The entire city of Panaji which includes our Ribandar is in an absolute mess. The roads have been recklessly and haphazardly dug with inadequate safety precautions, and no planning and contingency plan in place for the delays in restoring the roads to normality. The mayor who has awoken late in the day says that the performance of the contractors needs to be audited. It was obvious to anyone that the contractors were given a blank cheque to do what they liked unsupervised, to dig road after road without completing one road before starting the next within agreed timescales. With the monsoons just three months away, one can imagine what the city will go through. Having let the city down, the MLA and Mayor need to resign immediately. Let others smarter than them take responsibility for restoring our roads and footpaths. Allowing incompetent politicians and contractors to drain our coffers in the name of a Smart City initiative that has destroyed our city and driven its people needlessly to despair, stress and anxiety is an unforgivable crime.
AIRES RODRIGUES, Ribandar
