UP STETHOSCOPE
Suspecting they are being scammed, at least 18 insurance companies, including four in the public sector, have delisted more than 150 hospitals in Delhi and the National Capital Region (or NCR, which is basically the Delhi region) from their designated list for Mediclaim insurance. Could a virus strain of this scam have already affected the hospital scheme that entitles you to cashless medical facilities in Goa? The news broke last week and the position on this could change. Your periscope (like a submarine) should be up and looking. In this case, you would need a stethoscope to grope for the evidence. You should like a doctor be able to feel the heavy breathing of anticipation within the corridors of government officialdom and the medical fraternity. The pounding of heart beats. The hard medical facts are, your government reimbursed a huge Rs 11,64,02,329 in 2008-2009 to 16 of the 21 empanelled hospitals under Mediclaim. In 2009-2010 up till February 28, 2010 the government paid Rs 8,04,16,423 to 18 of the 21 hospitals under the Mediclaim scheme (see list for actual details). The government owes an additional Rs 5,73,14,125 to 14 hospitals for the period 2009-10. All in all that makes it a mammoth Rs 25,41,32,877 the government paid a clutch of hospitals. You sense some fiddling here? O course, you do, because either we are a very, very ill community and must be all laid up which would explain the sussegad in us. Or, as you rightly diagnosed, it must be a few hundred unwell who are making an even smaller group of people glowing with good health extremely rich with all that moolah. Who said wealth does not bring happiness? Because even a pinprick of the Rs 25,41,32,877 has to make you feel good. Call it wellness.
Dr. DIAGNOSTIX
A doctor’s diagnosis is that the list itself of sick persons who are asked by the Directorate of Health Services to reimburse the hospitals directly is very small. The reasons are obvious. But the list of sick given the benefit of a cashless transaction is huge. The reasons are obvious again. No transparency at this level means more cash for officialdom and hospitals. In an ironic way cashless for you means more cash for them. That’s why the 18 insurance companies have a deep suspicion and have acted before the virus spreads. Let’s see what happens in Goa next.
UNDER INTENSIVE CARE
HOSPITALS IN GOA
In the two financial years 2008-09, 2009-10 (up to February 28) Apollo Victor Hospital, Margao was paid Rs 3,76,98,886 and Rs 2,31,76,294; Om Urology, Panjim Rs 16,93,772 (08-09 only); Chodankar Hursing Home, Porvorim Rs 70,37,216 and Rs 31,60,789; Goa Manipal Hospital, Dona Paula Rs 2,80,573 and Rs 8,34,672; NUSI Hospital, Cuncolim Rs 41,91,702 and Rs 2,56,538; Vivus, SMRC, Vasco Rs 80,10,911 and Rs 37,36,403; Vrundavan Hospital, Mapusa Rs 28,01,801 and Rs 40,12,195; Grace Cardia Care, Margao Rs 4,97,927 (09-10 only); SMRC Vasco Rs 95,449 (09-10 only).
HOSPITALS OUTSIDE GOA
KLES Hospital, Belgaum Rs 2,85,53,156 and Rs 1,62,38,625; RG Stone, Mumbai Rs 29,62,421 (08-09 only); Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai Rs 72,65,972 and Rs 75,05,163; Wockhardt Hospital, Bangalore Rs 77,96,635 and Rs 54,64,240; Kasturba Hospital, Manipal Rs 14,00,117 and Rs 17,47,054; Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune Rs 3,11,715 and Rs 1,00,077; Sankara Netralaya, Chennai Rs 7,49,837 and Rs 5,96,368; Santosham Chest, Chennai Rs 84,743 (08-09 only); Neogen, Bangalore Rs 55,62,872 and Rs 1,24,852; Wockhardt Hospital, Mumbai Rs 2,63,507 (09-10 only); Manipal Heart Foundation, Bangalore Rs 1,18,796 (09-10 only); Belgaum Cancer, Belgaum Rs 1,14,474 (09-10 only).
