If A Raja was sent to jail, why not Kavelkar?

While the scams get stacked up, the GIDC easily is way upthere among scam ranking organisations. At the AGM of the Goa Small IndustriesAssociation on July 1, the Chief Minister said "It would need a will oftitanium or the strongest metal to straighten out things at the IDC,"adding that the process of cleansing was on and would begin to show resultssoon.

GIDC needs cleansing on two fronts. One for looting thestate by allotting plots for industries in the proposed SEZ (now scrapped) athugely undervalued rates and the other one of allotting plots in the GIDC, tocompanies fronted by relatives, friends and well-wishers of GIDC staff,including the then Chairman Babu Kavlekar. The cleansing needs to have a clearblueprint and needs to address specifics. The GIDC has been held hostage to thegreed of its former chairman Babu Kavlekar, and his team of merry men ridingthe gravy train -- The not so hidden hand of former industries ministerLuizinho Faleiro and the then Chief Minister PratapSingh Rane looms large overthe SEZ scam.

The cleansing has to begin along the following lines:

• The Chief Minister has a moral responsibility toorder a judicial or a CBI inquiry into the scam. He might settle for an ACBinquiry but the scale of this is higher
  
• An inquiry against senior police officers forrefusing to register even an FIR on the criminal conspiracy of GIDC officials,since Oct 22, 2007. On July 7, 2008, the police replied that no FIR was lodgedsince there were no material facts in record. This lie was nailed by the Highcourt which relied on the same documents to reach the conclusion that theallotments to seven companies were illegal.
  
• The accounts committee of the assembly shouldimmediately conduct an inquiry based on the findings of the CAG report, which hasspecified all the irregularities and illegalities in the SEZ allotmentamounting to a loss of over a 100 crores.
  
• The GIDC should stop making any furtherallotments until rules are framed under section 51 of the GIDC act thatspecifies the mode and allotment of lands under GIDC.