Goa delegation led by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today met Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupendra Yadav on various crucial issues including sand mining, which has been shut since 2018.
"The agenda encompassed discussions on several crucial matters including regulation of Sand Mining activities, the draft notification concerning the Western Ghats, and rectifications to CZMP 2011," Sawant said after the meeting.
Sawant said that the Minister has assured support in jointly addressing issues pertaining to the development and progress of Goa.
The state government has requested the Centre to allow a revisit to CZMP 2011, which has already been notified. The State has pointed out some discrepancies in the notified plan which need to be rectified.
Goa has also requested the Centre to exclude 40 villages from the list of eco-sensitive areas of the total 99 villages.