REIMBURSED IN 2008-09 Rs 11,64,02,329
REIMBURSED IN 2009-10 Rs 08,04,16,423
TOTAL: Rs 19,68,18,752
REIMBURSEMENT PENDING WITH GOVERNMENT (2009-10)
Apollo Victor Hospital, Margao Rs 1,75,55,000
Chodankar Nursing Home, Porvorim Rs 9,08,665
Goa Manipal Hospital, Dona Paula Rs 10,45,000
Vivus, SMRC, Vasco Rs 50,78,000
Vrundavan Hospital, Mapusa Rs 15,05,000
Grace Cardia Care, Margao Rs 5,60,000
Campal Clinic, Panjim Rs 41,60,000
KLES Hospital, Belgaum Rs 1,43,40,000
Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai Rs 6,55,000
Wockhardt Hospital, Bangalore Rs 24,28,000
Kasturba Hospital, Manipal Rs 6,65,000
Sankara Netralaya, Chennai Rs 4,25,000
Neogen, Bangalore Rs 78,09,460
Belgaum Cancer, Belgaum Rs 1,80,000
TOTAL: Rs 5,73,14,125
GRAND TOTAL: Rs 25,41,32,877
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Flying Circus VIII
Government of gatecrashers
It’s terrifying the way the Congress government acquires land, your land. One way to avoid that would be to sell your land, if you have sizeable tracts of it, that is, and if it lies next to or near an existing industrial estate. Of course if you are a bhatcar with land along the coast and you haven’t yet sold it, all you need to do is look heavenwards and you will spot those hundreds of Delhi vultures hovering in the skies, claws sharpened, waiting to zoom in on your land. That settled, here’s why you must sell your land under the first category before the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), Goa’s home-cloned land-predator casts its covetous glances your way. It is looking to buy a simple matter of just 20 lakh sq mts. And for what? A pittance is what you will get if you sell.
Pressure cooker effect
The IDC told “the newspaper you can trust” that it intends to acquire 20 lakh sq mts of land, your land, near various industrial estates. When this particular daily gets to know first; it’s either the real thing/ a test case to gauge public sentiment/ or both. There’s a background to this. If you live, god forbid, in the villages say for example between the Verna industrial estate and say a village like Utorda along the coast; you will know soon what is meant by the pressure cooker effect. I give these two examples -- Verna, because of its burgeoning growth that affects the villagers in its vicinity; Utorda, because if you drive down to the Uttorda beach, you will see for yourself that three Delhities have bought several lakh sq mts on either side of the road choking off the beach to villagers. To the left and right of the road is the existing Heritage Resort. Abutting all that is owned by Heritage on the left of the road, is more land owned by Goa Inn and even it has a bit of land ahead of the Heritage property and touching the road. So, on the left you have Heritage and Goa Inn. On the left of the road and ahead of the Heritage property is property owned by the Competent Group (further up the road) close to the beach. So, on the right you have Heritage again and Competent. It’s easier to understand if you were standing there. But trust me all that is left for the locals to enjoy is the narrow road. I choose Verna, because IDC has already acquired land there. Just for the record, the IDC has acquired a mind boggling 70,49,594 sq mts so far. That’s why I call it frightful.
Final Episode of Profligacy
So is this bill of Rs 93,82,850, your montris stitched you up with and which ends the Flying Circus series. Talk of profligacy! Are you not appalled at how Rs 93,82,850 can be spent by a dozen montris, without a care in the world. Still, relief could be impending. Vishwajeet Rane is back in the Congress, maybe Babush (who is also back in the Congress) has abandoned the plan to dislodge Digambar Kamat from within, since they (he, Rane and others) could not do it when they cobbled together the G-7 and saw coup after coup fail. The G-7 seems to have lost its fizz completely. Mickky' Pacheco has jaundice (and that’s the least of his problems, even he will freely acknowledge), Babush and Vishwajeet are now sleeping with the enemy. G-7 has shrunk to G-4. And it will be a year at least before they get restive. Happy days are here again.
