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PANAJI
Members of Goa against CRZ (GACRZ 2018), the umbrella organisation of NGOs, Congress and Aam Admi Party formed to protest the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, on Tuesday submitted a memorandum with their demands to the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) at the CRZ Management Authority (CRZMA) in the absence of the Member Secretary.
The memorandum had been signed by the NGOs- Goans for Goa (GFG), Goenchea Ramponkarancho Ekvott (GRE), Musical Warriors, Transform Goa, and the political parties supporting the peoples’ movement, Goa Pradesh Congress Party (GPCP), Aam Admi Party (AAP) and Nationalistic Congress Party (NCP).
Their demand “ the notification scrapped in toto. “The limit of 200 meters and 100 meters No Development Zone and 500 meters CRZ must stay. GACRZ objects to the proposal to reduce these zones to 50 meters and 30 meters,” the memorandum stated.
Speaking on behalf of the group, Kennedy Afonso said, “We want the CRZ 2011 Notification to be converted into a CRZ Act.”
The group wants that all three amendments to the CRZ 2011 Notification dated July 2, 2018 be withdrawn, and CRZ Notification 2011 be implemented in toto.
GACRZ will protest at its first village, Cansaulim, on June 11 at 4pm near Mathany Saldanha’s statue. Musical Warriors will sing songs of protest, key leaders and villagers will speak on the bad effects of the 2018 Notification and will plant a coconut tree in the CRZ.
Afonso appealed to the people to join the protest saying, “GACRZ 2018 appeals to all people of Goa to support the movement and come in large numbers to Cansaulim.”
GACRZ will visit all the coastal villages in the state as these villages will be most affected if the 2018 CRZ Notification comes into force.
