PANJIM: The Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA) has directed the Commissioner of Corporation of the City of Corporation of Panaji (CCP) that in terms of the CCP Act, the 30 elected representatives be designated as councillors and not as corporators after complaint filed by social activist Adv Aires Rodrigues that the CCP was acting in violation of the CCP Act, 2002 by addressing the 30 elected representatives as corporators and not councillors.
Pointing that Section 5 (14) of the CCP Act refers to “Councillor” as any person who is elected as a member of the Corporation, Adv Rodrigues in his complaint stated that despite this being the mandate of the law, the CCP in clear violation of the Act had been wrongly designating and addressing these 30 elected representatives as ‘Corporators’ and not ‘Councillors’ as required and stipulated by the CCP Act.
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Seeking immediate action in this clear violation of the provision of the CCP Act, Adv Rodrigues had sought that the CCP commissioner be directed to immediately rectify this violation and designate and address the 30 elected representatives as ‘Councillors’ and not as ‘Corporators’.
Deputy Director of Urban Development Deepesh N Priolkar has now informed Adv Rodrigues that Section 5 (14) of The City of Panaji Corporation Act, 2002 states that “Councillors” means any person who is duly continued under Corporation Act or elected as a member of the Corporation under CCP Act and includes a nominated Councillor, who shall not have the right.
