PANAJI
The Aam Aadmi Party has launched a legal cell to aid Goans on CZMP hearings.
In a press note issued here, the party said it firmly believed that these hearings need to be held at the village level and not conducted in a haphazard manner.
The party, however, does not want to give the BJP a chance to steal Goans’ lands. The legal cell will be led by AAP leader Adv Prasad Shahpurkar to help villagers with their CZMP objections, it noted.
AAP said in the last hearing many Goans were excluded, and the demand across the state was that these hearings should be held at the village level to ensure every Goan is heard. However, not only is the hearing now happening on an open ground but is happening in the middle of the monsoon season, it stated.
AAP leader Capt Venzy Viegas said. “None of the teams visited our village in Benaulim. In its reply to the GCZMA, NCSCM has lied blatantly in its letter No 17-741 dated 2/5/2017 that it has carried out ground-truthing.”
AAP leader from Velim Cruz Silva said the HTL and LTL are specifically required to undergo field verification as mandated in the CRZ notification, but this was never done.
Sandesh Teleikar Dessai said the Government has never taken a single step or effort to explain the draft
CZMPs prepared by NCSCM for each village to the local communities, residents, or even the VP officials or local representatives.
