goanet-digest Tuesday, August 27 2002 Volume 01 : Number 4241
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[Goanet] for news
[Goanet] Computers exhibition in Goa
[Goanet] Government bail-out package for one of Goa's richest co-op banks.
[Goanet] NEWS: No tourism, please! We are Indians, says VHP
[Goanet] NEWS FROM PAKISTAN Missionary-Schools
[Goanet] 800 march with Osmitai Jyot
[Goanet] NEWS: Mumbai's ad fraternity remembers Frank Simoes
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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:53:32 +0530
From: "Pamela D'Mello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] for news
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Panaji, Aug 23:A government bail-out package for one of Goa's richest co-op
banks headed by former Union law minister Ramakant Khalap --- has shown up
the slow decay within the co-op banking movement in the state and its
intense politicisation.
On Monday, the entire board of directors of the Rs 250 cr multi-state
Mapusa Urban Co-op Bank resigned and sought the appointment of an
administrator to run the bank.
The Reserve Bank of India has stopped the bank from lending or accepting
deposits, after its non performing assets climbed to 76 % and losses to Rs
26 cr this year.
Heavy lending to the real estate business, which has now slumped, put the
thirty six year old bank in the red, leaving it with a cache of unrecovered
loans and Rs 30-40 cr in currently unencashable real estate.
BJP Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar announced his intention to "save" the
bank, with its 25,000 depositors. But many see this as a precursor to the
shifting political control of the ban, which was once the bulwark of the
Maharashtrawadi Gomantak PArty.
The political undercurrents of the situation is linked to the fortunes of
the BJP in North Goa, and its tussle with Mr Khalap(now in the Congress),
whom it has long been trying to oust from the bank's board.
In an earlier attempt, a BJP campaign led to the withdrawal of Rs 28 cr by
depositors in three days, says a former bank director.
The state government points to hefty loans given to relatives of directors,
improper sanctions, over valuation of securities and other malpractices.
Opposition Congress leaders on Thursday said this was the case with most of
the credit societies and co-op banks in the state, including those run by
BJP politicians.
"Why are you singling out one or two banks because they happen to be run by
Congress leaders", asked leader of opposition Pratapsing Rane, after BJP
members sought to highlight the financial affairs of another Congress -run
co-operative.
As elsewhere, most co-operatives are headed by aspiring politicians and
MLAs, and incumbent goverments have tended to put auditors and the state
registrar to settle political scores.
In an unprecedented move, signalling a new era of vendetta politics, the
BJP last year ousted ex-Congress MLA Somnath Zuwarkar from the Goa State
co-operative bank, and had him arrested for malpractices.(ends)
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 03:44:25 -0600 (MDT)
From: GoaNetAdmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Computers exhibition in Goa
ECAP 2002, the Computer Society of India-Goa chapter cordially invitres
you to an information meet at the inauguration of the Exhibition of
Computers and Allied products, in the presence of
Karnal Singh, IPS, DIG of Police Goa on Saturday August 31, 2002 at the
Hotel Mandovi, Panjim at 9.30 am
and
P Sridhar, CEO, Controlnet India on Saturday, September 7, 2002 at Hotel
Nanutel, Margao at 9.30 am.
It will be followed by a viewing of the exhibits.
Presentations and exhibits will be on view after the inauguration on
August 31, 2002, and on September 1 from 9 am to 7 pm at Hotel Mandovi,
Panjim and similarly on September 7-8, 2002 at Hotel Nanutel, Margao.
Exhibitors in Panjim include: Active Systems * Amey Computers * Armour
Office Automation * Casio Goa * Crown Electronics * Delta Technologies *
D-Link/Avon Computers * Intel Corporation * Comtech Systems * Computronics
Infotech * Compuserve * Ourem Microsystems * Texel Computers * JayKay
Infotech * Lorenz Digital Imaging * Phil Systems Ltd * Power Resources *
Print Electronics * Progen ERP Systems * Pro-Imaging Systems
Exhibitors in Margao include: Amey Computers * D-Link / Avon Computers *
JayKay Infotech * Karox Technologies * Lorenz Digital Imaging * Megatrends
* MICE * N.I.I.T. * PC Clinik.
