RP21 a multi-million scam: Goans for Goa

Says plan dumped on people to satisfy greed of builders, politicians

THE GOAN NETWORK | DECEMBER 25, 2015, 12:00 AM IST

MARGAO

Terming the Regional Plan 2021 a multi-million scam, the Goans for Goa has said the plan has been dumped on the people of Goa by the government to satisfy the greed of the builders and the politicians of Goa.

Demanding an answer to the host of queries raised by the NGO, GFG president Kennedy Afonso said that Goans have the right to know about the statistics cleverly omitted from the RP21 for reasons best known to the TCP officials, failing which the government must de-notify the RP21 at the earliest.

“According to the statistics available on the RP documents prepared by the TCP department, it says that ECO 1, has a total land area of 54.06% , while ECO 2 has a total land area of 26.29%. If we add up these two, it works out that a total of 80% of land is under conservation/regulations, and hence cannot be brought under the settlement zones. Which means that only 20% of the available land left over, can be converted into settlement zones. However, nowhere does it say how much land was under the settlement zone in the earlier RP, and how much land is now brought under the proposed settlement zone in RP21. It only says 50% more land was brought under settlement zone in the new RP21”, he said.

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