Setting a deadline to complete a job is good but working to a plan and putting in the required effort to meet that deadline is more important. Likewise, claiming credit for completing a project or inaugurating it after completion is quite okay but doing this before it is complete is totally wrong.
There are many examples to show that the government of Goa has made a habit of doing such things. The inauguration of the third Mandovi bridge before completion and declaring that the State has become open defecation free are just two of them.
So far as deadlines are concerned, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant’s emphatic statement that not a single pothole on the roads of Goa will remain unrepaired after November 1 has proved wrong.
The government should desist from such practices since they not only erode its credibility but it also loses the faith of the people. People are interested in concrete results and true development, not false promises or tomfoolery.