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:44:40 +0530
From: Goa Desc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Government bail-out package for one of Goa's richest co-op banks.
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Government bail-out package for one of Goa's richest co-op banks.
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A government bail-out package for one of Goa's richest co-op banks
headed by former Union law minister Ramakant Khalap --- has shown up
the slow decay within the co-op banking movement in the state
and its intense politicisation.
On Monday, the entire board of directors of the Rs 250 cr multi-state
Mapusa Urban Co-op Bank resigned and sought the appointment
of an administrator to run the bank.
The Reserve Bank of India has stopped the bank from lending
or accepting deposits, after its non performing assets climbed
to 76 % and losses to Rs 26 cr this year.
Heavy lending to the real estate business, which has now slumped,
put the thirty six year old bank in the red, leaving it with a cache of
unrecovered loans and Rs 30-40 cr in currently unencashable real estate.
BJP Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar announced his intention
to "save" the bank, with its 25,000 depositors. But many see this as a
precursor to the shifting political control of the ban, which was once
the bulwark of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party.
The political undercurrents of the situation is linked to the fortunes
of the BJP in North Goa, and its tussle with Mr Khalap(now in the Congress),
whom it has long been trying to oust from the bank's board.
In an earlier attempt, a BJP campaign led to the withdrawal of Rs 28 cr
by depositors in three days, says a former bank director.
The state government points to hefty loans given to relatives of directors,
improper sanctions, over valuation of securities and other malpractices.
Opposition Congress leaders on Thursday said this was the case
with most of the credit societies and co-op banks in the state,
including those run by BJP politicians.
"Why are you singling out one or two banks because they happen
to be run by Congress leaders", asked leader of opposition Pratapsing Rane,
after BJP members sought to highlight the financial affairs of another
Congress -run co-operative.
As elsewhere, most co-operatives are headed by aspiring politicians
and MLAs, and incumbent governments have tended to put auditors
and the state registrar to settle political scores.
In an unprecedented move, signalling a new era of vendetta politics,
the BJP last year ousted ex-Congress MLA Somnath Zuwarkar from
the Goa State co-operative bank, and had him arrested for malpractices.
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:05:45 +0530 (IST)
From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] NEWS: No tourism, please! We are Indians, says VHP
o tourism, please! We are Indians, says VHP
By Deepshikha Ghosh, Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) An influential Hindu group has declared a virtual
war on the country's tourism industry, saying the government should only
encourage tourists wanting to visit holy places.
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), linked to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP), contends that New Delhi should focus on wooing tourists to its
religious centres rather than promote luxury or adventure tourism.
"India is primarily home to many holy places. Tourism for luxury and
self-indulgence should not be encouraged. The government should concentrate
on awakening religious sentiments," VHP leader Giriraj Kishore told IANS.
He felt that tourism evoked images of "eat, drink and be merry" and
suggested renaming India's ministry of tourism and culture as the ministry
of pilgrimage.
"India should be a place where people give up bad habits, so pilgrimage is a
more appropriate term."
The multi-million-dollar tourism industry is shocked.
Though the tourism ministry says there is no official move to rename the
department, the industry is gearing up to fight the VHP proposal fearing it
will only put India behind by centuries and hamper the growth of the sector.
"Religious tourism is undoubtedly a very important aspect of the sector and
a money-spinner, but that does not justify renaming the ministry or creating
an entire ministry," said Subhash Goyal, chairman of an industry panel on
tourism.
"It is a stupid and absurd proposal," Goyal told IANS.
Added Maharaj Singh Wahi, chairman of the Indian Association of Tour
Operators: "This kind of proposal shows poor application of the brain."
Of the 226 million domestic tourists India sees annually, some 180 million
are reported to be pilgrims, according to one assessment. India draws just
about 2.5 million tourists from abroad every year.
Indian tourism has suffered seriously in the wake of the worst religious
violence in a decade that engulfed Gujarat in February-May and the earlier
tensions along the India-Pakistan border following a spurt in terrorism.
Goyal said: "Religious tourism is only one aspect of the sector. There is
nothing wrong in creating a separate department under the tourism ministry."
He pointed out that Saudi Arabia, which had a separate ministry of Haj
Affairs, also had a ministry of tourism. "But that is because Haj is the
main tourist attraction there."
