Pending fishing subsidies for the year 2023.

30.04.2025

To,

Director of Fisheries,

Panaji, Goa

Subject: Pending fishing subsidies for the year 2023

Madam,

We already had two rounds of meeting with the staff of your office over the past two months to sort out the above matter. And we have failed to convince the Goa Government through your office to disburse all the fishing subsidies pending for the year 2023.

It has come to our attention that 40 Scheduled Tribes (ST) fishers from Tiswadi block are deprived of their rightful fishing subsidies. After inquiries into your office we were told that these subsidy files were sent to Chief Minister's office and it is there where these files were blocked. 

This action of Goa Chief Minister's office proves that it shares terrible bias against fishing communities and indulged in sabotage by blocking subsidies files and allowing funds to return to central government. 

We are deeply pained at the conduct of the Chief Minister's office and express our disapproval to Chief Minister's office involved deliberately in sabotage against Goa's fishing communities.

We call upon your office to continuesly follow up this matter and we will follow-up with your office being directly responsible to fishing communities of Goa.

Thanking You.

Yours Truly,

Shaila D'mello 

President,

AGSSRFU 

Laximan Mangueshkar, 

Secretary,

AGSSRFU