Ramkrishna (Sudhin) Dhavlikar, Minister for Transport
2008-The Road Most Travelled
He began his flying dashing off on 01-02 April to Delhi, Rs 29,690+50, total Rs 30,210; and when his mission obviously failed, he turned to prayer because on 05-08 May he flew Mumbai-Pune-Shirdi-Pune, and you footed the bill of Rs 24,288+847, total Rs 25,135. He was back to the routine thing: 27-30 May, Delhi-Mumbai, Rs 25,245+903, total Rs 26,148. His next flight obviously a junket, saw him board a Delhi- He wasH
Jammu-Mumbai flight on 18-21 June, Rs 32,236+788, total Rs 33,024. 26-27 June, Delhi, Rs 12,405+355, total Rs 12,760. Things were not working out for the rebellious G-7 or things simply got overheated (remember, even Churchill was going to join up if he had another shot at being CM) going by his frequent flying in July and August: 08-10 July, Delhi, Rs 22,750+615, total Rs 23,365; 16-17 July, Mumbai, Rs 12,830+520, total Rs 13,350; 25-28 July, Pune-Mumbai, Rs 15,045+703, total Rs 15,748; 05-07 August, Delhi, Rs 31,285+702, total Rs 31,987;13-14 August, Mumbai, Rs 19,105+355, total Rs 19,460; 25-27 August, Delhi-Mumbai, Rs 26,460+412, total Rs 26,872. That ‘s six flights in two months all done by Business Class because Sudhin Dhavlikar likes doing his private business in a classy way. That too when you and I are paying. 14-17 October, Mumbai, Rs 15,970+797, total Rs 16,767; 27-29 December, Mumbai, total Rs 9,130.
2009 - The DA King
He began the year doing the usual in-out of Delhi/Mumbai. But look at the DA on one of his trips. It exceeded the fare cost. 06-09 January, Delhi, total Rs 31,760; 12-14 January, Mumbai, Rs 9,238+9,807, total Rs 19,045; 27-30 January, Mumbai-Delhi-Mumbai, total Rs 16,146. 27 Feb-03 March, Chennai, Rs 8,646+17,175, total Rs 25,821. Look again at the DA of Rs 17,174, it’s almost double the flight cost. 13-15 March, Delhi, total Rs 18,045. On 29 May-01 June he flew Delhi-Mumbai for Rs 18,553 again getting paid a huge DA of Rs 16,212 total Rs 34,765 which easily earns him the title of highest DA earner in the category of montri frequent fliers, yes Sir, there’s more to come in other categories; because on 06-09 July he flew Pune-Delhi-Mumbai at a cost to you of Rs 20,051 and was paid DA of Rs 7,195 plus Rs 61 as ‘other’ expenses for a total of Rs 28,107. 05-07 September, Delhi, Rs 9,206+520, total Rs 9,726; 21-24 October, Kochi, total Rs 9,808; 20-21 November, Mumbai, Rs 6,879+442, total Rs 7,321.
2010
11-12 February, Mumbai, total Rs 11,925
Total: Rs 4,97,105
The Flying Club Cost
Vishwajeet Rane Rs 17,56,397
Churchill Alemao Rs 14,28,633
Digambar Kamat Rs 13,26,144
Joaquim Alemao Rs 12,34,442
Mickky Pacheco Rs 11,98,946
Babush Monseratte Rs 6,48,115
Babu Azgaonkar Rs 1,87,986
Dayanand Narvekar Rs 1,36,275
Ravi Naik Rs 4,08,749
Filipe Rodrigues Rs 40,306
Jose Philip D’Souza Rs 4,79,446
Sudhin Dhavlikar Rs 4,97,105
Grand Total: Rs 93,42,544
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It’s terrifying the way the Congress government acquires land, your land. One way to avoid that would be to sell your land, if you have sizeable tracts of it, that is, and if it lies next to or near an existing industrial estate. Of course if you are a bhatcar with land along the coast and you haven’t yet sold it, all you need to do is look heavenwards and you will spot those hundreds of Delhi vultures hovering in the skies, claws sharpened, waiting to zoom in on your land. That settled, here’s why you must sell your land under the first category before the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), Goa’s home-cloned land-predator casts its covetous glances your way. It is looking to buy a simple matter of just 20 lakh sq mts. And for what? A pittance is what you will get if you sell.
