PANJIM: Asking Public Works Department (PWD) to suggest an alternative route, Town and Country Planning (TCP) Board has decided to denotify State Highway (SH-8) passing through Chandor.
“The TCP Board has taken a clear cut decision to denotify State Highway 8 passing through the village of Chandor from the Regional Plan (RP) 2021. The PWD will have to suggest an alternative route. We have given them a time-bound period that before the next TCP Board meeting the alternative route must be suggested,” Sardesai said.
He added, “The people were opposing the road as it would pass through the heritage area. Chandor was the Capital during the Kadamba period.”
Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had earlier assured the House that the demand to de-notify State Highway 8 passing through Chandor would be examined after taking all stakeholders and affected parties into confidence.
“Wherever required we can consider your demand. It will be examined. Government will work out solution taking all stakeholders into confidence,” Parrikar had said.
Cuncolim MLA Clafasio Dias had said that the road was declared State highway in 1977, without taking people into confidence. “And now, when the PWD has proposed widening of the State highways, the people have apprehension that their old heritage and Portuguese architecture houses and structures will be demolished or damaged,” he had said.
Replying to the apprehension, the Chief Minister had said that Sardessai had already taken up the matter with him and that the issue was under consideration of the government for a solution.
PWD Minister Ramakrishna (Sudin) Dhavalikar had said that the road was declared State Highway in 1977, while the acquisition and possession was taken in 1990 and that establishments and houses came up along the road after it was declared State highway. He had assured that while undertaking widening of the road, no houses would be demolished or damaged.
