TEAM HERALD
PANJIM: So called ‘enemy properties’ allegedly owned by Pakistani nationals in Goa have come under the scanner with state government preparing a list of 122 properties.
It has initiated procedure to collect rent from the property occupiers. The list has been submitted to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
All 122 properties are located in North Goa in Anjuna, Assagao, Nagoa, Penha-de-France, Colvale, Pirna, Reis Magos etc.
North Goa collector Mihir Vardhan said that the list has been compiled after conducting a proper survey. He said that the Union Home Ministry had issued directions to the State to collect detailed information about these properties.
“The mutation process has been completed recognizing them as enemy properties. The government has taken over their management,” Vardhan added.
A senior official confirmed that these are the properties of Goans who had migrated to Pakistan before State’s Liberation in 1961 and even after that and have taken citizenship there.
“They are not huge properties but admeasuring 500-700 square metre,” the official said.
The government has begun a process to charge 20 per cent of the market value, as the proposed rent to be collected from the occupiers.
On September 11, 1965, a central government notification stated that all immoveable properties in India belonging to or held or managed on behalf of Pakistani nationals are to be treated as enemy properties and that control of these properties should be vested in the custodian of enemy property.
