TEAM HERALD
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PANJIM: Signing of a lease agreement with the legal occupants of the new municipal market would begin only after the model code of conduct is withdrawn, Corporation of City of Panaji (CCP) Commissioner Sanjit Rodrigues said on Tuesday.
Speaking to media persons after the budget meeting, Rodrigues said that the corporation through a notice in March had appealed to all individuals and occupants having shops in the market to submit valid documents of their claims to occupancy of shops by end of the month, failing which they would be evicted from the respective shops. “So far we have received one letter from the market tenants association with certain grievances. We are yet to go through it,” he said.
“Signing of lease agreement with the legal occupants would commence only after the election code of conduct ceases. The corporation will make sure all the grievances are addressed,” Rodrigues said adding that the lease agreements would be signed in a phase manner.
In the first phase, the corporation will sign lease agreement with those legal occupants who have all valid documents in place, the commissioner said adding that in the second phase, disputed cases would be taken up.
Rodrigues said that the lease agreement format is currently pending with state government for approval.
CCP in its budget 2014-15 has projected Rs 4.50 crore income through collection of market rent, which is pending for years.
The lease agreement will be signed for three years with rent charges of Rs 256 per square metre as approved by PWD. CCP Commissioner had in the past submitted a report regarding the status of the occupancy of the CCP market shops, observing that 95 per cent of the shops were illegally occupied.