Pressure cooker effect
The IDC told “the newspaper you can trust” that it intends to acquire 20 lakh sq mts of land, your land, near various industrial estates. When this particular daily gets to know first; it’s either the real thing/ a test case to gauge public sentiment/ or both. There’s a background to this. If you live, god forbid, in the villages say for example between the Verna industrial estate and say a village like Utorda along the coast; you will know soon what is meant by the pressure cooker effect. I give these two examples -- Verna, because of its burgeoning growth that affects the villagers in its vicinity; Utorda, because if you drive down to the Uttorda beach, you will see for yourself that three Delhities have bought several lakh sq mts on either side of the road choking off the beach to villagers. To the left and right of the road is the existing Heritage Resort. Abutting all that is owned by Heritage on the left of the road, is more land owned by Goa Inn and even it has a bit of land ahead of the Heritage property and touching the road. So, on the left you have Heritage and Goa Inn. On the left of the road and ahead of the Heritage property is property owned by the Competent Group (further up the road) close to the beach. So, on the right you have Heritage again and Competent. It’s easier to understand if you were standing there. But trust me all that is left for the locals to enjoy is the narrow road. I choose Verna, because IDC has already acquired land there. Just for the record, the IDC has acquired a mind boggling 70,49,594 sq mts so far. That’s why I call it frightful.
Final Episode of Profligacy
So is this bill of Rs 93,82,850, your montris stitched you up with and which ends the Flying Circus series. Talk of profligacy! Are you not appalled at how Rs 93,82,850 can be spent by a dozen montris, without a care in the world. Still, relief could be impending. Vishwajeet Rane is back in the Congress, maybe Babush (who is also back in the Congress) has abandoned the plan to dislodge Digambar Kamat from within, since they (he, Rane and others) could not do it when they cobbled together the G-7 and saw coup after coup fail. The G-7 seems to have lost its fizz completely. Mickky' Pacheco has jaundice (and that’s the least of his problems, even he will freely acknowledge), Babush and Vishwajeet are now sleeping with the enemy. G-7 has shrunk to G-4. And it will be a year at least before they get restive. Happy days are here again.
Ramkrishna (Sudhin) Dhavlikar, Minister for Transport
2008-The Road Most Travelled
He began his flying dashing off on 01-02 April to Delhi, Rs 29,690+50, total Rs 30,210; and when his mission obviously failed, he turned to prayer because on 05-08 May he flew Mumbai-Pune-Shirdi-Pune, and you footed the bill of Rs 24,288+847, total Rs 25,135. He was back to the routine thing: 27-30 May, Delhi-Mumbai, Rs 25,245+903, total Rs 26,148. His next flight obviously a junket, saw him board a Delhi- He wasH
Jammu-Mumbai flight on 18-21 June, Rs 32,236+788, total Rs 33,024. 26-27 June, Delhi, Rs 12,405+355, total Rs 12,760. Things were not working out for the rebellious G-7 or things simply got overheated (remember, even Churchill was going to join up if he had another shot at being CM) going by his frequent flying in July and August: 08-10 July, Delhi, Rs 22,750+615, total Rs 23,365; 16-17 July, Mumbai, Rs 12,830+520, total Rs 13,350; 25-28 July, Pune-Mumbai, Rs 15,045+703, total Rs 15,748; 05-07 August, Delhi, Rs 31,285+702, total Rs 31,987;13-14 August, Mumbai, Rs 19,105+355, total Rs 19,460; 25-27 August, Delhi-Mumbai, Rs 26,460+412, total Rs 26,872. That ‘s six flights in two months all done by Business Class because Sudhin Dhavlikar likes doing his private business in a classy way. That too when you and I are paying. 14-17 October, Mumbai, Rs 15,970+797, total Rs 16,767; 27-29 December, Mumbai, total Rs 9,130.
2009 - The DA King
He began the year doing the usual in-out of Delhi/Mumbai. But look at the DA on one of his trips. It exceeded the fare cost. 06-09 January, Delhi, total Rs 31,760; 12-14 January, Mumbai, Rs 9,238+9,807, total Rs 19,045; 27-30 January, Mumbai-Delhi-Mumbai, total Rs 16,146. 27 Feb-03 March, Chennai, Rs 8,646+17,175, total Rs 25,821. Look again at the DA of Rs 17,174, it’s almost double the flight cost. 13-15 March, Delhi, total Rs 18,045. On 29 May-01 June he flew Delhi-Mumbai for Rs 18,553 again getting paid a huge DA of Rs 16,212 total Rs 34,765 which easily earns him the title of highest DA earner in the category of montri frequent fliers, yes Sir, there’s more to come in other categories; because on 06-09 July he flew Pune-Delhi-Mumbai at a cost to you of Rs 20,051 and was paid DA of Rs 7,195 plus Rs 61 as ‘other’ expenses for a total of Rs 28,107. 05-07 September, Delhi, Rs 9,206+520, total Rs 9,726; 21-24 October, Kochi, total Rs 9,808; 20-21 November, Mumbai, Rs 6,879+442, total Rs 7,321.
