The CCP is governed and mandated by the City of Panaji Corporation Act, 2002 and has to strictly function and operate within the ambit and framework of the Act. The CCP has been wrongly designating and addressing the 30 elected representatives as corporators instead of councillors as mandated by the CCP Act. A complaint to this effect has already been filed with the Director of Municipal Administration Gurudas Pilarnekar and the Secretary of Urban Development Dr Tariq Thomas.
Despite this being the mandate of the law, the CCP has in clear violation of the Act been wrongly designating and addressing these 30 elected representatives as ‘Corporators’ and not ‘Councillors’. The CCP Commissioner should immediately rectify this violation while designating and addressing the 30 elected representatives as ‘councillors’ and not as ‘corporators’. The Commissioner must also explain as to how the Corporation has been acting in clear violation of the CCP Act.
It is hoped that the Commissioner will work to ensure that every provision of the Act is complied in letter and spirit.