Wahi said the VHP demand was more political than practical.
"The ministry is already working to promote religious tourism in a big way -
how does a name matter?"
The government has launched costly initiatives to enhance pilgrim hotspots
such as Vaishno Devi, Tirupathi and Puri. It has also injected millions into
the development of the Buddhist circuit.
Wahi said India had tremendous untapped potential for adventure and eco
tourism.
"We have countless hill stations, showcases of ancient architecture and
scenic spots which, if not tapped, will amount to criminal wastage of
resources."
He said the private tourism sector was focusing on 12 eastern states
including those in the northeast, for eco tourism.
"This is the time to globalise, not regress backwards to ancient ages by
forming a ministry of pilgrimage."
- --Indo-Asian News Service
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 04:29:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Robin Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] NEWS FROM PAKISTAN Missionary-Schools
LAHORE: A Christian cleric on Monday heaped scorn on
the provincial government for freezing its
denationalisation programme out of fear of a teachers'
backlash. The denationalisation programme, introduced
under a landmark ruling of the superior judiciary,
came unstuck late last month when teachers launched a
successful protest campaign against it.
"Just at the hint of agitation, the government folded
its denationalisation plans," the Bishop of Lahore
Alexander John Malik said bitterly. "The move would
have been beneficial to all parties concerned."
Under the programme, the government of Punjab was to
hand over missionary schools and other privately-owned
educational institutions to their rightful owners,
starting from June 2001. Almost all these institutions
have been under government control since 1972.
Bishop Alexander said the Church of Pakistan, an
ecumenical union of all Anglican, Methodist, Scottish
Presbyterian and Lutheran churches, would contest the
decision in court. "We will institute legal
proceedings against the provincial government if it
does not unfreeze the denationalisation programme,"
the bishop told participants at a seminar on the
privatisation of education.
A large group of teachers in the central Punjab
province oppose denationalisation on the grounds that
it would allow large-scale transfers of educators and
jeopardise their benefit claims. They threatened to
mount a series of strikes if the government went ahead
with the plan. In the end the provincial government
backed down and shelved the scheme of returning
privately-owned schools and colleges.
It is not clear whether the government U-turn would
affect the formal handover of Lahore's Forman
Christian College to its old owners. The famed college
is to be returned in October 2002 on the orders of
President Pervez Musharraf, who studied at the
college.
Bishop Alexander has vowed to resist the government on
the issue of stalled denationalisation. "The teachers
are holding the government to ransom...and we will not
permit that," he said. About the fears expressed by
teachers, the bishop said the missonary schools had no
intention of reneging on its pledges to pay teachers
salaries and charge anything but the fixed tuition fee
from students.
"At a time when the government is carrying out the
privatisation of industrial units and hospitals, it is
ridiculous to block denationalisation of educational
institutions," he said.
The owners of the missionary institutions complain
that the government did not pay them a single rupee
when they confiscated their schools and colleges some
thirty years ago. "Yet they expect us to become liable
for expenses and salaries that they ought to be paying
in the first place," observed a Catholic
schoolteacher. " It won't be totally inaccurate to say
that the denationalisation scheme was floated because
the provincial governments of Sindh and Punjab no
longer had the money to pay the salaries of teachers,"
he said.
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:55:30
From: Sandesh Prabhudesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] 800 march with Osmitai Jyot
Photo caption:
Street Play in Mapusa, on Mhadei, performed by Vivekanand Kala Sadarikaran
Manch of Keri, Sattari. They had 25 performances of it till date.
Konkani Bhasha Mandal's
GOA YUVA MAHOTSAV 2002
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PRESS RELEASE
26 August, 2002
Goa's mine owners and other industrialists should oblige river Mandovi by
taking initiative in supporting the movement to save Mhadei, stated Mr
Datta Damodar Naik, an industrialist and thinker.
Presiding over the Osmitai Jyot function organised in Mapusa on Sunday
jointly by the Konkani Bhasha Mandal and Bardez Asmitai Kendra, Mr Naik
said Goa's mine owners have utilised river Mandovi to transport mineral ore
while several industries have also prospered due to Mandovi. "Now is the
time to oblige the river by contributing to the movement and save our
lifeline", he said.