2010
11-12 February, Mumbai, total Rs 11,925
Total: Rs 4,97,105
The Flying Club Cost
Vishwajeet Rane Rs 17,56,397
Churchill Alemao Rs 14,28,633
Digambar Kamat Rs 13,26,144
Joaquim Alemao Rs 12,34,442
Mickky Pacheco Rs 11,98,946
Babush Monseratte Rs 6,48,115
Babu Azgaonkar Rs 1,87,986
Dayanand Narvekar Rs 1,36,275
Ravi Naik Rs 4,08,749
Filipe Rodrigues Rs 40,306
Jose Philip D’Souza Rs 4,79,446
Sudhin Dhavlikar Rs 4,97,105
Grand Total: Rs 93,42,544
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Flying Circus VII
Will he upgrade?
Jose Philip D’Souza, Minister for Revenue
Mercifully, he is not much of a frequent flier. He made 24 flights during that same period. But, now that he has become the National Congress President, heaven help us! Pray that his fairly regular patronage of Economy Class (ten of 24 flights) does not change.
2008 High Maintenance
06-07 May, Mumbai-Delhi, Rs 16,463+355, total Rs 16,818; 10-19, May, Mumbai-Delhi, Rs 31,538+2,600, total Rs 34,138; a one-dayer on 5 May flying Mumbai-Bangalore, Rs 13,190+95, total Rs 13,285; 02-03 July, Mumbai, Rs 8,400+442, total Rs 8,842. His next five flights including one in 2009 (all but one Economy Class) took him to Delhi, that I speculate happened at the behest of the National Congress Party or the G-7 and that as in the case of the Dhavlikar Brothers Inc, is costing us plenty. The Dhavlikar Brothers, you would know if you have been following this column in the past, burnt up a lot of your tax bucks on account of all the litigation over the disqualification petitions that were fought in the Supreme Court because of them. 1) 25-26 July, Delhi, Rs 31,055+520, total Rs 31,575. 2) 17-18 August, Delhi, Rs 27,432+405, total Rs 27,837. 3) 11-12 September, Delhi, Rs 24,637+405, total Rs 25,042. 4) 22-23 October, Delhi, Rs 24,195+318, total Rs 24,513. So not only do you shell out big bucks to maintain them in high office but also when they get flirty with other political parties.
2009 Missing in Goa
5) 06-08 August, Delhi, total Rs 11,850. As you can see, all but this flight were the typical quick overnight visitations to Delhi, like quickies - in and out- just about enough time to pay obeisance to their political masters or, be told come back again which I am informed happens frequently. If the CM and Vishawajeet Rane are regulars at Tirupati, then Churchill, Joaquim and even Jose Philip put the shrine of Annai Velankani in Nagapattinam on their agenda. Which is why you see them heading to Trichy, the closest airport to Nagapattinam.
Jose Philip’s quick flights to Delhi dominated the year, like so; 19-20 January, Mumbai-Delhi, Rs 24,585+442, total Rs 25,027; 28-29 January, Delhi, total Rs 14,460; 28 Feb-01 March, total Rs 13,799. In fact Jose Philip probably spent more time in Delhi in January and in March than the two central ministers MK Alagiri and Mamata Banerjee who regularly go AWOL even during cabinet meetings. 03-06 March, Mumbai-Lucknow-Mumbai, total Rs 20,458; 11-13 March, Mumbai-Delhi-Mumbai, total Rs 24,755; 30 April-2 May, Mumbai, total Rs 8,458; 26 May-01 June, Madras-Trichy-Madras, Rs 28,808+1,395, total 30,203; 02-03 June, Delhi-Mumbai, Rs 16,367+520, total Rs 16,887; 18-20 August, Delhi, Rs 15,006+665, total Rs 15,671; 29-30 August, Mumbai-Delhi-Mumbai, Rs 28,200+483, total Rs 28,683; 25-27 September, Mumbai, Rs 8,785+702, total Rs 9,487. He flew thrice to Mumbai/Delhi in a single month: 1) 06-10 December, Mumbai, Rs 7,074+1,222, total Rs 8,296. 2) 19-20 December, Delhi, Rs 16,250+405, total Rs 16,655. 3) A one-dayer to Delhi on 21 December that cost you Rs 33,599. And another one-dayer to Mumbai on 8 January 2010 that cost you Rs 17,608. And like me you might wonder what more can our montris achieve in a day in Delhi or Mumbai that cannot be done over the mobile. Is it because neither side trusts each other, and therefore need to eyeball each other? After all, the carry-case lie detector like the portable blood pressure monitor hasn’t been invented yet.
