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PORVORIM: Revenue Minister Rohan Khaunte on Thursday informed the House that the government is in process of amending the Goa, Daman and Diu Land Revenue (Partition of Holdings) Rules, 1969 to ensure that partition cases are disposed off within 90 days of application.
The Minister also assured to examine the proposal of the weaker/backward section for partition of area less than 200 sq mtrs in prospective manner.
Admitting that over thousands of partition cases are pending before the government, Khaunte said that it is in process of amending the Land Revenue Rules to ensure that the partition cases are cleared off within 90 days, failing which the deputy collectors will be held accountable.
“This government will ensure time-bound delivery of services to the people. Just like how we have cleared over 6700 mutation cases in just 100 days, we will make sure that the pending partition cases are also disposed off within a certain time-frame. Once the law is amended, the cases will be disposed off within 90 days of its filing of application,” Minister said.
He was responding to a question raised by Congress MLA Wilfred D’Sa who sought to know whether the government has any policy to clear the backlog within a certain time limit. Pointing to the replies, D’Sa told the State Assembly that 336 partition cases are pending in his Nuvem constituency alone.
The Congress MLA questioned why the government does not allow partition of area less than 200 sq mts and that there are several mundkars with 300 to less than 200 sq mts of land wanting partition but are declined.
Replying to the same, the minister said that as per Planning and Development Regulation 1989, for partition the minimum requirement is 200 sq mts of land. However, the Town and Country Planning (TCP) through a notification in February has informed that the 1989 Regulations are now not in force with new Building Regulations as per which the minimum area is 225 sq mts.
“Despite this, the Revenue Department is still clearing the applications with 200 sq mts of land,” he stated.
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Scrutiny of applications on Illegal structures from Aug 10, says rohan
Government will begin scrutiny of over 4200 applications received for regularisation of illegal structures on private land through special taluka level teams from August 10, Revenue Minister Rohan Khaunte told the House on Thursday informing that the decision to regularise structures on comunidade and government land is under examination.
The Minister said the government will not entertain any applications for regularisation in khazan land or CRZ or agriculture land, or protected forest areas, No Development Zones, public land, etc.
