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PANJIM: Alleging that the draft Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) has been done with “Google research”, the Congress party on Tuesday demanded that the draft plan be kept in abeyance and that the Chennai based National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM) agency be directed to conduct “ground research”.
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Addressing the media persons, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) Spokesperson Tulio D’Souza said that “ground research” should be a mirror of CZMP and has demanded that the NCSCM should be asked to visit all villages to make it correct.
“Rs 2 crore fees have been paid to this NCSCM, hence the work should be done correctly by going into villages and not on ‘Google’,” D’Souza said.
D’Souza said that there is no clarification in regards to keeping the CZMP open.
“Why the government brought the duration of keeping the plan open for 30 days from 60 days,” he questioned.
He charged that the government has failed to pay heed to demands of people and even to listen to the voices of people.
He said that people are protesting because their houses, bundhs and other structures are not shown in the draft plan. He said that plan should have been discussed at the panchayat level.
“Traditional fishermen rights and rights of other stakeholders have not been considered,” he said.
