TEAM HERALD
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PANJIM: The execution of lease deeds between the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) and market tenants, which is long overdue, may finally get underway after the Corporation gets an approval in its next meeting scheduled in the first week of November.
The Mayor of the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP), Surendra Furtado said, “After an approval from the corporators the CCP will proceed to sign the deed of lease only with the legal tenants vending in the Panjim market.”
While the exact number of illegal tenants occupying space in the Panjim market is still being verified, officials say that legal tenants are willing to sign the deeds, an exercise left incomplete for almost a decade.
The draft deed of lease is set to be placed before the CCP when it meets on November 6 as the consent would be sought for fixation of lease amounts and other dues as well.
Herald is given to understand that if the process for signing of lease deeds commences, the Corporation would be able to pool in at least as much as Rs 3 crore from pending dues.
It is not clear as to how the CCP proposes to fix the lease amounts, “The calculations are being worked out depending on the space occupied by the tenant,” said CCP Commissioner Sanjit Rodrigues.
The CCP market committee is in the process of fine tuning the draft lease deed and is hoping to get the approval of the Corporation next month.
“We will start the signing of the lease deeds as soon as the approval comes,” said Rodrigues.
Lease deeds with legal occupants have not been signed for both phases of the Panjim market. The CCP intends pursuing the process before it takes up the third phase of the market complex.
If one recalls, the CCP market has been bogged down with issues concerning illegal sub-letting of shops thereby delaying the procedure for signing of lease deed agreements.
