Promises comprehensive development plan for city
HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, JULY 18
SGPDA Chairman Mauvin Godinho has said the planning body will put in place the comprehensive development plan for Margao city after taking the public views into account.
“The CDP should be people centric. All suggestions and objections will be invited and considered before the Plan is finalized”, Godinho told Herald on Sunday.
Replying to a question, he said there cannot be a time frame to put the CDP in place, reminding that it took around two years to finalise the Outline Development Plan (ODP) for Margao. “When the ODP exercise was set in motion, we had thought it would be done in six months.
But, the whole process got delay as the land use map was not in place. We saw to it that the land use map was drawn before the ODP was finally finalized”, Godinho added.
He said the PDA will certainly take the public opinion into account and recalled how Chief Minister Digambar Kamat had scrapped the SEZs and sent all objections to the Regional Plan to the grass root level for consultations and decisions.
