeared in his legal capacity for Dayanand Narvekar some time ago and the latter got slapped with a big legal bill. Narvekar reportedly demurred saying he and Sibal are both Congressman so he should be given a discount. Sibal reportedly said he did not mix his politics and business!

So, whose fault is it? The MLAs who constantly switch sides or the Chief Ministers who approved of the enormous hikes in the retainership and the other scales of payment? I rest my case. Meanwhile, remember the Ponda autorickshaw driver who returned a huge sum of money to the man who left it behind in his rick. If you go by Kantak's reading of the law, the man ought to have taken the money home for keeps. The autorickshaw was after all his and his passenger should have known better, so on and so forth. There is a lesson here to be learnt for all. And the lesson certainly is not feeling aggrieved after accepting huge paychecks from the government.

Can't do without Kantak
Our MLAs really need to think twice before they switch sides or rather play musical chairs. Because the prize for most games politicians play goes to Kantak. Because the winner, while they squabble, and crossover is Kantak. In June 2007 for instance he was paid Rs38,500: Rs20,000 as retainership for the month, HRA Rs10,000, conference consultation Rs5,500 and another allowance of Rs3,000. I have a copy of another bill obtained under RTI which shows he was paid an extra Rs6,08,000 for the same month. In May he got Rs38,500 and Rs64,000. April Rs38,500 and Rs12,32,000. March Rs38,500 and Rs19,60,000. February Rs38,500 and Rs11,68,000. January Rs38,500 and Rs10,64,000.

In December 2006 Kantak was paid Rs38,500 and Rs10,40,000. November Rs 38,500 and Rs11,36,000. October Rs38,500 and Rs9,52,000. September Rs38,500 and Rs8,48,000. August Rs19,500 and Rs4,31,000. July Rs19,500 and Rs4,94,000. June Rs19,500 and Rs3,95,000. May 1,16,000. April Rs19,500 and Rs4,16,000. March Rs19,500 and Rs4,97,000. February Rs19,500 and Rs3,68,000 January Rs19,500 and Rs5,99,000.

In December 2005 Kantak was paid Rs19,500 and Rs3,38,000. November Rs19,500 and Rs2,03,000. In December Rs Rs19,500 and Rs2,09,000. In September Rs19,500 and Rs4,07,000. In August Rs19,500 and Rs4,46,000. In July Rs19,500 and Rs3,08,000. In June Rs9750 and Rs Rs47,000. In February Rs2,24,000.

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