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The government has received around 4453 applications for zone conversions from Orchard, Agriculture, Khazans, Forest to settlement under section 16B of the Town and Country Planning Act in a short span of three months from November 2018 to February 2019. The TCP minister Babu Kavlekar gave this information to a question tabled in the Goa assembly.
The minister also informed that the TCP board has cleared 205 applications till date and has collected Rs 4.40 crores towards processing fee for change of zone.
Meanwhile, some conversions have been challenged by the people.
In an answer to another question, the TCP minister said that the TCP flying squad has received 92 complaints about illegal agricultural land-filling in North and South Goa.
The flying squad has also lodged FIRs with the police to take penal action and necessary reports are being sent to the Collector to restore the land as provided under Section 33(3) of the Land Revenue Code.
Rs 228.33 crores were also collected towards infrastructure tax in the last
4 years.
