It was fun determining whether our montris live to eat or eat to live, except for my many trips to the Secretariat only to find the official not in his/her seat and for keying in of all those exhaustive details. But don't thank me -thank Sonia Gandhi whose idea it was to give Indians the only weapon (The Right to Information Act) we have to fight back, because we still haven't learnt how to use the ballot box to benefit us yet. Even so, it was a burp-worthy feast for me.
The Last Supper
This is the last in the series and I assure there won't be on encore because I am moving on to more meaty things, like the shenanigans elsewhere. So, keep watching this space. It was fun determining whether our montris live to eat or eat to live, except of course for my many trips to the Secretariat only to find the official not in his/her seat and for keying in of all those exhaustive details.
My fingers still hurt and it only increased the chances of my getting carpel tunnel syndrome. But don't thank me -thank Sonia Gandhi whose idea it was to give Indians the only weapon (The Right to Information Act) we have to fight back, because we still haven't learnt how to use the ballot box to benefit us yet. Even so, it was a burp-worthy feast for me.
BS Bhalla, chief electoral officer
15.09.04, dinner for BB Tandon, EC, Goa Marriott Rs 13,310
15.12.04, dinner for Delimitation Commission, Goa Marriott Rs 32,260
Debashree Mukherjee, IAS
14.02.04, lunch, World Bank, water and sanitation programme, Cidade de Goa Rs 5,654
07.09.04, lunch for KN Bhandari, Universal Medical Scheme, Goa Marriott Rs 2,504
20.10.04, dinner for Delhi officials, Goa Marriott Rs 2,953
01.04.05, dinner for MCI inspectors, Cidade Rs 29,570
22.08.05, dinner for Japan International Co-operation Agency (no details) Rs13,526
30.09.05, dinner for SK Arora, secy, GoI, Goa Marriott Rs 6,207
LS Shetty, law secretary
04.06.04, lunch for SR Das, Dept of Information Technology, Delhi, Mandovi Hotel Rs 2,475
18.06.04, lunch for law officers of different States, Mandovi Rs 6,427
Ashwani Kumar, secretary (vigilance)
08.04.04, dinner for KL Ahuja, Sandesh Mehta, Central Vigilance Commission, Mandovi Rs 1,261
28.09.05, dinner for SB Bonde, Shilamoth Jadhav Prof Yashada, Mandovi Rs 5,072
Atmaram Nadkarni, Adv. General
24.07.04, lunch seminar on Effective Defence in Govt, Goa Marriott Rs 41,260.
Amit Yadav, secretary (agriculture)
12.08.04, dinner for Ram Pratap Singh, ICAR, Nova Goa Rs 6,260
01.10.04, dinner Agriculture & Horticulture Produce Conference, Nova Goa Rs 6,995.
The secretary, mines
23.08.05, dinner for Expert Committee (Mining) GoI, Foodland Rs 15,871.
Dharmendra Sharma, commissioner & secretary
11.08.05, dinner for RBI official, Moti Mahal Rs 4,725
12.10.06, dinner for ex-Dy PM, Bulgaria, O'Coqueiro Rs 11,284
11.10.06, dinner for Minister, GoI, O'Coqueiro Rs 11,762
18.11.05, dinner for ICAR Santa Monica and, Shetye Caterers/Circuit House Rs 16,500+57,000
SK Jain, commissioner & secretary
31.08.05, dinner for visiting IAS officers, Goa Marriott Rs 25,418
04.09.05, dinner for Neelam Sawhney jt secy, GoI, Cidade Rs 10,855
Santosh Vaidya, secretary
15.09.05, lunch for education secy, GoI, Goa Marriott Rs 6,777
12.06.06, dinner for secy, WCD, Maharashtra, Hotel Ronil Rs 7,626
23.10.06, dinner for visiting IAS officers, Horel Majestic Rs 20,807
09.03.07, dinner chairman, National Trust, Cidade Rs 28,921
UK Worah, secretary
06.12.05, lunch for Yashada, Pune, Mandovi Rs 7,266
14.11.05, dinner for young US politicians, Goa Marriott Rs 15,210 (on the same day Rane spent Rs 63,000 for the same cause at Fort Aguada.)
RP Pal
30.11.05, dinner for Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy officer, Goa Marriott Rs 27,533.
29.06.06, dinner for director, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Delhi Darbar Rs 19,800.
M. Modassir
02.10.07, dinner for Ministry of Agriculture advisors, Cidade Rs 47,135.
Ramesh Negi, finance secy
16.06.06, lunch for Planning Commission, Majorda Beach Resort Rs 11,025.
09.02.07, lunch for all secretaries, Evaluation Committee, Member for International Connection Centre, Goa Marriott Rs 20,081
03.06.07, dinner for Election Commission observers, Cidade Rs 36,823
06.06.07, dinner for EC observers, Barcolento Rs 75,080
Anand Prakash, development commissioner
25.04.07, dinner for MCI inspectors, Mandovi Rs 20,902
16.05.07, dinner for MCI inspectors, Mandovi Rs 18,804
13.07.07, lunch for Autonomous Management Committee, Goa Marriott Rs 7,858
27.12.07, lunch for committee for restoration of Santa Anne's Church, Talaulim, Cidade Rs 6,265
The Government's food bill so far:
Digambar Kamat Rs 36,47,744
Pratapsing Rane Rs 39,72,941
Manohar Parrikar Rs 12,05,515
Vishwajit Rane Rs 84,788
Alexio Sequeira Rs 1,03,590
Luizinho Faleiro Rs 2,69,900
Micky Pacheco Rs 2,37,426
Subhash Shirodkar Rs 3,69,207
Atanasio Monserrate Rs 31,310
Joaquim Alemao Rs 3,82,028
Suresh Amonkar Rs 1,07,879
Pandurang Madkaikar Rs 17,319
Ravi Naik Rs 1,64,376
Ramkrishna Dhavlikar Rs 1,19,660
Jose Philip D'Souza Rs 1,13,515
Filipe Neri Rodrigues Rs 23,820
Dayanand Mandrekar Rs 12,480
J P Singh, IAS Rs 16,61,290
DS Negi, IAS Rs 4,25,683
Vijay Madan, IAS Rs 58,223
Kiran Dhingra, IAS Rs 1,54,375
JK Dadoo Rs 2,53,271
Add above Rs 7,07,062
Total Rs 1,41,23,402
Period researched is April 2004 to 2007.
