ACC GENERAL BODY DEMANDS SEPARATE TRIBUNAL, DCA POSTS

Panjim: Goa’s premier body for the protection of Comunidades (village Communities) the Association of Componentes of Comunidades (ACC) has petitioned the Goa Government to constitute a separate Tribunal to adjudicate cases pertaining to Comunidades under the Code of Comunidades

A Resolution to this effect was adopted at a General Body Meeting of the ACC held recently. The ACC felt that the ‘present Tribunal can no longer provide relief to the Comunidades and Componentes or any aggrieved person being overburdened with other Government related matters and hence, a separate Administrative Tribunal as per the Code of Communidades should be formed.’ Apart from the Tribunal having to carry out the Audit of the Comunidades and Administrator’s Office it is using the fraudulent version of the English Code of Comunidades since it (current Tribunal) was not conversant with the official Portuguese language Code, the ACC added. Aggrieved over the functioning of the Office of the Director of Civil Administration (DCA), the Association of Componentes of Comunidades also demanded that the Government reconstitute the Office of the DCA as it existed on 20.12.1961. As per the original Code, ‘the Administrator and staff of the Administrator’s office were appointed only after passing a required test stipulated in the Code and subject to approval of the Governor.’ The ACC asserted that ‘no Government servant should be appointed as Administrator of Comunidades’. Adopting Resolutions registering these objections, the Meeting further resolved that a delegation of the ACC would ‘seek appointment with the Goa Chief Minister to discuss ‘the fraudulent and illegal constitution of the Collector’s Office in the absence of ‘State Landlordism’ failing which alternate steps be initiated to restrain the Revenue Authorities from such interference in the Private Comunidade Villages of Goa.’
Who is siphoning diverted PDS-Kerosene subsidy

The Government’s pilot project to target subsidized kerosene to intended beneficiaries dubbed the Jan Kerosene Pariyojna (JKP) has not been successful. The scheme has prevented a mere estimated 2.2 percent diversion of kerosene meant for poorer households, according to the study by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER).

Earlier, NCAER had estimated diversion of kerosene from households to the tune of 38 percent. &

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