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PANAJI
The State government took the ordinance route yet again to extend the deadline by a month for filing applications for regularising unauthorised constructions in owned or co-owned private lands.
The deadline will now end 30 days from June 18, the day the govt notified the Ordinance extending the deadline in the official gazette.
Only those unauthorised constructions that existed on or before February 28, 2014, are eligible for regularisation under the law adopted by the previous Goa legislative assembly in 2016.
The law permits regularisation of both residential as well as commercial constructions but does not cover these in protected forests and wildlife sanctuaries, khazans, open spaces and public land, CRZ areas, no development zones, notified eco-sensitive zones and Communidade lands.
Only constructions that have no permissions from municipalities or panchayats and the TCP department but built in private properties by the land owner or in jointly-owned land with the consent of the co-owners and homes of Mundkars are covered by the regularisation law.
