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The Digambar Kamatled Government had gone through the motions of holding a consultation on TCP Act, 1975 in October 2007 and then notified two Committees to review the TCP Act, 1975 with Senior Town Planner Mathew James as the Member- Secretary.

The Manohar Parrikar-led Government has not even gone through this pretence.
The Digambar Kamat-led Congress Government had initiated the people’s participation in the village level planning process in 2008 and finished the notification of the entire RP-2021 in three phases by October 2011.
They had objected to last moment inclusions of MIZs, ETZs and DPZs by the State Level Committee after the participatory exercise based on Draft RP 2021 and the exclusion of most ODPs [except Porvorim] from the RP 2021.

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