Goa needs to be saved from the influx of outsiders: VGS

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MAPUSA
Stating that Goa needed to be saved from the influx of “outsiders”, Vishal Gomantak Sena (VGS), President, Suraj Arondekar on Saturday said that in an attempt to protect Goan identity the organization will ensure more Goans get into local business. 
“Nowadays we find 80 percent of outsiders in the State while hardly 20 percent of the population is from Goa. We will extend support to Goans to take up local business activity in the markets and ensure that more Goans remain in the State,” Arondekar said. 
Announcing the launch of the new pan-Goa organization, the VGS chief while addressing a news conference said the Sena’s goal will be to live up to the expectation of the former chief minister and Bahujan leader, Dayanand Bandodkar. 
 “We can no longer see the principles which Dayanand Bandodkar stood for in the State. Our organization will take forward the work started by the first chief minister of the State and ensure that the Bahujan samaj get due representation in all fields in the State,” he said. 
He said the number of Marathi and Konkani medium schools were dwindling and there was an urgent need to save the regional language schools. He said VGS was ready to revive these schools. 
“If the government is ready to handover these schools to us, we will form an academy and save the schools from shutting down,” he said. 
The VGS President said there were attempts to water down the tenancy act (Kul Mundkar Act) and the Sena would fight any such attempts. 
Speaking against the Hindutva politics practiced by the current dispensation, Vice President of VGS, Janardhan Tamankar said such divisive politics should be curbed and cautioned the Bahujan samaj to remain alert from such disruptive politics. 
Adv Dataram Chari, an educationist and a member of VGS said that 50 percent of the schools in Goa are run by business houses. 
“The post of a teacher is sold to the highest bidder. A teacher is no longer a guru now. Only those who have money become teachers,” Chari said. 
He said the offices of mamlatdars, deputy collectors, BDOs, etc were always crowded and more often than not, people were forced to return home without getting their jobs done. 
“Our organization will work for the people to ensure that aam aadmi gets the service they deserve from the government servants,” he said. 
As a first activity after its formation, VGS will celebrate Shiv Jayanthi at Lohia garden in Mapusa on March 4. 
VGS secretary, Rajesh Gaonkar, Dipesh Naik and others also spoke on the occasion.