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PANJIM: The government should move an amendment to the Town and Country Planning Act so that participatory planning and relevant provisions of 73rd and 74th Constitutional amendments are incorporated in it, the Pilerne Citizens Forum said.
Addressing a press conference, Yatish Naik of the PCF said that amending the TCP Act of 1974 would ensure that the participatory planning process would then become the law and save Goa for posterity.
“According to the current law the Chief Town Planner has to draw up the regional plan. We want that section 9 and 10 of this Act be amended to enshrine participatory planning. Now participatory planning has been effected through notifications by the previous government to create the SLC and the Task Force,” Naik said.
“If this is done, it will solve problems, when we have to once again develop a new regional plan after 10 years. This way a fixed mechanism will be in place. Parrikar will be remembered for posterity,” Naik said.
He said that it wasn’t necessary that the amendments be made now itself, before the current redesigning of the plan, as it might delay the current plan, but in the long run it would give legal sanctity to participatory planning process.
