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Around The World In 365 Days –5

Goa's Flying Circus
Wait till you see the flight expenses of the government IAS officers. That added to the cost of flying our montris to Delhi, that almost on paper looks like a shuttle service, all add up to a mind blowing expense. And imagine, they already had a secretariat in Panjim, than they went and built another one in Porvorim at a tremendous cost. It just goes on and on, build, build, build, fly, fly, fly. But then who are we to criticize Goa's new rulers, after all Churchill has proclaimed time and again that development equals putting up concrete jungles on peoples' land. Even Babu Kavlekar is no longer confused between SEZ, food parks and auxiliary parks. But not Churchill, goggles on, crash helmet on, firmly saddled in his PWD seat, he is on the fast lane or should we call it four-lane to 'development.'

Intriguingly Parrikar and Ravi Naik's (and especially his) extensive flying to Mumbai that apart from raising your hackles also raise deep suspicions. Ravi Naik's as I said look like blatant junkets because his flights were overwhelmingly to Mumbai. Just for the record Rs1,41,965 of tax money was spent flying him exclusively to Mumbai from a total of Rs2,80,422 in the short period researched.

Manohar Parrikar
12-16 November 2000 Mumbai/Delhi Rs33,114, 21-26 December 2000 Bangalore/Mumbai R25,177, 3-5 January 2001, 27-29 January 2001 Delhi Rs14,685,
10-12 January 2001 Mumbai/Nagpur, 2-4 March 2001 Delhi Rs14,685, 2-4 April 2001 Delhi Rs14,685, 16-19 April 2001 Delhi Rs15,007, 6-8 May 2001 Mumbai Rs5,672, 26-28 May 2001 Mumbai Rs5,180, 24-27 June 2001 Mumbai/Rajkot Rs11,097, 13-14 August 2001 Mumbai Rs5,542, 24-29 July 2001 Delhi/Jaipur/Mumbai Rs16,255, 25-27 August 2001 Poona/Mumbai Rs7,597, 31 August-2 September 2001 Delhi Rs15,525, 11-12 September 2001 Mumbai Rs5,542, 20-21 September 2001 Mumbai Rs5,542, 6-8 October 2001 Mumbai/Ahmedabad Rs11,752, 11-13 October 2001 Delhi Rs15,953, 20-22 October 2001 Delhi Rs15,543, 10-12 November 2001 Mumbai Rs6,304, 15-16 December 2001 Mumbai Rs6,057, 22-25 December 2001 Mumbai/Delhi Rs17,211, 28-30 December 2001 Delhi/Mumbai Rs16,992, 20-23 January 2002 Delhi Rs16,742, 20-21 February 2002 Delhi Rs17,230, 3-5 March 2002 Mumbai Rs6,634, 7-8 March 2002 Delhi Rs16,075, 26-28 April 2002 Delhi Rs17,724, 3-4 May 2002 Delhi Rs17,055, 6-7 April 2002 Mumbai Rs6,530, 7-8 October 2002 Rs18,394, 17-19 October 2002 Delhi Rs2,947, 9 January 2002 Delhi, 8-23 November 2002 Mumbai/Delhi Rs17,942, 17 December 2002 Mumbai Rs20,548, 20-25 December 2002 Delhi/Ahmedabad, 14-24 January 2003 Canada/USA Rs2,90,000, 15-17 February 2003 Bangalore/Mumbai Rs11,924, 10-12 March 2003 Delhi Rs18,079, 28-29 March 2003 Delhi/Jaipur Rs19,935, 26-27 April 2003 Mumbai Rs7,455, 3-11 May 2003 Bangalore/Delhi/Mumbai Rs28,594, 10-11 June 2003, 18-21 June 2003 Mumbai Rs2,476, 29 June-1 July 2003 Delhi Rs22,215, 1-3 August 2003 Mumbai Rs7,802, 18-19 August 2003 Mumbai Rs7,455, 12-13.10.03, 29-31 October 2003 Delhi 3-5 November 2003 Bangalore Rs35,944, 7-10 December 2003 Mumbai/Jaipur/Delhi, 28-29 December 2003 Mumbai, 10-12 January 2004 Mumbai/Hyderabad, 14-15 January 2004 Mumbai Rs17,216, 20-22 January 2004 Delhi, 3-4 March 2004 Mumbai/Delhi Rs17,967, 29-30 May 2004 Mumbai Rs13,169, 31 May-1 June 2004, 24 June-4 July 2004 Mumbai Rs33,541, 24-25 July 2004 Delhi, 11-12 August 2004 Mumbai Rs14,271, 28-29 August 2004, 11-13 September 2004 Delhi/Mumbai Rs27,435, 17-18 September 2004 Mumbai, 11-12 October 2004 Mumbai Rs36,598, 26-29 October 2004 Delhi, 6-7 November 2004 Jaipur/Mumbai Rs32,299, 8-19 November 2004 Mumbai, 11-12 December 2004 Mumbai, 26-27 December 2004 Mumbai Rs29, 283.
Total Rs8,26,596

Ravi Naik
12-16 November 2000 Delhi Rs15,205, 1-3 December 2000 Delhi Rs5,522, 11-13 January 2001 Mumbai Rs5,752, 5-7 February 2001 Mumbai Rs5,572, 18-19 February 2001 Mumbai Rs11,014, 25-27 February 2001 Mumbai, 31 March-3 April 2001 Cochin Rs19,524, 18-24 April 2001 Mumbai, 22-24 May 2001 Mumbai Rs11,774, 25-27 June 2001 Mumbai, 11-13 September 2001 Mumbai Rs7,141, 4-5 October 2001 Mumbai Rs24,237, 20-22 October 2001 Delhi, 30 November-2 December 2001 Hyderabad Rs14, 135, 18-24 December 2001 Delhi Rs28,755, 3-5 January 2002, 10 January 2002 Mumbai, 20-23 January 2002 Delhi/Mumbai 21-23 March 2002 Mumbai Rs6,634, 3-4 May 2002 Delhi Rs17,014, 16-17 April 2002 Mumbai Rs26,996, 25-26 April 2002 Delhi, 21-23 June 2007 Delhi Rs38,302, 7-9 September 2007 Mumbai Rs13,627, 4-7 October 2007 Mumbai Rs29,038.
Total Rs2,80,422

Wilfred D'Souza Rs22,89,428 Feb 2005-Aug 2007
Dayanand Narvekar Rs14,94,884 Feb 2000-Mar 2007
Pratapsing Rane Rs14,57,354 Feb 2005-Apr 2006
Digambar Kamat Rs11,40,395 Jan 2000-Jan 2005
Manohar Parrikar Rs 8,26,596 Dec 2000-Dec 2004
Francisco Sardinha Rs 4,10,661 Jan 2000-Oct 2000
Ravi Naik Rs 2,80,422 Nov 2000-Sept 2007
Francisco D'Souza Rs 83,144
Somnath Zuwarkar Rs 65,377
Arecio D'Souza Rs 63,238
Subash Shirodkar Rs 43,814
Francisco Silveira Rs 39,117
Mauvin Godinho Rs 27,216
Venkatesh Desai Rs 9,550
Total Rs82,31,196
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