Water And Electricity

SINCE the Liberation of Goa, it has been ruled by the MGP, Congress, PDF and BJP but none of  these party governments could provide us either adequate water or constant electricity. Despite  Goa receiving more than 2500 cm of annual rainfall, there is always a water shortage from March
onwards.

The power supply position is not at all happy.

I have lived in Mombassa (Kenya), the then British East Africa from 1946 to 66. It would not be out of place here to mention that Mombassa is an island with a then population of more than a lakh. It used to get hardly 500 cm of rain per year.

Yet we never experienced any shortage, either of water or electricity. There was abundant supply of water and power supply round the clock. We never stored any water or used any emergency lights as we do here.

A government which cannot provide basic necessities of life to a small state like Goa is not fit to rule.

What Winston Churchill predicted in 1947 has proved to be true. He had said that they were ‘handing the reins of power to men made of straw’.

MARTINHO FERNANDES
Goa Velha
June 1, 2002

courtesy: Navhind Times online edition