FRIDAY, MAY 03, 2024
Team Herald
PANJIM: The State Cabinet on Wednesday resolved to place the Goa Municipality Act (Amendment) 2020 in the State Assembly for discussion during the session next week.
The State government had kept in abeyance the recently-notified Goa Municipalities (Amendment) 2020, ordinance, a day after the All Goa Merchants Association announced they would strike across all municipal areas.
Addressing the media, Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant said that the Cabinet has resolved that the Goa Municipality Act (Amendment) 2020 be tabled in the State Assembly during upcoming session for discussion.
Earlier, during a meeting with the association members he had said, “We will not implement it (ordinance) until you are satisfied with the amendment to the municipalities ordinance. We are keeping it on hold. You submit your views, suggestions and objections.”
The Goa Governor had recently promulgated the Ordinance, which seeks to regularise unauthorised possession of municipal shops and thereby generate revenue to the council, and to limit the lease period of the shops to ten years and thereafter auction the same.
