PANAJI
The Goa cabinet on Tuesday approved the 2014 notified circle rates as the base to calculate land costs to be paid by beneficiaries whose houses are to be regularised in government and comunidade land across the State.
Announcing the decision, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant who chaired the cabinet meeting said the proposal stipulates that for houses existing prior to 1972 and figuring on survey maps of that year will be charged at the rate of Rs 25 per square meter irrespective of the circle rates.
Sawant said, for homes built from 1973 to 1986, 50 per cent of the 2014-notified circle rate will apply and 75 per cent of the circle rate will be used to calculate the fees to be paid by those who built houses between 1987 and 2000.
For houses built on government and comunidade land between 2001 to 2014, the cost of earning the 'Class I Occupancy' rights for the land up to 300 square meters on which the structure is built will be 100 per cent of the circle land rates, he added.
Under the amendments to the Land Revenue Code and the Code of Comunidades enacted in the monsoon session of the Goa legislative assembly, the State government has provided to grant 'Class I Occupancy' rights to those owning illegal homes on government and comunidade lands.
The illegal house owners, however, will have to pay for the land of the size of the plint and a little more on all sides but not more than 300 square meters, which will then be transferred in their names with a sanad issued for 'Class I Occupancy'.
Also, land occupied in excess of 300 square meters up to two meters on all sides of the plinth area will also be granted but in access of that occupied by the beneficiary encroacher will have to be forfeited either to the government or the comunidade whichever the case may be.
Tuesday's cabinet decision also provides to levy an additional 20 per cent of the total plot value as penalty for encroachers on comunidade land. Also, the money paid by the encroachers under this provision will have to be directly deposited with the respective comunidade.
Additionally, encroachers will have to seek an NOC from the comunidade. Also, in the case of encroachments on comunidade land, the encroachers will have to seek an NOC from the managing committee, Sawant said, adding that the law provides a process by which the Administrator will adjudicate and proclaim the NOC to be deemed as granted.
Sawant also said that applications under this 'Mhaje Ghar' scheme will be required to be filed in the next six months from the day it is launched.
Meanwhile, the government will also issue to those having houses in the Evacuee property in Mayem, for land parcels under the Forest Rights Act, 20-point programme, and in 'Alvara' and Mokaso lands.
In another decision, the cabinet on Tuesday approved handing over complete ownership of tenements allotted to those displaced by the four-lane National Highway 17B, landslides and fire victims at Sada and Katem-Baina in Mormugao besides in Chimbel.
They will only have to pay Rs 1,000 per house to obtain the ownership, Sawant said, adding that these include around 400 such cases dating back to 1990, 1991 and 2000.