The identity torch was lighted at the hands of Mr Subhash Naik, principal
of the Purushottam Valaulikar higher secondary school at the KTC bus stand,
after a street play on Mhadei was performed by Vivekanand Kala Sadarikaran
Manch. The torch is being taken all over Goa as a part of the Identity Year
being celebrated on the occasion of 125th birth anniversary of Shennoi
Goembab.
A procession of around 800 students then marched in the city, shouting
slogans to save Mhadei. Mr Naik, later speaking at the function, also
appealed to all the schools and colleges to make Mhadei as the focal point
of their annual activities like competitions, picnics, hikes and even
projects, while making the student community study the history, geography
and even economics of Mhadei.
Speaking as a chief guest on the occasion, Mr Dilip Arolkar, principal of
VNS Bandekar College, also cautioned the students and youth that Goa would
turn into a desert if no immediate steps are taken to save Mhadei. A
state-wide movement is a must to stop the Karnataka government's plans to
construct dams at all the tributaries joining river Mandovi, he said.
Prof. Prakash Vazarikar, on the occasion, explained how disastrous the
scene would be in Goa if Karnataka implements its plan to build 11 dams at
different tributary points of Mhadei, which originates in the neighbouring
southern state.
Prof. Purnanand Chari, while stating that veterans like Shennoi Goembab
have inspired Goans to save their identity at all costs, appealed to the
people to come forward to protect the Goan identity, which is under threat
due to Mhadei issue. Mr Prashant Naik asserted that no strong movement can
emerge without students and youth coming forward to take lead and join the
Mhadei Bachao Abhiyan that is spearheading the movement.
Later, Mr Arolkar handed over the Identity Torch to Hemadbarshem Konkani
Kendra and Dudhasagar Pulse of Collem. Mr Harish Kamat of Bardez Asmitai
Kendra welcomed while Ms Aparna Garudi proposed a vote of thanks. Mr Uday
Chari compered.
Students and youth belonging to the Xavier College and Higher Secondary
School, Bandekar College, Kushe Higher secondary school, Saraswat College,
Valaulikar Higher Secondary School, Zantye College and Yuva Sankalp of
Assnora participated in the function.
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:03:37 +0530 (IST)
From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] NEWS: Mumbai's ad fraternity remembers Frank Simoes
Mumbai's advertising fraternity remembers Frank Simoes
By Shiv Kumar, Indo-Asian News Service
Mumbai, Aug 27 (IANS) Mumbai's advertising fraternity Tuesday fondly
remembered their guru Frank Simoes and mourned his passing as the end of an
era.
"He had a knack of turning advertisement copy for 'Liberty' underwear into
an erotic poem and the Taj Mahal (hotel) into a beautiful goddess," one of
Simoes' contemporaries Alyque Padamsee told a newspaper here.
Simoes, who was suffering from cancer, suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday
and died at the Jaslok Hospital here. He leaves behind his wife Gita and
daughter Radhika.
A veteran advertising man, Simoes had quit the profession some years ago to
take up writing full time. He will be remembered for his memorable
advertising campaigns and his contributions to the media.
Simoes set up his own agency, Frank Simoes Associates, in the late 1960s and
produced memorable campaigns for clients like Reliance Industries, Taj and
Raymonds.
Simoes is credited with the slogan 'Only Vimal' that launched the textile
range of Reliance Industries on the national stage. His idea of portraying
the Taj Mahal hotel as a caring woman continues to this day.
After winning a series of awards, Simoes decided to call it a day in the
1990s. Rather than sell his eponymous agency, Simoes decided to shut it down
much to the consternation of other professionals.
The wordsmith than began a new innings as a writer, penning two novels and a
third incomplete work in addition to numerous middles, articles on cooking
and travel pieces.
Much of his works appeared in national newspapers and magazines. However
Simoes is best known for his book, 'Glad Seasons in Goa', a work on his
native Goa.
Simoes exhibited his gentler side when he built a home for the aged.
Simoes, who was bitten by wanderlust when he was young, worked his way to
Europe on board a ship. Travels all over Europe helped him accumulate a wide
range of skills: dishwasher, porter, typist, stenographer and the like.
- --Indo-Asian News Service
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