MARGAO
The District Planning Committee (DPC) for South Goa may have set in motion the process to consolidate the plans received from the Zilla Panchayat, Panchayats and the Municipalities into a draft-district Development plan before sending the same to the government.
The draft-development plan revealed that the DPC received around 2,500 development plans from the Panchayat bodies and the Zilla Panchayat estimated around Rs 147 crore.
The fact, however, remains that of the 89 village Panchayats in South Goa, around 36 Panchayats have till date not submitted their development plans to the DPC. That’s not all. Not a single Municipality Council in the jurisdiction of the South Goa district have submitted their development plans to the DPC till date, raising serious questions whether the draft-DPC would reflect the ground reality sans plans received from al the 89 Panchayats and the eight Municipal bodies.
DPC Chairperson Suvarna Tendulkar, however, pointed out that though all the 89 Panchayats and the Municipal bodies have not submitted their development plans, the draft-district plan would be forwarded to the government only after receiving the plans from the local bodies.
