PANJIM: Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday demanded immediate resignation of Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant for his failure to provide employment opportunities to Goan youth and instead acting as a broker of government land by manipulating land allotment of Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) land for a consideration.
AAP Goa Convenor Rahul Mhambre alleged that the Chief Minister along with some of his colleagues have started a business of trading with IDC land and has amassed huge amount of money in the bargain while failing to set up any industries on those lands and hence failed to address the unemployment problem gripping the State.
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He pointed out that construction of the premises has to commence within three years of allotment of the land. However, that has not happened with many of the plots and instead what is happening is that the plot is being transferred to some other party.
“Due to this policy, there are many plots of IDC that keep getting transferred to different people but no construction is starting on them and hence there is no scope of any industry coming there that would provide jobs to the local people,” he said.
While pointing out that the chairman of industrial estate at Verna had recently said that the IDC is the most corrupt corporation of the government. He also pointed out that Comptroller and Auditor General of India has blamed the IDC for allotting plots for the entrepreneurs without creating the required infrastructure.
