Senior BPS Club member Alberto Colaco addressing the gathering. Pic Santosh Mirajkar.
THE GOAN NETWORK
MARGAO
Senior members of the BPS Club, Margao has on Thursday said the Club had filed for confirmation of the property in the Club’s name by virtue of a Decree bearing No 5568, which was issued by the Governor General of the Estado da India on of September 4, 1952.
The members further pointed out that the BPS club has been engaged in promoting sports and sporting evening over the decades.
Briefing the media, Club president Santosh George said the Club filed for confirmation of the property before the Survey Inspector of Land Records Margao by virtue of a Decree bearing No 5568, which was issued by the Governor General of the Estado da India. “The publication of the said Decree within the pages of the Official Gazette dated 04/09/1952. The text of Legislative Decree No 5568 explicitly records that the Municipal Council of Salcete, during its formal session dated June 18, 1952, actively deliberated upon and officially proposed the gratuitous cession of this municipal land in the ward of Pajifond, Margao, specifically in favour of Club Bernardo Peres da Silva”, informed George.
He added, “This sovereign transfer was fully approved, validated, and signed by the Governor General under the explicit constitutional competence attributed to his office by Article 155 of the then-applicable Constitution. This historic grant created an absolute, permanent vesting of the land “without any limitation of time,” containing only a standard conditional clause for reversion to the municipality in the sole event that the club ceases its organisational functions entirely”.
Senior member Alberto Colaco said the BPS Club has been in the forefront of promoting sports and sporting events over the decades.
Tribunal returns plea in BPS Club land case
THE GOAN NETWORK
MARGAO: The Administrative Tribunal has ordered the return of the Memorandum filed by Savio Coutinho in the BPS Club property case after holding that the revision application filed by him before the Tribunal against the order of the Inspector of settlement and Land Survey is non-maintainable.
In an order, Administrative Tribunal President Savio Correia said the applicant shall be at liberty to file an appropriate appeal before the Competent Authority in accordance with law.
Coutinho had instituted the proceedings before the Tribunal after the Inspector of Survey Land Records, Margao dismissed his application for intervention in the confirmation proceedings pertaining to the BPS Club.
The Respondents including BPS Club raised a preliminary objection to the maintainability of the present proceedings before this Tribunal on grounds that the Code provides a clear and mandatory hierarchy of appeals under Section 188, that an original order of the ISLR is appealable in the first instance to the Superintendent of Surveys and Land Records (SSLR). They further contended that the Administrative Tribunal acquires jurisdiction only as a second appellate authority.
In his order, Tribunal President Savio Correia held that the present proceedings initiated by Coutinho are non-maintainable. “The order of the ISLR is an original order appealable to the Superintendent of Surveys and Land Records. The Tribunal’s jurisdiction arises only as a second appellate forum”, Correia said.
At the same time, Corriea considered it appropriate not to dismiss the proceedings outrights, but to return the memorandum of the applicant so that the same may be presented before the competent authority.
