The recent High Court Order regarding noise pollution wherein the court directed the Director General of Goa Police to implement the relevant rules has exposed the inefficiency and inaction of the government administration. Be it illegal sand mining, noise pollution even in silent zones where turtles hatch, illegal operation of beach shacks by flouting regulations or illegal laterite quarrying near the prehistoric rock carvings in Sanguem, the authorities seem to have taken action only when the High Court came down heavily on them. If this is the attitude of our bureacracy led by elected representatives, time is ripe to think whether we indeed need such a jumbo administrative paraphernalia. The government officers who fail to carry out their statutory duties must be taken to task by their higher authorities. Alas! Such action remains to be taken.
