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PANAJI
‘Slum-like’ areas in Goa and its residents will be surveyed for parameters like dwelling size, number of families per dwelling, the period of residence, etc as the Goa Rehabilitation Board seeks to draw up preliminary data in a bid to provide “decent housing” especially for residents of these areas.
Speaking to The Goan, Chairman of the Goa Rehabilitation Board, Alina Saldanha said the data would help the government go ahead with what they have planned.
“We have to know the number of people, the number of families that are residing, what is the area that is occupied in each household before we can go ahead with what we have in mind”.
“Also, there will be certain conditions to be fulfilled like the number of years of residence. There will be many who are living in one unit, there are two-three families, we have to know that. It doesn’t mean that every family that is living in one unit will be provided with separate housing facility, but this information is very essential for us to start the process for rehabilitation,” Saldanha told The Goan.
Saldanha didn’t elaborate on what the Board “had in mind” as she said it was too early to say and that the plans can be worked out only once the data thrown up by the survey is available.
“We cannot proceed unless this data is with us unless this work has been started.
