As everyone is aware there is
a move to convert Electricity Department into a corporate entity. The mood
among people of Daman & Diu is against this move of corporatisation of Electricity
Department.
This move of corporatisation
comes at a time when the department is making profit even though it purchases
its total power requirement from outside.
It was requested to
Administration of Daman & Diu to publish WHITE PAPER on status of
Electricity Department and proposed corporatisation. Copies were also submitted
to politicians and political parties with request to make public any
correspondence they might have carried out in this regard. The administration
has not published any white paper even after lapse of one month and politician
or political parties have not come out in support of people against this move
of corporatisation either.
Other point is cancellation
of liquor licenses in response of the Supreme Court order. It has affected 158
families of Daman & Diu doing business legally on and within 500 mtrs. of
national highway.
Liquor business is life line
of Daman & Diu. It has major portion in the economy, which pays
approximately 1000 crores as revenue to the government and gives food and
shelter to thousands of families.
All politicians were needed
to do was to demand delisting of these roads from the national highway and
transfer them to their original category as major district roads for which
Daman & Diu had not asked the National Highway Authority to declare these
roads as National Highways in the first place. For such a life line of Daman
& Diu, political leadership is not ready to take lead and come out on road
to show their solidarity with people of Daman & Diu.
As an alternative, political
leadership could have requested the administration that these licences be
suspended temporarily till they find suitable places and then transfer them to
such places start doing businesses instead of cancellation of those licences.
There are some office bearers
of political parties who call themselves activists and they file applications
under the Right to Information Act at drop of a hat and write letters
complaining about something or other to various authorities on almost daily
basis but it is astonishing to note that they are also quiet on corporatisation
of electricity department and cancellation of liquor licences.
Here also politicians or
political parties abstained from carrying out any correspondences to show that
they care for their voter and they stand with the people of Daman & Diu.
It seems that politicians and
political parties are not interested in serving people of Daman & Diu, all they
want is to fulfil their personal goals in the name of people of Daman & Diu
otherwise what else stops them from fighting for general public and that is
what they are elected for. Do they think that voters are fools and they will
vote for them again in coming elections, whatever election that may be?
