GBA to hold protest march for RP 2021 in Panjim
HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM OCT 10
After many reminders through many press notes the Goa Bachao Abhiyan has finally decided to get real. It will now hold corner meetings in villages to appeal to people to assemble at Azad Maidan on October 14 at 4.30 pm for a showdown.
And the showdown, less unlikely to be the final one, is yet again a march to the CM’s official residence at Altinho, here, to hand him a memorandum to serve as a reminder on the Regional Plan 2021 promise. The memorandum is an ultimatum to the Government to come out clean on the plan.
GBA has support of other village groups and this was witnessed at a meeting held at Margao Residency which was attended by representatives from Benaulim, Carmona, Cansaulim, Margao, Nuvem, Raia, Verna, Mormugao, and North Goa.
Asserting it was high time to come out with the plan, the GBA and the other groups will now pressure the CM for a firm assurance on the plan.
Convenor GBA Sabina Martins said the demands of the GBA continue to remain the same, but the Government wasn’t paying any attention.
“Patience of the people has run out. The CM had assured in the Assembly that the RP 2021 would be ready by September,” she mentioned and rued, “However, till date, even the guidelines for taluka plans are not ready nor the Committee to amend TCP Act for participatory planning has met.”
Martins said, “Notification of eco-sensitive zones marked in the draft RP 2021, freeze on constructions to 50 FAR as many villages have asked for VP3 status till the finalisation of the RP2021, implementation of High Court orders that state no NOC should be given till the infrastructure and garbage disposal is in place and legislation and amendment for participatory planning are some of the core issues and at the heart of the whole RP 2021.”
GBA has now appealed to all the people from all walks of life to assemble at the Azad Maidan, here, at 4.30 pm, on October 14 if they were interested in making the RP a reality.
