Rent control taken out of deputy collector’s purview
TEAM HERALD
teamherald@herald-goa.com
PANJIM: Goa Cabinet Tuesday approved an amendment to Goa Building (Lease Rent and Eviction) Control (Amendment) Act which will help handicapped, widows and senior citizens, to evict persons from their leased houses, if they want the houses back for use.
Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said that special preference will be given to above named categories in eviction proceedings. “They will be entitled to recover the premises if it is owned by them,” he said at a press conference after Cabinet meeting at Legislative Assembly Complex Tuesday.
The amendment also gets the cases related to rent control out of purview of the Deputy Collector, which Parrikar said would weed out politics. The amendment, which was approved by the Cabinet Tuesday and would be tabled during the ongoing assembly session, empowers civil court as a rent controller and appeals would be directed to the Sessions Court.
In yet another legislation, the Cabinet approved the amendment in case of mutation of huge lands, (of more than 4,000 square metres), where the partition has to be done by Town and Country Planning Department. In case of government land, the partition will happen automatically, he said.
The State Cabinet also decided to swap land between municipality and State government at Curchorem. The land where current bus stand exists would be handed over to the municipality while a piece of land next to Ambedkar Chowk would be given to the government to construct the proposed bus stand.
