PANAJI- The Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) on Thursday demanded that the Regional Plan must be kept open for study for a month for public viewing so that people can see the final outcome, and also insisted that all briefings be done in Konkani as well as English.
The demands were made at a press conference addressed by the GBA co-convenor, Ms Sabina Martins, secretary, Ms Reboni Saha and joint secretary, Mr Miguel Braganza in the city. The GBA also wanted that gram sabha decisions to be honoured in accordance with the law and reiterated its demand that the 90-day period given for people to file their objections and views should start from the date of the last briefing.
Ms Saha also made a presentation after the briefing giving an explanation of the draft Regional Plan 2021 during which she stressed that the present plan had to be checked regarding the road widths in every village and argued that at present Panaji roads were already overcrowded with no parking available even though its Floor Area Ratio was far from consumed.
The GBA has also offered to do "overlays of Village Survey maps" on the revoked RP 2011, RP 2021, and Google satellite imagery for interested groups, provided they supply them with the village survey maps or RP settlement maps 2021 as provided by the TCP.
It also wants the government to freeze the "hurriedly notified" Development and Planning Regulations, draft notified on August 14 in lieu of the ones to be notified with the Regional Plan and pointed out that extra FAR was granted in this gazetted "Interim" effort.
It warned that people should be vigilant as already Kerim-Terekhol village has discovered a golf course at Terekhol, Chicalim has found Eco Sensitive Zone-1 wetlands classified as settlement and Poinguinnim has orchard and fields of the earlier plans now acquired by GIDC and shown as "General Industries".
13-12-2008
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