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LETTER TO THE EDITOR FOR THE ISSUE DATED OCTOBER 10, 2026

Letter To Editor, Oct 10- Oct 16, 2026 October 9, 2026 , by

RESOLVE MHAJE GHAR ISSUE BEFORE CODE OF CONDUCT IN GOA!

Resolving your Mhaje Ghar application before the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) takes effect in Goa requires immediate action through the state’s expedited processing channels. Government departments freeze the issuance of new scheme benefits, regularisation orders, and Sanads once the election commission enforces the MCC.
 Matters should beTrack and Push via Nodal Officers if possible.I don’t know who are mandated to assist applicants, check files, and clear bureaucratic blockages. Because when public go to enquiry about their Mhaje ghar applications, they are being told that they would receive phone calls, every time. Applicants want to know their status of their applications. Government must cooprate people in this regard.
Under the latest Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for the Mhaje Ghar Yojana and the Goa Regularisation of Unauthorised Construction Act (GRUCA), the state has removed several procedural bottlenecks to fast-track clearance. How ever applicants want to know their status of their Mhaje ghar status. Government must expedite the procedure to wind up the matter. For 1972 houses, incase, form 9, and form3 bears Mundkar’s name, and lacking on 1/14 form, inspite of showing house in Survey plan, then application is being kept pending. This problem should be sorted out.
— Rajesh Banaulikar, Bardez, Goa.

GOA NGO ARZ (ANYAY RAHIT ZINDAGI) HONOURED WITH “SANT ESHWAR SAMMAN 2026” FOR FIGHT AGAINST SEX TRAFFICKING! :Goa-based NGO Anyay Rahit Zindagi (ARZ), which has spent nearly three decades working to combat sex trafficking and the exploitation of women and children, was honoured with the prestigious Sant Eshwar Samman 2026 on Thursday, October 8. The award was presented by Hon’ble Vice President of India CP Radhakrishnan at a grand ceremony held at the Constitution Club of India, New Delhi.
Adv Nand Kishore Dubey, Board Member of ARZ, received the award on behalf of the organisation.
The recognition comes in acknowledgement of ARZ’s sustained work in the Women and Child Development sector and it’s nearly three decades of efforts against sex trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, child sexual abuse and related forms of exploitation.
Founded in Goa in 1997 by professionals from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, ARZ has developed a comprehensive, survivor-centred approach that extends beyond rescue to include prevention, protection, prosecution, rehabilitation, economic empowerment, repatriation and reintegration.
ARZ’s anti-trafficking intervention is based on the MUKTI Model, conceptualised by its founders in 1997 following a national-level study on sex trafficking conducted at TISS between 1994 and 1997. The model was first implemented in Baina, Goa, in 1998. It is based on the understanding that trafficking cannot be addressed through rescue alone and requires sustained intervention across the entire trafficking system.
Over the years, ARZ has established programmes addressing different stages of this intervention, including ANKUR for prevention, MUKTI for rescue and protection, PRABHAT for institutional rehabilitation, WISH for economic rehabilitation and livelihoods, MILAAP for repatriation and reintegration, INSAF for justice and prosecution, and VOICE for research, training and knowledge development.
ARZ is also the Nodal NGO supporting the Integrated Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of Goa Police and works with government agencies, law enforcement, civil society organisations and other stakeholders to strengthen responses to human trafficking and support survivors.
Speaking about the award, Adv Nand Kishore Dubey, stated that “The Sant Eshwar Samman 2026 marks a significant recognition of ARZ’s long-standing contribution towards creating pathways to justice, dignity, economic independence and a life free from exploitation for survivors”.

GOA IS WORTH IT
 The ludicrous and utterly hypocritical assertions made by an MP in Goa yesterday are condemnable. Neither the ruling party nor the opposition has any moral authority to make allegations, as both national parties have Politically Exposed Persons owning casinos in our sacred Goem. India boasts of cutting-edge ISRO, while annexed footstool Goem gets the Laotian-Cambodian gambling model — hands down the cheapest, sleaziest and most destructive way to incorporate casinos in drug- and corruption-ridden Asia.
The Laotian riverfront gambling travesty scared away international tourists permanently; casinos linked directly to Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and top executives were central to the operations of the billion-dollar Prince Group Transnational Criminal Organisation (TCO) in Cambodia — a win-win for anyone in politics.
Singapore’s above-board gambling model isn’t just a pipe dream for Goem anymore and Gen Z — already swamped by global scorching, news of wars hand-delivered to their smartphones — has lifelines like the Enough is Enough movement and the upcoming Assembly election. Panjim’s intelligentsia has to put their foot down now and demand that international standards for gambling regulations are at the top of every prospective MLA’s manifesto; this takes precedence after India signed the 11-point Phnom Penh declaration in September. An SOS goes out to CRT’s executive secretary Fr. Malcolm Colaco – 2 Maccabees 6:1-5.
— Chris Fernandes, Miramar

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