TEAM HERALD
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PANJIM: NGO Human Rights Defenders (HRD) has approached the Goa Police to act against a town planner for what they called ‘illegally sanctioning’ the DLF residential project, at Reis Magos hill, close to the Naval base. It has demanded from Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar to direct the police to register FIR against Vertiga Dagur.
After failing to get respite from the Chief Town Planner to their complaint against Dagur last November, HDR lodged a complaint with Porvorim Police Station alleging connivance with DLF Company for granting the licence. The demand to revoke the licence has also not been adhered to.
“In order to show that DLF’s land is having a direct access to the main road, DLF had fraudulently shown on, its architectural plan that part of the land bearing survey (sy). no. 103/1 measuring 332sqmtrs, belongs to it. In reality, DLF is only the owner of land in sy. No. 87/1-A and not of sy. No. 103/1,” reads the complaint copy.
HRD president Advino Fernandes alleged that Dagur approved Phase I project of DLF without verifying the original survey plan and Form I and IV that confirms 103/1 is Comunidade of Nerul. “This exposes her willful negligence and flouting of rules and regulations,” he said at a press conference on Monday.
With an offence yet to be registered, the NGO also alleged police of shielding the town planner “just because she is an officer from the Chief Minister’s (Manohar Parrikar) TCP Department.”
Interestingly, the NGO also hinted that the then Congress government was protecting the company despite a massive protest by the villagers who supported Parrikar as the then leader of Opposition, on December 9, 2011.
“…Parrikar along with the local MLA had supported the agitating crowd of more than 250 Reis Magos villagers who had protested due to the environmental degradation and basic infrastructural problems, but DLF was fully protected by the Panchayat Ministry in total disregard to the sentiments and welfare of the villagers,” the press note reads as.
