Almost a fortnight after a part of the Cuddegal mine tailing dump collapsed and fell on three mine workers, the police have registered a case against the manager of the Cuddegal mine owned by Fomento group.
This registration has been done only after the security agency Viking made a complaint to the police station last Saturday because one of its employees Security Guard Ajit Mayank lost his life in the dump.
It is common knowledge that the State of Goa is controlled by the mining lobby is a known fact. Everybody - right from the Chief Minister Shri Digambar Kamat and his fellow Ministers, to the media - print as well as electronic, to our Corporators, Panchas and Sarpanchas, almost every body in power are affiliated to the mining lobby.
Those who talk against the mining lobby are silenced either through threats or with money. It is no doubt that even the present case of Cuddegal will be silenced.
Every appointment and posting of Government Officers and every elected representative in the mining belt is controlled and financed by the mining lobby. Known sincere officers of the police, forest and revenue departments are never posted in these areas of Bicholim, Sanguem and Sattari talukas.
Thus Government Officers not posted there have learned to beg and bend before the politicians for a posting in these areas and have in turn learned to in turn get pampered by the mining mafia to protect their interests.
So any crime committed by the mining mafia finds no report in the newspapers because they are owned by the mining lobby, crime committed by the mining mafia finds no report in the television media because they are owned by the mining lobby, and crime committed by the mining mafia finds no reaction neither from the ruling party nor from the opposition because they too have their fingers stuck in the mining pie.
The occasional crime where lives are lost do get reported but are quickly scuttled out or “settled” out of court with cash.
And life goes on.
This registration has been done only after the security agency Viking made a complaint to the police station last Saturday because one of its employees Security Guard Ajit Mayank lost his life in the dump.
It is common knowledge that the State of Goa is controlled by the mining lobby is a known fact. Everybody - right from the Chief Minister Shri Digambar Kamat and his fellow Ministers, to the media - print as well as electronic, to our Corporators, Panchas and Sarpanchas, almost every body in power are affiliated to the mining lobby.
Those who talk against the mining lobby are silenced either through threats or with money. It is no doubt that even the present case of Cuddegal will be silenced.
Every appointment and posting of Government Officers and every elected representative in the mining belt is controlled and financed by the mining lobby. Known sincere officers of the police, forest and revenue departments are never posted in these areas of Bicholim, Sanguem and Sattari talukas.
Thus Government Officers not posted there have learned to beg and bend before the politicians for a posting in these areas and have in turn learned to in turn get pampered by the mining mafia to protect their interests.
So any crime committed by the mining mafia finds no report in the newspapers because they are owned by the mining lobby, crime committed by the mining mafia finds no report in the television media because they are owned by the mining lobby, and crime committed by the mining mafia finds no reaction neither from the ruling party nor from the opposition because they too have their fingers stuck in the mining pie.
The occasional crime where lives are lost do get reported but are quickly scuttled out or “settled” out of court with cash.
And life goes on.
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