Confident CM will work out package for them too
TEAM HERALD
teamherald@herald-goa.com
MARGAO: Even as residents of Talsanzor are hoping that Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar would get back to them after Ganesh Chathurti to save their structures from demolition, beleaguered residents of adjoining Moti Dongor are upbeat that the government would work out a similar package for them.
Though Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardessai has taken up cudgels for the Talsanzor residents on grounds they are Goans and their interests are rooted in the place, Moti Dongor residents feel that the government cannot discriminate against them if it works out a package for Talsanzor.
Says a Moti Dongor resident and petitioner, Maulla Balbatti: “We welcome the Chief Minister’s announcement that he would not throw anyone on the roads, especially those, staying there for 20 years. We residents of Moti Dongor have also been putting up on the hillock for the last 30-40 years. We are confident that the Chief Minister will also be sympathetic to our demands for regularisation and rehabilitation of our structures.”
The writ petition filed by the 210 hutment dwellers from Moti Dongor will come up for hearing within the next three weeks and Balbatti feels the government would work out a package for their rehabilitation.
Meanwhile, residents of Talsanzor, who were promised by the Chief Minister that they would not be thrown on the roads, called on the Fatorda MLA with the demolition notices served by officials of the South Goa Comunidade Administrator. “The residents came to me with the demolition notices, but I told them nothing to worry since the Chief Minister has promised a solution to the problem,” Vijai said. I will discuss the demolition notices with the CM, he assured.