The Flying Club Cost so far:
Vishwajeet Rane Rs 17,56,397
Churchill Alemao Rs 14,28,633
Digambar Kamat Rs 13,26,144
Joaquim Alemao Rs 12,34,442
Mickky Pacheco Rs 11,98,946
Babush Monseratte Rs 6,48,115
Babu Azgaonkar Rs 1,87,986
Dayanand Narvekar Rs 1,36,275
Ravi Naik Rs 4,08,749
Filipe Rodrigues Rs 40,306
Jose Philip D’Souza Rs 4,79,446
Grand Total: Rs 88,45,439
“It is a Bullshit”
Famous last words of drug peddler-in-denial Yaniv Benhaim a.k.a Atala. He used them to describe almost everything except himself, which if he did, would be the only truth he ever spoke. Famous last words because by the time you read this, he would have flown the coop. If he hasn’t it is only because Atala has decided to stay back to learn more from our politicians courtesy the Goa Police deliberately bungling the investigation. Where do you think he learnt to blame the media for getting into a spot and also to deny afterwards that a top politician’s son is involved in drug peddling? Huh, where? It’s from our politicians. Look at it this way, stay back and he gets to at least learn which Notary Public has a valid license if push comes to shove and he ends up needing an affidavit to be notarised. If he sticks around Ravi Naik and Digambar Kamat) can use his ‘innocence’ as a reference on Goa being drug-free. Why, he could even join the Congress which is looking for recruits, now that he is ‘free from all sin.’ Where do you think the police got the idea of going to Sweden to interrogate the Israeli’s ex-girlfriend Lucky Farmhouse? From the Flying Circus, of course. With a name like that, the trip to Sweden would be a breeze. I am not being sarcastic. There is a cheaper solution, put him through a lie detector. Lie detectors don’t take BS.
P.S. Take note, he didn’t deny his allegation that certain journos were on his payroll. Interesting!
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Jose Philip D’Souza, Minister for Revenue
Mercifully, he is not much of a frequent flier. He made 24 flights during that same period. But, now that he has become the National Congress President, heaven help us! Pray that his fairly regular patronage of Economy Class (ten of 24 flights) does not change.
2008 High Maintenance
06-07 May, Mumbai-Delhi, Rs 16,463+355, total Rs 16,818; 10-19, May, Mumbai-Delhi, Rs 31,538+2,600, total Rs 34,138; a one-dayer on 5 May flying Mumbai-Bangalore, Rs 13,190+95, total Rs 13,285; 02-03 July, Mumbai, Rs 8,400+442, total Rs 8,842. His next five flights including one in 2009 (all but one Economy Class) took him to Delhi, that I speculate happened at the behest of the National Congress Party or the G-7 and that as in the case of the Dhavlikar Brothers Inc, is costing us plenty. The Dhavlikar Brothers, you would know if you have been following this column in the past, burnt up a lot of your tax bucks on account of all the litigation over the disqualification petitions that were fought in the Supreme Court because of them. 1) 25-26 July, Delhi, Rs 31,055+520, total Rs 31,575. 2) 17-18 August, Delhi, Rs 27,432+405, total Rs 27,837. 3) 11-12 September, Delhi, Rs 24,637+405, total Rs 25,042. 4) 22-23 October, Delhi, Rs 24,195+318, total Rs 24,513. So not only do you shell out big bucks to maintain them in high office but also when they get flirty with other political parties.
