However vindication isn’t quite the first euphoric response.It is one of numbing sadness that peoples money was spent in a brash irregularillegal manner with no knowledge of how it was put to use. While the ChiefMinister announced a probe by the Anti-Corruption Bureau into the allotment ofSEZ plots by the GIDC in 2006, a story pursued vigorously by us, the PWDminister Sudhin Dhavlikar has announced a vigilance inquiry into the frenziedallotment of 214 tenders on two days before the code of conduct from just onedivision, with a high possibility of this happening elsewhere.
Irregularities, illegalities and corruption are countrycousins fed on the same diet and grow in the same environment. New templates ofcorruption creativity have been introduced in Goa and much maligned departmentslike the PWD and GIDC have been the canvasses of this ugly creativity.
Since the political class controls the system, it imagines it’sbeyond accountability. When dacoits are put in charge of police stations, whogoes behind bars? It is this system that needs to change.
The Goan has noillusions of going with a broom to rid Goa of corruption. What it will dothough, is diligently investigate and unearth instances where the states moneyhas been fraudulently taken away and insist that these be seen as red flags fora better process of governance. It’s a tall order but we promise to keep at it.For our sake. For your sake.
