Camillo Fernandes camillofernandes at hotmail.com on Mon Feb 11 18:01:32 PST 2013 wrote:
I fully agree with Arwin reg. below post and believe Goans should not sell their ancestral property. Even if they are not using it atleast they should keep it if not for anything else atleast in memory of their ancestors. However I would like to make some comments as to the reasons behind why so many Goans are sadly selling their ancestral properties:………… RESPONSE: Besides the points mentioned by Camilo I would like to add two more very distressing factors in clinging on to ancestral property. One is encroachments on the landed property from all sides as most properties are not compounded. For this one may have to be in Goa, fight it out and land at police station. Else, file a Court case which will take 40yrs and frequent trips to court, feed unscrupulous lawyers who are too happy to adjourn cases, seek witnesses, etc. etc. Second is if you have mundcars in your ancestral property, they will keep expanding their plinth in connivance with Panchayats, till they usurp the whole property along with their brood of children, son-in-laws and grandchildren. Is there any guarantee that an ancestral property will remain the same, untouched, un-vadalised, un-usurped for the next five years with the set of governments, Laws, law enforcers, Magistrates, etc. we have had and will be having? Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.