PANAJI
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday said he is in no way linked to Bhutani whose big real estate project in Sancoale has faced stiff resistance from locals and activists over alleged irregularities.
"I have no connection with Bhutani. Not a single permission is given by any of my departments," Sawant said on Tuesday, adding that the permissions were given by the earlier government.
He also suggested that journalists should probe who has given the permissions to this project even as he added that to revoke the permissions in his capacity as chief minister, he will have to follow procedures.
"I need to follow procedure to cancel the licences if they were not obtained properly," Sawant said.
The project at Sancoale has come in for severe criticism from the Opposition MLAs as well as Sancoale locals and activist as it involves massive conversion of land-use zoning besides hill cutting and destruction of green cover.
AAP's Benaulim MLA, Venzy Viegas had in the July-August monsoon session of the assembly demanded that Sawant and his government revoke permissions to Bhutani's project and two others involving massive hill cutting and destruction of green cover -- Abhinandan Lodha project in Bicholim's Karapur and another at Reis Magos of listed real estate major DLF Ltd.
