PORVORIM: Leader of the Opposition Yuri Alemao on Monday said that Goa may witness a Wayanad like landslide if action is not taken.
Speaking during discussion on demands for grants for Town and Country Planning, Municipal Administration, Women and Child Development and Forests for the financial year 2024-25, in the Legislative Assembly, Yuri said, “If we do not act now, I think we will witness a landslide like Wayanad just may be in a few years.”
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He pointed out that there are 2,000 complaints of hill cutting incidents in the State, which he said, was nothing, but rampant promotion of landslides.
“It means TCP and Revenue departments have failed to act,” he said.
“Infrastructure without proper planning and environmental consideration and encroachments on eco-sensitive zones will directly contribute to water scarcity, land slide and irreversible damages. It is now that we need to act,” Yuri said.
Stating that challenging the High Court order spending crores of rupees on court cases on the issue of notifying Tiger Reserve was against the interest of Goa, Yuri said, demanding that the government must notify Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary and surrounding areas as Tiger Reserve.
Yuri pointed out that the TCP Department had given no objection certificates (NOCs) for registration of sale deeds of orchard lands without subdivision in Quepem and Sanguem in 2021, which is a fraud and should be revoked.
He said Apna Ghars in the State are in deteriorating conditions while nothing has been done on law to stop widow discrimination in Goa.
Stating that the Cuncolim Municipal Council building is shaking and file for its shifting is kept pending, he urged the government not to give step-motherly treatment to Congress-backed CMC. He urged to regularise employees working on contract in municipalities.
He said, “Smart City has become a monument of corruption and has put the State to shame. Two people have lost their lives due to the fault of the contractors.”
