JUST YESTERDAY I POSTED SEVERAL QUESTIONS IN AN OPEN LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF
NAVHIND TIMES FOR HIS SWEEPING STATEMENTS ABOUT CORRUPTION IN PANCHAYATS
DURING THE RP2021 CONSULTATION PROCESS.
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TODAY WE SEE THE HERALD EDITOR JOIN IN THE CHORUS ON A SIMILAR CRUSADE OF
COVERING THE CRIME OF AN ANTI-PEOPLE GOVERNMENT BY TRYING SHOWING THAT
PANCHAYATS CANNOT BE TRUSTED IN PLANNING AND SO THE CLEAN, GREEN AND WHITE
BUREAUCRATS, PLANNERS, ARCHITECTS & BUILDERS HAD TO DO THE PLANNING FOR GOA.
THE WISE EDITOR SEEMS MORE EXPOSED TO PRIVILEGED INFORMATION THAN THE
PUBLIC.
A WELL HATCHED OUT PLAN SEEMS TO BE IN PLACE TO WHITE WASH THE LIES AND
FRAUD IMPOSED ON THE PEOPLE THRU' THE RP2021.
-SOTER
Read THE EDITORIAL: Criticism sans information
- We expected the recently-notified Regional Plan 2021 (RP2021) for the
talukas of Canacona and Pernem, as well as the land use policy for the
entire state, to come under attack from the real estate lobby.
-We expected that the RP2021 will come under sustained attack from large
land owners in coastal villages, from the Russian businessmen who have
bought huge tracts of land in Morjim, and from Panchayat members in many
coastal and 'urban' villages, who expected to make (or have already made)
huge sums of money by recommending re-zoning of large tracts of land to
settlement.
- In doing away with the three-tier FAR proposed in the draft, the SLC has
simplified the FAR structure and made it more difficult for dishonest
officials to play around with differing rates of FAR. While the VP3 proposal
had an FAR of 50, the new VP2 has an FAR of 60.
The draft plan was kept open for public comment for over a year. Every
village in Goa discussed it, and made proposals. Over 8,000 individual
suggestions have also come in. All have been considered.
-Her other complaint, that the SLC has not made public the guidelines they
followed, shows that she has not studied the plan. Chapter 4 of the Plan
gives detailed reasoning behind the changes in policy.
-It is partly correct to say that the SLC has "not considered the people's
demand".
-But thank God for this. Gram Sabha resolutions of many villages recommended
that huge tracts of land be zoned as settlement. Had the SLC agreed to the
'people's demand', concrete jungles would have sprung up in our most remote
villages. http://www.oheraldo.in/newscategory/Edit/15
