PANJIM: With several villages opposing Planning and Development Authority (PDA) in their areas, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has called upon the people to rise against PDAs and ensure people’s involvement.
“We call upon the people of Goa to rise against PDAs and ensure that planning is given to the people through the panchayats and municipalities on the basis of swaraj. This scam called PDAs need to be scrapped as was the RP 2011,” a statement issued by AAP said.
Condemning the formation of PDAs, AAP has also called upon the government to listen to the voices of the people in St Cruz and St Andre, who are opposing the plan Terming ODPs as a subset of the Regional Plan, AAP said it is now clear why the 2021 plan has been kept in abeyance. “Currently the RP 2001 is in use, where the whole of Goa sits on a small table and town planners tell you whether your land is in settlement or out using a plastic school ruler and a vague practice, where a slip of 1 millimetre could free up thousand square metres. This was earlier stopped with the preparation of the 2021 plan and is now being revived, as we all know, vagueness helps the corrupt. The outline development plan despite all the claims has no scientific or constitutional basis and goes against all planning norms,” AAP said.
