PERNEM: After having a constituency level awakening meeting on the draft Pernem zoning plan, the village panchayats backed by Mandrem MLA Jit Arolkar are now holding respective village level awareness meetingsto demand denotification of the draft zoning plan, which has been kept in abeyance by the government.
A village-level meeting was held in Keri on Wednesday evening. Mandrem MLA Jit Arolkar along with the nine village panchayats of Mandrem constituency has taken aggressive stance to campaign demanding scrapping of the controversial zoning plan.
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“In order to make the people aware of this zoning plan, we have started public awareness meetings about the zoning plan where we will go to every village to take the villagers into confidence.
Addressing a meeting at Keri, Arolkarsaid, “Zoning plan is a curse for Pernem taluka. If this zoning plan is not cancelled completely, we will have to go through a lot of trouble while the next generation will have no rights and no land for development. Outsiders will take over everything if we don’t fight now unitedly,” he told the crowd.
Former Keri sarpanch Tatoba Talkar said, “Even though the Regional Plan 2021 is in abeyance, it is still considered while issuing permissions for projects. Using the word abeyance is like postponing the death for tomorrow. TCP Minister has used the word abeyance only to pacify the people but as time passes on, this plan will again be brought to life and imposed on the people,” Talkar said.
“Today we are crying for proper water and electricity but if the zoning plan is implemented, people will have nowhere to go,” Keri sarpanch Dharti Nagoji said demanding immediate denotification of the plan.
The protest against the Pernem zoning plan is mounting up as people are taking to the streets and joining hands with fellow residents in their relentless protests to get the controversial plan denotified as per the TCP Act and not to keep it in abeyance.
10,093 sq mts land ‘corrected’ to settlement zone in Salcete, Sanguem talukas
PANJIM: The Town and Country Planning (TCP) department has ‘corrected’ land admeasuring 10,093 square metres in the Regional Plan Goa-2021 from paddy field, protected reserve forest with irrigation command area and orchard zones to settlement zone at Nuvem, Camurlim in Salcete Taluka and Rivona in Sanguem Taluka.
Land admeasuring an area of 4,704 square metres surveyed under Survey No. 220, sub-division No. 2-A, of Village Nuvem, which is earmarked as paddy field; plot of land admeasuring an area of 5,000 square metres, surveyed under Survey No. 64, sub-division No 2, Plot No 5, of Village Rivona, in Sanguemtalukawhich was earmarked as protected reserve forest with irrigation command area and plot of land admeasuring an area of 389 squaremetres, surveyed under Survey No 12, sub-division No 9, of Village Camurlim inSalceteTaluka, which is earmarked as orchard as per Regional Plan 2021 have been ‘corrected’ as settlement zone.
