PORVORIM
The Reis Magos gram sabha witnessed heated discussions over the issue of construction license to a mega hotel project and also construction of bungalows in orchard landin the premises of Saraswati Mandir.
Rajesh Dabholkar mentioned that the panchayat has issued a house number K/24/B to a person even though there was no house in orchard land in survey No 94/13 which comes under CRZ.
He claimed the panchayat had issued a construction license to him for the building three bungalows at a cost of Rs 18 crore.
“The Town and Country Planning department while issuing technical clearance had clearly mentioned clearly that the panchayat was duty bound to check whether the party had obtained conversion sanad before granting construction license. The panchayat has issued the construction license even though there was no conversion sanad. This is gross violation of the Panchayati Raj Act
and rules and hence raises suspicions in the minds of the people about the administration of the panchayat,” Dabholkar stated.
The panchayat secretary Subhash Phatarpekar refused to speak on the issue stating that the matter is sub judice.
Advin Fernandes mentiond that the panchayat has given construction license to the mega hotel project coming up on 48000 square meters of land at Kegdevli in survey No 97/1-H.
This project costing around Rs 400 crore requires 21000 litres of water and 700 KVA power per day.
TCP department while issuing technical clearance had specifically mentioned that the panchayat should verify whether it can meet water and power requirements of the project before issuing construction license.
Knowing well the residents of Reis Magos are facing acute shortage of water and frequent power outages, how come the panchayat issued construction license to this projcect, Advinhe questioned. He and other villagers demanded revocation of the construction license.
The sarpanch, panchayat secretary and sarpanch Virendra Shirodkar failed to give satisfactory reply to the villagers and did not agree to revoke the construction license.
The villagers demanded that the panchayat should have a hearse and ambulance van in the village.
Earlier, the sarpanch welcomed the gathering. Panchayat secretary Subhash Phatarpekar read out the minutes of the last gram sabha held on May 25, 2018, and Deputy Sarpanch Siya Nagvekar proposed the vote of thanks.
