MARGAO: City-based NGO Green Goa Foundation has demanded an immediate stop in the ongoing work of the construction of the Civil and Criminal Court building at the Old market and registration of FIR against the SGPDA and the Margao Municipal Council for approving the court building without taking into account the parking area.
The NGO has threatened to knock the doors of the High Court if action against the SGPDA and MMC officials is not initiated within 15 days. The Civil and Criminal Court building is coming up on the western side of the District and Sessions Court building.
In his complaint lodged with various authorities, including the Registrar High Court, Chief Secretary, SGPDA, Margao Municipal Council, and the Principal Session Judge, Margao, GGF Chairman Raison Almeida contended that the SGPDA and the MMC has granted permissions for the construction of the court building with inadequate car parking space, only 18 car park. “It has been brought to our notice as per the build rules in force in the State, the required car space for the present under construction Civil and Criminal building ought to be around 75 car slots,” he said.
The GGF reminded that the campus is hardly 10 metres away from the old market circle, which faces a lot of traffic congestion throughout the day.
