VASCO: The Sancoale Comunidade has asked the government to protect the rights of the comunidades and consult them on the Goa Regularisation of Unauthorised Structures Bill, before introducing the same in the monsoon session of the assembly.
Addressing a press conference in Vasco, Sancoale Comunidade president Ramakant Borkar claimed that Sancoale has highest number of illegal structures in State built on comunidade land at Zuarinagar and therefore as the owner of the land, the State government should first ensure that the rights of the comunidade are protected. He demanded the government to compulsorily consult the comunidade bodies, before taking a final decision on the regularisation of unauthorised structures Bill.
He also demanded that the State government should give more powers to the comunidades to conduct a survey to identify unauthorised structures and then take a decision, based on the report prepared by the comunidade. Comunidades should be given the liberty to fix the rate by which these structures would be regularised, he added.
“Sancoale Comunidade has over 3500 plus illegal structures built on its land at Zuarinagar; thus, as compared to rest of Goa, Sancoale comunidade has the highest number of unauthorised structures built on comunidade land at Zuarinagar. These structures came up gradually due to non-cooperation from Administrator of Comunidade. Now, as the owner of the such huge land, we feel that we should enjoy some rights to take decision on our property; and, therefore we demand that the State government consult us and take our say, before going ahead with the bill,” Borkar said.
