MAPUSA
Continuing with its task of enlightening the people on the merits and demerits of the Planning Development Authority (PDA), a public awareness meet on PDA has been organized in Parra on May 6.
The meeting will be held at the Parra church at 4.30 pm.
Although the government has included the village of Parra in the PDA, residents have opposed the move and want the village out of the planning body.
“We want to preserve the pristine ecology of our village and therefore don’t want Parra to be included in the PDA,” said former sarpanch, Benedict D’Souza.
He said the reason to include Parra in PDA was that houses will be regularized once the village is brought under the ambit of the planning body.
“Since there is a law to regularise houses in areas outside PDA, we don’t see any reason why our village should be singled out,” he said.
It may be recalled a special gram sabha in Parra called to discuss the PDA issue last month was abruptly ended after people began to raise several questions about the planning body.