2009 Missing in Goa
5) 06-08 August, Delhi, total Rs 11,850. As you can see, all but this flight were the typical quick overnight visitations to Delhi, like quickies - in and out- just about enough time to pay obeisance to their political masters or, be told come back again which I am informed happens frequently. If the CM and Vishawajeet Rane are regulars at Tirupati, then Churchill, Joaquim and even Jose Philip put the shrine of Annai Velankani in Nagapattinam on their agenda. Which is why you see them heading to Trichy, the closest airport to Nagapattinam.
Jose Philip’s quick flights to Delhi dominated the year, like so; 19-20 January, Mumbai-Delhi, Rs 24,585+442, total Rs 25,027; 28-29 January, Delhi, total Rs 14,460; 28 Feb-01 March, total Rs 13,799. In fact Jose Philip probably spent more time in Delhi in January and in March than the two central ministers MK Alagiri and Mamata Banerjee who regularly go AWOL even during cabinet meetings. 03-06 March, Mumbai-Lucknow-Mumbai, total Rs 20,458; 11-13 March, Mumbai-Delhi-Mumbai, total Rs 24,755; 30 April-2 May, Mumbai, total Rs 8,458; 26 May-01 June, Madras-Trichy-Madras, Rs 28,808+1,395, total 30,203; 02-03 June, Delhi-Mumbai, Rs 16,367+520, total Rs 16,887; 18-20 August, Delhi, Rs 15,006+665, total Rs 15,671; 29-30 August, Mumbai-Delhi-Mumbai, Rs 28,200+483, total Rs 28,683; 25-27 September, Mumbai, Rs 8,785+702, total Rs 9,487. He flew thrice to Mumbai/Delhi in a single month: 1) 06-10 December, Mumbai, Rs 7,074+1,222, total Rs 8,296. 2) 19-20 December, Delhi, Rs 16,250+405, total Rs 16,655. 3) A one-dayer to Delhi on 21 December that cost you Rs 33,599. And another one-dayer to Mumbai on 8 January 2010 that cost you Rs 17,608. And like me you might wonder what more can our montris achieve in a day in Delhi or Mumbai that cannot be done over the mobile. Is it because neither side trusts each other, and therefore need to eyeball each other? After all, the carry-case lie detector like the portable blood pressure monitor hasn’t been invented yet.
The Flying Club Cost so far:
Vishwajeet Rane Rs 17,56,397
Churchill Alemao Rs 14,28,633
Digambar Kamat Rs 13,26,144
Joaquim Alemao Rs 12,34,442
Mickky Pacheco Rs 11,98,946
Babush Monseratte Rs 6,48,115
Babu Azgaonkar Rs 1,87,986
Dayanand Narvekar Rs 1,36,275
Ravi Naik Rs 4,08,749
Filipe Rodrigues Rs 40,306
Jose Philip D’Souza Rs 4,79,446
Grand Total: Rs 88,45,439
“It is a Bullshit”
Famous last words of drug peddler-in-denial Yaniv Benhaim a.k.a Atala. He used them to describe almost everything except himself, which if he did, would be the only truth he ever spoke. Famous last words because by the time you read this, he would have flown the coop. If he hasn’t it is only because Atala has decided to stay back to learn more from our politicians courtesy the Goa Police deliberately bungling the investigation. Where do you think he learnt to blame the media for getting into a spot and also to deny afterwards that a top politician’s son is involved in drug peddling? Huh, where? It’s from our politicians. Look at it this way, stay back and he gets to at least learn which Notary Public has a valid license if push comes to shove and he ends up needing an affidavit to be notarised. If he sticks around Ravi Naik and Digambar Kamat) can use his ‘innocence’ as a reference on Goa being drug-free. Why, he could even join the Congress which is looking for recruits, now that he is ‘free from all sin.’ Where do you think the police got the idea of going to Sweden to interrogate the Israeli’s ex-girlfriend Lucky Farmhouse? From the Flying Circus, of course. With a name like that, the trip to Sweden would be a breeze. I am not being sarcastic. There is a cheaper solution, put him through a lie detector. Lie detectors don’t take BS.
P.S. Take note, he didn’t deny his allegation that certain journos were on his payroll. Interesting!
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